Guilderland School Board elects new leaders — O’Connell and Towle-Hilt

GUILDERLAND — “We’re opening up boxes we may have closed for a long time,” said Colleen O’Connell this week of leaders in the Guilderland School District.

GUILDERLAND — As of July 18, the portion of Route 146 that runs through Guilderland Center will have a reduced speed limit.

ALTAMONT — A dispute over use of a family’s kitchen boiled over into the village’s post office, with one man getting stabbed in the hand.

GUILDERLAND — A young woman was arrested at McDonald’s Tuesday for fighting with her boyfriend in the parking lot while under the influence of multiple drugs.

GUILDERLAND — In his five years as president of the school board, Richard Weisz never broke a sweat. He is not planning to run for another one-year term as president but will continue to serve on the board until 2012.

Kids can learn the ABCs of musical instruments at Todd’s Petting Zoo

ALTAMONT — Todd Crowley has an instrument for each letter of the alphabet in what he calls a musical petting zoo.

Newton loses coaching job

GUILDERLAND — Guilderland Elementary School earned over 100,000 points in Colonie Center’s School Bucks program, which resulted in a $1,000 prize.

An old joke says that a pedestrian on Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan stopped Jascha Heifetz, the famous violinist, and asked, “Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?”

“Yes,” replied Heifetz. “Practice!”

Ta Da! At Stuyvesant Plaza