Principals don’t want to teach to the test, co-teaching is emphasized

GUILDERLAND — All seven Guilderland schools continue in “good standing,” according to the latest school report card, presented on June 6 to the school board.

Lutsic named new GHS principal

GUILDERLAND — Guilderland’s new high school principal was a dropout. Thomas Lutsic says the experience drove him to be an educator, and he can relate to the disenfranchised.

Dems and GOP endorse candidates for town election

GUILDERLAND — The village of Altamont has decided to eliminate its building inspector position and enter into a shared-services agreement with the town of Guilderland.

Kids from many cultures sign and sing on stage as one

GUILDERLAND — The audience kept on clapping last Thursday night as the second-graders took their bows from the Guilderland Elementary School stage.

GUILDERLAND — As William Lia transforms 20 Mall into Hamilton Square, the planning board here continued a site-plan review of the expansion, again, last week.

ALTAMONT — Altamont’s public safety commissioner, Todd Pucci, will take the Civil Service exam for police chiefs this Saturday.

GUILDERLAND — A fire blazed in the home of a new Westmere Fire Department member this week.

Fire departments received a call at 5:42 p.m. on Saturday that a single family home at 11 Ruth Terrace was on fire.

GOP chair colludes with Dem super?

GUILDERLAND — The GOP Party chairman is blasting the only two elected Republicans in town as the party is on the brink of choosing candidates for the fall election.