A career of teaching and service adds up to honor for Lindsay Childs

Fistfight with four leads to arrest

ALTAMONT — A fistfight Sunday outside of Altamont’s Sunoco on Main Street led to the arrest of Terrence Holohan for two counts of third-degree assault.

After her family’s home burns, Skipper races on

GUILDERLAND — The hard-earned medals, the plaques and trophies, proudly displayed in the Skippers’ living room, went up in flames on Jan. 6, the night their house caught on fire.

Mayor says police at polls for public safety

GUILDERLAND — Lucky, the Pomeranian mix, lives up to his name — he survived a Route 20 accident that killed his owner; now, witnesses of the fatal crash are eager to adopt him.

ALTAMONT — Paula Dunnells, a supervisor for the Altamont Rescue Squad, has been arrested for falsifying business records on payroll slips, and for grand and petit larceny.

GUILDERLAND — The school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint Charles Dedrick, the district superintendent for the Capital Region BOCES, as a search consultant for finding a new leader for the Guilderland schools.

Town board splits along party lines on just two appointments

GUILDERLAND — Following the November elections, which returned the Democratic incumbents to office, no new appointments were made for the new year.

Mayor Gaughan is re-elected and presides over police,
fire-truck purchase, sewer repair, budget, and tree planting

A contentious year leaves Dems in control as town plans projects for stormwater,
forms zoning review committee, and pulls out of the Rapp Road landfill