GUILDERLAND — When, by 1:30 a.m., a crowd of 50 had dwindled to one and a trio of town employees the town board began a two-hour public hearing on its $30.6 million budget for the coming year.

GUILDERLAND — After two-and-a-half years of planning for Glass Works Village, 56 acres of undeveloped land on Route 20 may remain so.

Conservation coordinator will work on green initiatives

GUILDERLAND — The school board has created a new post — conservation coordinator — to further the district priority of fostering environmental stewardship.

ALTAMONT — With a bit of luck, villagers who woefully flambé their Thanksgiving turkey will be able to salvage the day with a crowd-pleasing backup plan: takeout Chinese. 

GUILDERLAND — The school board here backs a move from half-day to full-day kindergarten if, as the school board president put it, “money wasn’t an object.”

GUILDERLAND — Four months ago, Mark Grimm was surprised to hear that he needed a permit to run his consulting business from his Remmington Road home.  Now that he has a permit, the councilman wants to change the rules in town.

Will Western Turnpike stay rural or be developed?

GUILDERLAND — Keeping the rural landscape along the four-mile stretch of Route 20 that connects Princetown and Guilderland is a challenge.

FMS students to talk about vermicomposting at AWMA luncheon

GUILDERLAND — A year and half after Chief James Murley left the Guilderland Police Department amid accusations of wrongdoing, Albany County’s district attorney has offered him a plea deal.