Runion proposes $31 M budget

GUILDERLAND — Next year’s proposed town budget includes the first tax-rate increase in the nine years that Supervisor Kenneth Runion has been preparing Guilderland’s spending plan, he said.

School board members like English scores and like plans to reduce drop-out rate

GUILDERLAND — Students from low-income homes here do markedly worse than their classmates, according to data compiled by the Guilderland School District in its annual report card.

GUILDERLAND — Having answered about 3,000 calls and started a Home for the Holidays program, Western Turnpike Rescue Squad was named the Agency of the Year for 2007 by the Hudson-Mohawk Regional EMS Council.

By Zach Simeone

Westmere Elementary earns a Blue Ribbon

McCann named acting GHS principal

GUILDERLAND — The high school here has an enthused acting principal — a self-described “Guilderland devotee” — following a string of short-timers.

Library objects to town’s plan

GUILDERLAND — Almond Lane has been officially named for the second time in as many months.