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.

“You can’t tell me no,” says new assistant super

GUILDERLAND — Lin Severance vividly remembers discovering the joy of teaching.

“Watching children learn was like watching flowers open,” she said.

GUILDERLAND CENTER — Joy Freisatz pages through hefty tomes on Norman Rockwell the way most people look through family albums.

She pauses to point out pictures that bring up personal memories. She shares stories from her family’s past and her own childhood.

GUILDERLAND — Matthew Nelligan, the outspoken schoolteacher who rallied hundreds of students to keep his job, announced this week that he has resigned as a teacher in the Guilderland School District.