Dubose wants to heal rifts

GUILDERLAND —  “Healing is it,” said Maceo Dubose of his immediate goals as the president of the school district’s most powerful union.

An imposing figure at over six feet tall, he speaks quietly with care and force.

Grimm business
Super claims illegal occupation

By Melissa Hale-Spencer

ALTAMONT — Sgt. Chris Kitto’s family is celebrating his return from Iraq and inviting the community to join them.

“We’re just so relieved he’s home and safe,” said his mother, Francine Kitto.

GUILDERLAND — Two bank robberies, which took place a half-mile and 10 days apart, are likely to have the same suspect.

GUILDERLAND — The town’s Civil Service Employees Association employees will be getting 3 percent more each year for three years since a dozen telecommunications workers ratified the new contract on Friday.

GUILDERLAND — Two much-anticipated reports were released by the Guilderland School District to the public Monday.

Super’s transfer of teachers stands

GUILDERLAND — In a pin-drop quiet hall Monday morning, nine school board members made carefully-crafted statements on whether the board should review the administration’s transfer of two high-school teachers to the middle school.

GUILDERLAND — Both sides negotiating the new teachers’ contract said the approach used was collaborative.

GUILDERLAND — As school-district workers enter the final year of a four-year contract, they are being frozen on the same step of a 10-step salary scale where they were last year.

Teachers get 14% raises over 3 years

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland teachers have a new three-year contract that will give them substantial raises and will lengthen the elementary-school day.