GUILDERLAND — While Supervisor Kenneth Runion seemed firm at the first budget workshop that town employees’ salaries be raised no more than 3 percent, he changed his mind this week.

Domestic violence is not uncommon in Albany County, but help is available. At Equinox Inc., on Central Avenue in Albany, victims of abuse can find emotional support, legal advice, and a place to stay.

GUILDERLAND — Orders of protection are easy to get but hard to enforce.

GUILDERLAND — The planning board last Wednesday approved a controversial plan by the village of Altamont to allow a municipal water supply system on a site the village wants to purchase from Michael and Nancy Trumpler.

GUILDERLAND — The empty Price Chopper building on Western Avenue may soon have new occupants.

GUILDERLAND — The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina is being answered with a ground swell of fund-raisers and contributions.

GUILDERLAND — Animals may not have changed much in the last half-century, but people’s relationships with them have.

GUILDERLAND — Visitors Saturday at the Guilderland Animal Hospital open house will be able to look back at the past, tour the present, and glimpse the future.

GUILDERLAND — Town board members are struggling, as they often have in recent years while building the town’s budget, with wanting to give good workers substantial raises and wanting to save taxpayers money.

GUILDERLAND — Police are still searching for the man who burglarized Northeastern Fine Jewelry last week.