GUILDERLAND — While Watervliet’s engineer has confidence in a project that would raise the city’s reservoir in Guilderland five feet, some Guilderland residents are wary.

GUILDERLAND — The school board here is looking at the way citizens participate in the budget-making process.

RPI takes in displaced students
Safe from the storm, O’Hara plans spring return to Tulane



GUILDERLAND — Patrick O’Hara says he feels grateful. Then he says it again. And again.

Man collared for coke
Woman arrested for prostitution in Guilderland



GUILDERLAND — A routine traffic stop led police to arrest a professional escort for prostitution and to charge her client with possession of cocaine.

By Nicole Fay Barr

GUILDERLAND — Andrew Linehan is fed up with a nearby property owner’s zoning violations. Unsatisfied with the actions taken by the town’s zoning department, Linehan asked the town board for help last Tuesday.

GUILDERLAND — After a year of negotiating with neighbors and modifying his plans for a medical facility on Carman Road, Dr. William Tetrault is ready to build.

In honor of Doris Kirk:
Happy times and hard times on display in Altamont quilts


ALTAMONT — "A quilter will always tell you a quilt has a life of its own," said village quilter Ruth Dickinson.

By Bill Sherman

ALTAMONT — Subdivisions within the village will have to wait until next year as the Altamont Board of Trustees unanimously voted for a moratorium on Tuesday night.

Susan Boyer sits at her kitchen table, eyes closed.
"Focus on something that fills you with love," she instructs, "a person, a place." After a few moments of quiet, she begins to sing softly, "Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuu."

Sex offender shunned
Elms says he has no place to go



GUILDERLAND — On Sunday evening, Matthew Elms felt his options had run out.