For legislative change
Task force to study teachers’ pensions

GUILDERLAND — An idea hatched by the Guilderland School Board has received state-wide backing.

GUILDERLAND — The town’s first pediatrician, Anthony Mastrianni, made the bittersweet decision to retire earlier this year.

GUILDERLAND — Showered with roses and surrounded by hugs, Democrat Denise Randall made history Tuesday. She is the first female to be elected judge in Guilderland.

ALTAMONT -- The Community Caregivers hope to have a new home next spring, thanks to local philanthropist and developer Jeff Thomas.

ALTAMONT — An Altamont police officer, who has been suspended since December of 2003, is suing the village for about $48,000 in back pay and is asking for his job to be reinstated.

GUILDERLAND — Demian Singleton, the supervisor for math and science at Farnsworth Middle School, wanted to set the record straight about the earth- science course the school offers.

GUILDERLAND — Children gathered purposefully the morning of Oct. 21, bundled against the chill air; they sat on logs arranged in a circle around a glowing fire.

GUILDERLAND — Energy. Michael Piccirillo, newly named principal for Guilderland High School, has lots of it.

"Consummate professional"
Guilderland school community mourns Westcott, teacher of teachers



Dale Carlton Westcott was a teacher who inspired his students as well as his colleagues.

GUILDERLAND — The school board last Tuesday seemed in easy agreement on lowering temperatures to save money but had a wide variety of views on budget priorities.