Superintendent Marie Wiles said she would work with the district’s leadership team to put together a plan “to engage the community in relatively short order” on the topic of a smartphone ban throughout the school day. 

On Aug. 6, a lawsuit filed by Pine Bush Senior Living LLC — which had planned to develop 86 units of affordable senior housing on New Karner Road amid the Albany Pine Bush — asked the court to officially terminate a purchase and sales agreement it had with Pine Bush Parc LLC for 51 acres at 20, 22, and 24 New Karner Road. 

John “Mac” McDonnell, Director, Guilderland Food Pantry

One Willow Street resident likened his street to the Daytona Speedway while a West Old State resident said she felt like a hostage in her own home.

ALTAMONT — Altamont Police on Monday responded to a call about a dead man at a Main Street residence. 

First Sergeant Thomas Funk of the Guilderland Police on Tuesday identified the man as village resident Fred Kuntzsch.

Richard Gifford, Guilderland

A-Metro Movers is seeking permission to demolish the M&M Motel at 2360 Western Ave. as well as a single-family home on the site and replace them with 27,000 square feet of self-storage. 

Among the three residents who submitted written comments and the six residents who spoke at the hearing, only one favored the law as it was first proposed.

“Get outside and get moving,” said Guilderland’s parks director, as $250,000 in State Assembly funds to upgrade two parks in town was announced.

The proposal is now for a 105,000-square foot facility.