GUILDERLAND — Doris May Selig loved a challenge. Starting as a copy girl, she worked her way up to a supervisory role for the Associated Press at a time when very few women were in the news business. Although she worked for decades in Manhattan, she never gave up her rural roots in Guilderland.
Lynnwood Elementary students learn about spirographs from artist Saul Schilser and help from their teacher Timothy Fry about the mathematics side of the spirographs last Friday.
On a warm and breezy Saturday, the Guilderland boys’ and girls’ outdoor track team took part in the 52nd annual Colonie Relays held at Colonie High School. The girls’ team won with a score of 117 while the boys’ team finished in fourth place with a score of 73.
GUILDERLAND — Neighbors say that the stream that runs parallel to Western Avenue and behind their homes on Concord Hill Drive and Halfmoon Drive is now as much as 25 feet closer to their homes, threatening to swallow their outbuildings. The water is directed through culverts toward Route 146 and the Normanskill.