For 38 years, the school board has recognized its best employees, nominated by peers and selected by committee. More than 400 have been honored over the years. Five more joined the ranks last Tuesday in a televised ceremony.

School discipline must be fitted to the circumstances of each infraction; a blanket and automatic suspension is a blunt and harmful tool.

Food Allergy Research and Education initiated the Teal Pumpkin Project to help keep the one in 13 children in the United States suffering from a food allergy safe on Halloween.

The budget proposes a standard 2.5-percent raise for all town employees, and no new positions were eliminated or created.

GUILDERLAND — Police in Mississippi and Texas have been as stymied as police here in solving brutal murders of Chinese families.

ALTAMONT — After months of packed village meetings as Stewart’s proposed an expansion that would have required a zoning change, its bid failed Tuesday night with a tied village board vote, 2 to 2.

A zoning change requires a majority vote.

_{Lianne M. Chase, football mom and wife of Guilderland Dutchmen}

GUILDERLAND — After a trial, a Slingerlands man, who burned a female victim’s lingerie, was found guilty of arson on Sept. 28 in Albany County Court in front of Judge Peter Lynch, according to the district attorney’s office.