To the Editor:

What a difference a year makes. Last year, as I made a celebratory holiday dinner at my home for my staff, I received a call that changed my life. My dental practice was on fire and, as I raced to the office from my home, I could see the sky lit with flames shooting from the roof.

The Guilderland School Board met last week to discuss the results of a summit held a month earlier.  Board members spent considerable time interpreting the record sheets of ideas garnered from summit volunteers who provided solutions for the revenue shortages experienced by the school in the last several years.

GUILDERLAND — People who may not have access to personal transportation will now be able to visit the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.

“It was the first place I used a computer, it was a social place...and it was an educational place,” said Joseph Burke, new director of the Altamont free Library. “I still remember the joy of discovering something new, something I’d overlooked before.”

"The worst thing you can do is make no decision," the vice president of the school board told his colleagues as they wrestled with reams of public opinion on how to solve the problem of too much space for too few students.