ALBANY — Eleven months after he was arrested and nearly two months since a jury found him guilty of murder, Erick Westervelt, still maintaining his innocence, was sentenced last Thursday to 25 years to life in prison.

Police and the community are baffled about why a young Guilderland man held four people hostage at an Albany bank Saturday before hanging himself in the bank manager’s office.

At GCHS, Pipa says
"Let kids play Shakespeare and let them love it"



GUILDERLAND — Michael Pipa loves Shakespeare. He talks about the Bard with passion.

"Good history is good drama"



GUILDERLAND — The battles for women’s suffrage will be played out on the stage of Farnsworth Middle School this year.

GUILDERLAND — The school district here is taking steps to safeguard finances just as the state comptroller’s five-point plan has been signed into law.

GUILDERLAND — Tuesday night, the town board looked as if it would reconsider the now-controversial re-zone it granted Jeff Thomas a year ago to build senior housing on Brandle Road.

GUILDERLAND — A man arrested for sex crimes in the past was arrested last Thursday, police say, after he "inappropriately touched" a five-year-old boy at Crossgates Mall.

GUILDERLAND — Police say a drunk driver tried to flee from them Tuesday afternoon, striking two other vehicles and crashing into a house, flipping his own vehicle over.

Carman Road condos"
Board waits on re-zone hearing

GUILDERLAND — Kay Fuller knew as a child that she wanted to be a dance teacher. After 40 years of teaching across the country, she’s now instructing students at the Guilderland Ballet.