Guilderland News

New York became the first state in the nation to ban smoking at all its addiction treatment centers yesterday, encompassing more than 1,550 programs.

Stipend confusion leads to finger pointing in Guilderland Posted on: 07/23/08 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com An ongoing political skirmish between Guilderland Town Board members has yielded ...

John Duthie, a 19-year-old from Lansing, won two matches Thursday in his attempt to defend his New York State Amateur title.

Town police are investigating the robbery of a Pioneer Savings Bank, located at 1873 Western Ave., which occurred at 1 p.m. Saturday.

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Guilderland school board upholds teacher transfer Posted on: 07/16/08 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com The Guilderland Board of Education decided on Monday, July 14, not to overturn ...

Bob Kelley bought his six-bedroom house on Hemlock Drive in 1963 -- and for the past five decades, the American Dream played out on his half-acre. Two-car garage, expansive lawn, great schools for his children.

After 10 years of carrying tourists from stop to stop, the scenic railroad in the Adirondacks still seems to draw pretty good crowds, even on an ordinary day in July, in a time when it seems people are ...

Police are looking for a woman who robbed a bank. It happened around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First National Bank of Scotia on New Karner Road.

Teacher transfer uproar continues in Guilderland Posted on: 07/09/08 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com Supporters of teachers Matt Nelligan and Ann-Marie McManus came back for round two of the ...

Holding signs opposing the reassignments of two teachers are Guilderland High School student Elijah Sharma, 17, left, and Laura Stella, who is a 2008 graduate of the school.

The board is expected to meet in executive session at 6 p.m. tonight in the principal's conference room at Guilderland High School to discuss the reassignment of Matt Nelligan and Anne Marie McNanus to ...

At least eight restaurants will participate in Guilderland's first-ever Restaurant Week, which will be held July 14-19. The restaurants will offer special menus for $18.03. Guilderland was founded in 1803.

Reading for eating Posted on: 06/30/08 Sean Ahern, Contributing Writer email: aherns@spotlightnews.com A quarterly publication highlighting restaurants, chefs and recipes of the Capital District will donate ...

Amy Lane, a book buyer for the Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, stands by the staff favorites.

'Life is what you make of it' is Guilderland's graduation theme Posted on: 07/02/08 Ashley Lucas, Clifton Park-Burnt Hills reporter email: lucasa@spotlightnews.com To the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance," played ...

Approximately 200 protestors packed the Guilderland School Board meeting Tuesday night - students, teachers and parents. They're angered over the forced transfer of two popular social studies teachers.

Matt Nelligan and Anne Marie McManus are being transferred to Farnsworth Middle School for the start of school in September.

Two popular high school social studies teachers have been reassigned to the middle school as punishment for fostering a "locker room" and "boys club" atmosphere, records show.

The Rev. Michael Hogan leads the final bilingual Mass at Sacred Heart-St. Colomba Church on Sunday.

Kerry "Slim" Kirkem, the leader of a drug ring that pumped cocaine into the city and allegedly included ex-Police Chief Gregory T. Kaczmarek's wife among its members, pleaded guilty to drug charges this morning ...