Guilderland News

Colonie, Guilderland talk trash Posted on: 07/08/09 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com As the City of Albany plans the expansion of its landfill, one of its customers is planning to bring its waste elsewhere.

Firefighters are back on the scene this morning at a house fire that rekindled after dousing the blaze Tuesday night.

Local law enforcement agencies will participate in a handicap-parking sweep at two Guilderland shopping destinations, on Wednesday July 8. Stuyvesant Plaza and Crossgates Mall will be the location of a Project Access parking enforcement effort, and it will target non-disabled motorists using handicap spaces, according to the Albany County sheriff's ...

Rain barrels, those old-fashioned and low-tech devices that catch rainwater running off a roof and divert it to thirsty flowers and vegetables, are on the rise across the Capital Region.

The Northeastern New York PGA Junior Championship has been shortened to an 18-hole event after a line of storms came through Guilderland at approximately 1:30 p.m. today and made the Western Turnpike Golf Course unplayable.

The town of Guilderland plans to haul its garbage a bit farther. Officials want to stop adding refuse to the Pine Bush landfill.

The "Wealth of Fools" sculpture by artist Gregory Smith is seen in front of the Palace Theatre in Albany last week.

A National Grid Web site says that power has been restored to all but a handful of customers in Albany County after an outage hit sections of the county earlier today.

Guilderland Town Board members will be weighing in on a proposed list of members for a zoning review committee at its upcoming Tuesday, July 7 meeting.

Juicy Burgers & More, which opened in Ballston Spa/Milton in September, is working on opening its second location by the end of the summer.

A Rotterdam man has been arrested after he was seen fleeing the property of a towing company with car parts he allegedly stole from the business.

Betty, a reader, e-mailed me this question yesterday: Did you do anything about what to do with textbooks that no one wants to buy? My girls are four years apart, so we have kept the texts as reference material for the second, and of course there is no one to buy two sets of texts/review books.

Guilderland Police say that the Burger King on Western Ave. was evacuated around 11 a.m. Police scanners say that there was some type of small fire in the kitchen.

Albany County District Attorney David Soares has announced the preliminary results of the sobriety enforcement initiative that took place throughout the county Thursday night.

Home buying and mortgage refinancing are on the mind of many folks these days and I have upbeat and downbeat updates this week.

The bond to purchase a new fire truck at the Guilderland Center Fire Department was approved 17-4 on Tuesday, June 9. All residents in the Guilderland Center fire district were eligible to vote.

The second Capital Region Emack & Bolio's ice-cream parlor opened last weekend. The shop, located in Town Center Plaza at 1704 Western Ave.

Athos Classic Greek Cuisine in Guilderland has begun an early-bird menu seven days a week.

Our annual Best of the Capital Region section, now in its 12th year, will be available in Thursday's paper and online.

Police are investigating a three-car crash Thursday that sent one person to the hospital with serious injuries.