Firefighters say requiring sprinklers in new homes would save lives. Realtors say installing such systems should be a matter of personal choice not a government requirement.
GUILDERLAND — The town of Guilderland was the only municipality in the Capital Region to make it onto an annual list, produced by a home-security company, of “50 Safest Cities in New York Report.”
The Voorheesville Central School District, after a forum on Tuesday where the audience wasn’t much larger than the district’s safety committee, continues to try to gauge community thought on hiring a sheriff’s deputy to be stationed in the schools come fall.
Standing six rows deep, most of the students at Guilderland High School took part in Wednesday’s national walkout, exactly one month after the Valentine’s Day shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Sanari Ismail of Farnsworth Middle School thinks that students should be able to feel safe at school. The national walkout was set to be exactly one month from the date of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people died.
ALBANY COUNTY — Mary Tanner-Richter, the Vehicular Crimes Unit Bureau Chief for the Albany County District Attorney’s Office, has been named as one of two Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutors for the State of New York through the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee’s Highway Safety Program.
While security measures in Guilderland schools are extensive, Assistant Superintendent Neil Sanders says, “The majority of our efforts focus on building a stronger school community through communication, respect, and responsibility,”
