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Public vigils for anyone who has lost a child are held across the country on Dec. 6 at Angel of Hope Statues. Richard Paul Evans created the statues as the author of The Christmas Box book.

Volunteer firemen may have a special in with Santa as he had breakfast Sunday at the Westmere firehouse and then alighted in the afternoon from a Berne fire engine in the Hilltown Christmas parade.

A Berne teenager accused of choking his girlfriend as his mother was driving is charged with a reduced offense of criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, in addition to two other misdemeanors.

Members of Helderberg Valley Football reported to police that the group's treasurer, Susan Sprung, had withdrawn $1,400 from the group's account.

Agawum Lane, on the shoulder of the Helderberg escarpment, could become the site for a cell tower in Altamont.

The town's database doesn't correspond to locations in the records room, as it is intended, Town Clerk Kimberly Swain said during questions from the town's planning board secretary during the Dec. 10 board meeting.

Berne's receptionist and all-around resource spent her last town board meeting in characteristic fashion: writing notes in her yellow legal pad and correcting the town board in its process.

Guilderland's  music supervisor credits teachers, parents and the community for the program's success as the high school was named a Grammy semi-finalist for the fifth year in a row.

Guilderland School Board members' backgrounds informed the recommendations they made for closing a $2.7 million budget gap for next year.

GUILDERLAND — The four Guilderland High School juniors arrested for cyberbullying, a misdemeanor under a 2010 Albany County law, sat in a packed Guilderland courtroom last Thursday night.

Their cases were heard first by Judge Denise Randall, in her chambers, behind a closed door.

Snowmobiling has become more involved, so the rules may be more important.

When a Guilderland resident asked what two intruders what they were doing, they stated that they had confused the house with the post office, and left.

“It doesn’t matter if the person turning it in has a permit,” said the minister heading the Gifts for Guns program.  “A lot of times people have unused guns lying around...."

His book, Parker said, follows several story lines, including that of an evil wizard, bent on destroying the world; a super spy; a “Bonnie and Clyde-esque” duo, named Fairy and Fuzz; and the hero, Flabius Flaximus.

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