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— Nicole Fay Barr

GUILDERLAND — Tuesday was chaos at Town Hall as hundreds of angry residents waited for hours to have two minutes each with the board of assessment review.


— Nicole Fay Barr

GUILDERLAND — A local doctor has modified his plans to build a medical complex on Carman Road, but some neighbors still have concerns.


GUILDERLAND — To reduce violence and arrests at Crossgates Mall, its management has decided to ban teenagers from the mall on Friday and Saturday nights, unless they are accompanied by their parents.


GUILDERLAND — Bruce Sherwin, a Democrat, who has been a councilman on the Guilderland Town Board for four years, says he has been rebuffed by the town’s Democratic committee because he votes his mind.


— Maggie Gordon
GUILDERLAND -- Marlene Plant, who raised 10 children single-handedly after her husband left her, defines success for a mother as "putting your family first and doing the best you can with what you have."



— Maggie Gordon

ALTAMONT — MaryEllen Cline, 49, searched for the perfect location for her café and country store for three years before finding her spot on Maple Avenue in Altamont.


— Melissa Hale-Spencer

DORMANSVILLE — More people turned out to celebrate Frances Swart’s birthday than she had candles on her cake. Swart is 95; close to 100 well-wishers celebrated her life on Sunday.



— Nicole Fay Barr

ALBANY — Looking down, Hashim Burnell seemed small and frightened Friday morning as he stood before a judge in the grand Albany County courtroom.



— Matt Cook

RENSSELAERVILLE — The town board made two appointments to replace outgoing town officials at its meeting last Thursday.



— Maggie Gordon

KNOX — The warm weather is here, and just like clockwork, the bears are back in town.



— Matt Cook

BERNE—The Berne-Knox-Westerlo school budget was voted down by district residents Tuesday by a margin of only 17. Westerlo residents, angry about the closing of their elementary school, may have been the deciding factor in the vote.



— Matt Cook

BERNE—The town has finally approved bids for the reconstruction of its transfer station.



— Matt Cook
BERNE—The Berne Library is out of room. On busy days, pa-trons have to squeeze by each other in the tight spaces between the shelves, "doing the dance," said Jeannette Miller, president of the Friends of the Town of Berne Free Library.




VOORHEESVILLE — The school district’s $19.3 million budget, an increase of 3.5 percent from this year, passed on Tuesday night, with 58 percent voting for it and 42 percent against it. There were 722 yes votes and 523 no votes.

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