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Maple Avenue new home for Sidewalk Caf eacute and Country Store

 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.

Celebrating Frances Swart

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

 Melissa Hale-Spencer

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

Arraigned on six counts 151 Burnell pleads not guilty

by Nicole Fay Barr

 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.

Sutton named assessor Watkins put on zoning board

by Matt Cook

 Matt Cook

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

Encounters with black bear both amaze and scare residents

by Matt Cook

 Maggie Gordon

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

Mark Fiato energetic father biker eatery owner

by Holly Grosch

NEW SCOTLAND Mark Fiato embodied the phrase to live life and each day to its fullest, his daughter, Amy Fiato said.
Mr. Fiato died on Sunday, May 8, after a bicycling accident on Saturday afternoon. He was 53.

Woman pleads guilty for auctioning hot goods

by Matt Cook

WESTERLO A Westerlo woman agreed May 4 to plead guilty in federal court to charges of trafficking stolen goods.

Chased Altamont cops foray into Knox

by Matt Cook

KNOXAt least one Knox resident is bothered by the intrusion of the Altamont Police into Knox.

In a quarter century Schanz reaches P O 146 s top rung

by Matt Cook

RENSSELAERVILLEDianne Schanz has worked her way up the ladder. When she be-came a rural postal carrier in Berne in 1979, she thought the postal service was a good career move, she said. She turned out to be right.