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GUILDERLAND — While many agree that another nursing home on Mercycare Lane is a good idea, some have reservations about added traffic to the "dangerous" intersection of Mercycare Lane and Route 20.





GUILDERLAND — With funding on the horizon for clean-up of the Army’s former bivouac area, good will abounded at the meeting last Thursday of the Restoration Advisory Board.





GUILDERLAND — The school district has its first energy manager — Fred Tresselt.



By Maggie Gordon
GUILDERLAND — Alice Begley has been a Guilderland resident for 51 years and the town historian for almost 10. She took the job because it "just melted in" with her passion for history, and reading and writing about it.



By Maggie Gordon

ALTAMONT — The Altamont Community Tradition presented three awards for Citizen of the Year Sunday, at the organization’s annual picnic.



By Maggie Gordon

GUILDERLAND — The New York Independent System Operator is planning on relocating 300 of its 400 employees, now in Albany, to East Greenbush.





NEW SCOTLAND — Political squabbles have already begun to play a role in the upcoming town elections.

Clarksville water district:
Without aid, town mulls how to go it alone



NEW SCOTLAND — The town board is now reviewing seven options for much-needed improvements and desired expansions of the Clarksville Water District.



BERNE—The Berne-Knox-Westerlo School District is a lot different than the one in which the new school board president grew up.
"I went to a very large school," said Janet Finke.





RENSSELAERVILLE — A large donation will preserve a wild portion of Rensselaerville and link two of the Hilltowns’ wildlife areas.





This week, as 23-year-old Erick Westervelt was locked up at Albany County’s jail, waiting to be sentenced for second-degree murder, Bethlehem Police seized many of his personal belongings from his cell.



BERNE—A Berne councilman will try to become town supervisor in November.

Unsettled:
Town, Guilderhaven still fighting over funds


GUILDERLAND — Will the $41,000 that Guilderhaven has spent a year raising be used to renovate the Guilderland Animal Shelter after all"

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