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Going Out: for farm history
New Scotland was raised from farmers’ seeds



By Maggie Gordon

The Help America Vote Act was passed two years ago in the wake of the 2000 Presidential elections, which were fraught with ballot discrepancies.



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"





A 21-year-old Guilderland man with dreams of running his family’s automotive business died Sunday in a jet-ski accident on the Mohawk River.

Cleanup:
Toxins to be removed from Burns’s property



GUILDERLAND — After over 40 years, Joan Burns may be able to walk in her backyard without fear.





GUILDERLAND — Timothy Lane may soon be developed.

The town’s planning board last Wednesday approved an application by Frank Tralongo to create a four-lot subdivision on 3.3 acres there.





GUILDERLAND — Frank Tedesco says he loves kids.





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.

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