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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.





NEW SCOTLAND — Marilyn Holmberg was the kind of women who put a pool in her backyard although she herself couldn’t swim, just so the neighborhood kids could.





KNOX — The town may change the process for getting a variance from the zoning board of appeals.




BERNE—Sixty years after the end of World War II, the era will be recreated and commemorated at Berne Heritage Days this weekend. lt will be the first time the annual event will have a theme.




KNOX—After several years of little or no business, a new owner has re-opened the Fox Creek Flea Market. The flea market in the southwest corner of Knox, just north of the hamlet of West Berne, has been open since Memorial Day.





Windmills may never crop up in the Hilltowns, but a group of residents is preparing for the possibility anyway.





GUILDERLAND — Some residents are still fired up over the town’s reassessment and now plan on taking their complaints to small claims court.





GUILDERLAND — At Tuesday’s meeting, the town board set a public hearing to discuss creating a law requiring that certain planning and zoning decisions in the town first get an opinion from the village of Altamont.





GUILDERLAND — Robert Perry shows all the signs of an experienced firefighter.





GUILDERLAND — Two candidates who, before the election for school board president, said they had different leadership styles are now a leadership team.

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