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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.





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.





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.

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