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GUILDERLAND — The school board Tuesday night added $200,000 to the district’s tax levy but Guilderland residents will still have a lower tax rate than projected when they passed the $76 million school budget in May.



VOORHEESVILLE — The Albany County Rural Housing Alliance, headquartered in Voorheesville, has received $540,000 in grant money as part of the state’s $92.2 million dollar initiative for affordable housing across New York.



By Bill Sherman

VOORHEESVILLE — Village and fire-department leaders unveiled preliminary plans Tuesday for a $1.2 million upgrade to the 38-year-old firehouse on Route 156.





KNOX—A Knox family hopes others won’t make their mistake of not monitoring their teenage daughter’s Internet use.





BERNE — According to Supervisor Kevin Crosier, Berne has few tricks left to fight the rising cost of health insurance.





KNOX—Every year, Robert Price warns the Knox Town Board of the same thing and every year his warning is politely noted. This year, however, the board took action.





KNOX—An Albany County family has been awarded nearly $2.5 million in a wrongful death suit filed against the state after a bicycle accident at Thompson’s Lake Campground.





While Albany County’s executive supports it, not every town government is sold on the idea of Tech Valley.





FEURA BUSH — The Bethlehem police have arrested a Feura Bush man for vandalizing dozens of cars and more arrests are expected at the end of this week.





NEW SCOTLAND — Incumbent town Judge Thomas Dolin, a Democrat, is running for the fifth time, but this will be only the third time that he has an opponent.





VOORHEESVILLE — Thom O’Connor, a printmaker, is ready for the future.





GUILDERLAND — The town’s zoning board heard preliminary plans last Wednesday for Jeff Thomas’s proposed senior-housing complex on Brandle Road.

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