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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.





By next year, the endangered Karner blue butterfly will have more places to subsist.





GUILDERLAND — Joseph Purcell loves to volunteer and, as Community Caregivers’ new president, has made it his mission to improve the agency.
"It’s a great organization," he said.





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.





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

Birds trapped
A risk to human health







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.

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