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After the hurricane:
Helping the forgotten places



NEW SCOTLAND — Folks in this still rural town of 8,500 have pitched in to help a similar town just 50 miles north of New Orleans.





NEW SCOTLAND — An artist has moved into town and so have his life-size steel sculptures.

Sales, services, and food highlight fall antiques season



Young collectors and experienced antique-ers may find just the right piece this autumn as local dealers celebrate the leaf-looking season with sales, services, and food.





RENSSELAERVILLE—A resident is suing Rensselaerville, charging that the highway superintendent is stymieing his attempts to acquire records on town projects.





KNOX—Complaints of noise from a property on Thompson’s Lake Road are motivating the town to investigate.





Every bit helps, says John Conklin.
"No donation is too small," he says as he talks about an Oct. 2 golf tournament he’s organizing to raise funds for April Porter who is fighting cancer.





GUILDERLAND — Police are still searching for the man who burglarized Northeastern Fine Jewelry last week.





GUILDERLAND — Town board members are struggling, as they often have in recent years while building the town’s budget, with wanting to give good workers substantial raises and wanting to save taxpayers money.





GUILDERLAND — Visitors Saturday at the Guilderland Animal Hospital open house will be able to look back at the past, tour the present, and glimpse the future.





GUILDERLAND — Animals may not have changed much in the last half-century, but people’s relationships with them have.





GUILDERLAND — The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina is being answered with a ground swell of fund-raisers and contributions.



, Matt Cook, and Holly Grosch

Although the major parties didn’t hold primaries this year, the endorsements of the Conservative and Independence Parties in Guilderland, New Scotland, and the Hilltowns were decided Tuesday in primary elections.





BERNE — Two Hilltown schools are struggling to deal with the death of a nine-year-old student.

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