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





RENSSELAERVILLE — The Albany County Sheriff’s Department has notified residents of Rensselaerville that a Level 3 sex offender—the highest risk—is living in town.





KNOX — Linda M. Heath showed the same qualities as a wife and mother that she did as town clerk and councilwoman.





GUILDERLAND — After a year of negotiating with neighbors and modifying his plans for a medical facility on Carman Road, Dr. William Tetrault is ready to build.



By Nicole Fay Barr

GUILDERLAND — Andrew Linehan is fed up with a nearby property owner’s zoning violations. Unsatisfied with the actions taken by the town’s zoning department, Linehan asked the town board for help last Tuesday.

Man collared for coke
Woman arrested for prostitution in Guilderland



GUILDERLAND — A routine traffic stop led police to arrest a professional escort for prostitution and to charge her client with possession of cocaine.

RPI takes in displaced students
Safe from the storm, O’Hara plans spring return to Tulane



GUILDERLAND — Patrick O’Hara says he feels grateful. Then he says it again. And again.





GUILDERLAND — The school board here is looking at the way citizens participate in the budget-making process.





GUILDERLAND — While Watervliet’s engineer has confidence in a project that would raise the city’s reservoir in Guilderland five feet, some Guilderland residents are wary.

In honor of Doris Kirk:
Happy times and hard times on display in Altamont quilts


ALTAMONT — "A quilter will always tell you a quilt has a life of its own," said village quilter Ruth Dickinson.

Bestselling author comes to Voorheesville
Mayor revolts against cliché... He write ‘not who done it, but why’







WESTERLO — Students will still come to the Westerlo School this fall, but for the first time in the building’s history, they won’t be public-school students.





GUILDERLAND — A 28-year-old Guilderland man was arrested Sunday, after, police say, he raped a 14-year-old girl in his Church Road trailer.





GUILDERLAND — Four residents raised concerns at Tuesday’s town board meeting about the Northeastern Industrial Park’s plans for future development.



GUILDERLAND — David A. Hollenbeck, dubbed "the McKownville burglar," was sentenced last week to 15 years in state prison. Judge Stephen W. Herrick also ordered Hollenbeck to five years of post-release supervision.

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