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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.





VOORHEESVILLE — After more than a year-and-half of negotiations, the Voorheesville School District will lose $37,000 of expected tax revenue from Atlas Copco this year.



, 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.





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 — 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.





GUILDERLAND — Police arrested a Queens man on Sunday for stalking, after a woman reported he was following her car.





GUILDERLAND — More charges have been filed against a man who, police say, crashed into a truck and a house after driving drunk.

Sex offender shunned
Elms says he has no place to go



GUILDERLAND — On Sunday evening, Matthew Elms felt his options had run out.



Susan Boyer sits at her kitchen table, eyes closed.
"Focus on something that fills you with love," she instructs, "a person, a place." After a few moments of quiet, she begins to sing softly, "Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuu."

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