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KNOX — The town may consider passing a law to quell noise and dust caused by gatherings of all-terrain-vehicle riders.



RENSSELAERVILLE — The town board used an idea from a losing candidate for supervisor and decided against a moratorium on major subdivisions and certain developments.





BERNE — Three years after the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School District shortened the term lengths of school board members, most members of the current board want it changed back.





WESTERLO — Guns stolen from a store deep in the rural Hilltowns ended up being sold on the streets of New York City, police say.





GUILDERLAND — Insurance Auto Auctions would run a junkyard, according to Guilderland’s zoning board.

Weisz will seek third term
Bakst bows out after nine years on board



GUILDERLAND — After nine years on the Guilderland School Board, Linda Bakst will not seek a fourth term.





GUILDERLAND — The school district here is still refining the shared decision-making plan required by the state for a dozen years and instituted initially in Guilderland nearly three decades ago.

Is another bus needed"
Sanders proposes buying nine school buses for $700K





ALTAMONT — A local developer, hoping to keep costs down on a large senior complex, protested the village’s proposal to charge a fee for new hookups to the Altamont water system.





ALTAMONT — Two part-time officers were dismissed from the Altamont Police Department Tuesday as part of the new commissioner’s restructuring project.

For second time
Planning board rejects two-acre rezone



NEW SCOTLAND — The town’s planning board on Tuesday night again voted unanimously not to rezone the northeast quadrant of town to prevent building lots smaller than two acres.

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