BERNE Four candidates are seeking one seat on the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board, a rarity for the district. Three of them have never held an elected public post.
GUILDERLAND After unprecedented delays and the admittance of controversial fingerprint evidence, Hashim Burnells murder trial was declared a mistrial by Albany County Judge Steven W. Herrick on Monday.
Hy Dubowsky, campaigning door to door, spoke to a Prescott Woods resident who said that he annually pays $30,000 in property taxes more than his parents paid to buy their Guilderland home in 1972.
Timothy Forster, making his first run for school board, says he has no set agenda.
"I’m not going in to take over...I’ve looked at the meetings. I have a lot to learn," he said. "We should all be learners."