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GUILDERLAND — The planning board last week gave conceptual approval to the proposed Glass Works Village neighborhood, for which the town board will uncharacteristically act as lead agent for the project.





ALTAMONT — The local gas station, convenience store, deli, and car wash, known as Ketchum’s, was recently sold to a Connecticut company for $787,500. Now it will be called Cobble Pond Farms.

High Point for preservation
Spectacular Helderberg land to become part of Thacher Park







GUILDERLAND — A car accident on Camp Terrace left one man in the hospital and another in police custody.





GUILDERLAND — In accordance with an expansion of New York’s version of Megan’s Law, signed by Governor George Pataki on July 7, the Guilderland Police have released information on a Level 2 sex offender, Donald Earl White, living in town.




GUILDERLAND — A third "pignapping" in town has the police investigating and the pig’s owners baffled.



GUILDERLAND – The daily dinner ritual was not so routine for some Guilderland residents last Thursday, Aug. 3.



By Michele O’Riley

VOORHEESVILLE — A very Brady time will be had in the village this month as the Theatre Guild of Voorheesville brings the seventies sit-com about a blended family to the elementary-school stage.





VOORHEESVILLE – Poetry is not a lost art in Voorheesville.

In fact, it is alive and thriving.





HILLTOWNS — Rural character is hard to maintain when farmlands are subdivided into residential plots.





KNOX — Glenn DiPaula knows the restaurant business. DiPaula, who recently opened The Hilltop Bistro, began his career in the food industry at an early age.

For 15 years
Planning board pushes to close loophole


KNOX — For more than 15 years, the planning board has been pushing for an amendment to the town’s subdivision regulations that would eliminate the "one-cut rule" loophole.

Poetry in Motion
‘Alternative therapy to go hand-in-hand with vet care’



KNOX — Creatures on two legs and four legs, long legs and short legs, suffer from muscle aches and pains, bumps, and sprains.





GUILDERLAND — Police coaxed a resident out of a smoked-filled home after he refused to leave during a fire at 6116 Johnston Rd.

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