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Westervelt wallows in prison, maintaining his innocence as he re-works his case



DANNAMORA — Erick Westervelt is haunted by a cigarette butt.

Westervelt’s family:
"We know where he was that night"

Westervelt appealsClaims "trickery" by Bethlehem Police

Going Out for horns & drums
A night for the children done by the town band



GUILDERLAND — Making music takes passion and perseverance.

Silence is not Golden
Website riles school board



GUILDERLAND — Last Tuesday’s school board meeting began with a citizen’s call for civility and ended with a board discussion on ethics and free speech.





GUILDERLAND — A man wanted for bank robberies in Albany and Guilderland was arrested on Sunday by Albany Police.


ALBANY COUNTY — Mosquito season is here. As the county starts applying larvicide, it asks residents to report birds that have died in the past 24 hours — crows in particular.

In New Scotland
Dems and GOP faceoff with full slates



NEW SCOTLAND – The race is heating up in New Scotland – Republicans and Democrats have announced their party’s candidates for the town’s November elections.




VOORHEESVILLE – Jimmy Pincheon is a happy, "do-anything-for-anybody kind of kid," says his mother, Stephanie Pincheon.





VOORHEESVILLE — After some debate, the Voorheesville Area Ambulance Service has agreed to look into charging patients for service.





WESTERLO — The town board and newly created planning board are at odds over who should write a master plan for land use.



BERNE — On July 7, on Family Day, area residents will celebrate community at the Berne town park.





GUILDERLAND — A group of high-school seniors looked back to a time that seemed distant as they stood in the bright sunshine Thursday afternoon in a place that was once very familiar — the courtyard of Pine Bush Elementary School.

Super’s wife not allowed
New trio hired to fill out FEMA forms



RENSSELAERVILLE — The public has picked up a debate that began on New Year’s Day in 2006, the day Republican Jost Nicklesberg took office as supervisor.

Old Songs to communicate
Stories through murder ballads, parking-lot picking



ALTAMONT — Stories of old are told with the mournful twang of Mark Schmitt’s fiddle.

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