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Reorganizing
Berne GOP backs off support of Crosier




HILLTOWNS — Berne’s summer recreation program was going strong Monday morning.

Destroying Octavo volumes for the birds



RENSSELAERVILLE — History is in jeopardy.

So says Roswell Eldridge, M.D., who has been tracking disconcerting behavior of eBay auctioneers and buyers on the Internet.


DUANESBURG — Art lessons for a cause will be offered at Crossroads Gallery on July 19 and 20.





RENSSELAERVILLE — Highway workers and part-time employees for the town used time cards sporadically last year, according to an audit by the state comptroller’s office.

Planning praised
Fairgrounds rock, village quiet



ALTAMONT — Preparation paid off. Although there were over 25,000 people in Altamont on Saturday, villagers couldn’t tell.





HILLTOWNS — A life-long Republican and Hilltown native, Travis Stevens will run against the odds in the Democrat-dominated 39th District of the Albany County Legislature. He is making his first run for public office.


GUILDERLAND — She used to be in the business of businesses in town.

Board members raise questions
School leaders say staff developer "essential"



For three years
District office workers get 3.95-percent raises

Clustering off Depot Road
Farmer plans to develop 60 lots and keep on farming



GUILDERLAND — A part-time farmer wants to develop his land by Guilderland High School into an old-fashioned neighborhood, and keep farming it, too.

Flowing
Altamont doubles its water supply



ALTAMONT — After years of uncertainty, the water-strapped village has relief.

Fair pageant
Seeking "good girls who want to volunteer"


ALTAMONT — "We’re not a beauty pageant; we’re a personality pageant," says Bobbi-Jean Jeune, coordinator for the Miss Altamont Fair pageant.




NEW SCOTLAND – Elizabeth Brundage wrote her first novel on a yellow legal pad when she was 12 years old. She wanted to solve the problems of her troubled brother, she said. "One way to do that was on paper."

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