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KNOX - The town board unanimously adopted Knox's 2008 budget last week, which calls for a tax-rate increase of about 4 cents per $1,000 of assessed value.

Hilltowns Players still a ‘strong-headed, creative, opinionated lot’ after 25 years as family


BERNE — After 25 years, the Hilltowns Players is still going strong.



ALBANY COUNTY - Having made its first appearance in the state this fall in Voorheesville, Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease has now been confirmed elsewhere in Albany County and in some neighboring counties.





GUILDERLAND - In recent years, budget hearings held by the all-Democratic town board have been short and quiet. That changed with last Tuesday's upset election by two Republicans to the board.





GUILDERLAND - Developer Brandon Quadrini won't be able to build eight two-story English Tudor-style townhouses on Ashford Drive as he had planned.

The town board last Thursday unanimously denied his request for a re-zone.





GUILDERLAND - After years of waiting and planning and revising, the Rubins were given permits to build a bigger Shabbos House in McKownville by a unanimous vote of the town's zoning board last Wednesday.





GUILDERLAND - School district voters here gave a resounding yes on Tuesday to a $27 million building renovation project.





ALTAMONT - The old train station is 20,000 steps closer to becoming a library.

Former mayor, super reflects on 23 diverse years as local leader



NEW SCOTLAND – Supervisor Ed Clark says that he is unsure what he will do with his free time after he retires.





VOORHEESVILLE – The days of swapping sandwiches in the school cafeteria are over. At Voorheesville Elementary School, students are taught to "share things, not food," says the school nurse, Colleen Brackett.

Dems sweep clean



BERNE - Democrats swept the town board and assessor races in Tuesday's election.

Dems dominate, Gage keeps seat



KNOX - Democrats returned to a position of dominance Tuesday night as the longtime supervisor, Michael Hammond, had a decisive win, and newcomer Mary Ellen Nagengast got the most votes for town board.

Unchallenged, Democrats roll on



WESTERLO - With a dormant Republican party, Westerlo offered no challengers to the Democrats this year. Six Democrats ran without opposition; all but one of them are long-time incumbents.

Power shifts to Dems


RENSSELAERVILLE - "We lost," said Republican Supervisor Jost Nickelsberg early Wednesday morning, after the polls had closed.

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