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New bridge for Gifford Hollow

BERNE — This week, the Albany County Department of Public Works closed Gifford Hollow Road to replace a bridge over the Switzkill. 

Free at the farm: A harvest of plays for every taste, from Shakespeare to Oz

Grimm business
Super claims illegal occupation

Dubose wants to heal rifts

GUILDERLAND —  “Healing is it,” said Maceo Dubose of his immediate goals as the president of the school district’s most powerful union.

An imposing figure at over six feet tall, he speaks quietly with care and force.

Hoyer helps kids orphaned by the war

By David S. Lewis

VOORHEESVILLE – In Afghanistan, a country wracked by decades of war and violence, one Voorheesville native is helping an oft-overlooked group of casualties –orphaned children.

GUILDERLAND — Both sides negotiating the new teachers’ contract said the approach used was collaborative.

Super’s transfer of teachers stands

GUILDERLAND — In a pin-drop quiet hall Monday morning, nine school board members made carefully-crafted statements on whether the board should review the administration’s transfer of two high-school teachers to the middle school.

GUILDERLAND — Two much-anticipated reports were released by the Guilderland School District to the public Monday.

By David S. Lewis

NEW SCOTLAND – A 13-year-old hiker survived a fall from a 12-foot cliff on the Onesquethaw creek July 6.  He is recovering in his Clarksville home from two broken limbs.

As Berne digs in for fun, “Excavator of history” releases fourth book

By Tyler Schuling

BERNE — This weekend, this community will celebrate family and heritage. 

By Tyler Schuling

RENSSELAERVILLE — Ray Welsh wants the town to go to full value assessment. 

KNOX — Last month, a local tavern that hadn’t seen customers in two years was bustling. 

 By David S. Lewis

NEW SCOTLAND – After serving as the town's clerk and tax collector for nearly eight years, Diane Deschenes has been awarded certification as a Registered Municipal Clerk by the New York State Town Clerks Association.

Teachers get 14% raises over 3 years

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland teachers have a new three-year contract that will give them substantial raises and will lengthen the elementary-school day.

GUILDERLAND — As school-district workers enter the final year of a four-year contract, they are being frozen on the same step of a 10-step salary scale where they were last year.

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