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In response to the growing number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease, local organizations are offering new support groups and caregiving classes to families in this area.

By Philippa Stasuik

ALTAMONT — In the last two weeks, Altamont residents have had an opportunity to envision how they want their village to look ten, twenty, even fifty years from now. 

School board hangs on to rainy-day fund

GUILDERLAND — The school board here has decided to break the law to prepare the district for dire financial times.

County commissioners disagree

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — Long-time Republican Susan Walter had planned on running for the town board on the Democratic and Conservative lines, but that may no longer be possible.

GUILDERLAND — Two weeks before the public hearing for Glass Works Village’s planned unit development designation, the developer has submitted amendments to the PUD legislation, after hearing some concern at the last town board meeting.

GUILDERLAND — An unidentified white man snatched a woman’s purse as she and two friends left a Star Plaza restaurant last week, according to the Guilderland Police.

VOORHEESVILLE — Scarecrow making, Helderberg Hildie, and skillet tossing will all be part of the fifth-annual Thacher Park Fall Festival this Saturday.

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — For many years, town positions have been held by Democrats with little-to-no opposition from the almost non-existent Republican Party, in a town where Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 3 to 1.

Updates and complaints on proposed sewer-use ordinance

By Zach Simeone

Sphere Development weighs in: “She must be removed from CZAC”

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — Last Thursday, friends of Ryan Slingerland gathered near the gazebo in the center of Altamont. It had been almost 24 hours since Ryan died in a car crash.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — A car accident on Oct. 1 resulted in Ryan Slingerland’s death, leaving his two friends injured. A lull has washed over the Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School, where Slingerland was a sophomore, but things are moving slowly back to normal.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — Last Thursday, friends of Ryan Slingerland gathered near the gazebo in the center of Altamont. It had been almost 24 hours since Ryan died in a car crash.

GUILDERLAND — Ulli T. Neuwirth wrote a letter to his infant daughter after police arrested him for assaulting her.

On Sept. 29, Neuwirth’s wife had taken his brother to the airport when their four-month-old baby began to choke, Neuwirth told police.

ALBANY COUNTY — Several of the landowners who were recently approached by Shell WindEnergy to lease their property for wind farms on the crest of the Helderbergs will be represented by local attorney Cynthia LaFave.

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