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.
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.
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.
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.
GUILDERLAND Next year’s proposed town budget includes the first tax-rate increase in the nine years that Supervisor Kenneth Runion has been preparing Guilderland’s spending plan, he said.
GUILDERLAND Supervisor Kenneth Runion, a Democrat on the town board’s three-member majority, has asked that Republican Councilman Warren Redlich recuse himself from the town’s budget process.
NEW SCOTLAND Elizabeth Kormos, backed by a grassroots group she helped found, says she will not resign from the committee appointed to recommend commercial zoning for the old Bender melon farm.
NEW SCOTLAND Four North American farmers, including one from New York, won a legal battle last week against John Deere manufacturer Deere & Company, due largely to local attorney David P. Miranda.