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Ed Frank teaches serious lessons during DWI Awareness Month

ALTAMONT — Five hundred and ninety shoes will be displayed throughout December at the community center on Gun Club Road as part of a program to highlight DWI Awareness Month.

GUILDERLAND — Despite the governor’s sweeping budget-cut proposals and a bleak economic forecast, the University at Albany is making headway on its plans to renovate the decades-old uptown campus.

Survivors anguished after miraculous escape

NEW SCOTLAND — Peter Salerno says it’s a miracle that he and his two daughters survived being hit by two trains on Saturday at a crossing near their Youmans Road home.

Atlas Copco to cut 42 jobs, 12 percent of local workforce

VOORHEESVILLE — In order to specialize in the gas and process industry, Voorheesville’s largest business will be eliminating 42 of its 364 jobs by the end of 2009. 

By Zach Simeone

CZAC defunct

NEW SCOTLAND — The Commercial Zoning Advisory Committee is now defunct, after three of its five members resigned this week, leaving it without a quorum, but town board members still hope to revise the town’s commercial zoning.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Chamber of Commerce is moving to “the hub of Guilderland,” says a release from the organization.

Moving the chamber to a central location, with visibility from Western Avenue, was a top priority for Kathy Burbank when she became executive director in 2007, the release says.