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By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The town board approved a $2.2 million preliminary budget for 2009 at its Nov. 12 meeting, with no tax increase in next year’s spending plan.

GUILDERLAND — Property at the corner of routes 155 and 20 is probably worth at least twice as much as it’s assessed for, claims Republican Councilman Warren Redlich.

Glass Works Village strolls to re-zone, 4 to 1

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.

Conservation coordinator will work on green initiatives

GUILDERLAND — The school board has created a new post — conservation coordinator — to further the district priority of fostering environmental stewardship.

GUILDERLAND — After two-and-a-half years of planning for Glass Works Village, 56 acres of undeveloped land on Route 20 may remain so.

GUILDERLAND — When, by 1:30 a.m., a crowd of 50 had dwindled to one and a trio of town employees the town board began a two-hour public hearing on its $30.6 million budget for the coming year.

By Zach Simeone

RENSSELAERVILLE — After voting on a preliminary budget for 2009 on Nov. 3, and then printing three different versions for the public, the town board will meet tonight for another budget hearing.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Richard Wheeler, Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s acting high school principal, is leaving on Friday.

VOORHEESVILLE — Local students are “torturing” two high school students here using hate blogs and harassment, according to relatives of the targets.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — With the state’s financial crisis as a backdrop, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school board surveyed its residents on the quality of the district’s schooling, and held a community forum on maintaining excellence in tough times.

BERNE — Attendants of last week’s forum received a summary of a recent community survey, sent to 3,467 households, which found that:

NEW SCOTLAND — After a public hearing Wednesday with a standing-room-only crowd, the town board unanimously adopted a local law to extend the commercial building moratorium three months.

GUILDERLAND — The school board here backs a move from half-day to full-day kindergarten if, as the school board president put it, “money wasn’t an object.”

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