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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.”

Nooney resigns, town budgets for half-time assessor

NEW SCOTLAND — After a contentious, but award-winning, revaluation, former town assessor Julie Nooney has taken a position with Siena College. The town board accepted her resignation last month.

FMS students to talk about vermicomposting at AWMA luncheon

GUILDERLAND — What has a convoluted plot, elements of romantic comedy, and the suspense of a thriller with a healthy dose of wackiness thrown in?

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — Though Democrats swept elections across the country, this rural Hilltown’s new Republican Party had its first win on Tuesday. Clinton “Jack” Milner defeated his Conservative opponent Susan Walter in a landslide victory.

Will Western Turnpike stay rural or be developed?

GUILDERLAND — Keeping the rural landscape along the four-mile stretch of Route 20 that connects Princetown and Guilderland is a challenge.

GUILDERLAND — Four months ago, Mark Grimm was surprised to hear that he needed a permit to run his consulting business from his Remmington Road home.  Now that he has a permit, the councilman wants to change the rules in town.

NEW SCOTLAND — Controversy continues to swirl around Sphere Development and its plans to build a retail mall at the site of the old Bender melon farm.

KNOX — was an Air Force colonel and an environmental engineer who loved his family and the town of Knox.

Rothbergs plan second fundraiser in Voorheesville park

VOORHEESVILLE — One boy’s coming-of-age good deed — fighting breast cancer in the name of his grandmother — will continue for another year.

WESTERLO — Roof work led to a fatal plunge this week for a man from Loudonville.

David Hayes Sr., 71, was at the house of his son, David, in Westerlo on Monday, when he fell from scaffolding, police say.

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