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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.

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.

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.

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