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Project-based learning thrills Tech Valley kid

by Anne Hayden

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Tech Valley High, the Westerlo School, and a possible bus purchase were up for discussion last week when the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school board met for the second week in a row.

Tall pines will be felled to bring back older scrub habitat

by Anne Hayden

GUILDERLAND — In the Pine Bush preserve, white pines, some over 200 years old, will be cut down in an attempt to make the area its original ecosystem.

With hearts as big as a school bus Westmere kids celebrate Ben

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — A 10-ton Valentine rolled down Birch Drive on Friday afternoon and stopped in front of Ben Grant’s house.

Westerlo is now without a planning board chair

by Philippa Stasiuk

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — Now that Andrew Brick has been chosen to fill the recently vacated town justice post, Westerlo’s planning board is without a chairman.

As deficit looms

by Anne Hayden

Super says he’ll cut overtime hours

GUILDERLAND — To avoid wage freezes and layoffs, Supervisor Kenneth Runion says he is cutting overtime hours for town workers and cutting back hours for some jobs.

Vlahos challenges Mayor Gaughan in Altamont race

by Philippa Stasiuk

Plans scrapped for post to allow checks on elderly

by Anne Hayden

GUILDERLAND — Plans have been scrapped for a part-time position that would have allowed the town to check up on elderly residents.

Watervliet Reservoir to expand

by Saranac Hale Spencer

GUILDERLAND — By the end of the year, Watervliet Mayor Michael Manning hopes to have started work on doubling the size of his city’s reservoir.

Field trips to be cut lunches to be marketed

by Saranac Hale Spencer

VOORHEESVILLE — School budget cuts are looming, with anticipated layoffs and halving the spending on field trips.

Compassionate teen hosts dinner to help burned-out family

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

HILLTOWNS — When 17-year-old Danille Cross found out her friend’s grandparents had lost everything in a fire, she wanted to do something to help.

Mr Subb robbed of 276 suspect flees

by Anne Hayden

GOP calls for candidates nbsp

by Anne Hayden

GUILDERLAND – In an upset victory in 2007, two Republicans won seats on the formerly all-Democratic town board.

ldquo What about walking rdquo

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

School board questions need for new buses

Perennial problem Hilltown manure flows into city rsquo s water source

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

By Zach Simeone

Every spring, the Alcove Reservoir, a source of water for the city of Albany, is at risk of being contaminated by manure, carried by snowmelt and storm water that originates on Hilltown farms.

Two teens charged in library arson

by Anne Hayden

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Public Library had a scare on Feb. 11, when teenagers started a fire in the men’s bathroom.

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