GUILDERLAND Nichols Meat Processing officially closed on Friday, May 7, and the facility re-opened as Double L. Ranch Inc. on the next business day, Monday, May 11.
BERNE With the May 19 budget vote on the horizon, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board will hold a special meeting early next week to discuss the status of the posts for assistant superintendent and elementary librarian.
GUILDERLAND A neighborhood planning meeting, on May 7, highlighted traffic safety, and pedestrian connections, as the top priorities for attention in Guilderland Center.
GUILDERLAND Edward Handy, 55, of Guilderland, died after his motorcycle was struck on Western Avenue, by a pickup truck on Saturday, May 2. The accident occurred at about 5:30 a.m., according to Guilderland Police.
GUILDERLAND It’s official. After months of speculation and uncertainty, the Republican and Democratic parties in town have announced their candidates for the position of town supervisor.
BERNE Adam Kodra has come home to the Hilltowns, after spending nearly a year in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan with the Army National Guard. He was on top-secret missions, disarming bombs in the heart of the Middle East.
The Altamont Police Department 11 make traffic stops, check homes, answer complaints
ALTAMONT Two years of police dispatch data sketches a patchwork of activity for the Altamont Police department, which Commissioner Anthony Salerno summarizes as “community policing.”
New regulations should be drawn up to control use of pesticides, to solve problems that have been obvious for decades, the state’s wildlife pathologist said last week.
BERNE Supervisor Kevin Crosier, a Democrat who won elections in 2001 and 2005 on the Republican line, will not have GOP backing this time around, although Crosier is undecided on whether or not he is running this year.
KNOX Edmund Moore of Knox has agreed to six months in Albany County’s jail for criminally negligent homicide, according to the prosecutor in the case. There will be no trial.
