After practicing law for 23 years, including seven years in Albany County, Christopher Aldrich is making his first run for town judge on the Republican ticket.
KNOX Republican incumbent Gary Salisbury is running for a fourth term as highway superintendent, and will be challenged by Dennis Barber, who is running on the Democratic line.
GUILDERLAND Democrat Jean Cataldo is running unopposed for another four-year term as the town’s receiver of taxes. She has held the position since 2000.
ALTAMONT After a spirited public hearing, the village board approved Tuesday night by a vote of 4-1, with Trustee Kerry Dineen dissenting, a resolution to buy a new $318,450 fire truck.
GUILDERLAND Deputy Sheriff Gerard Munrett III is recovering after his patrol car crashed into a tree on Sept. 27; he hopes to return to work by Oct. 15, said Craig Apple, undersheriff with the Albany County Sheriff’s Department.
BERNE The man arrested for shooting Rocky and Mocha, a pair of East Berne dogs, is a neighbor who says, according to police, that they bothered his farm animals and ate his chickens.