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.
NEW SCOTLAND A uniquely contentious election is on the horizon and the candidates are aligned by their stances on development rather than by their political parties.