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NEW SCOTLAND — The bookkeeper’s salary brought half a dozen angry workers to Town Hall last week.

One pet eaten by another in case of neglect

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Wendall Smith had two dogs, until one died and was eaten by the other.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — A change on the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board’s agenda for tonight’s meeting says that the district is prepared to accept the town of Westerlo’s offer to purchase the Westerlo School.

Plaster ornament crowning glory for restored Gothic mansion

Deferring to DEC

The watchdog group Save the Pine Bush, which celebrated its 32nd anniversary on Sunday, has lost its case against the City of Albany over the fifth expansion of the Rapp Road landfill.

Rarick steals from father’s home

By Zach Simeone

RENSSELAERVILLE — A Warrensburg man is in jail after being arrested for stealing from his father’s Rensselaerville home this past weekend.

Co-teaching thrives as special-needs students are clustered in classrooms

GUILDERLAND — Special-education teachers are pushing into regular elementary-school classrooms in a partnership that Guilderland educators describe as perfect.

Fire department stops annual rose sale

GUILDERLAND CENTER  — After attending two town-sponsored meetings in the last year to discuss plans for the Guilderland Center hamlet, residents have decided to form a neighborhood association.

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — A Westerlo man was arrested Tuesday night for violating the terms of his probation.

ALBANY COUNTY — Society’s trend of consumption, use, and waste is becoming less linear as dumps around the world reach capacity.

ALTAMONT — Jessica Lynch, granddaughter of Benjamin M. Crupe, traveled from Manhattan last Tuesday to ask the village board to honor its 2001 commitment to include Crupe’s name on the entrance sign to Bozenkill Park.

GUILDERLAND — A man died after he lost consciousness while driving on Western Avenue Saturday, and crossed over into oncoming traffic, striking another vehicle before hitting a tree.

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