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By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The Berne-Knox-Westerlo administration has moved away from its two-tier budget strategy, and amidst an outpouring of public interest, introduced a $19.7-million budget draft Monday.

Limits to toe the line
LaGrange drafts bill for planning board

GUILDERLAND — Fourth-grade student Alexa DiCaprio shaved her head on March 21. In the months leading up to the haircut, she raised over $6,000 for childhood cancer research.

GUILDERLAND — Come September, elementary students may be in school 15 minutes more each day if the school board here adopts a recommendation from its transportation committee.

McCoy backs off plan to cut sales-tax revenues for towns

School aid delayed — again

VOORHEESVILLE — The district has kept the tax levy increase below three percent on a budget that has remained, essentially, flat.

No one’s happy with GCSD budget proposal — it cuts too much or not enough

GUILDERLAND — Silently, the school board listened to a dozen testimonials Tuesday night on the worth of the Guilderland educational system.

NEW SCOTLAND — Huge garbage bags full of yarn come into Susan Kidder’s office in patches of mismatched colors and leave in neat, thoughtfully stitched rows.

Library drafts $3.13M budget proposal

GUILDERLAND — After a two-year hiatus brought on by tough times, library trustees are taking a tentative step towards planning for a future expansion.

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