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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

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

Four incumbents run for Guilderland School board

GUILDERLAND — All four of the incumbents on the nine-member Guilderland School Board are seeking re-election — and three of them are running as a team.

GUILDERLAND — A Guilderland resident and Albany School District teacher was arrested for third-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors.

ALBANY COUNTY — Twelve percent of the people in Albany County live in poverty, according to a report released last month by the New York State Community Action Association.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The Berne-Knox-Westerlo administration developed two budget plans — tier 1 and tier 2 — as means of coping with drastic state-aid cuts.

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

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