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Budget sails through, Kroencke is unseated

VOORHEESVILLE — A slate of newcomers took the two open seats on the school board in Tuesday’s election.

After months of agony, $85M plan passes as Fraterrigo leads the pack

Town board changes law to accommodate developer

GUILDERLAND — In a split vote on Tuesday, the town board changed a local law to meet a developer’s request for a senior housing project that has been in the works for nearly two decades.

GUILDERLAND — Amy Martin believes in inquiry learning, where the kids are the driving force.

GCSD prepares to borrow if $5M in state aid is delayed

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Once again, Berne-Knox-Westerlo students have found their place in the Invention Convention semifinals, as they have every year since the inception of the contest 13 years ago.

Desolation Road opens in Altamont

ALTAMONT — A public hearing for a photo shop and community art gallery will take place next Monday, town code enforcement officer Donald Cropsey told the village board last week.

GUILDERLAND — A customer of Citizens Bank was robbed at gunpoint late Tuesday night, police say.

Army Corps manager: “We are not running away”

GUILDERLAND — The Army Corps of Engineers is not planning on abandoning its clean-up efforts near the Northeastern Industrial Park any time soon.

Brennan’s medicine combined art and science

GUILDERLAND — John Brennan says his career as a veterinarian spanned the change from art to science.

GUILDERLAND — A Stanford Heights firefighter responding to a porch fire last Thursday night was driving drunk, and hit a Guilderland Police officer with his car, police say.

Father arrested for DWI and endangering his daughter

GUILDERLAND — An Albany man was arrested on Sunday for driving while intoxicated, and then letting his 9-year-old daughter get behind the wheel of the car.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — After years of work at Berne-Knox-Westerlo, Interim Superintendent Kim LaBelle will be leaving the district to become superintendent of Galway Central Schools.

GUILDERLAND — A retired Altamont couple is out $28,000 after a kitchen contractor failed to use their money to order cabinets, according to their son.

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