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Budget defeated, as budget supporters win in a landslide

By Zach Simeone

ALTAMONT — The village’s proposed wastewater plant upgrade may be financed partly with funds from the state’s Environmental Facilities Corporation programs, Trustee Chris Marshall said this week.

GUILDERLAND — Even in tough times, the library was strongly supported by voters as 59 percent on Tuesday cast their ballots for next year’s $3.45 million budget.

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.

Jonathan Lasselle had trouble hearing for the first few years of his life. He didn’t talk until after he turned 2. Now, at age 10, he sings in a prestigious choir, and has nearly perfect pitch.

VOORHEESVILLE — Hearing other people’s memories of her son is helping Wendy Clark deal with his death.

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

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