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Sunshine Farm to celebrate solstice

by Saranac Hale Spencer

NEW SCOTLAND — When the earth tilts fully to the sun, Kim Sullivan and Marc Czapski will celebrate.

GEA gets contract no raises

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — About 200 school workers won’t be getting any salary raises this year, although they’ll still get incremental step increases.

SUV hits school bus

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

 

A Clifton Park woman was ticketed yesterday after she hit a Guilderland school bus.

Tara Cerrato, 29, was issued several traffic tickets and transported to Albany Medical Center Hospital, according to a press release from the Guilderland Police Department.

Rizzo feels welcomed as Lynnwood's new principal and is raring to go

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

 

 

GUILDERLAND — Alicia Rizzo wanted to be an elementary school teacher since she was 7 years old.

As a second-grader in Colonie public schools, she recalls, “During free time, I played teaching.”

Shhh

by Jo E. Prout

Has Salerno taken Civil Service exam required to be commissioner?

Nervosity to benefit African AIDs orphans

by Anne Hayden

GUILDERLAND — Nervosity 2010, featuring a high school battle of the bands, is coming to Tawasentha Park on June 18.

Slick trick

by Anne Hayden

Senior prank covers BKW halls in motor oil

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s secondary school was closed on Wednesday after what the district believes to be this year’s senior prank: dousing the halls with motor oil.

lsquo From ashes to beauty by the grace of God rsquo Rock Road Chapel celebrates rebuilding

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

‘From ashes to beauty by the grace of God’: Rock Road Chapel celebrates rebuilding

By Zach Simeone

Tubbs puts dogs rsquo deaths behind her Bushnell pleads guilty to stealing and injuring two dogs

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Tubbs puts dogs’ deaths behind her,
Bushnell pleads guilty to stealing and injuring two dogs

By Zach Simeone

Fewer planners

by Saranac Hale Spencer

New Scotland cuts board to five

NEW SCOTLAND — The planning board will shed two members and the five remaining will serve two years fewer since the town board changed its structure in a unanimous vote.

Christ the King closes

by Anne Hayden

A half-century of Catholic schooling comes to an end

GUILDERLAND — After nearly 50 years of providing faith-based education, Christ the King School is closing its doors for good at the end of the academic year.

Thacher opens

by Saranac Hale Spencer

Is our park a national treasure?

ALBANY COUNTY — Triumphant crowds roamed Thacher Park on Memorial Day after the legislature voted late last week to keep state parks open.

Mulls request for dog park

by Jo E. Prout

Village board hears of parking woes on Maple Avenue

VOORHEESVILLE — Maple Avenue residents are being ticketed because of illegal parking. One resident asked the village board last week to reduce the ticketing and offer alternative parking.

At 15 Muller knows tractors inside and out and rides his to glory

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

KNOX — Wyatt Muller can pull his own weight — and then some.

Blond and slim at 15, he has an earnest look as he talks of his passion for tractors.

Comptroller criticizes Berne rsquo s big balance supers defend rainy-day account

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

By Zach Simeone

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