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GCSD board wants to know:
Will community accept changes proposed for special education?

EAST BERNE — Rebecca Kryzak is a generalist and proud of it.

GUILDERLAND — A man arrested this week for trying to send indecent material to a minor had worked at area schools, including Guilderland, as a substitute teacher.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Berne-Knox-Westerlo will pay close to $30,000 to clean up the vandalism by four seniors in June, but district residents will not have to foot the bill, according to Superintendent Paul Dorward.

ALTAMONT — As the packed midway started to empty out on Friday night, word of a man with a gun spread quickly through the crowd.

GUILDERLAND — Eight years ago, doctors told Sue Scheerbarth she’d never be able to talk again.

Twenty-one years ago, they told Bob DeSormeau it was unlikely he’d ever be able to return to work.

GUILDERLAND — Irene Siebert, a quiet and gentle woman, had a quiet celebration for her 103rd birthday on Tuesday.

She was born in Albany on Aug. 17, 1907 and grew up on a farm on Pine Lane off of Rapp Road.

Taxes up in New Scotland and down in Guilderland

VOORHEESVILLE — School tax rates for property owners in the Voorheesville School District are going up in the town of New Scotland and down in the towns of Guilderland and Berne.

IAM to celebrate brain injury awareness day

GUILDERLAND — In honor of Brain Injury Awareness Day, the members of the Injury Acceptance Maturation group at Living Resources is holding an event in Tawasentha Park.

GCSD board sets tax rate at $20 per $1,000, as promised

GUILDERLAND — Guilderland residents will pay just what the district estimated for school taxes — $20.04 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.

NEW SCOTLAND — Aside from the establishment and authority of the ethics board, the ethics law that took effect this month might be withdrawn until Jan. 1.

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