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— Aside from the establishment and authority of the ethics board, the ethics law that took effect this month might be withdrawn until Jan. 1.

GUILDERLAND — The town board appointed a new Guilderland police officer on Tuesday night.

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Pet-palooza offers dogs and cats to adopt at low cost

GUILDERLAND — Over 100 animals will be available for adoption, for little to no cost, at The Animal Hospital in Guilderland on Saturday.

Zebra mussels invade Thompsons Lake

By Zach Simeone

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Berne-Knox-Westerlo will run another bus purchase by district voters next month, with a few differences from the one that residents turned down in May.

EAST BERNE — After years of caring for foster children, Leo and Leah Bartell are now putting their considerable energies into helping their own grandchild — Brooke Iveson.

NEW SCOTLAND — The town, which has been operating under a new ethics law since Aug. 1, now has an ethics board.

GUILDERLAND — Police found a man’s body off a trail in the Pine Bush Preserve on Saturday.

Altamont native paints a warm welcome for returning veterans

ALBANY COUNTY — About 1,600 people in Albany County get some kind of home care through the county, according to Patty Smith-Willsey, director for Adult Services.

NEW SCOTLAND — The ethics law the town board passed in June is due for a public hearing on its first revision.

VOORHEESVILLE —Local veterinarian Holly Cheever is opening The Village Animal Clinic here with her partner, Mike McCarthy, making theirs the only small-animal veterinary practice in the town of New Scotland.

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