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Comptroller sues New Scotland

by Saranac Hale Spencer

NEW SCOTLAND — A 30-year-old error could cost the town more than $10,000.

Guilderland super says

by Anne Hayden

No tax hike with $31M town budget

GUILDERLAND — The general town tax rate will not increase in 2011, according to Supervisor Kenneth Runion, who filed the preliminary budget on Wednesday, one day before the state-mandated deadline.

Owner promises

by Jo E. Prout

New pipe shop near UAlbany won’t sell drugs or paraphernalia

Tea Party forms in Rensselaerville

by Anne Hayden

By Zach Simeone

RENSSELAERVILLE — The Tea Party movement has spawned another Hilltown contingent, this time based in Rensselaerville. Dave Bowdish organized the new group.

Fox Creek Market off to popular start

by Anne Hayden

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The Fox Creek Market has been open for about a week now, “and we’re going to take it up, up, up,” the new owner said.

AWOL soldier soon to be back on duty

by Jo E. Prout

ALTAMONT — The soldier statue stolen from the Home Front Café has been returned.

“He’s been nicked up a little bit,” said the café’s owner, Cindy Pollard. “It wasn’t badly damaged. We’ll unveil it soon.”

National frontrunner

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Crisis Chat provides online help to deter suicide

BKW senior

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Mr. Gonyea goes to Washington

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Berne-Knox-Westerlo senior Jordan Gonyea returned recently from a trip to Washington.

Berne rsquo s Pat Favreau named Clerk of the Year

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Three decades into her career, Patricia Favreau has been honored as Clerk of the Year by the New York State Town Clerks Association.

To serve fresh local produce

by Anne Hayden

Metro 20 will re-open as Capital City Diner

GUILDERLAND — The Metro 20 Diner is slated to re-open in November under new ownership, as the Capital City Diner.

Busy athlete and performer Doyle is a modest pageant winner

by Anne Hayden

GUILDERLAND — High school junior Jessie Doyle decided to enter the 2010 Miss Junior Teen Albany pageant on a whim.

Combating cancer with a needle and a thread

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

KNOX — This Saturday, while runners enter the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Marie Viscio will be looking ahead to next year’s race.

First bid to be awarded for new Westmere firehouse

by Anne Hayden

GUILDERLAND — A bid for the first phase of a $5.27 million new Westmere firehouse project will be awarded on Oct. 4.

The old firehouse, built in 1956, will be torn down, and the new firehouse is slated to be complete by the spring of 2012.

Reduced BKW bus proposition passes by a landslide

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The Berne-Knox-Westerlo School District will get its new buses after all.

VFW offers 500 reward for return of caf eacute soldier

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

ALTAMONT — In a show of support for Cindy Pollard, Altamont’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7062 is offering a $500 reward for the return of the soldier statue stolen from Pollard’s café in August.

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