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Berne rsquo s Pat Favreau named Clerk of the Year

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.

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.