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AWOL soldier discovered by Dewey’s Diner owner

ALTAMONT — Gordon Dewey was born into the diner business. But, in all of his decades of sharing stories with customers, the return of the AWOL soldier has become a favorite.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — The town supervisor proposes a $2.06-million budget for next year, cutting about $60,000 from this year’s budget, and he said this week that he expects revenue from county sales tax to begin increasing in the near future.

Greenville Laundromat is open 14 hours every day

GREENVILLE — A new Laundromat opened here about three months ago, filling the void left when the town’s long-time Laundromat closed a few years ago.

GTA and school administrators plan to work collaboratively

GUILDERLAND — The contract for the district’s biggest union — the Guilderland Teachers’ Association — expires at the end of June.

GUILDERLAND — “I know there are a lot of people…who are afraid of this year’s budget,” the school board president, Richard Weisz, said at the close of Tuesday’s board meeting, during which board members stated their priorities for the 2011-12 budget.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland School District has 12 bargaining units, listed here from the largest to the smallest:

GUILDERLAND — The Pine Bush Commission’s 11-member board voted unanimously on Oct. 7 to adopt the 2010 management plan, which details its desire to increase the preserve’s land by over 2,000 acres.

Christopher Daughtery, 23, of Fulton, was arrested by the Schoharie County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 15 for setting fire to a barn in the town of Wright.

He was charged with third-degree arson and second-degree criminal mischief.

Incumbent Dem Breslin challenged by GOP’s Domenici and Reform’s Carey

Breslin’s budget makes deep cuts

ALBANY COUNTY — Cuts were sweeping and deep in the $550 million Albany County budget proposed last Friday by County Executive Michael Breslin.

County comptroller tells Rensselaerville: “You need an accounting system”

By Zach Simeone

RENSSELAERVILLE — County Comptroller Michael Conners said Tuesday that the town has inadequate internal controls.

By Zach Simeone

RENSSELAERVILLE — If Dale Dorner wants her first term on the town board to last longer than a year, she will have to defeat challenger Robert Bolte in the polls next month.

Altamont seeks safety commissioner

and Jo E. Prout

Guilderland School Board honors the passionate, the patient, and the precise

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