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GUILDERLAND — A proposed development for the area behind Town Center Plaza and near Westmere Elementary School has both the town board and planning board concerned with density and traffic issues.

Some towns consider laws on hydrofracking

NEW SCOTLAND — , a Republican, is making his first run for public office, contending for one of two open seats on the town board.

NEW SCOTLAND — Margaret Adkins, a Republican, and David Wukitsch, a Democrat, are each running to keep their seats on the bench.  Both judges are unopposed, and both are attorneys.

GCSD frustrated with new state regs

GUILDERLAND — In a split vote last week, a disgruntled school board accepted a state-required plan for assessing the work of its teachers and principals.

School starts with fewer students, no flooding

GUILDERLAND — The school year is “off to a very good start,” Superintendent Marie Wiles told the school board last Tuesday.

NEW SCOTLAND — Having spent nine years on the zoning board, , a Democrat, is seeking a seat on the town board.  An engineer, he owns a small firm.

NEW SCOTLAND — , often a fixture at town meetings and member of the ethics committee, is running for a seat on the town board on the Democratic line.  It is her first run for political office; she works as a credit analyst.

NEW SCOTLAND — Thomas Dolin, a Democrat, wants a third two-year term as supervisor.  He is running unopposed.

Will Clarksville school be sheriff’s substation?

CLARKSVILLE — The now empty elementary school in the center of the hamlet could soon be used for the Albany County Sheriff’s office.

Four vie for two town board seats, super unopposed

NEW SCOTLAND — Diane Deschenes and Darrell Duncan, the long-time Democratic clerk and highway superintendent, are each running again for a two-year term in uncontested races.

 

 

NEW SCOTLAND — Making his second run for town board, Timothy Stanton is on the Republican line this year.  Two years ago, he ran on a line called New Scotland FIRST, which was created after he lost his bid for the GOP line in a heated primary.

VOORHEESVILLE — The quantitative analysis of the chemicals in Luann Burgess’s blood is finished, according to acting Sheriff Craig Apple, but he hasn’t yet been able to decipher the figures.

CLARKSVILLE — More than 30 people and six businesses and organizations have filed a petition to review the United States Postal Service’s determination to close the Clarksville branch.

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