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The good old days have come and gone

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Let's get real!

Having a country store in the Hilltowns is almost unrealistic. While we're speaking, so are farmers markets. If you have a substantial income, then you can buy the products and produce.

Flag needn’t be perfect to show love of country

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I would like our flags to be clean, new, and flown on sunny days. I also would like the rest of us to be able display our pride in our country.

We forego the big bucks and banker’s hours to serve our communities

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Buy books and baked goods to help the Berne Library

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Thank you to everyone in the community who cleared off their book shelves and donated books for the Friends of the Berne Library Book Sale.  The tables at the Berne Senior Center are now stocked with a massive number of books.

Black vultures are protected by a 1918 act

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Help us provide Easter dinner and baskets

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The Hilltowns Community Resource Center is planning for the Easter holiday. We are in need of your support to help our families.

We are trying to provide an Easter dinner for our families. Donations of food for the meal or a complete meal would be a tremendous help.

Thanks for supporting the Berne Fire Company

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The Berne Volunteer Fire Company would like to thank everyone for their donations to our 2014 calendar drive. We feel very fortunate to be volunteering for you our community. Your support is greatly appreciated!

Head to the hills for Maple Weekend events

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Come to the Hilltowns to celebrate springtime and the beginning of the maple season.

Charter schools will become the lampreys in our educational funding streams

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When I was a young boy, in the town where I grew up, our summers were spent eating hot dogs and ice cream from the Snack Shack at our town “pool.”  Our “pool” was really a pond we shared with numerous fish, snakes, turtles, ducks, and a herd of Holsteins that drank from the shore next to our beach.

Are some afraid we have too much democracy in Albany County?

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Hilltowns are not receiving our fair share of services

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Representing the Hilltowns is a true honor. Most people here are hardworking and are not looking to take advantage of government or its programs.

Backroom politics at play in appointing coaches

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This is a letter I sent to the Guilderland School Board last Thursday and to date have received no response or acknowledgement of its receipt:

New Scotland Kiwanis opens youth baseball to surrounding communities

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The New Scotland Kiwanis Youth Baseball Registration is in full swing with approaching deadlines in March. Until this year, our longstanding baseball program served youth, ages 5 to 12 years old, from only within the Voorheesville School District.

Delay an example of Guilderland’s poor business climate

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This past week (March 4) I attended the all-Democrat Guilderland Town Board meeting as they presented a Keystone Cops version of government, to the detriment of both business and residents.

Guilderland library welcomes and communicates with all

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