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Preservation League lauds local library

ALTAMONT — The Little Library That Could has chugged to the top of the mountain, winning the Excellence in Historic Preservation Award — one of seven given statewide.

Photos: Responders mend minor crises

A violent thunderstorm raced through the region on June 3, downing wires and causing fire when lightning struck a house and barn.

Photos: Stress-free strides

A program to combat military stress was opened last Saturday at a facility in Guilderland that also offers equine therapy for children with disabilities.

Photos: Crown thy good with brotherhood

The sun’s light and residents of the town’s hamlets filled the bays of the highway garage on the first day of June in Rensselaerville for a town-wide picnic.

Gas-drilling cases heard in highest court

by Marcello Iaia

If the state's Court of Appeals decides not to reverse lower-court decisions, the more than 70 municipal bans and many more pending could prevent gas-drilling well pads from their lands.

Wife: Shawn Duncan is a person with a family

by Marcello Iaia

Cruelty to animals is an issue Assemblyman James Tedisco hopes people statewide will rally around. Siobhan Duncan says her husband wasn't responsible for a recent case, in Westerlo, with a slain horse that caught media attention.

Pianowski sentenced for driving high on heroin

by Lisa Nicole Viers

NEW SCOTLAND — Following his Feb. 22 arrest on Western Avenue in Guilderland, Kyle Pianowski, of New Scotland, was sentenced this week to two to six years in state prison for driving while high on heroin.

On April 2, Pianowski pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated – impaired by drugs, a felony.

Board listens to kennel comments

by Lisa Nicole Viers

One kennel was approved on Price Lane with conditions while a second, on Unionville-Feura Bush Road, had the public hearing left open.

An insider's view of combating rape in the military

by Anne Hayden Harwood

NEW SCOTLAND — New Scotland native Jesse Sommer, now a captain in the United States Army, says the military is at the forefront of a very important social issue — acknowledging victims of rape and sexual assault and helping them along the road to recovery.