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BKW board adopts $22.3M budget, 3 to 1

by Marcello Iaia

President Joan Adriance gave the board its needed majority, voting through video conference.

Photos: Best Buddies rule!

The Annual Friendship Walk is hosted by Best Buddies Albany, part of a not-for-profit international group that fosters acceptance of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program pairs volunteer mentors with buddies who have a disability.

Photos: Home rescued from fire in Berne hamlet

The flames at 1640 Helderberg Trail damaged the rear side of the building, just a few yards away from others just above the Fox Creek.

Over 100 turn out to spruce up and celebrate Voorheesville

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

VOORHEESVILLE — Susan Balmaceda has lived right near the downtown business district of Voorheesville since she was 2 — fifty-four years ago, she said.

“I used to go down with my friends to play around the old Grove Hotel, even though my mother told me not to,” she said.

Village $2.1 M budgets under the state-set tax-levy limit

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Both Voorheesville and Altamont have come up with budgets for fiscal year 2015-16. Both are under the state-set levy limit. The tax rate in Voorheesville remains the same as the previous year while, in Altamont, the rate went up just a fraction of a cent.

Murray-Craig racking up more run-ins with the law

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

A 24-year-old who police say is addicted to heroin has been arrested again recently — in Berne, Schnectady, and Oneonta — on charges including larceny and possession of cocaine. He was caught in Berne, after a foot chase, and is now out on $50,000 bail.

Photos: Seeking green

The sun shone Saturday on over 100 volunteers who came out for the inaugural Green Clean to tidy up and celebrate Voorheesville.

Design a welcome sign for Berne

The impetus for the project came when Mary Jo Mckeon, a retired librarian, noticed some of the town’s signs in disrepair.

Library board proposes $3.6M budget

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

The central focus of next year's budget for the Guilderland Public Library is on setting aside funds to deal with problems arising in its 23-year-old building

Provisions for potholes

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Highway superintendents are largely pleased with extra state funds to fix winter damage; the Guilderland superintendent called the unlooked-for funds "awesome."

GCSD board is unanimous on $93.7M budget

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

"We actually have an election this year," said the school board president. Five candidates will vie for three board seats in the May 19 election.

Winding up career, Runion retires

by Anne Hayden Harwood

Within 24 hours after the announcement, several prominent Democrats said they were interested in running for town supervisor.

Normanskill re-routed after landslide

by Anne Hayden Harwood

As of Tuesday afternoon, the water level had dropped by four feet compared to the previous day, and the dammed water had all “flowed by with no problem,” said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple.

Football funding squeezes through in two school budgets

by Marcello Iaia

The Schoburg football team has been on defense throughout the budget season, now talking about leaving Schoharie behind.

$70K study to help shape Westmere

by Anne Hayden Harwood

“These are envisioning studies,” Donald Csaposs, the town's grantwriter, said of the neighborhood studies. “It’s a look at what’s possible in the future.”

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