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Photos: Flower power

The New York State Museum held it's annual NY in Bloom event with over 100 bouquets throughout the museum last weekend.

Photos: A community rallies for fire victims

Westmere and McKownville Fire Departments held a breakfast fundraiser on Feb. 21 for a family that escaped a devastating house fire in January.

Heather Dolin named to ZBA, Daniel Leinung accepts planning post

by Jo E. Prout

Heather Dolin, new to the zoning board, is continuing her family's legacy of serving the town, while newcomer and new father Daniel Leinung has begun his own service on the planning board.

V’ville adopts veterans’ tax exemption

by Jo E. Prout

Grateful veterans get the lowest exemption, as district administrators worry about re-allocating taxes to other residents.

Phillips Hardware plans to build headquarters on outskirts of Altamont

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Phillips has been partnering with Red Kap, a local petroleum and gas distributor on the plans for expansion into the new areas of business, he said.

Objects 'Given in Trust' will tell village history, more welcomed

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

ALTAMONT — The Altamont Archives and Museum will host an exhibit beginning in about April that will highlight several important recent gifts to the collection.

The exhibit is to be called “Given in Trust: Recent Gifts to the Museum Collections.”

Folds collared on Leandra’s Law

GUILDERLAND — Isiah R. Folds was arrested on Feb. 19 for driving while intoxicated with a child in his car — Leandra’s Law makes it an automatic felony on first offense to drive drunk with someone age 15 or younger as a passenger; it sets the blood alcohol content at .08.

Candle causes fire in UAlbany dorm room

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

GUILDERLAND — The call came in at 12:34 a.m. on Tuesday, said McKownville Fire Chief Russ Becker, who responded to a fire in a dormitory on the University at Albany campus on Feb. 23.

The fire was in a third-floor suite in Oneida Hall in Indian Quad, said the university’s director of media relations, Karl Luntta.

After social media blitz, motocross racer follows a hunch to find runaway horse

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Deuce is a family horse who became locally famous this week after he got lost last Monday. Thanks to social media postings and re-sharings, numerous people were actively looking for him.

California company plans solar farms in Helderbergs

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

HILLTOWNS — A California company has mailed large landowners in the rural Helderbergs, asking to lease their land for solar arrays.

Old Marines remember Iwo Jima

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Wearing their purple hearts, a group of Iwo Jima veterans met on the 71st anniversary of the famous flag-raising and recalled the 1945 battle over breakfast in Altamont.

Elble, Tedeschi win BKW seats

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Two Berne-Knox-Westerlo alumni with similar views were just two votes apart in a five-way race for two vacant school board seats.

Town prepares to move historic barn

by Jo E. Prout

Funds from state and county grants, town parks, and private donations are being dedicated to the relocation of the Hilton barn to lands adjacent to the Albany County rail trail.