Sherry Francis of Altamont lost her apartment on Wednesday and has legal woes, hoping to explain in village court that her problems all started when she began taking a legal and prescribed drug.
The former Albany County Public Defender is moving on to direct a regional state office whose mission is to strengthen legal protection for non-citizen defendants.
The third phase of a public hearing on a proposal for planned unit development districts in Voorheesville left no doubt in the minds of village board members that now is the time for Voorheesville to draft what the mayor called a blueprint for its future, a comprehensive land-use plan.
The discovery that one Guilderland farmer has paid taxes for years on land that he did not actually own, at the edge of his property, has prompted the town and the county to redraw the tax map and look at a refund.
People charge a Guilderland teen with criminal mischief after they say he blocked a car and then vandalized it, while the female driver sat inside with the engine running.
A revered member and leader of the Berne community, Paul Giebitz Sr., died Sunday as he was riding his tractor, an activity he loved, on Old Road in East Berne. He was 89.
A man who came to Altamont as a fair worker, police say, was a fugitive from justice and will be flown back to Florida once his felony heroin arrest here is settled.
