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Herrero faces a year in jail for DWI

Four years after crashing, drunk, into an exit-ramp pole, Sara J. Herrero was found guilty in a Guilderland Town Court bench trial.

Coyotes are ‘generalists’ and ‘opportunists’ — and in our midst

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Coyotes are in our midst . The state conservation department says, even if they have been silent in Knox this summer, they are generalists and cannot be decimated. A local farmer says, “The coyote is an opportunist.”

Less ambitious Westerlo town hall renovation will go to voters again

by Tim Tulloch

At its Tuesday meeting, the town board — over strenuous objections — authorized the expenditure of up to $887,000 and added a bond issue to the Nov. 8 ballot.

Berne-Knox-Westerlo school tax bills in error

by Tim Tulloch

BKW Business Manager Sarah Blood told The Enterprise that the erroneous bills were sent to 325 property owners in Westerlo.

New owner of old dry cleaners asks for brownfield cleanup

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

The owner of the long-vacant Master Cleaners on Western Avenue has applied to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program.

New Scotland shapes its future

by H. Rose Schneider

A mix of town, planning, and zoning board members looked into proposed revisions for the town’s hamlet zoning law.

Westerlo works to fill broadband gaps

by Tim Tulloch

WESTERLO — Is help on the way for Westerlo residents who still live without broadband internet?  Maybe.

The volunteer Broadband Research Committee — composed of all the members of the town’s planning board plus several concerned citizens — has been hard at work for five months to make it happen.

Feura Bush man arrested for child pornography

by H. Rose Schneider

With the anonymity of the internet and new means of obtaining child pornography, officials say cases like this are on the rise.

Stewart’s buys house next to Altamont store

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Stewart’s has bought the house next to its Altamont store. A year ago, the village board declined to change the zoning of that parcel from residential to commercial, nixing plans Stewart’s had for expansion.

BKW district seeds a new path for students to follow

by Tim Tulloch

District administrators and teachers are hoping that two agricultural courses will eventually lead to the development of a complete agricultural-science course sequence.

Voorheesville proposes six-month moratorium on gas stations as Stewart’s plans one in village

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Stewart’s Shops planned to buy Smith’s Tavern, a popular Voorheesville eatery, and put a gas station and convenience store on Maple Avenue but now, says Chuck Marshall, representing Stewart’s, the village wants to block the project with a moratorium on gas stations while it searches for a new well site.

Photos: The Names March On

The mood was solemn last Thursday at the Vietnam Memorial Wall near the town hall in Princetown. People came to remember those who died during the war.

UPDATED: Guilderland's ban on lawn sprinklers continues for now

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Guilderland Water and Wastewater Superintendent Timothy McIntyre recently announced that the ban on lawn sprinkling will continue until Albany’s water main break is resolved.

Preliminary ruling welcomed by tower opponents

by Tim Tulloch

On Friday, Judge Gerald Connolly  in Albany’s State Supreme Court denied a motion by the county and the sheriff to dismiss the Article 78 petition  by Scenic Rensselaerville, the citizens’ group that court papers describe as having 170 members, many of them artists.

Dergosits convicted of sex crimes with minors

by Tim Tulloch

The victims were underage boys, residents of Berne, and students at Berne-Knox-Westerlo.

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