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Stewart’s Shops, which had inspired controversy in two neighboring villages, is now doing an upgrade in its Altamont store, having been turned down on an expansion plan there.

The proposed 2017 budget for New Scotland awaits discussion in three public sessions before being adopted. 

Walter Cieszynski’s wife and son believe he acquired a tick-borne disease from a blood transfusion, although the Red Cross says he did not. There is no requirement to screen blood donors for the potentially fatal disease.

A lawyer and new town resident, Peck says she is excited to get involved with shaping her community.

McKownville residents will vote on Tuesday whether to approve a proposed plan to renovate the local firehouse that will raise their taxes an average of $136.58 per household.

Aristides Duartez III was one of the three robbers who tied up and brandished a gun at the employees of Frank Adams Jewelers in Stuyvesant Plaza. The other two are at large.

Joseph Boone, 49,  was appointed to occupy the seat of  Theodore Lounsbury who resigned from the board early this year.

Anaplasmosis, the second-most common tick-borne illness in New York State, behind Lyme, infects about 500 New Yorkers annually, according the New York State Department of Health.

Paul and Theresa Oliver, who narrowly escaped the fire that took their Gardner Road home early Tuesday morning, plan to rebuild. “We wouldn’t leave here,” said Theresa Oliver on Tuesday afternoon. “This is family land.”

The town's hopes for an updated town hall hang on voter approval Nov. 8.

Developer Gregory Wolanin will need to find a new place to store the World War II vehicles he collects and exhibits, the Guilderland zoning board decided Oct. 5.

In closing off valves to isolate the break, “that shakes up the system,” said Brett Hotaling, the village's superintendent of Public Works.

The new pastor at Helderberg Reformed is a young woman, Lindsey De Kruif.

The councilman who formed Unify Knox says he will sit out the November election.

On Sunday afternoon, Oct. 2, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Delmar held a benefit concert for Haiti who was devistated from an earthquake then on Monday got hit by Hurricane Matthew.

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