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Two GHS students arrested in related school bomb threats

A day after Guilderland High School was locked down because of a second bomb threat inside of a week, Guilderland Police arrested two students on felony charges.

Nature deals a bad hand to a Knox Christmas tree farm.

by Tim Tulloch

KNOX — An ever-reliable source of holiday good cheer — and of some fine-looking Christmas trees, mainly spruce — will be sadly missed this Christmas of 2016.

Police swarm Guilderland High after second bomb threat in a week

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Far fewer police were called to the scene one week ago when an email bomb threat came in to an administrator’s email from a student’s school account.

Ross Herzog mourned as a gentle genius

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

A toxicology report has shown no drugs were present in Ross Herzog’s body when he died, at age 30, in August on a woodland path near Altamont.

LOSAP discontinued for a defunct VAAS in 54-to-2 vote

by H. Rose Schneider

The Length of Service Award Program, or LOSAP, was voted, 54 to 2, to be discontinued for Voorheesville Area Ambulance Service members. VAAS stopped functioning on Oct. 15, and the vote allows members to stop paying fees for a service they no longer have.

Berne man to be sentenced to community service for thefts from highway garage

by Tim Tulloch

Community service can turn a young man’s life around, the town's supervisor says.

'Deemed safe,' Guilderland high school receives bomb threat

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

A Guilderland administrator was emailed Monday evening warning that a bomb would go off at the high school the next day.

Items stolen from cars parked at area YMCAs

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Smash-and-grab thieves have been targeting valuable items left in locked cars in the parking lots of YMCAs from Delmar to Glens Falls, police say.

Young Guilderland man killed in high-speed one-car crash

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Thomas Brown of Guilderland, 20, had a passion for driving fast. He died Saturday morning in a one-vehicle crash in Delmar, driving the car that, by all accounts, he loved.

Franchini leaves VCSD to lead Averill Park schools

by H. Rose Schneider

The former middle school principal will be taking the role of superintendent of the Averill Park School District in Rensselaer County.

Wilson advocates for honeybee research

by H. Rose Schneider

Stephen Wilson, who has kept bees for about 40 years, was given a Beekeeper of the Year Award in part because of his efforts to raise funds to protect honeybees and place a faculty member in Cornell’s entomology department.