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Crosier and Bashwinger clash again

by Tim Tulloch

The highway superintendent wants a raise. The supervisor says he can have one if he forgets about the 10-hour per day 4-day work week the highway chief has his crew work in good-weather months

Beulah-by-the-Sea

A town relearns how to have fun in 'Beulah-by-the-Sea'

by Tim Tulloch

The Hilltowns Players stage a revival of a musical comedy by one of their own.

Recanvass shows Hanley beat write-in candidate

by Tim Tulloch

A majority of absentee ballots added to the Democratic candidate’s column opposing Ken Saddlemire for a seat on the Knox council.

CDPHP and St. Peter’s involve patients, doctors in the fray

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Doctors and patients are being caught in the crossfire as a health-care and an insurance giant battle.

Dr. Migden to practice again

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Over 100 of Hedy Migden’s patients have already called to sign up for the independent practice she’ll be joining in January.

Countryside Tree Care fined $140K for woodchipper death

Six months after Justus Booze died in a woodchipper on his first day on the job with a tree service, the employer who hired him for the day but did not train him is fined $141,800 by OSHA.

V’ville school board receives a robotic visit

by H. Rose Schneider

Voorheesville’s high school’s robotics club gave a presentation on their most recent endeavors at the Monday night school board meeting.

A shining light that not everyone wants

by H. Rose Schneider

As construction continues on a visitors’ center at Thacher Park, neighbors have grown concerned that the lights at the site — lit for the safety of construction workers at night — could become a regular feature on the otherwise unilluminated Helderberg escarpment.

Tasheem Maewether, Crossgates shooting

Man charged in Crossgates shooting pleads ‘not guilty’

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

 The slim 20-year-old from Albany is the accused shooter in the incident that cleared Crossgates Mall Saturday afternoon.

Crossgates Mall

Mall shooting leaves staff and shoppers shaken

by Melissa Hale-Spencer and Marcello Iaia

“This was an isolated incident,” Guilderland Police Chief Carol Lawlor said at a Sunday press conference. “This was an argument between two individuals and there was a shot fired.” Witnesses reported hearing multiple shots.

Ron Bernhard passes a gun to another member of Knox’s Helderberg Rod and Gun Club

A gun club as a neighbor makes for some tension

KNOX — When the Helderberg Rod & Gun club received  land on Quay Road in 1958 as a gift from  a family who were members, it seemed the perfect spot.  It was  a rural and largely wooded location, thinly populated.  It still is today, but now the land opposite the club  has some large homes.

Berean Baptist Church

Looking for walk-in worshippers, church gets a new sign and a new name

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

A Guilderland Center church changes its name from Berean Baptist to Centerpointe Community.

A long-planned town hall renovation loses narrowly in Westerlo

by Tim Tulloch

WESTERLO — Town officials in Westerlo hoped for a big turnout Tuesday that would ratify their plan to borrow $887,000 to renovate the former school building that now serves as the town hall.

Lower BKW tax bills for veterans; good results from lead testing

by Tim Tulloch

Of 70 water outlets tested in the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school district, only one showed lead levels exceeding the state-required action level of 15 parts per billion.

Sbardella’s proposed two-lot subdivision meets with resistance from neighbors

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

A variance request to divide one residential lot into two drew a great deal of opposition from neighbors at a recent planning board meeting.

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