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Photo: Santa's crew

Members of the Berne highway crew, all wearing Santa hats, pose in the new salt shed in Berne with toys donated to Albany Medical Center Bernard and Millie Duker Children's Hospital.

Guard promotes

These local members of the New York Army National Guard have been promoted:

— Kenneth Allen from Delmar serving with the 1427th Transportation Company is promoted to the rank of sergeant; and

— Dominic Woodmansee from Westerlo, serving with the 1427th Transportation Company, is promoted to the rank of private.

The Grand names hospital liaisons

GUILDERLAND CENTER — The Grand at Guilderland has named Erica Rogan and Jessica Barbuti hospital liaisons.

In their new roles, Rogan and Barbuti will market the facility, screen patients for admission, and establish working relationships with area hospitals.

Track 32, in lieu of Pixie’s, draws a variety of area residents

by H. Rose Schneider

At the site of the former bar Pixie’s, the pizzeria and tavern serves the Feura Bush hamlet and surrounding areas.

Photo: A Christmas Treat

Summer School of the Arts will accept 400 students

Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 New York State Summer School of the Arts. High school students throughout New York State are encouraged to apply. Auditions begin in January and will be held across the state.

Moore to oversee Natural Resources in Vermont

Altamont native Julie Moore was named Tuesday as Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources, according to a release from Vermont’s governor-elect, Phil Scott.

The daughter of Judy and Joseph Slack, of Altamont, Moore is a 1992 graduate of Guilderland High School.

Whiteman welcomes three new associates

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, has three new associates: Paul J. Buehler, Christine M. Carletta, and Max T. Lindsey.

Trees thinned in Pine Bush to restore original habitat

The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is thinning trees this fall and winter on 91 acres in the Rapp Barrens area of the preserve. This tree thinning at Trailhead 2 is being done now to lessen disruption to wildlife, avoiding the breeding season for species that inhabit the preserve.

Photos: Victorian Holiday visitors

Guests of the Altamont Enterprise open house during the holiday stroll Sunday had their portraits taken throughout the afternoon.

Christmas for Kids seeks donations

SCHOHARIE COUNTY — The Schoharie County Christmas for Kids is now in its fifth year of serving families during the Christmas holidays.

Weber named director of finance at the Grand at Guilderland

GUILDERLAND CENTER — The Grand at Guilderland, a 127-bed nursing facility that provides rehabilitation and nursing services to patients who require either short- or long-term nursing care following hospitalization, has named Michele Weber director of finance.

Bagyi named Lawyer of the Year

NEW SCOTLAND — John M. Bagyi has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2017 Albany Labor Law – Management Lawyer of the Year. Only one lawyer in any practice area in a city is honored as Lawyer of the Year.

New store lets customers bring home the bacon

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

A new store on Route 20 near Carman Road sells its own farm-fresh meat, wood-grown mushrooms, as well as other farmers’ market products. Co-owners Christine and Bob Chandler started selling their own products at farmers’ markets about 10 years ago and decided to open a store to bring fresh products to customers during the week and to expand their customer base, Christine Chandler said.

Frat organizes bone-marrow drive

Three local students, as members of Oneonta’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity chapter, helped organize the State University of New York College at Oneonta’s third annual Gift of Life Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive in October:

— Colton Dlugolecki of Voorheesville;

— Zach Garcia of Delmar; and

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