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2017 Rensselaerville election: Robert Tanner

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

RENSSELAERVILLE — Robert Tanner, a Democrat, is running for town board because, he says, “Rensselaerville is a small town. I want to make it more bipartisan..”

He went on, “There’s a lot of ‘them’ and ‘us.’ We all need to be one. There is strength in numbers. When we agree on something, we have to work for the common good.”

Conservative line for fall election set

by Sean Mulkerrin

With official voting results in, Democrats Adam Greenberg and Daniel Leinung will be on the Conservative Party line for the fall election.

2017 Rensselaerville election: Kathryn Wank for assessor

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

RENSSELAERVILLE — Kathryn Wank, an Independence Party member, is running for a second four-year term as assessor. As well as backing from her own party, she has the Republican and Conservative lines too.

2017 Rensselaerville election: Michael Weber for assessor

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

RENSSELAERVILLE — Michael Weber had worked as an assessor for Rensselaerville before and hopes to do so again.

2017 Rensselaerville election: Hébert Joseph for assessor

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

RENSSELAERVILLE — Hébert Joseph, making his first run for public office in Rensselaerville, for assessor, said that, when he was campaigning in Medusa, a resident there told him, “You are the first black person who has ever run for office in Rensselaerville.”

2017 Rensselaerville election: Donna Kropp for assessor

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

RENSSELAERVILLE — Donna Kropp, who has been a town assessor for 12 years, is running for the fourth time.

She has lived in Rensselaerville most of her life and, at 65, is retired from her full-time career, often putting in extra hours in her part-time assessor’s post. She is a Republican running on the GOP line.

2017 Rensselaerville election: Randall Bates for highway superintendent

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

RENSSELAERVILLE — When Randall Bates became Rensselaerville’s highway superintendent six years ago, he had a goal that he thought might be impossible. “My goal was to have all of our roads in a state where we have a 10-year renewal plan,” he said.

Victoria Kraker

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

RENSSELAERVILLE — In the four years she has been town clerk, Victoria Kraker says that she and the deputy clerk have organized and updated as well as consolidated records.

“We work well together,” Kraker said of herself and Kathryn Wank, the deputy clerk who is also an assessor.

County warns elderly residents about phone scam

ALBANY COUNTY — Once again, elderly residents are receiving calls from a scammer claiming to be a public defender in Albany County as part of a con.

History center under construction in Quaker Street

The Duanesburg Research and Archive Center is nearing completion in Quaker Street in Schenectady County.

Parents to read aloud — on tape — from jail to their own kids

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

ALBANY COUNTY — There’s little that’s more reassuring to a child than the sound of her mother or father reading a book aloud. That’s the idea behind a new program getting underway at Albany County’s jail that is designed to keep kids from following in their parents’ footsteps — into jail.

Low wages affect patient care, say employees at The Grand Guilderland

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Employees and management of The Grand Guilderland — formerly the Guilderland Center Nursing Home — discussed why employees held an informational picket outside the facility last week.

DeVos rollback worries local rape center, campus

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

New York is one of just three states in the country that has laws to protect victims, despite any rollbacks on the national level.

McCoy proposes $679 M budget for Albany County

by Sean Mulkerrin

Daniel McCoy’s 2018 proposed budget for Albany County is up $25 million from last year, but stays under the state-set levy limit and doesn’t increase taxes.

Altamont trustees appoint Bush to planning board

by Sean Mulkerrin

The Altamont Village Board approved Wayde Bush as a new planning board member, following Kevin Clancy’s resignation.

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