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Two invasive plants have devastated agricultural endeavors in the Hilltowns, according to two Berne farmers.

GUILDERLAND — New town planner Kenneth Kovalchik will make a presentation to the town board, at its Dec. 18 meeting, about all of the existing and proposed apartment and senior-housing complexes in Guilderland.

Municipalities in Albany County are adopting a plan to help decrease the impact that natural disasters may have on their communities.

BETHLEHEM — Police are investigating 15 reports of theft from unlocked vehicles in Delmar Wednesday night.

Mark S. Schmidt

Mark S. Schmidt of Altamont was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after being arrested in 2017 in an underage-sex sting.

Enrollment has dropped by over a quarter of what it was 10 years ago at Berne-Knox-Westerlo.

The New Scotland Planning Board will hold a special meeting on Dec. 12, to determine the fate of the first proposed solar farm in town.

As part of New York’s Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program, the state’s Department of Agriculture and Markets is now accepting applications for growers and processors of industrial hemp.  

The 23-year-old man whose friend, also 23, died when he crashed his motorcycle said he doesn’t recall the crash but accepts responsibility for it.

Shopping on sites like Craigslist, with classified ads, peaks leading up to the holidays and police advise meeting in a well-lit, populated area for transactions — perhaps at a police station.

ALBANY COUNTY — “I guess this is technically a letter of apology,” Judge William Carter said to Jamie Bonkoski in Albany County Court Tuesday morning. Bonkoski had pleaded guilty on Oct.

GUILDERLAND — A man wielding a handgun stole cash and cigarettes from the Mobil gas station at 3605 Carman Road on Friday, police say.

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