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Altamont trustee election set for March 19

by Sean Mulkerrin

Two seats on the Altamont Board of Trustees are up for grabs in March. Incumbents Nicholas Fahrenkopf and Michelle Ganance both say they will run.

VCSD cites emails alleging Baron’s ‘abuse’ of players

by Sean Mulkerrin

The latest turn in the Baron-Voorheesville lawsuit has both sides submitting notes and emails that they claim support their arguments.

Victory Riedy, Victory Child Care

GCSD to cut ties with Victory Child Care pre-K

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — A public uproar four years ago at the suggestion of closing one of the district’s five elementary schools because of declining enrollment led instead to filling empty classrooms with a private pre-kindergarten program. Now the district needs those classrooms back as enrollment is increasing.

Judge allows Guilderland resident's extradition from U.S. to Ireland

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Donlon had been living in Guilderland’s Carpenter Village Apartments since last April, under his own name and date of birth, until his arrest on Jan. 16.

Teen vaping trend comes to BKW

by H. Rose Schneider

BKW Secondary School Principal Mark Pitterson said that, in the last few months, about a dozen vape pens have been confiscated from students.

A passage project to protect polliwogs  

by Sean Mulkerrin

For the past 10 years, a group of volunteers have protected from peril the paths that frogs and salamanders use to migrate to return to the place where they can breed.

Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton gets 1 to 3 years for Westerlo crash that killed Berne woman

by H. Rose Schneider

Alexander Hamilton will face one to three years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in December.

No court decision yet on Donlon’s extradition as his sister pleads for bail

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

At his arrest on Jan. 16 at Guilderland’s Carpenter Village Apartments, the court heard, numerous law-enforcement officials with guns drawn pulled Raymond Donlon from his vehicle to the entryway of his building and said they wanted to search his apartment.

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