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The bridge on School Road, between Route 146 and Guilderland High School, opened on Aug. 30.

The Altamont Board of Trustees asked the court that the case brought against it by a group of residents be dismissed. 

Steve Pfleging

Auditors from the state comptroller’s office gave verbal recommendations for the town of Rensselaerville, such as to have resolutions stating what reserve accounts are used for or having written procedures for billing for water and sewer services.

Kathleen O’Neill Perry

After her Knox house burned, destroying everything she owned, Kathleen O’Neill Perry said she was in awe of her community’s support. But she said that she is still battling the psychological effects of losing her home, car, possessions, and especially her dog.

Lynne Buchanan says this would streamline work in the two departments and save the town money. 

Laura Shore

Laura Shore is like the Georgia O'Keeffe of vegetables. Part of the profits from her paintings goes to support open-space preservation. Shore, biographer of the late Ev Rau, a farming icon in Altamont, has now plunged into researching Lucie Cassidy — responsible for Altamont’s name as well as for the founding of St.

Emails from Democratic town board members in Berne about their concerns over their fellow town board member and combat veteran Dennis Palow led to an angry crowd gathering in support of Palow at Town Hall on Wednesday night.

Jonathan Phillips, president of local company Phillips Hardware, has sold two of his stores to pay off the construction that he had started on a new store in Guilderland at routes 146 and 158. 

At its September meeting, the Altamont Board of Trustees has a chance to finally lay to rest a problem that has roiled the village, its residents, and Stewart’s Shops for much of 2019. 

Richard Sherwood

Asked by The Enterprise how much Sherwood has forfeited to date, Assistant United States Attorney Michael Barnett said that that information is not public and that it is also not knowable at this point, since many of Sherwood’s forfeited assets are bank and brokerage accounts, whose value can fluctuate. Barnett added, “I can say it does not equate to what was stolen.” 

Christine Hayes

Interested community members should submit application materials to the district clerk by Sept. 13. 

Christopher Philippo puts together pieces of the past in researching gravesites and in uncovering his own history. He recently reunited the 19th-Century headstones of Robert Matthews and his son, James, with their remains.

GUILDERLAND — Jennifer Romano cares about children having a safe place to play.

capped landfill on New Scotland’s Upper Flatrock Road

As part of the state’s ambitious climate law that was passed last month, by 2030, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act states, 70 percent of New York’s electricity has to come from renewable sources, and, by 2040, all electricity in the state is to be generated from 100-percent carbon-free sources. Currently, New York is far from its 2030 goal and has just over a decade to try to almost double the number of renewable energy sources in the state. 

A vote on a proposed zoning change in Knox, which would require at least four of the five board members’ approval, is expected to take place at the town board’s September meeting.

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