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Berne restaurant, Foxenkill to experience a ‘Renaissance’

by H. Rose Schneider

The Foxenkill will no longer be a tavern, says new owner Joe Plouffe, but a family-style Renaissance-themed restaurant.

Knox Town Hall

Knox files last of overdue reports

The town of Knox filed its financial report for the year 2018 on Tuesday, months after it was due. Financial reports for the two previous years were also filed this year.

Patroon Land Farm in Knox, New York

Growing Pauline Williman’s vision for the Patroon Land Farm 

by Sean Mulkerrin

Patroon Land Farm in Knox has helped feed hundreds-of-thousands of hungry people. Its mission will endure even though its owner, Pauline Williman, has died. 

Cameron Dobbs

Troopers seek Guilderland man for fraud

GUILDERLAND — The New York State Police are looking for a Guilderland man suspected of fraudulent banking activities throughout the Capital Region.

Lemon convicted of DWI

GUILDERLAND — A jury has found Aric Lemon guilty of driving drunk and speeding on Interstate 87 in Guilderland.

Lemon, 40, of Watervliet, was found guilty of driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle with .08 of 1 percent of alcohol or more, both misdemeanors, and of a speeding violation.

Two Guilderland cops injured in mall brawl

GUILDERLAND — Two Guilderland Police officers suffered minor injuries Saturday night when they tried to break up a fight at Crossgates Mall and the crowd became unruly, according to a release from the police; both refused medical attention.

Perry Ground

Listen: Perry Ground, Onondaga storyteller

Perry Ground wore his regalia — a purple shirt for the color of wampum, turtles for his clan, and two eagle feathers among the goose feathers on his head dress to show he’s an Onondaga man — for this week’s podcast.

Balicki pleads guilty to vehicular assault in Guilderland

ALBANY COUNTY — Justin Balicki, 26, of Albany, pleaded guilty to first-degree vehicular assault, a felony, for a car crash in Guilderland in May.

He appeared before Judge William A. Carter in Albany County Court on Thursday morning.

In Westerlo's ‘perfect storm,’ solar moratorium enacted

by H. Rose Schneider

“Unfortunately for those South Westerlo folks, there’s a thought of South Westerlo becoming ‘Solar Westerlo,’” said Councilman Joseph Boone at Westerlo’s town board meeting.

Albany County Libertarian Committee forms

by Sean Mulkerrin

Looking to become a viable alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties, Libertarians have begun grassroots organizing to grow the party.

Lagan, Sherwood’s co-conspirator, pleads guilty to federal charges

by Sean Mulkerrin

In federal court on Wednesday, Thomas Lagan, the former business partner and co-conspirator of Guilderland town judge Richard Sherwood, pleaded guilty to money-laundering and tax charges.

After two decades of service, Westerlo Rescue Squad to close

by H. Rose Schneider

Fifteen members serve on the Westerlo Rescue Squad, a mere 0.4 percent of the town’s population of about 3,400. The average age of the members is 60. Both factors have led to the decision for the volunteer ambulance to close at the end of the year.

Driver in Rensselaerville crash charged with manslaughter of friend

by H. Rose Schneider

A crowd of around 30 people was waiting outside the Rensselaerville Town Hall for the arraignment of Harley A. Kelly, the driver in a June car crash that killed Emily Fydenkevez. Some were friends or family of Fydenkevez; others were there for Kelly; but several had known both of the 19-year-old Middleburgh residents, who were said to be friends.

Piecing together a local pilot’s life and sudden death 

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair 

David Albright told The Enterprise that he was 8 and riding on his yellow banana-seat bike in April 1972 when he and his friend saw a plane flying very low — just 300 to 500 feet off the ground — and stopped to stare at it. The pilot saw them too, Albright said, and waved. 

Algae bloom spotted in Westerlo reservoir

by H. Rose Schneider

Joe Coffey, the commissioner of the city of Albany Water Department, said that the city generally never uses the Basic Creek Reservoir in the late summer and early fall because of its tendency to have algae blooms, both toxic and nontoxic.

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