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112 Maple Ave. in Voorheesville.

Stewart’s Shops has announced that, for the first time in company history, it is suing a municipality because of what it claims is a “targeted effort to prevent Stewart’s” from building a new shop on property it owns at 112 Maple Ave. in the village. 

Five people are seeking the unpaid school board post. Their job interviews will be conducted in public and broadcast live on TV. 

There are about 16,000 children in foster care in New York State, says Sandra Flach of Justice for Orphans. She wishes more churchgoers would open their homes to foster children, but says there are other ways to help. 

four-bay garage

A lawsuit brought against the New Scotland Zoning Board of Appeals and the town’s building inspector claims that a rejected 2018 application for a use variance was identical to a use variance approved by the zoning board just two years earlier, in 2016.

175 Voorheesville properties newly installed sewer system map

Confusion about Voorheesville’s proposed sewer project had residents seeking answers from the village board at its monthly meeting. 

Nick Yetto of Clarksville

Nick Yetto of Clarksville has published his first novel, “Sommelier of Deformity,” and is at work on another, to examine the meaning of truth, about a real-life con woman who “cured” people through radio waves.

The Guilderland Planning Board is considering subdivisions of two large parcels of land, one outside Altamont and the other in western Guilderland. 

David Fusco of Colonial Car Wash says modern car-wash technology, which conserves and reclaims water, is already available in Guilderland, at his car wash. David and Sandra Hameroff claimed, in their application for tax breaks, they were entitled to a tax break in part because no such environmentally-friendly technology existed in town.

The civil suit also names as defendants the Albany Diocese and Bishop Howard Hubbard. 

Kimberly Graff Zimmer

“You need to listen to what people in a community want, and bring players together to make things happen,” Kimberly Graff  Zimmer

Starting on Saturday, Oct. 26, Albany County voters will for the first time be able to vote before the general election, which this year is on Tuesday, Nov. 5. 

“I was so excited we could save them from death, I had to give them a kiss when they arrived,” said Marcia Scott, the founder of Happy Cat Rescue, which she runs from her Meadowdale Road home.

"A lot of things are in the air,” said Westerlo’s acting supervisor of ambulance coverage.

Keenholts Park is the main venue for Babe Ruth baseball, but the field at Tawasentha Park is still used as well. 

David Murphy believes his letter to the Enterprise editor is what got Vasilios Lefkaditis “moving” to tear down a derelict building next door to Murphy on Staten Island.

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