Supervisor Sean Lyons said he decided town board liaisons are not necessary, and that department heads can simply communicate directly with the board.

RENSSELAERVILLE — A $10,000 grant to the town of Rensselaerville and the not-for-profit Carey Institute for Global Good is to help connect the rural Hilltowns with surrounding cities.

Several towns in Albany County employ their own prosecutors or have town attorneys serve as prosecutors for low-level offenses or violations of local laws, though it is unclear whether this is a benefit to towns or not.

After hearing from its accounting firm last week, the Rensselaerville Town Board decided to cautiously continue using the firm after state police charged the supervisor last month with writing checks to himself.

A woman assaulted her partner and started to hit and choke his daughter when the daughter tried to get her father away.

Goals for the year include communication and technology.

Organizational meetings in Rensselaerville and Westerlo and Rensselaerville included both resignations and appointments.

A Westerlo man welding in his garage led to an explosion, causing a house fire and hospitalizing the welder.

The fire decimated the barn and killed two pigs and their piglets.

Transfer-station workers fired on New Year’s Day say it was “personal and political,” not based on how they did their work.