“To be transparent,” Berne-Knox-Westerlo school board member Matthew Tedeschi said of value engineering, “there’s cuts made.”

Bill Dergosits stressed that the Promethean board is “a tool, not a toy.”

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

“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.

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.

Councilman Anthony Sherman said, “At the end of the day, I feel extremely bad for Mr. Hotaling and his health problems. He can continue to have health insurance; he just has to pay for it. We’re not throwing him to the wolves.”

ALBANY COUNTY — Two 19-year-olds, said to be best friends, were in a car crash in June that killed the passenger.

Letters from a score of congregants commenting on Pastor Timothy Van Heest’s worth were submitted to the Albany Classis.

Berne’s three Democratic council members passed two resolutions on Sept. 11 that will put the metal detector, which the town already has and uses for its court sessions, in use for town board meetings, and also for zoning board and planning board meetings if the people who chair those boards call for it.