GUILDERLAND — A teaching assistant at Farnsworth Middle School who resigned last month was arrested yesterday for endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child.

GUILDERLAND — A local PTA lost thousands of dollars when a fund-raising company abruptly shut its doors last month.

From the editor
Varied views inform, enlighten

I admire Liz Funk. A Voorheesville teenager, she first called our office last spring because she was organizing a high school chapter of NOW.

RENSSELAERVILLE — Town Hall was packed on New Year’s Day as the town board’s two Democrats differed sharply with the three Republicans on several key appointments for 2006.

In Westerlo
New date for planning board meetings, new pay plan for zoners

In BerneCrosier praises volunteers, pledges preservation of "rural way of life"

Board debatesHow to preserve Westerlo’s rural character"

WESTERLO — The town board here wants to develop a right-to-farm law and, at its lawyer’s suggestion, may consider a moratorium on developments.

Editorial
Three months, three rituals

Ritual enriches us as a society.

Altamont: 2005 in review
Village restructures PD, wrestles with water

GUILDERLAND — On Christmas Eve, the Berschwinger family fled their smoke-filled Belleview Drive home, and volunteer firefighters arrived to battle the blaze.