Rensselaerville — Last year, the people of Vieques were struggling to survive the impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The people of Rensselaerville and the Hilltowns stepped up to help.

Muriel Frasher and Ronald Bates are the only town candidates on the ballot in Rensselaerville this November — an off year for town elections. 

DELANSON —  Lynda M. Harrington, who worked for the Thruway authority and loved her family, died on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 61.

She was born in Albany, on June 27, 1957, the daughter of Alberta Knauf and the late Robert P. Knauf Sr.

A Rensselaerville man was charged for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl for several years as well as strangling her at least once in 2014 while living in the town of Westerlo, according to the Albany County Sheriff’s Office.

John E. McIntyre, who is on the state’s sex offender registry, was charged with additional crimes following his initial arrest last week in an investigation by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office.