Faced with using over half a million dollars for buying machines, the town board hosted a heated exchange at its April meeting.

Kevin Crosier, town supervisor, Wayne Emory, Joseph Golden, Dawn G. Jordan, Karen Schimmer

Timothy J. Albright, Meadowdale

A potato effigy of an employee was hung and allowed to remain, according to a former town employee, but officials say every letter of the law has been followed. 

“We created another position so he could stay. Otherwise, he would have been out of a job,” New Scotland Supervisor Doug LaGrange said of a change of posts for a town employee.

“Everything was 100 percent,” said Steve Oliver, highway superintendent. “We are still not really sure about the how, what, and why of the accident.”

_{Ed Rosen, Delmar}

Sean McCutcheon tripped and fell, and the truck backed over him, according to a release from the Guilderland Police Department.