Both candidates vying to represent western Guilderland and part of the Hilltowns in the Albany County Legislature live in Knox.

_{Doug LaGrange, New Scotland}

To the Editor:

Having recently reconnected with some old Colonie and Guilderland friends, I was surprised to find that a lot of them didn’t share my distrust of big government. I had to realize that we all took different roads after high school.

To the Editor:

Altamont's newest justice, James Greene, has served on the planning board since 2010.

ALTAMONT — Bill Aylward remembers the night the whole village showed up at his house. It was Election Night in 1971, and he had just won his first race for mayor.

With a new chair on the Albany County Democratic Committee and rumblings over progressive factions being earlier shut out, Knox's town clerk stands out on the executive committee.

Republicans and Democrats in Berne have chosen their candidates for an election in November that will determine who will fill the last year of Bonnie Conklin's term, a councilwoman who resigned at the end of 2013.

The Democratic state senator's announcement came two months after her opponent in 2012, Republican George Amedore, made his.