GUILDERLAND Simone, a delicate wisp of a girl, nestled in the arms of a teenage volunteer and watched a plastic ball roll across the floor. Inside were the ingredients to make ice cream.
NEW SCOTLAND A slate of unanimous votes followed the swearing in of two new town board members who campaigned with sitting board members on a platform promising cooperation on the recently divided board.
GUILDERLAND On the evening of Dec. 28, two men were arrested at Crossgates Mall for assaulting two victims using several different weapons, including a baton, a pocket knife, and a pair of nunchuks.
KNOX Travis Stevens watched from the gallery one among a half-dozen spectators at 8 a.m. on New Year’s Day as Knox officials took their oaths of office. Stevens, a Republican who won a seat in the county legislature, stepped down as Knox councilman, leaving an empty seat at the dais.
GUILDERLAND The mood was celebratory and the votes were unanimous on New Year’s Day at Guilderland’s annual reorganizational meeting.
“It was very nice to see unanimous votes today,” said Councilman Brian Forte towards the close of the meeting, alluding to the fact that the five-member board was all-Democratic.
NEW SCOTLAND Having just been sworn in to his ninth two-year term as the town’s highway superintendent, Darrell Duncan will likely take a post as the county’s commissioner of public works.
NEW SCOTLAND Jean M. Cesar, 41, a Haitian national who has the same first and last name as his deceased brother, was arrested last Thursday after a traffic stop on Route 443.
ALBANY COUNTY While this summer’s tropical storms, Irene and Lee, ravaged much of the area, leaving death and destruction in their wake, by the close of the year, many residents were in the process of rebuilding.
