GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Teachers’ Association is supporting the two incumbents in a five-way race for three school board seats here.

GUILDERLAND — A neighborhood planning meeting, on May 7, highlighted traffic safety, and pedestrian connections, as the top priorities for attention in Guilderland Center.

BERNE — With the May 19 budget vote on the horizon, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board will hold a special meeting early next week to discuss the status of the posts for assistant superintendent and elementary librarian.

GUILDERLAND — Nichols Meat Processing officially closed on Friday, May 7, and the facility re-opened as Double L. Ranch Inc. on the next business day, Monday, May 11.

By Jordan J. Michael

ALTAMONT –– Dieter Drake and Judith Wines believe that Altamont is the perfect place for an organized bike race.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — Edmund Moore of Knox has agreed to six months in Albany County’s jail for criminally negligent homicide, according to the prosecutor in the case. There will be no trial.

We smell a rat!

Citizens are up in arms about poison used to kill rats around the Rapp Road landfill. They should be.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Supervisor Kevin Crosier, a Democrat who won elections in 2001 and 2005 on the Republican line, will not have GOP backing this time around, although Crosier is undecided on whether or not he is running this year.

Three incumbents and one challenger

NEW SCOTLAND — With three seats open on the town board this November, the first challenger has thrown his hat in the ring.