Hope and love shine bright through the hijinks and high spirit of a Christmas play

What do you get when you mix 18 children ages 1 through 13 with a goofy adult and an Elvis impersonator? A Christmas play.

A score of cats dumped in woods

GUILDERLAND — “It’s been a brutal, brutal year,” said Sue Green who chairs the Guilderhaven board.

NEW SCOTLAND — A vehicle left in Thacher Park’s overlook parking lot led police to find Timothy Easley’s body at the foot of the park’s scenic cliff on Monday morning.

Town’s $31 million budget in place by default

GUILDERLAND — The supervisor’s preliminary $31 million budget, which allows no pay raises, will become the final budget for 2011, by default.

VOORHEESVILLE — Boys’ lacrosse will be on the high school sports’ schedule this spring since the school board voted unanimously on Monday to accept a proposal from the Voorheesville Blackbird Youth Lacrosse club.

NEW SCOTLAND — John P. Morey, 28, of Fultonville was arrested on Monday for having sex with a 15-year-old New Scotland girl, according to the Albany County Sheriff’s Office.

Bickel breaks Section II record for backstroke and heads for States

By Jordan J. Michael

ALTAMONT — The village board may be able to fill the vacant public safety commissioner position by the end of the year, if one of several applicants for the job fits the bill.

The new reality is jobs matter more than raises

With art by Forest Byrd

ALTAMONT — A pattern is forming for Jonathan Francis.