By Maggie Gordon
GUILDERLAND Alice Begley has been a Guilderland resident for 51 years and the town historian for almost 10. She took the job because it "just melted in" with her passion for history, and reading and writing about it.
This week, as 23-year-old Erick Westervelt was locked up at Albany Countys jail, waiting to be sentenced for second-degree murder, Bethlehem Police seized many of his personal belongings from his cell.