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In an unrelated case, Brian Scavo was also recently convicted in Albany County Court of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.

The passion of high school students here describing their tech-savvy creative projects to the school board Tuesday night unfolded into the measured words of school leaders mapping a future for the school that would lead to more college credits.

The chain will send targeted discounts to regular customers of the store, to encourage them to shop at other nearby Price Choppers during the transition.

Vasilios Lefkaditis, the new supervisor, ran his first meeting with a more intense style than his predecessor and offered personal help or connections to solve problems.

The school board last week approved using a total of $248,500 for back taxes owed to Stuyvesant Plaza for its Executive Park property.

The school district is poised to sell one unused property — a piece of vacant land near Sacandaga Lake — while it finds itself unable to sell another — a 19th-Century cobblestone schoolhouse in Guilderland Center.

The University of Albany Foundation's purchase of a large tract of wooded land adjacent to the campus but within a residential area has neighbors worried.

Local residents Joshua Spratt and Martin Zaloga — both former police officers — were sentenced on Jan. 7 in Albany County Supreme Court for separate cases of inappropriate contact with a minor.

A standing-room-only crowd attended an Albany County Helderberg Hudson Rail Trail information session Tuesday at the Cornell Cooperative Extension office in Voorheesville and learned that the entire rail trail would be paved and open in 2017.
 

“To reach 100,000 feet with our balloon is our ultimate goal,” said former high school senior Alexandra Cunningham last March when Project Icarus was just getting underway.

ALBANY COUNTY — Graham Gardineer, 41, of Guilderland, was sentenced on Jan. 8 by Judge Stephen W.

Kenneth White’s family cried quietly in the courtroom last Thursday morning as his killer read a statement to the judge, expressing her remorse.

Guilderland High School Social Studies teacher Robert C. Baker, 46, was arrested just before Christmas, charged with stealing presents that students had donated for needy children.

State Assemblyman Peter Lopez announced that he will not run for Congress, after learning of his father’s cancer diagnosis. Lopez, his father's caregiver, will, instead, seek re-election to his assembly seat. 

Scott Sheak, 41, of Berne, pleaded guilty to all charges on Wednesday in Albany County’s first conviction under Vince’s Law.

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