KNOX Republican incumbent Gary Salisbury is running for a fourth term as highway superintendent, and will be challenged by Dennis Barber, who is running on the Democratic line.
GUILDERLAND Democrat Jean Cataldo is running unopposed for another four-year term as the town’s receiver of taxes. She has held the position since 2000.
ALTAMONT After a spirited public hearing, the village board approved Tuesday night by a vote of 4-1, with Trustee Kerry Dineen dissenting, a resolution to buy a new $318,450 fire truck.
GUILDERLAND Deputy Sheriff Gerard Munrett III is recovering after his patrol car crashed into a tree on Sept. 27; he hopes to return to work by Oct. 15, said Craig Apple, undersheriff with the Albany County Sheriff’s Department.
BERNE The man arrested for shooting Rocky and Mocha, a pair of East Berne dogs, is a neighbor who says, according to police, that they bothered his farm animals and ate his chickens.