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GHS named a 2012 Grammy Signature semi-finalist

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — Guilderland High School has once again been recognized as a Grammy Signature School semi-finalist, based upon the quality and caliber of the music-education program in the school.

Boot drive to help Schoharie FD

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — McKownville firefighters will be helping their flooded brethren with a boot drive on Saturday.

“We sent a crew to Schoharie after the flood,” said Jim White, president of the McKownville Fire Department.

At GCSD Shaping the school day for flexibility and economy

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — The district is looking at ways to reshape the school day in order to save money.

In a lengthy presentation Tuesday, where school administrators described time as “our most finite resource,” new schedules were proposed for the high school, middle school, and five elementary schools.

Victorian Holiday celebration delights both young and old

by Jo E. Prout

ALTAMONT — Tours of beautiful local homes, Santa’s arrival by train, and a live Nativity made the 10th annual Victorian Holidays event last weekend a success, according to organizers.

The group Altamont Community Tradition put on the event.

Blaze at Marion Court takes the life of a 71-year-old resident

by Anne Hayden

ALTAMONT — An elderly woman died in a house fire on Marion Court on Tuesday, overcome by the heat and smoke just steps from her door.

Salerno APD sued

by Saranac Hale Spencer

Christmas crime New Scotland home burglarized

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

NEW SCOTLAND — On Monday, an elderly couple returned from a two-hour shopping trip at Stuyvesant Plaza to find their New Scotland home burglarized.

Their home is located on a main road, Route 156, between the Voorheesville firehouse and Indian ladder Farms.

ClimAID says

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Weather changes are happening, get ready to deal with constraints and embrace opportunities

Arrests are imminent

by Anne Hayden

More pot found in Hilltowns

KNOX — The Albany County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an indoor marijuana grow operation in the Hilltowns, the second one discovered in as many weeks.

Altamont couple distressed by zoning that tells them where to park their trailer

by Jo E. Prout

ALTAMONT — The zoning board of appeals here denied a recent request to allow residents to park a trailer beside their home, as they had done for many years before new zoning regulations were enacted.

Arrested again

by Anne Hayden

Homeless, Fisher charges with burglary

GUILDERLAND — A young man with a troubled past and a history of run-ins with the police department was arrested again last week.

Roundtable talk Mapping New Scotland rsquo s future

by Saranac Hale Spencer

DEC police ticket 14 for deer poaching in Albany County

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Irene rsquo s terror tamed with riffles and pools

by Saranac Hale Spencer

County proposes cutting all funding for Soil and Water Conservation

ALBANY COUNTY — After Shirley Morey’s Berne home flooded from Tropical Storm Irene, she called several government agencies for help and was frustrated by the lack of response.

$3.7M to go to mercury clean-up

by Anne Hayden

 

 

GUILDERLAND — A piece of property in Guilderland contains so much mercury it has been placed on the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List, meaning it is one of the most contaminated sites in the country.

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