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A recent arrival to the hamlet of Rexford in the western part of Clifton Park was crowned Mother of the Year this past week at Albany’s Tulip Festival. Helen Hagen, 48, a stay-at-home mother of nine children whom she homeschools was awarded the title at the May 13 ceremony.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A Maple Avenue Middle School math teacher is charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say he tried to engage a student in a sexual conversation and inappropriately touched her.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Old Glory and the people who fought for it won’t be making their way down Broadway for Memorial Day this year.

GREENWICH — The forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Jesse Cale ruled the 18-year-old Schuylerville High School senior’s death accidental.

BALLSTON SPA — Saratoga County will seek to appeal a recent court ruling that says it must pay a multi-million dollar portion of the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District’s annual operating costs, an expense for which it hasn’t budgeted.

STILLWATER — A $10,000 grant completes the conservation of a 235-year-old Washington County farm, preserving Saratoga National Historical Park’s viewshed in the process.

HALFMOON — National Safe Boating Week starts today. To help make this season’s recreational boating experience a safe one, members of the Albany Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary are offering boaters a hand.

State Police have arrested a math teacher at Maple Avenue Middle School in Saratoga Springs. They say Joseph Bruno of Gansevoort had inappropriate physical contact with a 14 year old student inside a classroom. The alleged offense happened on Monday after regular school hours. Police say they got the report on Tuesday and Bruno was placed on administrative leave by the school district,...

GREENWICH — The autopsy for Jesse Cale ruled the 18-year-old Schuylerville High School senior’s death accidental.

SARATOGA SPRINGS - The New York Lottery's communications director told NewsChannel 13 Friday afternoon that the twelve "wild eyes" VLTs at the Saratoga Casino and Raceway have been taken out of service, and another forty of them have been shut down at the other casinos overseen by the Lottery across the state. The shutdown follows a NewsChannel 13...