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Election 2025: Hilltown governments up for grabs

This year, Hilltown residents will vote in a majority-number of town board members in each town, including Berne, where all five seats will be open due to the number of vacancies that need to be filled. 

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County plans two ways to ease local housing shortage

Federal maps in the 1930s, Wanda Willingham said, “redlined housing markets and said they were too risky for investment … Generations of people were disconnected, disenfranchised, and deprived of...

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Three incumbents will run for four seats on the GSCD board

There will be four seats open for the May 20 election with the top three vote-getters winning three-year terms and the fourth-place candidate filling out Judy Slack’s term, which ran through June 30,...

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Two write-in candidates together got more votes than re-elected mayor

On March 18, Mayor Kerry Dineen, trustees John Scally and Sandra Serafino, and Justice James Greene each received new four-year terms, but most saw unforeseen opposition. 

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Judge says case will proceed in Silvestri-Edwards’s defamation suit

ALTAMONT — The judge presiding over the defamation suit filed by Jackie Silvestri-Edwards, former owner of Farmhouse Tap + Tavern and founder of the 518 Foodies site, on March 20 denied a defendants’...

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Photos: Blackbirds Season Clipped In State Semis

On Friday morning, March 21, the Voorheesville girls walked out of their school to a raucous parade where classmates, teachers, and parents cheered them on as they headed towards Hudson Valley...

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Photos: Dutch And Eagles Participate In Flag Football Jamboree

On Tuesday, March 25, the Guilderland and Bethlehem flag football teams participated in tune-up drills for the upcoming season at the first-ever flag football jamboree at the dome at Christian Brothers...

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Rensselaerville fires highway deputy

The town of Rensselaerville appointed Jason Wood as deputy highway superintendent after the previous one, Warren Bashwinger, was let go for undisclosed reasons. 

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Knox is contesting county’s assessment of salt use

The town of Knox has hired attorney Daniel Rubin to represent it against Albany County, which has accused the town of misappropriating a shared salt supply and is demanding $18,000 in compensation.

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‘We can come together’: GPL adopts $4.6M budget for next year

The proposed levy increase is 2.41 percent, which is just under the state-set tax cap, meaning a simple majority will pass the budget. 

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We firmly believe that change is a positive force

Matt Flaherty, David Grapka, Altamont

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Hurrah for our libraries and their many services and programs

Mary Jo Batters, Altamont

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ACT is taking grant applications

Ronnie D’Alauro, Chairwoman, Grant Committee, Altamont Community Tradition

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May 3 village-wide sales benefit PTA

Leanne Royer, Altamont PTA

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Must we now accept that greed will dictate the future of our neighborhoods?

Sylvia Rowlands, Bethlehem

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Altamont Enterprise March 27, 1925

 “AG” COLLEGE SEEKS HISTORICAL DATA Announcement of a $10 prize to any Albany county boy or girl (or grownup), comes from the county Farm Bureau agent, L. D. Kelsey. The prize will be paid for the best...

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Budget cuts should not come at the expense of the students

Jim Gaughan, Altamont

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What to do when the cupboard is bare

We live in a time and in a nation where the gorge between the poor and the wealthy is getting wider and deeper. And, as Milo Perkins said in the 1930s, we need “to find a way to build a bridge across...

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Pyramid turns down IDA tax break for Costco

The withdrawal came as a surprise to both IDA board members and staffers as attorneys for the agency were negotiating with Pyramid over the subsidy right up until the day before IDA Chief Executive...

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BKW mulls $25.3M budget: ‘Tremendous’ increase in operational expenses

Berne-Knox-Westerlo is looking at a roughly $700,000 shortfall in its 2025-26 budget despite a 3.3 percent property-tax hike, due to widespread cost increases and decreases in state aid. The gap will...

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Fraud is being perpetrated on American taxpayer

Leonard Stokes, Ph.D., CPA, Professor Emeritus, Siena College, Guilderland

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Running a corporation and running a government are entirely different

William Goergen, Guilderland

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It is illegal to place signs in state right-of-way

Joel Willsey, East Berne

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Our history has been written in cursive

Lila Hollister Smith, Westerlo

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The pot calling the kettle black

Richard J. Ronconi, Berne

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Wanted: Volunteer to serve as NSHA secretary

Judy Kimes, Publicist, New Scotland Historical Association

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Joel would be so proud!

J. Dineen for Altamont Reformed Church

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You enter a relationship with a tree you plant

Bill Logan, Rensselaerville

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Complex system brings rain and freezing rain

ALBANY COUNTY — Governor Kathy Hochul is urging New Yorkers to prepare for snow, freezing rain, and ice beginning Friday night and continuing through Sunday for parts of the North Country, Mohawk...

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GCSD proposes $128M budget, $57M capital project

In the end, the draft budget restored 70 percent of the first-grade teaching assistants. It also restored two-tenths of a librarian’s position at Altamont Elementary School, another cut that had...

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State grants $500K to regional food bank

ALBANY COUNTY — Twelve percent of people, nearly 16,000, living in the 110th Assembly District, which includes Colonie, Niskayuna, and parts of Guilderland and Schenectady, are food insecure, according...

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Photos: Eagles And Northstars Battle On The Turf

On Friday, March 28, the Bethlehem girls’ flag football team kicked off its 2025 season at home in a non-league matchup against Cicero-North Syracuse. It was a battle of the defense but the Eagles...

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Photos: Dutch Rally Falls Short Against Vikings

On Saturday, March 29, the Guilderland girls’ lacrosse team kicked off its season with a non-league game down in Section 9 against Valley Central High School. The Vikings jumped out early on the Dutch,...

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Photos: Bulldogs Walk Off Against Cannoneers

On Tuesday, April 1, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo baseball squad had its 2025 home season against Watervliet. The Bulldogs fell behind, 4 to 0, after two innings but chipped away and walked it off in the...

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Contest launched for best ‘I Voted’ sticker

ALBANY COUNTY — Students county-wide are invited to enter their artwork in a competition to illustrate “I Voted” stickers to be handed out during the November elections.

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Altamont Physical Therapy helping Parkinson’s patients with new program

Erik Carman, a doctor of physical therapy and founder of Altamont Physical Therapy, has received certification for a program that trains Parkinson’s patients in the kinds of bigger movements that the...

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Local talent built Laviano Plaza

 Laviano is naming his newly completed complex on Western Avenue the Joseph J. Laviano Plaza in honor of his father.

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Governor Hochul signs three gun-safety bills into law

According to data graphed by the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services, shooting incidents involving injury in Albany County peaked in 2020 at over 120; similarly, the number of shooting...

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Resolve the salt-shed standoff for the public good

For the good of the public they are meant to serve, we urge county and town representatives to settle their differences and work out a sensible system for tracking salt use so that the existing shed...

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Altamont Enterprise April 3, 1925

 SELKIRK — B. T. Vanderzee has just received a large consignment of chestnut and stove coal, which he is delivering to his patrons. — Frank Hungerford has rented his house to a couple of Greeks, who...

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Disappointed in Governor Hochul

Lila Hollister Smith, Westerlo

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VFW hosts drive-through dinner

Jeff Orsini, Commander, VFW Post 7062 Altamont

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GCSD seeks DEI Committee members: a great deal of work ahead!

Marie Wiles, Ph.D., Superintendent, Guilderland Central School District

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Bipartisan bill would provide real relief for child care

Heather Kumta, Guilderland

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Burger King sues Guilderland

The six-month drive-thru closure resulted in a $400,000 revenue loss,  the company claims, while repair of the pipe and pumping of the accumulating stormwater cost over $1 million. 

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Hannacroix Rural Cemetery seeks donations

Linda Smith, Treasurer, Hannacroix Rural Cemetery

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Affordability an issue for first-time homebuyers

Edgar Tolmie, Altamont

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Treating workers this way is a betrayal of our American ideals

Meg Seinberg-Hughes, Altamont

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Path construction continues

BETHLEHEM — Work is underway on a path that will connect pedestrians and cyclists in neighborhoods near Cherry Avenue Extension with the Helderberg-Hudson Rail Trail and businesses located along New...

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The greening of Guilderland

Supervisor Peter Barber went through a long list of events happening in town near Earth Day, which is on Tuesday, April 22, this year.

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