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Photos: Battling The Nations Best On The Track

This past weekend, March 14 to 16, the Guilderland, Voorheesville, and Bethlehem indoor track athletes competed at the New Balance Nationals in Boston. They competed against the nation’s top...

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SRO ‘opens eyes’ — and minds — with viral videos

While he takes his work seriously — protecting students he cares about — Sean Ralston said, “If I’m always serious, serious, serious, they’re not going to approach me.”

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Costco expected by end of year

Site work is slated to begin soon on approximately 28 acres along Western Avenue to make way for Costco as well as a 105,000-square-foot regional cancer center between the price club and Hilton hotel. 

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Governor sounds alarm on need for vaccination against measles

In 2024, New York state had just 15 cases of measles, Hochul said. “But nationwide, we’re seeing very concerning trends — 350 measles cases around the country,” she went on. “Eighty-one percent right...

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An open, transparent, and representative government needs to be restored in...

Joel Willsey, East Berne

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Altamont Enterprise March 20, 1925

$14,000 BOND ISSUE WAS CARRIED Forty-seven citizens were out and cast ballots at the village election in Altamont, Tuesday, and 39 voted on the proposition to issue bonds for $14,000 to improve and...

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We can take SRO Ralston’s viral videos to the next level

Christine Duffy, Guilderland

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Revival concert will fill you with hope

Nancy Frueh, East Berne

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Learn about early Dutch vernacular architecture in the Upper Hudson Valley

Judy Kimes, Publicist, New Scotland Historical Association

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“Hello Dolly!” offers something for everyone!

Sharon Breisch, New Scotland

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One family’s hardship makes clear the need to ban use of toxin-laced sewage...

New York state should follow the lead of other states that ban the use of biosolids as fertilizer.

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Food pantries see reduced inventory, but say it’s not related to USDA cuts

The United States Department of Agriculture withdrew two programs totaling $1 billion that allowed food pantries and schools to purchase locally-sourced food, prompting some in The Enterprise coverage...

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Guilderland objects to paving wetlands for NanoTech parking lot

Guilderland in its letter states “that the FEAF and Draft Concept Plan are deficient and incomplete, and do not allow for a proper consideration of the significant and permanent environmental impacts...

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Super endorses calls for section on town character, conserving pine bush,...

Supervisor Peter Barber ran through a list of recommendations based on his reading of the plan, which ranged from updating data and photographs in a number of places to some larger issues on which the...

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FMS teacher charged with weapon possession — twice

GUILDERLAND — An investigation following the recovery of a loaded pistol at Crossgates Mall in 2021 led to an arrest this week of a Guilderland teacher.On March 20, Guilderland Police charged...

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Wisdom Roots puts “you in the driver’s seat of your own life”

Wisdom Roots Wellness, a yoga and healing studio at the Hilltown Commons, in Rensselaerville, offers private instruction and group classes alongside special events. They’ll soon welcome two instructors...

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Photo: State legislators hold town hall

Citizens raised their concerns about the impacts of federal decisions on state programs at a March 19 “town hall” hosted by State Senator Patricia Fahy and Assembly members Garbriella Romero and John...

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Heyer loses job as GPL cuts post

Heyer had served as interim director of the Guilderland Public Library as staff suffered widely covered allegations of racism last year, lodged by the owner of a library café, that proved to be unfounded.

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Photos: Bulldogs Prance Home With First-Ever State Title

The undefeated Berne-Knox-Westerlo boys’ basketball team traveled to Binghamton and captured the schools’ first-ever state championship. On Friday, the Bulldogs started out quick and pulled away to...

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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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