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IDA wrestles with defining workforce housing

“Let’s clarify what this is and what this isn’t," Chief Executive Officer Donald Csaposs said, opening a conversation on the topic during the IDA’s March meeting. “We’re not here to pass any policy...

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Volunteers sought to Love Our New York Lands

To help achieve Governor Kathy Hochul’s initiative to plant 25 million trees by 2033, up to 2,500 tree seedlings from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Colonel William F. Fox Memorial...

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Guilderland highway workers look to unionize

A majority of the 43 operators, laborers, and mechanics in the potential bargaining unit have signed cards choosing the Civil Service Employees Association as their bargaining representative, according...

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Altamont’s 2025-26 budget up 7.5%, taxes up 2.25%

Altamont’s tax rate for 2025-26 is set to increase 2.25 percent, from about $2.20 per $1,000 of assessed value to $2.25 per $1,000. The corresponding tax levy will increase from $329,271 to $338,976. 

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Photos: Eagles Dominant Over Blue Devils

Last Thursday, April 10, the Bethlehem girls’ lax team hosted a Suburban Council foe, Columbia. Rain was misting all game long but that didn’t bother the Eagles as they ripped off 10 straight goals en...

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Photos: Panthers Shut Down Dutch In The Second Half

On Friday, April 11, the Guilderland flag football team took on the Albany Leadership Charter at home on a cold brisk evening on the turf. The Dutch battled tough in the first half to tie the game but...

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Who will carry Liberty’s torch?

You can’t say that education is up to the states while simultaneously demanding that states do your bidding. And yet, here we are. We again commend New York state for its stance against this perfidy....

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Photos: Birds Flexed Their Wings Over Bulldogs In Overtime

On Monday, April 14, the Voorheesville girls’ lacrosse team, the defending Section 2 champs, traveled to South Glens Falls for a non-league matchup against the Bulldogs. The Blackbirds battled all game...

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Photos: Bulldogs Pounced on Valley Hawks

On Monday, April 14, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo softball team had a make-up game against Fonda-Fultonville due to weather. The Bulldogs started off slowly but the reigning state champs pounced on their...

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Photos: Birds Battled Hard But Fall In Extras

On Tuesday, April 15, the Voorheesville softball squad traveled to Lansingburgh High School to take on the Knights in a Colonial Council matchup. The Blackbirds battled back twice to tie the game up...

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Photos: A Kaleidoscope Of Cultures at Guilderland Fair

Students shared music, food, song, and dance from around the world at Guilderland High School’s annual cultural fair on April 11.

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Bring a basket and a smile to church egg hunt

Bonnie O’Shea, Church Elder, New Scotland  Presbyterian Church

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Altamont Enterprise April 17, 1925

 QUAKER STREET — We were told, but too late to get the particulars, that a lady in the village had her pocket book stolen from the Schaffer store. The story is that she laid it down and a stranger...

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Help keep our rural cemetery beautiful

JoAnne Brady, Vice President, Woodlawn Cemetery Board

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Wally Jones will regale us to raise funds for hurricane victims

Nancy Frueh, East Berne

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Why not model the NY’s College Savings Program for first-time homeowners’...

Christine Duffy, Guilderland

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Small solar project slated for former North Albany Landfill

A state-and-city partnership will turn the site of the former North Albany Landfill into a small solar field, following the announcement of a 1.5-megawatt facility there. 

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Fire guts Krystal Lane home in Voorheesville

“When they got here, the roof was on fire. They knocked it down fast. Nobody was home. So everybody’s safe and sound, just property damage,” Thomas Cascone, Voorheesville’s fire chief, told the media...

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New Scotland adopts open space plan

The plan will now be folded into the town’s 2018 comprehensive plan and “used as a reference tool in the development, management, and protection of New Scotland’s natural resources, and in making...

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County extends biosolids moratorium

Following a water-quality crisis in January, Albany County placed a 90-day moratorium on the use of biosolid fertilizers to assess the need for regulations on the toxic substance, and extended it on...

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Let’s have some fun on April 26

Wally Jones, Albany

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Cameras to ticket speeders in school zones are an an outrageous revenue scam

Ed Cowley III, Altamont

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Swing with the saints!

Theresa Strasser, Publicist, Friendship Singers

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Gather with your neighbors to green up and clean up Altamont

Ted Neumann, Altamont Community Tradition

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See if there is a fire in you

Sean Fitzmaurice, 1st Lieutenant, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department

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The bridge over roiling waters is going down

Betty Head, Altamont

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Next year’s $34.5M VCSD budget essentially flat

If approved, next year’s budget would represent a 0.15-percent increase over this year and a nearly 6 percent increase in the property tax levy.

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A democracy cannot flourish without a well-informed citizenry

The most important — indeed essential — service that a library or a newspaper provides is access to information. Without a well-informed citizenry, a democracy — a government of the people, by the...

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Photos: Bitter Cold Doesn’t Slow Eagles

Last Wednesday, April 16, the Bethlehem softball team hosted Mohonasen in a non-league matchup at home during spring break. The cold temps and windy conditions didn’t hamper the Eagles as they smacked...

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Photos: Eagles’ Bats Silenced By Cadets

On Friday morning, April 18, the Bethlehem baseball team hosted LaSalle in a non-league matchup at home. The Cadets’ strong pitching staff didn’t allow the Eagles much, only three hits, in the Eagles’...

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Photos: Blackbirds Glide Easily Past The Flying Horses

On Friday, April 18, the Voorheesville boys’ lacrosse team took on Troy in a Colonial Council matchup at home. From the opening face-off, the Blackbirds dug their talons in and won easily, 14 to 1.

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Photos: Dutch Battle Hard But Fall Late

On Saturday, April 19, the Guilderland baseball team hosted Shenendehowa in a Suburban Council matchup at Dutchman Field at Keenholts Park. The Dutch battled hard to tie the game in the third inning...

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Photos: Dutch Bombard Warriors In Victory

On Tuesday, April 22, the Guilderland boys’ lacrosse traveled to Averill Park for a Suburban Council matchup against the Warriors. Guilderland used a big second half to sail away in an 18-to-5 victory.

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‘Devastating’: Underground Railroad Center program derailed by IMLS cuts

Mary Liz Stewart, who founded the Underground Railroad center with her husband, Paul, in the 1990s, said the idea for the museum project came when she was looking for quotes by Black Americans for a...

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BCSD board adopts $116.6M budget, under tax cap, with concerns over depleting...

The adopted $116.6 million budget for Bethlehem Central School District’s 2025-26 school year would, if passed by voters on May 20, impose a 1.12-percent property tax increase. 

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GleeBoxx creator wants forgotten people to feel seen

Each box includes a note she wrote. Sharath read one to The Enterprise: “Even in difficult times, hope can be a light in darkness. Know that you are deserving of support, compassion, and a better...

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‘Rude awakening’: State legislators share views on late budget with...

Senator Patricia Fahy who has been hosting similar budget sessions throughout her district said that community meetings before the pandemic, when she was an assemblywoman, “never had a great turnout.”...

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Altamont Enterprise April 24, 1925

THE D. & H. WILL NOT CANCEL TRAINS 

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Learn about five centuries of indigenous history in the Helderbergs

To the Editor: Centuries ago, local native families traveled, hunted, fished, and camped in a high elevation district they called Mbeesuk for Place of the Lake, the area known today as the Helderberg...

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Looking for examples of a shocking claim

Cindy Adams-Kornmeyer, Westerlo

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Future of rural cemetery depends on you

Sue Jordan, Secretary-Treasurer, Thompsons Lake Rural Cemetery

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BKW adopts $24.7 million budget

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo Board of Education unanimously adopted Superintendent Bonnie Kane’s $24.7 million budget for the 2025-26 school year, which will go to a public vote on May 20. 

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Guilderland man charged with attempted murder

GUILDERLAND — A stabbing on Sunday led Guilderland Police to charge a neighbor of the victim with attempted murder on Tuesday.

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State offers rebates for purchase of new EVS and for chargers

Thirty-million dollars is now available for consumers to lease or purchase new electric vehicles in New York through the state’s Drive Clean Rebate program, which provides point-of-sale rebates for...

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MHLC to open its first preserve in Schenectady County this summer

GLENVILLE — In July, the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy will open its 23rd preserve, the first preserve in Schenectady County — a 54-acre property in the hamlet of Alplaus donated by Gray and Vicki...

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Felony arrest for possession of khat follows traffic stop

BETHLEHEM — A routine traffic stop on April 17 led to an arrest for a controlled substance, khat — a drug rarely seen locally.Amar H. Mehsin, 19, of Albany, was stopped on Route 9W near Bender Lane by...

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Octogenarian celebrated by Hannaford co-workers

Coppola, who works as a customer service associate at the Guilderland Hannaford, was busy helping a shopper at 11 a.m. on April 17 when Michele Fleming’s voice came over the supermarket’s...

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Photo: Altamont protest, "A combination of anger and terror"

“A combination of anger and terror” is what Edna Litten said brought her to the corner of Main and Maple in Altamont on Thursday evening, April 24. She joined a score of other protestors holding...

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Voorheesville $3M budget up 11%

The village property tax rate is set to increase 1.43 percent next year, from about $1.36 per $1,000 of assessed value this year to approximately $1.38 per $1,000 next year.

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