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.
View ArticleCounty 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...
View ArticleThree 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,...
View ArticleTwo 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.
View ArticleJudge 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’...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticleRensselaerville 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.
View ArticleKnox 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.
View Article‘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.
View ArticleWe firmly believe that change is a positive force
Matt Flaherty, David Grapka, Altamont
View ArticleHurrah for our libraries and their many services and programs
Mary Jo Batters, Altamont
View ArticleACT is taking grant applications
Ronnie D’Alauro, Chairwoman, Grant Committee, Altamont Community Tradition
View ArticleMust we now accept that greed will dictate the future of our neighborhoods?
Sylvia Rowlands, Bethlehem
View ArticleAltamont 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticlePyramid 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...
View ArticleBKW 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...
View ArticleFraud is being perpetrated on American taxpayer
Leonard Stokes, Ph.D., CPA, Professor Emeritus, Siena College, Guilderland
View ArticleRunning a corporation and running a government are entirely different
William Goergen, Guilderland
View ArticleWanted: Volunteer to serve as NSHA secretary
Judy Kimes, Publicist, New Scotland Historical Association
View ArticleComplex 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...
View ArticleGCSD 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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,...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticleContest 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.
View ArticleAltamont 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...
View ArticleLocal talent built Laviano Plaza
Laviano is naming his newly completed complex on Western Avenue the Joseph J. Laviano Plaza in honor of his father.
View ArticleGovernor 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...
View ArticleResolve 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...
View ArticleAltamont 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...
View ArticleGCSD seeks DEI Committee members: a great deal of work ahead!
Marie Wiles, Ph.D., Superintendent, Guilderland Central School District
View ArticleBurger 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.
View ArticleHannacroix Rural Cemetery seeks donations
Linda Smith, Treasurer, Hannacroix Rural Cemetery
View ArticleTreating workers this way is a betrayal of our American ideals
Meg Seinberg-Hughes, Altamont
View ArticlePath 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...
View ArticleThe 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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