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...
View ArticleVolunteers 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...
View ArticleGuilderland 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...
View ArticleAltamont’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.
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticleWho 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....
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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.
View ArticleBring a basket and a smile to church egg hunt
Bonnie O’Shea, Church Elder, New Scotland Presbyterian Church
View ArticleAltamont 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...
View ArticleHelp keep our rural cemetery beautiful
JoAnne Brady, Vice President, Woodlawn Cemetery Board
View ArticleWally Jones will regale us to raise funds for hurricane victims
Nancy Frueh, East Berne
View ArticleWhy not model the NY’s College Savings Program for first-time homeowners’...
Christine Duffy, Guilderland
View ArticleSmall 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.
View ArticleFire 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleCounty 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...
View ArticleCameras to ticket speeders in school zones are an an outrageous revenue scam
Ed Cowley III, Altamont
View ArticleGather with your neighbors to green up and clean up Altamont
Ted Neumann, Altamont Community Tradition
View ArticleSee if there is a fire in you
Sean Fitzmaurice, 1st Lieutenant, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department
View ArticleNext 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.
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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’...
View ArticlePhotos: 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.
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticlePhotos: 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.
View Article‘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...
View ArticleBCSD 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.
View ArticleGleeBoxx 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...
View Article‘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.”...
View ArticleLearn 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...
View ArticleFuture of rural cemetery depends on you
Sue Jordan, Secretary-Treasurer, Thompsons Lake Rural Cemetery
View ArticleBKW 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.
View ArticleGuilderland 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.
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleMHLC 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...
View ArticleFelony 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...
View ArticleOctogenarian 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...
View ArticlePhoto: 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...
View ArticleVoorheesville $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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