Photo: Carpenters Picket at Crossgates Hotel
Members of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters’s Local 291 picketed Thursday in front of the site where Pyramid Management is building a hotel on Route 20, near Crossgates Mall.
View ArticleO’Brien is an x-c Hawk
Brenna O'Brien of Altamont is a member of the 2017 women’s cross country team at the State University of New York College at New Paltz.Last year, the women’s cross-country team secured a top-15 spot in...
View ArticleMarinopoulos plays for RPI football
George Marinopoulos of Slingerlands is a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute football team. A business and management major he has helped the Engineers to a 3-0 start.
View ArticleSmall-game hunting seasons open
Several small-game hunting seasons open Oct. 1. In addition, special youth-only hunting seasons for pheasants and waterfowl open prior to the start of the regular season.Season dates, bag limits, and...
View ArticleVideo: Three DOT trucks on fire
David and Anita Sperbeck, who live near the state’s Department of Transportation facility in Voorheesville, were awakened in the early hours of Friday morning and took video of the three trucks that...
View ArticlePhotos: "Meaning and love and history"
The home that Josh and Amy Martin built on Long Grass Lane in Altamont is designed to surround their family with objects that have “meaning and love and history.”
View ArticleEarly morning truck explosion jolts neighborhood
The neighborhood surrounding a state DOT garage in Voorheesville was jarred by an early-morning explosion caused by trucks that were on fire.
View ArticleCarpenters’ union pickets at site of hotel outside Crossgates Mall
GUILDERLAND — Members of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters Local 291 picketed Thursday in front of the site where Pyramid Management, which owns Crossgates Mall, is building a hotel near the...
View ArticleRetiring postmaster will miss the people
Bob Bailey, Altamont’s postmaster for the past five years, is retiring after 27 years of service with the post office.
View ArticleMacken pleads guilty to felony DWI
GUILDERLAND — Barry Macken, 66, of Guilderland, pleaded guilty to aggravated driving while intoxicated, a felony, before Judge Thomas A. Breslin in Albany Supreme Court this week.
View ArticleThe Autism Action Plan — There’s no downside to understanding each other
Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara’s two bills — one offering identification cards to people with autism, and the other training to police to successfully interact with people on the spectrum — should be...
View ArticleWhy does the GPD focus on a closed mall rather than Route 20 traffic for...
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