Grant for $2.75M will stem flooding of McKownville homes
GUILDERLAND — The town announced on Nov. 6 that it has received $2.75 million in long-awaited grant money to reduce flooding in homes and yards throughout McKownville by designing and constructing a...
View ArticleDemocratic dominance of New Scotland continues
In his first run for office, Democrat Daniel Leinung, a member of the New Scotland Planning Board was the top vote-getter in a three-way race for two seats on the town board, while incumbent Democrat...
View ArticleRepublicans rise in Rensselaerville
RENSSELAERVILLE — In a four-way race for town board, the two candidates running on the Republican line won. Incumbent Marion Cooke, a Conservative, was the top vote-getter and Jason Rauf, a Republican...
View ArticleNew FFA chapter strives to educate on the importance of farming
BERNE — The Berne-Knox-Westerlo Secondary School is excited to announce the formation of a Future Farmers of America chapter. The FFA is an organization that provides agricultural, educational, and...
View ArticleHill sentenced to one year for DWI
Brenda Hill, who was arrested in March for driving drunk in Bethlehem, was sentenced this week to one year in Albany County’s jail, before the Honorable Peter A. Lynch in Albany County Court.
View ArticleGuilderland IDA grants assisted living tax savings and PILOT agreement
Guilderland’s Industrial Development Agency will help Promenade Senior Living convert the Best Western Sovereign hotel at 1228 Western Ave. into an assisted-living facility, by providing it with four...
View ArticleNo surprises in G’land election results: Incumbents keep their posts
Local elections in heavily-Democratic Guilderland went decisively to the incumbents. Democratic Supervisor Peter Barber got almost twice as many votes as the challenger, Republican Brian Forte.
View ArticleTAs launch ninth Christmas toy drive
Janet D’Arcangelis , Guilderland, Teaching Assistants
View ArticleBest day ever for Helderberg Escarpment Hawk Watch: Hundreds of rapt...
Will Aubrey, Helderberg Escarpment Hawk Watch
View ArticleLibrary honors two worthwhile women: Dague and Dougherty
Christine Carpenter, president, Altamont Free Library, Board of Trustees
View ArticleNew Salem FD hosts 10th Annual Teddy Bear Tea with Mrs. Claus
Shirley Unser, coordinator, Teddy Bear Tea with Mrs. Claus, New Salem Volunteer, Fire Department Auxiliary
View ArticleThere isn’t any such thing as a good war but the worst war of all is the one...
George Pratt, Altamont
View ArticleFree clothing store opens. ‘Adopt’ a child for Christmas
Mary Beth Peterson, Misty Schaffter, Hilltown Community Resource Center
View ArticleStop perpetrating the lie that conservatives are hateful
Catherine Cunningham, Voorheesville
View ArticleThe Great War was fought over ideals and sold through Hollywood
The outsized role played by New York during World War I is told in a new book from Aaron Noble, a senior historian and curator at the New York State Museum.
View ArticleFreshwater microorganisms documented in new book for all to explore
Linda VanAller Hernick, a former cytotechnician and paleobotanist, has written a book on exploring the world of freshwater microorganisms in ditches and ponds surrounding her Rensselaerville home. She...
View ArticleBakers see U.S. Sugar Program as unfair, sugar-beet farmers see it as sustaining
A letter to the editor makes the specious claim that Congressman Paul Tonko was in the pocket of the nation’s beet and cane sugar cartels. The Enterprise found a lot more that was not said in the letter.
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