Photos: Dutch fly
Guilderland Co-ed Varsity Cheerleading team battled 17 teams the 2016 Showdown at University at Albany last Sunday.
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The Dutchmen held on for a 56-to-48 victory after Ballston Spa’s big fourth-quarter surge last Friday evening at home.
View ArticleLittle brown bats, hibernating at Thacher Park, remain damaged
NEW SCOTLAND — In 2007, bats started dying due to white-nose syndrome — a disease first discovered at Hailes Cave in Thacher Park.
View ArticleHighway department restructure garners complaints
“We created another position so he could stay. Otherwise, he would have been out of a job,” New Scotland Supervisor Doug LaGrange said of a change of posts for a town employee.
View ArticleAffordable senior housing: Coalition recommends $50M for 5 years
ALBANY — Affordable-housing industry representatives will meet here today, Thursday, to discuss the potential $250 million New York State funding that has been proposed to create affordable senior...
View ArticleGo beyond the letter of the law: Welcome transgender people
To forbid discrimination or harassment is one thing; to understand and accept someone who may be different than ourselves is another.
View ArticleSanders says: Gov’s school aid plan for GCSD is ‘underwhelming’
The governor's proposed aid for next year is less than the $23.6 million Guilderland received in the 2008-09 school years.
View ArticleSchool board listens to transgender students
Guilderland School Board members said they would create new policies after to transgender students said school should be a safe place.
View ArticleFamily rescued from burning home, firefighters recount hazards
GUILDERLAND — “We can’t wait to see the boys tomorrow,” said Westmere Elementary School Principal Beth Bini.
View ArticleForty gather to help map BKW's future
Five candidates vying for two vacant school board seats participated in Monday's forum, featuring literal round-table discussions on their hopes and dreams for the school district.
View ArticleThe Altamont Enterprise Thursday, January 28, 1916
“A Retrospect in History” Twenty Years Ago (Jan. 31, 1896)
View ArticleFree workshops explore the natural world
ALTAMONT — On Saturday, Dave Muska of Ondatra Adventures, led 10 or so intrepid participants, including children and elders, on a treasure hunt of sorts through the newly opened Bozen Kill...
View ArticleFast pizza expected to bring young crowd to Stuyvesant Plaza
GUILDERLAND — The promise: artisanal pizza that cooks in three minutes.Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza is new to Stuyvesant Plaza, having opened a location in Mohawk Commons in Niskayuna in September,...
View ArticleThe Hearing Aid Store re-opens
GUILDERLAND — A well-known Guilderland hearing aid business has re-opened, after the owner briefly retired.Robert Bourgeois, owner and operator of The Hearing Aid Store, at 1855 Western Ave., decided...
View Article‘Three Cheers for 100 Years’ Gardners honored at library gala
Yvette Terplak, Arrangements Chair and President, Altamont Free Library Board of Trustees
View ArticleWesterlo government is a house of mirrors, reflecting only its own biases
Dianne Sefcik, Westerlo
View ArticleWhose pockets will the $2.75 million for town buildings come from?
Anita Marrone, Westerlo
View ArticlePeter Ten Eyck II lauded by Agricultural Society
Peter Ten Eyck II of Indian Ladder Farms in New Scotland was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation at the New York State Agricultural Society Forum in early January. It is the highest honor...
View ArticleSt. John's
St. John's Lutheran Church at 140 Maple Avenue in Altamont has an informal Sunday worship at 8:30 a.m. and a traditional service at 11 a.m.On January 31, the sermon at the 11 a.m. service is titled:...
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