Photos: Birds Burn Through 31 Matches
It’s business as usual for the Voorheesville Blackbirds boys’ volleyball team. The defending regional champions haven’t lost a match in a year and a half, winning 31 matches straight. The Birds were...
View ArticleFor most people, things would be better under single-payer health insurance
Linda Delfs , Guilderland
View ArticleBus driver should be commended for quick action, identifying driver after...
Kal Dunston, president; Kenneth Kennedy, vice president, Executive Board, GCSD Employees’ Association
View ArticleApproval process for funding of quiet zone chugs along slowly, deliberately
Funding for quiet zones in Voorheesville is slowly making its way through the state legislature.
View ArticleIntersection where student was hit to be made safer
The New York State Department of Transportation has taken steps to protect pedestrians at the intersection of State Route 146 and School Road.
View ArticleSenior apartments proposed for Westmere
An independent-living complex for people aged 55 and older is proposed for Johnston Road, near Westmere Elementary School.
View ArticleKnox worker says he quit because super was disrespectful
Complaints have been made about the way the Knox supervisor runs the town, but Vasilios Lefkaditis says that he is simply “results oriented.”
View ArticleThe melting pot and the crucible
We can all learn from the slain father of a Rwandan refugee: “My father said for him the important thing isn’t if you are Hutu, Tutsi, or Twa. The important thing is being a human being.”
View ArticleRavena church holds huge book sale
The Book Nook at Grace United Methodist Church in Ravena is holding its semi-annual Huge Winter Book Sale on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Feb. 22, 23, and 24. The hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8...
View ArticleHilltown Winter Fest includes sled races and chili contest
KNOX — The Knox Youth Council invites families and friends to join in the annual Hilltown Winter Fest in the Knox town park pavilion on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
View ArticleFoxenkill Tavern will reopen with food, drinks, and live music
This spring, the current owner of Rosa Villa Pizza in Duanesburg hopes to reopen the Foxenkill Tavern in Knox as a restaurant and tavern with live music.
View ArticleRichardson joins O’Connell and Aronowitz
Florence M. Richardson has joined the Albany law firm O’Connell and Aronowitz as Of Counsel. She brings her extensive experience to the firm’s Family and Matrimonial Department.
View ArticleGottlieb joins Whiteman
Charles J. Gottlieb has joined Whiteman Osterman & Hanna’s Real Estate Development, Zoning and Land Use; Environmental; Municipal; and Energy and Telecommunications practice groups.
View ArticleNew Scotland resident named Albany Med Employee of the Year
Alowyn Sim started on the loading dock, worked his way into management, and has been name Albany Medical Center’s 2017 Employee of the Year.
View ArticleCasatelli sentenced to 37 years in state prison
Franklin Casatelli's sentence followed a trial in which many University at Albany students testified to meeting him on the night of the rape and finding his behavior bizarre and alarming.
View ArticleSeniors — one in three die with dementia — are often scammed by family...
In New York State, only one in 44 cases of elder financial abuse are ever reported. Local police were instructed Monday on ways to ferret out elder financial abuse.
View ArticleV’ville grad working to help students in struggling school
Evan Christner, a 2008 graduate of Clayton A. Bouton High School, was recognized recently by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker for his work as a math teacher at John J. Duggan Academy in...
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