Fledgling robotics team learned to program, build
The new First Robotics team at Voorheesville's high school achieved the highest rookie seed in the qualifying rounds of the Tech Valley First regional championship on March 18 and 19 in Troy.
View ArticleHonor all fallen vets, says father of Major General Greene
Officials are moving to rename a state road in Guilderland after town native son Major General Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranking officer killed in a combat zone overseas since the Vietnam.
View ArticleAltamont off the Hate Map
Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center said that the Altamont group was "inactive" in 2015.
View ArticleAltamont Enterprise March 24, 1916
GIFFORDS. It is reported that this year we have had 112 days of continuou sleighing. GUILDERLAND CENTRE.
View ArticleProgress for the public good is mired when elected officials don’t work together
Berne's supervisor and highway superintendent need to set aside their differences and work together to honestly answer this question: Is it more productive to have the highway crew work four 10-hour...
View ArticleAt GCSD: Pre-K is on the way
Two years after a consultant recommended school closure to deal with declining enrollment and excess space, the district is on the verge of filling empty classrooms with a pre-kindergarten program.
View ArticleFifty protesters march on Berne Town Hall
BERNE — Randy Bashwinger, Berne’s highway superintendent, led a procession of 50 down the town’s main street under darkening skies Wednesday evening. On the march from the school to Town Hall they...
View ArticlePhotos: Sap Run 5K and Maple Festival
Runners took to the streets in Knox last Saturday, March 19, for the fifth annual Sap Run. The prize for winners? a pint of maple syrup.
View ArticlePhotos: Cutting For A Cause
The Annual St. Baldrick's event was held at Westmere Fire Department on March 20 to raise $85,986.54 dollars for the Melodies Center at Albany Medical Center for children with cancer and blood disorders.
View ArticlePhotos: Training for the Unthinkable
“This is today’s world,” said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple after the March 24 active shooter drill at Clayton A. Bouton High School in Voorheesville — the largest such drill ever held in Albany...
View ArticleKids can learn from a trainer of dog stars
The 14th year for the 4-H/AOC summer program for kids and dogs begins Monday, July 11, and runs through Friday, July 15, from 9 a.m. until noon at the Albany Obedience Club training facility on Wemple...
View ArticleMen’s and women’s choruses to sing together
Two of the region’s oldest choral groups will be joining for a concert for the first time since 1978.The Thursday Musical Club, founded in 1913, and the Mendelssohn Club, founded in 1909, will perform...
View ArticlePhotos: History On The Move
The Hilton Barn was slowly moved from its original location to a piece of land across from Route 85A on March 29th in New Scotland.
View ArticleCounty squashes home rule after Rensselaerville activists file suit opposing...
In December, Scenic Rensselaerville, a group that court papers describe as having 170 members, many of them artists, sued the Albany County sheriff, the Rensselaerville Planning Board that had granted...
View ArticleElectronic registration is the key to getting more New Yorkers to vote
We need a system that would be inclusive for all New Yorkers. And we need it now. People have suffered and died for the right to vote.
View ArticleBuster’s journey continues: Lost, found, and now up for adoption again
From Afghanistan to Guilderland Center. The journey of Buster — a cat befriended by a soldier overseas, and then lost and found again in our region — continues.
View ArticleNew super, new trustee
Will Smith, Voorheesville's public works superintendent since 1999, resigned in February. He previously served the village as assistant superintendent under new Superintendent Brett Hotaling's father,...
View ArticleA fundraiser that hits home for law enforcement
The Guilderland Police Benevolent Association, Albany County Sheriff's Office, and the Westmere Fire Department are organizing a breakfast to benefit the local law enforcement officers who lost their...
View ArticleAltamont Enterprise, March 31, 1916
Altamont Enterprise Back in Time March 31, 1916ALBANY BOY LOST LAST WEEKEight-Year-Old William Clark Missing Since Saturday --Police and Boy Scouts Searching Country In Vain.
View Article'Coffee with a Cop'
Joe Devoe was one of a number of Guilderland Police officers at the Starbucks on Western Avenue in McKownville Saturday, an event that let local residents chat with members of Guilderland’s police...
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