Photos: V'ville Dance-a-thon for a new playground
Last Friday evening, March 10, Voorheesville Elementary held a Dance-a-thon at the High school to help raise funds for the new playground.
View ArticlePhoto: Annual Guilderland Center Fire Golf Tourney
Friends of the late Doug Lawton present a check for more than $3,000 to the New York Oncology Hematology Community Cancer Foundation, from funds raised in a golf tournament.
View ArticleBuses buried in snow cause GCSD to close 2nd day in a row
Sometimes yesterday’s snow is enough to close school down, again.
View ArticlePermanent warning is needed
As the Army Corps of Engineers closes out a former burn-pit area at the now-defunct Army depot, a system must be put in place so that future generations know of potential hazards to human health.
View ArticlePhotos: Stubborn fire at Heritage Village Apartments stopped
The fire had reached the wooden structure of the building, but not the roof, when it was brought under control.
View ArticleA county-wide tour to register vets
The Albany County Veterans Services Bureau has sent officials to speak in towns across the county in order to encourage veterans to register with them. Registered as a veteran will make them not only...
View ArticleVillagers invited to share their vision for Voorheesville’s future
VOORHEESVILLE — The public is invited to attend a Community Visioning Workshop to inform the village’s Comprehensive Plan Committee.The workshop will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, at St....
View ArticleDionysians stage ‘Mary Poppins’ the way P. L. Travers would have wanted
The Voorheesville Dionysians are producing a “Mary Poppins” musical that is, as director Robert Whiteman put it “entertaining on the surface” but rife with complex relationships to explore beneath.
View ArticleChilds charged with trespass
NEW SCOTLAND — William Z. Childs, 20, of Voorheesville, was arrested on March 19 for second-degree criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, according to a release from the New York State Police.
View ArticleWesterlo enacts solar law
Following a public hearing on a solar bill, and preceding a town workshop meeting, the Westerlo Town Board passed its first law of 2017, which sets requirements for residential and commercial solar...
View ArticleOpenings on Guilderland school and library boards
In Guilderland, three seats on the school board and two seats on the library board will soon open. Five town residents have picked up informational packets about running for the library board. The...
View ArticleFire in Knox trailer park leaves many out in the cold
A fire at the Green Acres Mobile Home Park in Knox has left at least eight homes without power. The trailer park’s owner, who initially could not be reached, has arranged to have it fixed by Friday, he...
View ArticleStudents and parents put safe school buildings as top priority
Guilderland school district officials asked students to tell them why so many of them said that safe school buildings were a top priority. Do students not feel safe, officials wanted to know, and, if...
View ArticleWhite Sulphur Springs building to be condemned
An impromptu inspection of a former boarding house has led to the Berne town building inspector to recommend that the town order it either secured or demolished by the owners, a church in Queens that...
View ArticleThree seats up for BKW election
BERNE — There are three seats up for election on the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board, and so far, at least three candidates — two incumbents and a former long-time board member — have confirmed that...
View ArticleVolunteers may register to spruce up parks on May 6
Registration is open for the sixth annual I Love My Park Day, to be held on May 6 at state parks, historic sites, and public lands across New York.
View ArticleGuilderland man charged with sexual abuse of disabled man in his care
The man accused of sexually abusing a Vanderheyden Hall resident, who had a disability and who was in his care, received a college scholarship awarded to those with “a reputation for honesty, integrity...
View ArticleBreast surgeon Choi joins AMC
Lynn Y. Choi, M.D., a breast surgeon who is also fellowship trained in surgical critical care, has joined Albany Medical Center’s Department of Surgery.Choi recently completed an advanced...
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