Stuyvesant Plaza holds sidewalk sale
GUILDERLAND — Stuyvesant Plaza merchants will bring their goods outdoors during the plaza’s first sidewalk sale of the season on Saturday, June 24. Stuyvesant Plaza will open at 9:30 a.m. and will...
View ArticleChamber gives annual awards
GUILDERLAND — On June 8, the Guilderland Chamber celebrated local businesses — and its 45th anniversary — with its annual awards dinner, held this year at the Appel Inn.The dinner, catered by Elegant...
View ArticleDrink and drugs before driving led Manning to continue on three tires
GUILDERLAND — A Utica man who last summer drove erratically on Interstate 90 in Guilderland was sentenced on Wednesday morning to one to three years in state prison.
View ArticleAlbany Symphony brass perform for conservancy fundraiser
RENSSELAERVILLE — The Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy is partnering with the Albany Symphony to bring an afternoon of music and nature to Capital Region residents and visitors on Saturday, June 24.The...
View ArticleAnonymous donor pledges $10K match for music festival
RENSSELAERVILLE — The Carey Institute for Global Good received a pledge from an anonymous local citizen to match up to $10,000 in donations raised for the High Peaks Music Festival. The challenge takes...
View ArticleCitizen science: Pine Bush Big Birding Day
GUILDERLAND — The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is hosting its first-ever Pine Bush Big Birding Day from Friday, June 30, at 6 p.m. to Saturday, July 1, at 8:30 p.m.
View ArticleAvoid West Nile with mosquito repellents and a dry backyard
Health officials in New York have detected the first of the season’s mosquitoes with West Nile virus.
View ArticleKnox to receive $23K grant to reorganize, reshelve records
KNOX — The town of Knox became one of 70 recipients of a statewide grant to improve its records system. The town received $23,156 after town Clerk Tara Murphy applied for it this past winter.
View ArticleFormer legislator found guilty in rare violation trial
In former Albany County Legislator Brian Scavo’s trial in Guilderland for harassment, the judge heard that he had repeatedly approached a young woman who was a stranger to him in Crossgates Mall,...
View ArticleBKW bids farewell to staff, faculty, board members — and biz manager
Although graduation is not until Saturday, many goodbyes were said at Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s campus on Monday night. The district’s board of education meeting began that night with a recognition of...
View ArticleWagner faces hurdles in opening gravel mine
Fred Wagner’s proposal for a five-acre gravel mine has been mired in conflict so far.
View ArticleA new land-use plan is coming to New Scotland, but will it have teeth?
New Scotland is updating its comprehensive plan, which was last done in 1994, and considering clustered, mixed-use development.
View ArticleMaeweather sentenced to 3-½ to 7 for reckless endangerment
GUILDERLAND — Tasheem Maeweather, 21, was sentenced in Albany County Court Friday for his role in the firing of a gun last November in Guilderland’s Crossgates Mall. Judge Roger D. McDonough sentenced...
View ArticlePhotos: Many Cultures, One Community
Guilderland Elementary School’s 21st annual Fifth-Grade Follies were held at the school on Friday, June 16.
View ArticlePhotos: Spring Fling
The spring season for the Guilderland Dutchmen, Voorheesville Blackbirds, and the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Bulldogs brought excitement to the field and in the stands, with some teams showing off their...
View ArticlePhotos: Voorheesville Farmers Market
The Voorheesville Farmers Market at the First Methodist Church opens for the season on Wednesday June 21.
View ArticlePhotos: First Annual Strawberry Festival
The first annual Strawberry Festival was held at the Altamont Fairgrounds on June 17 to help raise funds for the regional food bank of Northeastern NY and the Patroon Land Farm.
View ArticlePhotos: Voorheesville AP Physics goes hands on
Classes might have been over but not for the Voorheesville AP Physics. On Wednesday, June 21, students in the class showed off their class project to some eighth-graders at the school.
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