B’nai Sholom adopts new prayer book for High Holy Days, welcomes all to...
B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany welcomes the Capital Region community for the High Holy Days with complimentary attendance at all services and by adopting Mishkan HaNefesh, the new prayer...
View ArticleIncome criteria set for free school lunches
Local school districts have released the income criteria for students to qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. They have the same standard, based on family size and income.
View ArticleSEFCU donates to Wildwood Farm, which feeds the poor
NEW SCOTLAND — The State Employees’ Federal Credit Union is working with Wildwood Programs to grow more produce at Wildwood Farm for emergency food programs. With a grant from SEFCU, Wildwood will give...
View ArticleA pair of events honor a fallen officer
GUILDERLAND — Two events last week honored Major General Harold J. Greene of Guilderland, who was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 5, 2014.On Thursday, the town held a memorial ceremony at Town Hall that...
View ArticleBlue Ribbon Center features the best with contests in cookie-baking,...
Lori McCormick, a nurse, bakes as therapy and helps run the cooking center at the Altamont Fair so kids and grown-ups alike can have fun.
View ArticleA tight-knit group of sword swallowers and fire eaters wows crowds
ALTAMONT — Tommy Breen from Little Falls, New Jersey learned how to swallow swords when he was 14 or 15 years old. When he showed his mother and father — a real-estate agent and owner of a moving...
View Article‘See the show or be the show’ says hypnotist and magician Michael DeSchalit
“I’ll make guys think they are pregnant and can’t get out of a chair,” says Michael DeSchalit, the hypnotist and magician who will perform next week at the Altamont Fair.
View ArticleAltamont Fair gets back to basics
ALTAMONT — The Altamont Fair will be celebrating 125 years since it was founded to feature livestock competitions and horse races.
View ArticleA page not meant for turning: We must confront the legacy of lynching
Lynching is a current concern because if atrocities are buried, they fester. We need to acknowledge the past so that we don’t repeat it.
View ArticleSontz sentenced to two years for sexually motivated felony
A Delmar man who pleaded guilty to attempting to promote sexual performance of a child was sentenced to two years in state prison and will have to register as a sex offender.
View ArticleRozell pleads guilty to attempted burglary
BETHLEHEM — A man who, police say, broke windows in two houses in one day pleaded guilty on Friday, Aug. 4, to second-degree attempted burglary, a felony.Michael Rozell, 37, of Albany, made the plea...
View ArticleSex-abuse case against Guilderland’s Justin Hope dismissed in Albany
A second case prosecuted by the state’s Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs has been dismissed by a judge, this one involving a man who was accused of sexually abusing a...
View ArticleStuyvesant Plaza hosts final sidewalk sale of the season
GUILDERLAND — Stuyvesant Plaza merchants will bring their goods outdoors during the outdoor shopping center’s final sidewalk sale of the season on Saturday, Aug. 12.The plaza will open at 9:30 a.m. to...
View ArticleHamilton named CFO of Whiteman
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP has named Jeffrey C. Hamilton as the firm’s chief financial officer.Prior to joining Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Hamilton was with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 30...
View ArticleWomen’s Press Club honors Gillibrand, Bartoletti, Jansing, Ormsbee, and...
The Women’s Press Club of New York State will confer local and national women of distinction with awards on Sept. 28 at its Annual Awards and Scholarship Dinner at the Italian Community Center in Albany.
View ArticleAltamont church sponsors tour to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest
ALTAMONT — St. Lucy/St. Bernadette Church in Altamont is sponsoring a tour to the imperial cities of central Europe: Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. The trip, which will run from April 16 to 26, 2018,...
View ArticlePhotos: Guilderland Welcomes the World to the Maccabi Games
Athletes from three countries and many states converged on the Capital Region this week to compete in the 2017 JCC Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style competition for Jewish teenagers ages 13 to 16....
View ArticlePhotos: Fox Creek 5K
On Saturday morning, the Fox Creek 5K was the first leg of the Hilltown Triple Crown road races at the Berne Town Park.
View ArticlePhotos: 20th annual Letterman golf classic
On Friday at Orchard Creek Golf Course, 144 golfers helped raise money for the Guilderland 2 sport Athletes for a scholarship.
View ArticlePhotos: Big truck day in Voorheesville
On Saturday put on by the Voorheesville Library was part of their summer reading program with the theme of “Build a Better World.”
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