How many times does the same power line have to snap before it gets buried?

by Sean Mulkerrin

As extreme-weather events increase in number and strength, some New Scotland National Grid customers are left asking: How will my power be protected?

Opinion

The UN calls it torture. NYS jails call it Special Housing.

It takes a rare person, like Damion Coppedge, to come out of an SHU sanction with his humanity in tact. It looks to us like the things that sustained Coppedge in prison — a session where he was first introduced to Buddhism, mail that allowed him to play chess, a radio through which he heard poetry — are what will make him a productive member of society now that he is out of prison.

Guilderland

Guilderland’s green initiatives

In 2020, the town will begin to charge residents for accepting their household recyclables.

New Scotland

Voorheesville evangelical church legally shuttered

The Mountainview Evangelical Free Church in Voorheesville began as a Bible-study group 40 years ago. Thirty years ago, the study group got its own church, and, in September, amid dwindling membership, the church shut down.

Regional

Albany to preserve forests, earn funds, and combat climate change

In a decade, the Albany Water Board may be a million dollars richer. The revenue will be earned from carbon credits, a relatively new idea for New York, although in California it’s a routine practice.

Hilltowns

Lefkaditis slate again sweeps clean in Knox

Bonnie Donati, a Republican making her fourth run for town justice, was victorious. “I’ve had a judge’s robe in my basement for 22 years,” she told The Enterprise on Election Night. “I get to wear it now.”

Sports

Photos: Dutch Defeated At Last

The historic runs for the Guilderland football team, going for the school’s first sectional championship, and the field-hockey team, looking for its first-ever regional championship, fell short this past week.

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Letters to the Editor

Mrs. Claus promises ‘snow’ much fun

Shirley Unser, Auxiliary, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department

Join the Howliday Pet Pawrade

Meg Seinberg-Hughes, Altamont

Learn about the Schuyler women

Mary Ellen Johnson, President, Guilderland Historical Society

God brings us together

James Catalfamo , Altamont

Extend holiday joy till summertime, host a Fresh Air kid

Cynthia Mangione, The Fresh Air Fund

Historical society remembers Linda and Sheila

Sandra L. Stempel-Kisselback, East Berne

Columns

A Glimpse of Guilderland History

Mary Ellen Johnson

Trick or treat: Halloween comes to town with costumes, pranks, seers, dances, and haunted houses

Old Men of the Mountain

John R. Williams

Young lad inspires talk of what the future will hold

So Swears the New Scot

Jesse S. Sommer

The Altamont Enterprise is a mirror — a reflection of us, an opportunity to take stock

Back Roads Geology

For those who know how to read it, a country churchyard is a veritable textbook of geology