Domestic violence is not uncommon in Albany County, but help is available. At Equinox Inc., on Central Avenue in Albany, victims of abuse can find emotional support, legal advice, and a place to stay.
GUILDERLAND While Supervisor Kenneth Runion seemed firm at the first budget workshop that town employees salaries be raised no more than 3 percent, he changed his mind this week.
GUILDERLAND In the towns budget for next year, Jean Johnsons job has been eliminated. Johnson founded the towns art program for senior citizens and ran it since 1993.
GUILDERLAND Although the congregation is small, the minister of the quiet church just on the edge of town wants to triple its size. This has one neighbor concerned, as his house is already only a few feet from the existing building.
ALTAMONT The brides veil fluttered in the evening breeze Friday as she stood outside St. Johns Church, its steeple piercing the blue sky. She stooped to talk to the flower girl, her two-year-old daughter, Madison.
NEW SCOTLAND Active emergency service volunteers in this town will now receive $700 a year in retirement benefits, a $220 increase from this years $480.
THOMPSONS LAKE Kenneth E. Radley, 44, a self-employed home-repair man was arrested last month by the Albany County Sheriffs Department for molesting two girls ages 11 and 12, at the Thompsons Lake State Park campground.
GUILDERLAND Town board members are struggling, as they often have in recent years while building the towns budget, with wanting to give good workers substantial raises and wanting to save taxpayers money.
GUILDERLAND Visitors Saturday at the Guilderland Animal Hospital open house will be able to look back at the past, tour the present, and glimpse the future.