Susan Boyer sits at her kitchen table, eyes closed.
"Focus on something that fills you with love," she instructs, "a person, a place." After a few moments of quiet, she begins to sing softly, "Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuu."
ALTAMONT Subdivisions within the village will have to wait until next year as the Altamont Board of Trustees unanimously voted for a moratorium on Tuesday night.
Although there are no local Democratic or Republican primaries this year, several candidates are vying for endorsements from the Conservative and Independence parties.
NEW SCOTLAND Candidates running on the Republican line for town offices who were also endorsed by the Conservative Party say the small party is being "hijacked" by the family members of Democratic players in town.
NEW SCOTLAND Independence voters on Sept. 13 will be able to cast their ballot for the incumbent town justice, Thomas Dolin, a Democrat, or his challenger, Susan Aron-DeFronzo, a Republican.
Police and the community are baffled about why a young Guilderland man held four people hostage at an Albany bank Saturday before hanging himself in the bank managers office.
ALBANY Eleven months after he was arrested and nearly two months since a jury found him guilty of murder, Erick Westervelt, still maintaining his innocence, was sentenced last Thursday to 25 years to life in prison.