VOORHEESVILLE In Afghanistan, a country wracked by decades of war and violence, one Voorheesville native is helping an oft-overlooked group of casualties orphaned children.
NEW SCOTLAND After serving as the town's clerk and tax collector for nearly eight years, Diane Deschenes has been awarded certification as a Registered Municipal Clerk by the New York State Town Clerks Association.
GUILDERLAND The Guilderland teachers have a new three-year contract that will give them substantial raises and will lengthen the elementary-school day.
GUILDERLAND As school-district workers enter the final year of a four-year contract, they are being frozen on the same step of a 10-step salary scale where they were last year.
GUILDERLAND In a pin-drop quiet hall Monday morning, nine school board members made carefully-crafted statements on whether the board should review the administration’s transfer of two high-school teachers to the middle school.
NEW SCOTLAND A 13-year-old hiker survived a fall from a 12-foot cliff on the Onesquethaw creek July 6. He is recovering in his Clarksville home from two broken limbs.