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Photos: Crisp air and Cortlands at the orchard

Hundreds came out on Sunday, Sept. 22, to pick Cortland, McIntosh, and Macoun apples.

Photos: A radical approach to fun at the Color Me Rad 5K

Color bombs of blue, green, pink, purple, and yellow cornstarch showered runners at the Altamont fairgrounds.

Vote split on new DPW commish

by Tyler Murphy

Wayne LaChappelle says he enjoys the small-town atmosphere as he works in the newly created post of commissioner of public works for New Scotland, and he doesn't fault the councilman who voted against his appointment, calling it "checks and balances."

Kids to repair homes while serving God

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Tahlia Hadley will never forget the warmth of the elderly woman, a stranger, whose home she painted. Now the youth minister for St. Madeleine Parish, she is organizing a Christian work camp to help the needy in Guilderland next July.

Smooth roads lead to Altamont

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

For years, the mayor of Altamont says, he has begged and begged to get the state to repair the entry roads to the village. This summer,, Route 146 fro the east was repaved; next week, work will start on repaving Route 156 from the south.

Finding history in the details

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Harold Miller left the Hilltowns and the family farm where he was raised. But now, in his old age, he has, through assiduous research of online vital statistics, pieced together a view of the Helderbergs' settlement that rights the long-held local lore.

Singing since 1793

The music in the Westerlo Reformed Church on Sunday afternoon had people clapping, laughing, crying, and pondering with eyes closed, watered, or wide. The pews creaked beneath the mostly silent but enthusiastic congregation. Pale pink light shone through stained glass windows on Sept.

Mayor’s message raises squad’s ire

by Jo E. Prout

The Voorheesville Fire Department declined to take over ambulance duties — a relief for contentions between the village board and the ambulance squad, which says Mayor Conway's statement about the situation in the village newsletter was incorrect.

Three RNs for BKW as super seeks to help preschoolers

by Marcello Iaia

As the board and parents pushed back on limiting the schedule of in-school nurses, Interim Superintendent Lonnie Palmer deferred, but he said he's still committed to supporting preschoolers.

Numbers shed light on BKW priorities

by Marcello Iaia

Interim Superintendent Lonnie Palmer thinks the school can save on per-pupil spending and be in the 70th percentile among other schools in the area.

Rensselaerville water users not on alert

by Marcello Iaia

RENSSELAERVILLE — Water and Sewer committee Chairman Thomas Delp plans to retract a notice sent to water and sewer users in the hamlet describing the systems as compromised.

Old Army dump capped, at last

by Anne Hayden Harwood

The Army Corps had been testing water from monitoring wells on an old landfill for more than a decade, and finally received the funding for the cap-and-cover project through a grant from the Formerly Used Defense Site Program.