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Photos: Golden girls

Women wore jewelry and corsages as they viewed scrapbooks at the 50th anniversary celebration of the New Salem Department Auxiliary last Saturday.

Organ hymns OK, late-night parties not OK

A special town board meeting will be held to discuss a draft noise-control law on April 28, at 7 p.m.

Rotary Club honors outstanding youth in foster care

by Jo E. Prout

The Rotary Club’s annual youth recognition event is a “program that the Rotary Club of Albany has been doing for three decades,” said organizer Brian Barr. “Our whole mission is affirmation for them.” 

Hunt’s back, third time’s a charm

by Jo E. Prout

New Voorheesville Superintendent Brian Hunt is set to take the helm in July. Hunt began his teaching career in Voorheesville, and left in 2001 to become an administrator. When the superintendent's position opened at Voorheesville, he said, "I couldn't pass it up."

Another accident on Rte. 32 leads to calls for a lower speed limit

by Jo E. Prout

Police continue to investigate a crash on Route 32 that sent a teenager to the hospital in serious condition, after the vehicle's driver lost control on a difficult S-curve and hit a tree.

Easements to connect Indian Ladder Farms to Thacher Park

by Jo E. Prout

Margaret Craven Snowden called conservation easements along the Helderberg escarpments “a miracle,” allowing her to fulfill her decade-long dream of preserving her land. 

BKW board at budget impasse

by Marcello Iaia

With just four board members voting 2 to 2, the budget wasn't adopted on Monday.

Land grants from the state

by Jo E. Prout

The E.N. Huyck Preserve and the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy both received grants funded through the Environmental Protection Fund as part of the governor's Conservation Partnership Program for non-profit land trusts.

Photos: Down to the wire, relief arrived

State Farm Road was littered with pine needles when a tall tree fell toward the road on Aprill 11.

Photos: Wool gathering

The clean fleece at the Applewood Acre sheep farm in Wright is pristine this time of year as new lambs are born.

Photo: Stop — it's a must

Guilderland police officers and school officials are reminding drivers to be careful around school buses with flashing lights, or face high fines and penalties.

GCSD restores jobs and fund balance with extra $1.4M

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — An extra $1.4 million in state aid led school leaders here to recommend changes for next year’s budget — putting $740,000 into savings and adding roughly $374,000 in expenses — measures school board members largely supported in a workshop Tuesday night.

Altamont starts examining zoning for Stewart’s expansion

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

The village board could have rejected outright the request to enlarge its commercial district so Stewart's could grow but has decided instead to draft a law that would change the zoning, allowing for public discussion.

Half-kilo of cocaine leads to guilty plea

by Anne Hayden Harwood

GUILDERLAND — A Utica man pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, in front of Judge Peter Lynch in Albany County Court on April 10.

"Vital and diverse," Voorheesville church celebrates bicentennial

by Anne Hayden Harwood

The original church was built on Altamont Road in 1815, and, at that time, was known as the Black Creek Methodist Church.

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