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Bud Kenyon, Guilderland

Profile of a winning football coach

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

“It is the most emotional sport known to man,” former football coach Harold Clayton Kenyon Jr. said.

Underwood hired to inspire GHS athletes to care for themselves

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

The intiative for "positive peer pressure" came about after a parent expressed worries about student athletes using drugs.

Photos: Guilderland off with flying start

With Guilderland football facing Schenectady on Sept. 4, the new urban representation in the Suburban Council struggled.

Albany Rowing Center celebrates 30 years

As the Albany Rowing Center celebrates its 30th anniversary on Saturday, it will name a boat for Lewis A. Swyer who recognized the economic impact of a revitalized waterfront and helped with the center’s first regatta.

Youth dominate X-C Challenge

VOORHEESVILLE — In the first inaugural Cross-Country Challenge 5K on Saturday, a 9-year-old won the women’s race.

The challenge took place at Wallace Park on Swift Road in New Scotland on the home course of Voorheesville’s cross-country team and was organized by the team’s coach, Phil Carducci.

Buckley in top 10

Sara Buckley, a 2012 graduate of Guilderland High School, kicked off the 2015 cross-country season for Division 1 University of Hartford with a top-10 finish at the Stony Brook Invitational on Sept. 5. She was the top finisher for the Hawks placing ninth of 77 runners.

The Albany Figure Skating Club will teach basic skills

This fall, the Albany Figure Skating Club will offer a basic skills program sanctioned by United States Figure Skating. Instruction is offered for skaters of all ages, abilities, and interests.

YMCA offers lessons for swimming and lifeguarding

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland YMCA offers swimming lessons for those six months old and older. The fall swimming program runs from Sept. 7 to Oct. 25.

Youth dominate X-C challenge

by Anne Hayden Harwood

The Cross-Country Challenge was not a road race, said Phil Carducci.

Michael Ardito is fighting HAE for the love of his sister

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Michael Ardito has convinced three friends and his mother to traverse Boston Harbor in a race to raise funds for and awarness about hereditary angioedema, from which his sister suffers.

Hampton is a conservation club winner

BERNE — Ed Hampton of Berne was the winner in a recent Berne Conservation Club drawing; he took home a black powder Thunder Hawk .50 caliber gun.

Triple Crown winds down

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Altamont’s 5K race on Saturday was the last leg of the Hilltown Triple Crown that started in Berne and then traveled to Voorheesville.

The Altamont 5K Run and Walk, held at Benjamin M. Crupe Bozenkill Park, is in its 18th year.

Guilderville has new record board — 'huge' and 'awesome'

by Jo E. Prout

The Guilderville swim teams' record board now includes the names of current swimmers who broke either school or pool records.