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VOORHEESVILLE — AARP Tax-Aide a free, volunteer-run assistance and preparation service, will once again be preparing income tax returns at St. Matthew's Parish Center in Voorheesville beginning in March.

Todd A. Slingerland, CFP, president and chief executive officer of Capital Financial Planning, headquartered at 6 Tower Place in Albany, announces the following financial advisors and associates were lauded at the firm’s annual awards banquet on Jan. 23 at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Connecticut:

Thompson’s Lake State Park in East Berne is cancelling the Feb. 6 annual ice-fishing contest due to warm weather raising safety concerns of insufficient thickness of ice.

For more information, call the park office at 518-872-1237.

St. John's Lutheran Church at 140 Maple Avenue in Altamont has an informal Sunday worship at 8:30 a.m. and a traditional service at 11 a.m.

On January 31, the sermon at the 11 a.m. service is titled: "Love for All Seasons," based on 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.

Sunday School starts at 9:45 a.m.

Peter Ten Eyck II of Indian Ladder Farms in New Scotland was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation at the New York State Agricultural Society Forum in early January. It is the highest honor bestowed by the society.

GUILDERLAND — A well-known Guilderland hearing aid business has re-opened, after the owner briefly retired.

GUILDERLAND — The promise: artisanal pizza that cooks in three minutes.

These local members of the New York Army National Guard have recently been promoted:

— Joshua Sanchez from Delmar, serving with the Company D, 3-142nd Aviation, is promoted to the rank of sergeant;

RENSSELAERVILLE — Twenty-three long-form journalists, from 11 countries, make up the second class of the Carey Nonfiction Residency.

January is Nation Radon Action Month, an Environmental Protection Agency initiative to brings the dangers of radon to the forefront of news nationwide. Radon is a naturally occurring carcinogen with many case studies showing a direct correlation to lung cancer and other diseases, according to a release from the EPA.

Jacob F. Lamme has been named as a shareholder in McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, P.C.  effective Jan. 1.