Joe Devoe was one of a number of Guilderland Police officers at the Starbucks on Western Avenue in McKownville Saturday, an event that let local residents chat with members of Guilderland’s police force.
The Guilderland Police Benevolent Association, Albany County Sheriff's Office, and the Westmere Fire Department are organizing a breakfast to benefit the local law enforcement officers who lost their home in a recent fire.
Will Smith, Voorheesville's public works superintendent since 1999, resigned in February. He previously served the village as assistant superintendent under new Superintendent Brett Hotaling's father, William.
From Afghanistan to Guilderland Center. The journey of Buster — a cat befriended by a soldier overseas, and then lost and found again in our region — continues.
In December, Scenic Rensselaerville, a group that court papers describe as having 170 members, many of them artists, sued the Albany County sheriff in December.
“This is today’s world,” said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple after the March 24 active shooter drill at Clayton A. Bouton High School in Voorheesville — the largest such drill ever held in Albany County.
The Annual St. Baldrick's event was held at Westmere Fire Department on March 20 to raise $85,986.54 dollars for the Melodies Center at Albany Medical Center for children with cancer and blood disorders.
BERNE — Randy Bashwinger, Berne’s highway superintendent, led a procession of 50 down the town’s main street under darkening skies Wednesday evening. On the march from the school to Town Hall they shouted, “Berne lives matter.”
When that chant petered out, they started calling “Crosier needs to go.”
Two years after a consultant recommended school closure to deal with declining enrollment and excess space, the district is on the verge of filling empty classrooms with a pre-kindergarten program.
Officials are moving to rename a state road in Guilderland after town native son Major General Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranking officer killed in a combat zone overseas since the Vietnam.
The preservation movement started with saving Mount Vernon and has its roots in what is typically called 'white man's history,' said Susan Herlands Holland of the Historic Albany Foundation.
Susan Leath, Bethlehem's town historian, has a new book, “Historic Tales of Bethlehem, New York,” that includes church histories, tales of local farms, and segments on the defunct ice industry and blacksmithing.
ALTAMONT — Village Justice James R. Greene and Village Trustee Nicholas Fahrenkopf were both elected on March 15, in a special election, to the posts they had held after being appointed to replace officials who had resigned.
