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On Saturday March 18, The official kick off to the Maple Festival weekends started with a 5K at the Knox Town Hall in Knox.

Showing their power, grace, and determination, the varsity teams from Guilderland, Berne-Knox-Westerlo, and Voorheesville gave it their all during the winter sports season.

Friends of the late Doug Lawton present a check for more than $3,000 to the New York Oncology Hematology Community Cancer Foundation, from funds raised in a golf tournament.

It was a perfect setting for the Voorheesville Blackbirds last Saturday evening. The regional championship was played at home, before an enthusiastic crowd, and the team was 19 and 0.

The Dutch were loud, proud, and showed plenty of smiles Saturday as the team made its second trip to state competition at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse. The Guilderland winter cheer team was one of five Section 2 teams to compete and came in 10th in the state in its division.

It was business as usual for the Voorheesville boys’ volleyball team in the Class C/D sectional semifinal and final.

Excitement in the quarterfinal games led the Berne-Knox-Westerlo girls’ and Voorheesville boys’ basketball teams to heart-wrenching losses in their respective semifinal games on Monday and Tuesday evenings.

The Bulldogs of Berne-Knox-Westerlo and the Dutchmen of Guilderland smile, tumble, and fly high during the Section 2 winter cheer championships last Saturday at Colonie High School in efforts to head to Syracuse for the state competition.