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State Farm Road needs municipal water

Raymond and Joan Decker, Voorheesville

Teddy Bear Tea featured a peppermint trifle

Shirley Unser, coordinator, New Salem Volunteer, Fire Department Auxiliary

Open house to honor Berne leaders

Dawn Jordan, Berne

What if we could build a structure similar to the Crounse House as a welcoming entrance to our village?

Kristin Casey, Altamont

In 1917, New York City bid farewell to 25,000 National Guard Troops with massive parade

More than 400,000 New Yorkers served in the military during World War I, more than from any other state.

A glimpse of Guilderland history In the 1880s: Gloomy Novembers and dark Decembers spawned social gatherings

by Mary Ellen Johnson

Meteorologically in these parts, November has the least sunshine and December the fewest hours of daylight. How did Guilderland folks in the late 1880s get through these months before electricity and all that it powers, the internet, and the automobile?