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00:00 Hello, this is Melissa, Hale-Spencer, the editor of The Altamont Enterprise, and we're really honored today to have with us an arborist. His name is Joe. Oh, zest. And I had to look up the word arborist dictionary. It means tree surgeon. So welcome Joe. Thank you for coming here today.

Thanks so much for having me.

Patricia Brooks hopes to return to Market 32, with friends, to hold up signs encouraging people to vote in the upcoming election.

In the wake of its capital-project defeat, the Guilderland School District will look at exit polls to see what direction to take next, said Superintendent Marie Wiles.

Voorheesville teachers Jessica Bradshaw and Kimberly Simon, selected in 2015 as participants in the prestigious New York State Master Teacher Program, have learned from a network of colleagues.

GUILDERLAND — After a year-and-a-half of gathering and working with public feedback, the Guilderland Public Library board ​voted ​unanimously last Thursday night to accept, in concept, a ​plan​ developed by architect Paul K. Mays to update the 26-year-old library building and expand it by about a quarter of its size.

ALBANY — Mark S. Schmidt of Altamont pleaded guilty in Albany County Court on Thursday morning to second-degree attempted rape and second-degree attempted criminal sex act, both felonies.

At the time of his arrest, Schmidt was employed by the University at Albany as a photographer.

Westerlo town leaders asserted that the level of chemicals detected in the water was always there, but that state standards changed. The state’s health department, however, said the standards have not changed.