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$62K grant will help rural breweries

RENSSELAERVILLE — The Carey Institute’s Sustainable Communities Program has been granted $62,080 from the United States Department of Agriculture to offer technical assistance to breweries and other craft-beverage producers in rural communities across the state.

Guard promotes White

Cody White of Guilderland, a member of the New York Army National Guard assigned to the Joint Force Headquarters received a promotion to the rank of staff sergeant.

Photos: Pets are Blessed

Second Annual Blessing of the Pets at the New Scotland Presbyterian Church on Sunday.

Clagett, founder of Guiding Lights, honored

Nicole M. (née Ferraino) Clagett will receive the 2019 Global Humanitarian Award from the Corporation for National & Community Service in an Oct. 23 event at SearStone Retirement Community in Cary, North Carolina.

Clagett graduated from Berne-Knox-Westerlo in 1994.

Learn to Skate

The Albany Figure Skating Club’s Learn to Skate program will begin on Saturday, Oct. 12.

Group lessons will be held on Saturdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Bethlehem YMCA at 900 Delaware Ave. in Delmar from Oct. 12 through Dec. 14.

Guilderhaven goes to markets

by Sue Green

GUILDERLAND — Guilderhaven has been invited to join our local Tractor Supply Company’s Farmers’ Market on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 2327 Western Ave. We are also pleased to announce that we’ll be joined by Outpost #4 Wildlife Rehabilitation Services and some of their feathered friends.

Marinello joins Whiteman

Hildy R. Marinello has joined Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP as an associate in the firm’s Litigation and Appeals Practice Group.

Bethlehem Neighbors ‘village’ holds first annual picnic

BETHLEHEM — Bethlehem Neighbors, an aging-in-community “village” in the town held its first annual picnic on Friday, Sept. 6, with over 60 persons attending.

Photos: Puppy Love

First-ever Indian Ladder Farms Dog Day and Pet Adoption Event, held at Indian Ladder Farms, 342 Altamont Rd, in Altamont.

Photos: Faces of Hope

Senior Hope Hosted an Open House at their New Location at 650 Warren St, in Albany on Wednesday, September 18. 

Sung awarded $2.1 million by Department of Energy

Woongje Sung, an associate professor of nanoengineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has received $2,103,000 in funding from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy as part of a collaborative research effort with teams from Ohio State University and North Carolina State University.

Malone receives Albany Law School’s highest honor

Bernard J. Malone Jr. received The Trustees Gold Medal from Albany Law School at Albany Law’s 2019 Grand Honors Awards.

Herlihy rejoins Whiteman as partner

Katherine Herlihy has rejoined Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP as a partner.

She left Whiteman three years ago to serve as general counsel at the Life Insurance Council of New York.  Prior to that, she was an associate at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna from 2008 to 2016.

Deadliest rural road collisions are with tractors

Roadway crashes involving agricultural vehicles were found to be five times more fatal than that of non-ag crashes, according to a recent study published by the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health.

Photo: Prepared for the New School Year

The Helderberg Kiwanis Club donated school backpacks for 27 students at Berne-Knox-Westerlo. Each pack included school supplies and new sneakers.

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