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Guilderland firefighters get school-tax break

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Guilderland’s Project S.A.V.E. Plan, which the state requires the district to update and approve annually, was presented to the board on July 5. A copy of the 50-page plan is posted on the district’s website, said Superintendent Marie Wiles, and the public has 30 days to comment before the board gives its formal approval when it next meets, on Aug. 15.

New rail-trail bridge buckles

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

ALBANY COUNTY — The long-awaited rail-trail bridge was put into place in late June but buckled on July 12.

Community gives after four die in Normanskill Road house fire that may have been preventable

by Sean Mulkerrin

Jeremy Cramer, New Scotland’s building inspector, told The Enterprise on Tuesday that there had been evidence of renovations being done in the home, which did not have working smoke or carbon-monoxide detectors, meaning “there was no warning system for them to get out,” and that the work had been done without the proper town permits.

County planning board issues mixed decision on Knox solar project

by Noah Zweifel

The Albany County Planning Board took no action on RIC’s proposed solar farm in Knox, after two members voted in favor of the project and two voted against. Project manager Nancy Vlahos said that the current plan “already addresses or will address all of the county’s concerns.”

Several towns ask for special district as EMS costs threaten to break budgets

by Noah Zweifel

As the Albany County Sheriff’s Office increases compensation for its EMS staff, the leaders of towns that use the county’s emergency medical services are in favor of better-paid county workers, but worry about the impact it will have on their tax rates. They hope that a new system will relieve them of the burden of acting as a middleman for the county. 

Chamber moves to Hone Coworks

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — The town’s chamber of commerce will move on Aug. 1 to Hone Coworks in Great Oaks Office Park, and on July 17 will start selling the office furniture from its current location in Star Plaza.

Underground Railroad Education Center gets $2M for interpretive center

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

ALBANY — The Underground Railroad Education Center has received $2 million through the New York State Capital Assistance Program to build an interpretive center.

Guilderland IDA provided with more information on Pyramid proposal

by Sean Mulkerrin

On June 27,  Pyramid representatives responded to a dozen prepared IDA questions.

Baking is more than filling for Tice, it’s fulfilling

GUILDERLAND — “Food is beautiful,” says Emily Tice.

The recent Guilderland graduate was named Outstanding Student of the Year at the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical School graduation ceremony and was one of two students among 400 at the Capital Region BOCES Albany campus to win a SkillsUSA scholarship.

Pastor Holly Cameron says we are born with a desire to be connected to one another

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

NEW SCOTLAND — Holly Cameron loves her church.

She has been the pastor of the New Scotland Presbyterian Church for 25 years.

“The church is a place to try to understand what is something larger than myself, both within that community of people, and with God,” she says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

Free tennis lessons for kids

RENSSELAERVILLE — Free tennis lessons for kids ages 7 to 18 will be led by professional coach Jim Neal Saturday mornings at the playground court in the village of Rensselaerville.

Air in Albany County is now ‘unhealthy,’ advisory extended for Saturday

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

ALBANY COUNTY — By Friday afternoon the air quality in Albany County had reached the “unhealthy” level with an index number of 158 because of particulate matter in the air caused by the wildfires in Canada.

Hale-Spencer wins international award for ‘empathetic local journalism at its best’

ALTAMONT — For the 11th time, Enterprise editor Melissa Hale-Spencer has been named to the Golden Dozen by the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors.

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