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July is followed by December

Westerlo Supervisor Matthew Kryzak says, “Everyone knows in order to be successful you need to have a plan and work to that plan.” Everyone, that is, but the grasshopper or perhaps the sunshine politician.

Guilderland needs affordable, accessible housing for its elderly residents

For the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area, 85 percent of seniors cannot afford assisted living, calculated at $75,000 annually, and 84 percent cannot afford daily home care, calculated at $43,000 for care and combined with the cost of living totals $68,000.

Conversing with our history enriches our future

In 2022, New York state recognized the communal importance of old barns when it enacted a program that offers owners of historic barns a state income tax credit equal to 25-percent of qualified rehabilitation costs. Some towns in our area have also instituted incentives to encourage the preservation of old barns. These incentives need to be publicized and used if we are to preserve the important history told by our barns.