Two Westmere volunteers went through the process that ideally each firefighter would do at the scene of a fire after their work fighting the fire was done.

Symptoms from long COVID can last for years, a recent review says. “With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages,” the authors write, adding, “There are currently no validated effective treatments.”

GUILDERLAND — A man has been charged with predatory sexual assault against a child and four counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

ALTAMONT — Jeanette Beatrice Orsini lived by the Golden Rule.

One Thanksgiving, she invited a homeless man to her family’s dinner. She wanted her three sons to learn, even if they didn’t have a lot, they could still give to others, her son John Orsini said.

Guilderland school district residents vote at the elementary school that serves their area. For the May 2022 budget vote, those in the Altamont area had the highest turnout at just 26 percent of eligible voters, followed by Pine Bush at 20 percent, Lynnwood at 19 percent, Guilderland at 17 percent, and Westmere at 14 percent.

GUILDERLAND — By a vote of 8 to 1, the school board here decided on Tuesday to call the federal holiday that falls on Oct. 9 this year solely by the name Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

GUILDERLAND — Joan Mckeon had an awakening as she mowed her lawn — a job she hated.

“It smelled bad, it was noisy, and the little creatures would run for their lives,” she says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

The White House went on to say that the two bills proposed by the House Republicans — H.R. 382 and H.J. Res. 7 — abruptly ending the emergency declarations “would have two highly significant impacts on our nation’s health system and government operations.” One would create uncertainty in health care and the other would create a surge of immigrants, the statement says.

Richard Umholtz says he nearly died seven years ago.

“I came into the house and went splat on the floor. I did not trip,” he said. “It was like somebody turned the electrical switch off … Everything worked mentally. Physically, nothing worked.”

Of the guns collected in Guilderland on Saturday, Albany County legislator Dustin Reidy said that four or five had scratched-off serial numbers and a handful were illegal. “There was a sawed-off shotgun that was brought in,” Reidy said.