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.

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

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.

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.

“If I didn’t have allyship, I would never have the confidence to speak what I believe or face the hate I get as a person who’s part of the LGBTQ+ community.”

“Every year, there are nearly 12,000 fireworks-related injuries, several deaths, and 19,000 fires that are attributable to fireworks — and they are all preventable,” said State Fire Administrator James Cable.

While it may not seem like an upset in national politics — Conservatives and Republicans, after all, are typically linked — in Guilderland, Democrats have frequently had Conservative backing as a second party line.

Wildfire smoke downwind affects not just health but also wealth and mortality, according to new research from Cornell University, Nanjing University, and the University of Houston, published earlier this month.

 “You hear about a lot of things happening in other countries that’s a concern to you but you can’t directly affect so having the opportunity to go up, have a direct — however big or small — effect on the situation was really a privilege I couldn’t pass up on,” said Anastasia Allwine, a forest ranger based in Greene County, on her return from fighting wildfires in Canada.

Nothing impacts the world more than kindness, Guilderland High School Principal Michael Piscitelli told the Class of 2023. “Giving someone a smile, a kind word, or a helping hand,” he said, can create a ripple effect.