ALTAMONT — The Altamont Enterprise and Albany County Post editor Melissa Hale-Spencer on Saturday received an international award for editorial writing.

GUILDERLAND — Walgreens is worth half-a-million dollars less than what it was originally assessed for, since the town board settled last week with the company in a split party-line vote.

GUILDERLAND — Pamala McQuate has returned to her roots.

“I specialized in color correction,” she said of her 15 years as a hair-coloring expert.  “When I got sick at the age of 32… it was from snorting coal tar chemicals all day.”

GUILDERLAND — Five months after a contentious reappointment, Donald Csaposs stepped down from his post as chairman of the Economic Development Advisory Council.

GUILDERLAND — Michelle Lentini began a familiar trip last Friday, but ended up spending several days in Albany Medical Center.

ONESQUETHAW — A man who serves as a local pastor was arrested at a rest stop on the Northway for public lewdness, a misdemeanor.

GUILDERLAND — With a sizable crowd and all three town-board Democrats as an audience, for the second time in as many weeks, a police department official was promoted yesterday.

GUILDERLAND — The mellow tones of Michelle King washing over “Rainy Days and Mondays” brought 11 developmentally disabled musicians together.

First Map of Shared Services

GUILDERLAND — An elderly man was hit as he walked across Route 20 last week, according to Guilderland Police.