Susan Kidder retired as New Scotland’s Senior Outreach Liaison in December, replaced in the position by Debbie Engel.

ALTAMONT — The village has a contested election for the first time in years as four candidates are running for two trustee posts.

After two months of public comment, the Altamont Planning Board this week closed the hearing it had opened on Dec. 17, 2018, for a proposed cell tower on Agawam Lane and voted to allow the tower to be built.

A proposal from the New Scotland Historical Association is looking to save New Scotland and Voorheesville’s historic homes and sites.

The Federal Communications Commission in an effort to hasten the launch and adoption of 5G technology and infrastructure in September 2018 issued an order that has towns, cities, counties, and states scrambling to pass laws to protect their own interests from the FCC order.

Paul Malecki, an Albany resident, has just started a project looking at the history of car racing at the Altamont fairgrounds.

Two seats on the Altamont Board of Trustees are up for grabs in March. Incumbents Nicholas Fahrenkopf and Michelle Ganance both say they will run.

The latest turn in the Baron-Voorheesville lawsuit has both sides submitting notes and emails that they claim support their arguments.

For the past 10 years, a group of volunteers have protected from peril the paths that frogs and salamanders use to migrate to return to the place where they can breed.

In his 2019 State of the County address, Daniel McCoy announced plans to further combat the opioid epidemic, divert more youth from entering the juvenile legal system, and aid the underprivileged.