Opinion

From the editor: Let’s follow the example of these food-stamp recipients

“If they don’t have hope, they have nothing left.”

Guilderland

$1M added to tab of $8.9M Normans Kill bridge

There are currently no concerns about the hillside along the Normanskill failing.

Sports

Photos: Eagles and Guilderville Dive Towards States

Last Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 6 through Nov. 8, Guilderland-Voorheesville and Bethlehem swim squads took to the pool at Shenendehowa to look to qualify for the state competition on Nov. 21 to 22 at Webster High School in Rochester.

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New Scotland

Voorheesville receives $250K insurance payout after cyber theft

Superintendent Frank Macri noted that Voorheesville had worked with various law enforcement agencies on the incident, and that he was told the school district’s experience happens “more often than you can imagine.”

Hilltowns

Approval for reroofing BKW schools gets 77% of the vote

BERNE — On Monday, Berne-Knox-Westerlo voters heartily approved a $5.142 million project to reroof both the elementary and secondary schools.

The capital project was approved with 77 percent of the vote: 295 to 87, according to figures released by the district.

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Letters to the Editor

‘Land of Bitter Conflict’: Revival of a century-old marker casts light on local Revolutionary divisions

Nearly one-hundred years ago, New York state asked local towns and historians to assist with the celebration of the War of the Revolution’s sesquicentennial by identifying historic sites in their a

Make 118 South Main into a museum of Voorheesville and the railroads that built it

Timothy J. Albright, Meadowdale

Democracy on pause (press any key to continue, if one exists)

Emily Vincent, Berne

Recalling my boyhood on my family’s farm in the scenic Cole Hill valley

Rudolph A. Pitcher, Huntsville, Alabama

I have extensive knowledge of guide-rail and bridge-rail design

Joel Willsey, East Berne

Learn about Henry Knox and his noble train of artillery

Sandra Stempel, President, Berne Historical Society

Columns

A Glimpse of Guilderland History

Mary Ellen Johnson

Penny postcards record places of the past

Old Men of the Mountain

R. Douglas Marshall

Appreciating cars, old and new, and the caps to wear while driving them

Back Roads Geology

Geology for the masses: Winifred Goldring made the mind-boggling past accessible to the curious

Field Notes

Dennis Sullivan

‘What we can’t understand we call nonsense’