In honor of Doris Kirk:
Happy times and hard times on display in Altamont quilts


ALTAMONT — "A quilter will always tell you a quilt has a life of its own," said village quilter Ruth Dickinson.

By Bill Sherman

ALTAMONT — Subdivisions within the village will have to wait until next year as the Altamont Board of Trustees unanimously voted for a moratorium on Tuesday night.

Susan Boyer sits at her kitchen table, eyes closed.
"Focus on something that fills you with love," she instructs, "a person, a place." After a few moments of quiet, she begins to sing softly, "Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuuu. Huuuuuu."

Sex offender shunned
Elms says he has no place to go



GUILDERLAND — On Sunday evening, Matthew Elms felt his options had run out.

GUILDERLAND — More charges have been filed against a man who, police say, crashed into a truck and a house after driving drunk.

GUILDERLAND — Police arrested a Queens man on Sunday for stalking, after a woman reported he was following her car.

GUILDERLAND — David A. Hollenbeck, dubbed "the McKownville burglar," was sentenced last week to 15 years in state prison. Judge Stephen W. Herrick also ordered Hollenbeck to five years of post-release supervision.

GUILDERLAND — Four residents raised concerns at Tuesday’s town board meeting about the Northeastern Industrial Park’s plans for future development.

GUILDERLAND — A 28-year-old Guilderland man was arrested Sunday, after, police say, he raped a 14-year-old girl in his Church Road trailer.

, Matt Cook, and Holly Grosch

Although there are no local Democratic or Republican primaries this year, several candidates are vying for endorsements from the Conservative and Independence parties.