New Scotland

Blackbirds lose first conference game on Jan. 8 to Lansingburgh.

A standing-room-only crowd attended an Albany County Helderberg Hudson Rail Trail information session Tuesday at the Cornell Cooperative Extension office in Voorheesville and learned that the entire rail trail would be paved and open in 2017.
 

“To reach 100,000 feet with our balloon is our ultimate goal,” said former high school senior Alexandra Cunningham last March when Project Icarus was just getting underway.

NEW SCOTLAND — Neighbors came out in force Tuesday to protest, or support, an event venue proposed by former planning board member Cynthia Elliott for her property in Feura Bush.

An option to buy an acre of land across the street from an historic barn and next to the county's rail trail "is a critical step in allowing this project to go forward,” said Mark King of the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy.

CLARKSVILLE — Ambrose C. Alberts, a truck driver who liked to hunt and ride his motorcycle, died on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, with his family at his side. He was 81

VOORHEESVILLE — The Voorheesville Area Ambulance Service, which has had a tense relationship with the village board for years, has had a changeover of its top leadership, for the second time in 2015.

Residents here worked to preserve their history and their natural surroundings this year, while also preparing for future expansion and addressing current needs.

The village office in Voorheesville can now distribute parking permits for people with disabilities to village residents, according to Clerk-Treasurer Linda Pasquali.

The family of Brian Lainhart, owner of Awesome Automotive for 20 years, is asking for help as Lainhart's business and home face foreclosure after he cared for his ailing wife, Miriam Fiato, for three years.

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