In March, internationally-owned but locally-operated Robert Wright Disposal began offering a year of free pick-up to customers in Altamont. And now, the hauler has done away with the annual fee — $55,000 — the town of New Scotland was charged to recycle residents’ discarded items. So far this year, the town has paid approximately $24,000 in recycling tipping fees.

Joy Bennett says she felt like she was home when she discovered folk music. “The sharing of music touches part of you maybe you didn’t know existed,” Bennett says in this week’s podcast.

BERNE — Rodney William Geel, a man who was passionate about his family, died peacefully at his Berne home on Monday, June 7, 2021. He was 67.

He was born on March 24, 1954 in Clarksville to Robert Geel and Shirley Martin. He attended Bethlehem School District and graduated in 1972.

When the Greylock Lane subdivision was approved, in 2011, it showed all the houses were going to be built in a line toward the back of each property on the private roadway.

Former Voorheesville varsity girls’ basketball coach Robert Baron will appeal the lower court’s ruling dismissing his case against the school school district. 

SLINGERLANDS — A tractor trailer got stuck Thursday night as it drove west on Route 85 and was too tall to fit beneath the underpass of the Albany County Rail Trail Bridge, closing off traffic until it was dislodged about six hours later.

Over 75 percent of Voorheesville School District voters approved a $27 million budget for 2021-22.

Hundreds of customers in multiple New Scotland water districts will feel the effects of recent town board decisions.

VOORHEESVILLE — Sandra Jean (née Waters) Tesch — known as “Grandma Sandy” to the many children she babysat — “passed into eternal life” on Monday, May 3, 2021, her family wrote in a tribute. She was 80.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the daughter of the late Earl and Geraldine Morrill Waters.

The bids for the Hilton Barn roof project came in at and below budget, New Scotland Councilman William Hennessy said during the May 12 board meeting, “depending on alternatives that are chosen.”