A Huge Summer Book Sale — with between 35,000 to 40,000 titles to choose from, both fiction and non-fiction — will be held this month at Grace United Methodist Church at 16 Hillcrest Drive in Ravena.

There will also be a mini-rummage sale, and breakfast and lunch will be available.

As high schoolers graduate and head off to college, they may soon begin racking up college debt. But farming may provide an opportunity to alleviate student debt in New York State.

BETHLEHEM — In late 2016, a group of Bethlehem community members gathered, inspired by the idea of creating public works of art along the Albany County Helderberg-Hudson Rail Trail.

Health officials in New York have detected the first of the season’s mosquitoes with West Nile virus.

RENSSELAERVILLE — The Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy is partnering with the Albany Symphony to bring an afternoon of music and nature to Capital Region residents and visitors on Saturday, June 24.

BETHLEHEM — Bank employees on Monday were able to stall two people from Albany who were trying to cash a forged payroll check until police could arrive to arrest them, according to a release from the Bethlehem Police Department.

Rather than looking to expand the landfill in Colonie or to regionalize for a bigger landfill elsewhere, Albany County needs to pass laws that required people to do what needs to be done — divert the waste that can be recycled or used productively as compost. San Francisco provides a workable model that we can follow.

ALBANY COUNTY — Like counties across the state, the Bethlehem Central School District is also quickly approaching a deadline.