NEW SCOTLAND — Thacher Park’s Indian Ladder trail closed for the season on Sunday, Nov. 20.

The lesson of the First Thanksgiving is about diversity and inclusion. Now we must follow the example of the Native Americans who kept the immigrant Pilgrims from starvation and death.

Smash-and-grab thieves have been targeting valuable items left in locked cars in the parking lots of YMCAs from Delmar to Glens Falls, police say.

A local Bible study group that learned about the sex slavery trade wanted a way to help the women and children who were its victims, says the organizer of the Black Friday Fair Trade Market.

More than $325 million in funding is available to help elderly and low- and moderate-income New Yorkers heat their homes this winter. Applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program, known as HEAP, were accepted beginning Nov. 14.

Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy has launched a new campaign to help homeless veterans and their families in Albany County.

Doctors and patients are being caught in the crossfire as a health-care and an insurance giant battle.

Charles Casale, M.D., a fellowship-trained gastroenterologist, has joined Albany Medical Center’s Community Division of Gastroenterology, where he will treat patients for a full range of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders.

The race will start at 9 a.m. at the Altamont Elementary School in Grand Street in the village.

Amedore won a second term in the State Senate with 60 percent of the vote against Sara Niccoli, a Democrat making her first run for state office.