Why do people volunteer? The answers are as varied as the people I interviewed. I asked some of Caregivers’ volunteers what actually motivated them to volunteer.
Local school districts are not meeting minimal state requirements for physical education. Kids need more exercise, not just to curb the obesity epidemic, but to improve their ability to learn.
Seven-year-old Emma Detlefsen likes wearing a cape like a super hero and her mother says she is one as she raises money to fight lymphedema from which she suffers.
Five Rivers, developed as a Civilian Conservation Corps project in the Great Depression, was the site of an announcement for a new initiative to harness young talent for parks work, the Excelsior Conservation Corps.
The Mendelssohn Club of Albany will hold auditions in October for male singers interested in joining the club for its 108th season. Interested tenors and basses are invited to rehearse with the club on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 7:15 p.m. at the New Covenant Presbyterian Church at 916 Western Ave. in Albany.
People around the world will look at the moon on Sept. 19.
“It’s as easy as stepping out into their backyard,” said astronomer Dr. Valerie Rapson of the Dudley Observatory at The Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci).