COLONIE — Lorraine Ferris, a loving mother, was active in the Capital Region, where she spent most of her life, with a career in banking and as a homemaker.
Lorraine Miggael Ferris died on Thursday, July 25, 2013 in Rensselaerville. She was 83.
The honor provides system-wide recognition, across 64 campuses, for consistently superior professional achievement and encourages the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
Pool owners are invited to join the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in its second annual Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) swimming pool survey now through Aug. 30 in order to help keep watch for these exotic, invasive beetles before they cause serious damage to forests and street trees.
State Police stopped pursuing the motorcycle after it reached speeds over 100 miles per hour on Route 7. The motorcyclist went through Knox, onto Route 30 in Schoharie County, and ended in Duanesburg with internal injuries.
It’s amazing how familiar that phrase — and that cheery little “thumbs up” icon — have become. Social media websites like Facebook and LinkedIn are part of our lives.
An estimated 800 people gathered in the hills of the Helderbergs at Camp Pinnacle for three days in June. The event honored veterans and those currently serving our nation and celebrated America's heritage and founding principles.
ROTTERDAM — Peg Tyndell had a thirst for knowledge and a zest for life. She connected with people.
She loved being home, raising her two children, and, when they got older, she went back to school with equal passion, pursuing a degree in communication.
I learned this week that Peg Tyndell had died of cancer on June 26.
My thoughts rushed back a quarter of a century to a brisk winter day when I went to a local women’s health clinic with Peg, a reporter for The Altamont Enterprise.
She was determined to show women, our readers, what a mammogram was like.
GUILDERLAND — It has been seven years since Albany resident Yassin M. Aref, an imam from Albany, was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 15 years in a Communication Management Unit in a federal prison in Indiana. Lynne Jackson and one of the founding members of Save the Pine Bush, has strayed from environmental activism and taken a special interest in Aref’s case.
