SLINGERLANDS — The Bethlehem Children’s School, teaching children aged 3 through 8 in a test-free multi-age environment, still has openings available for the 2013-14 school year.

Founded in 1995, the school is located on a wooded, four-acre property at 12 Fisher Blvd. in Slingerlands.

The 24-year-old was arrested in April, when state police believed he had robbed homes in Greene, Albany, and Schoharie counties.

We’ve long loved John Boyd Thacher State Park and are pleased the state has drafted a master plan for its future.

Following the flood, the author saw leaders and teamwork while mucking out basements and sorting clothes.

The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is catching birds in mist nets so they can be banded, released, and tracked.

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.