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Photos: Heritage comes to life

The good old days and ways were on display in Clarksville Saturday.

Chicken barbecue for Emmit Stannard

The 12-year-old Greenville student who died last month was undergoing treatment for a brain tumor when the July 19 event was scheduled by the Medusa Volunteer Fire Company.

A day to give back to a giving person

Jean Forti Day in the Knox Town Park on Saturday will raise funds for Forti's medical expenses. She was diagnosed with liver cancer in May and will undergo surgery on July 2.

Photos: Revelry and Royalty

Renaissance Festival last weekend, directed by Kendall Hudson, was a first for the Capital District and included a jousting area and three stages with all manner of song and dance as well as demonstrations of traditional Renaissance arts like leatherworking, pottery, and chainmail.

Photos: Chamber extends Guilderland honors

The annual dinner by the Guilderland Chamber of Commerce at the Pinehaven Country Club celebrated some of the town's major developments, included prizes, and featured a motivational speaker.

Photos: Crown thy good with brotherhood

The sun’s light and residents of the town’s hamlets filled the bays of the highway garage on the first day of June in Rensselaerville for a town-wide picnic.

Local vineyard to host area’s first wellness festival, benefitting the Red Cross

ALTAMONT — Altamont Vineyard & Winery is holding the Capital Region’s first outdoor wellness festival on Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at its vineyard.

Musicians from the old Netherlands to sing about the last governor of New Netherlands

NEW SCOTLAND — “Old Silver Leg,” about Pieter Stuyvesant in the New World, is a musical program to be presented on June 17 by “Ankie, Nanne & Tseard,” a group of three folksingers from Friesland in the Netherlands.

Learn how to discover pieces of the past with a metal detector

You won’t believe all the historic treasures you can find using metal detectors.  Tony Torrisi and Rob Wolfe will show how to use metal detectors to find those treasures. They’ll demonstrate at the Saddlemire Homestead Museum from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 21.

Photos: Knox pauses to remember

After a brightly colored parade, residents gathered to hear solemn speeches in the hamlet of Knox on Memorial Day. “We’re here to honor the dead,” Don Champion, an Army veteran and member of the Knox Volunteer Fire Company, said in his introductory remarks during the ceremony.  

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