HILLTOWNS — Gene Smith is better known as the color that defines her than by her given name.

For 30 years, she wrote a weekly column tracking the comings and goings of neighbors in Notes from Lilac.

Join the battle for clean water in poor places

Illustration by Forest Byrd.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — On the day after elections, the town board unanimously approved its tentative $2.12 million budget for 2010, up from this year’s $2.02 million spending plan.

A taste of the Iroquois harvest: Hearty and healthy recipes for today
based on a Dutchman’s New World journal from 375 years ago

NEW SCOTLAND — Plans for construction in the town’s commercial zone met with a tepid reaction from the planning board in its first meeting after an election that will likely change its players.

Malawian man of passion seeks clean water for his people,
Farnsworth Middle School students respond with compassion

GUILDERLAND — Clean water is a matter of life and death.

GUILDERLAND — A four-vehicle accident on Western Avenue last week put two Altamont men in the hospital after one of them had to be extricated from his vehicle. An investigation by the Guilderland Police Department is ongoing.

By Jordan J. Michael

Even though the three varsity volleyball teams from Guilderland and Berne-Knox-Westerlo didn’t win many matches, they tried to have fun.

R’ville adopts $2.2 million spending plan, budgets for forensic audit next year

By Zach Simeone