VOORHEESVILLE — For three-and-a-half quarters, you could cut the tension with a knife.

The Albany Academy and the Voorheesville boys’ basketball teams went back and forth in a Colonial Council contest on Friday in Voorheesville.

GUILDERLAND — It was the usual suspects, and the not-so-usual suspects who kept the Guilderland boys’ basketball team unbeaten in Suburban Council play.

GUILDERLAND — Andrew Smith is keeping his electric football skills at home.

The Guilderland senior has made his college choice and it’s — the University at Albany.

"No physician, insofar as he is a physician, considers his own good in what he prescribes, but the good of his patient; for the true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere moneymaker."

ALTAMONT - Work started on Brandle Meadows over the summer and a suit brought against the project this fall won't slow it down, says developer Jeff Thomas.

GUILDERLAND — The two Republicans elected to the five-member town board want to change the way the all-Democrat board make appointments.

ALTAMONT — Village Hall was packed again on Tuesday as residents expressed their views on a zoning plan and the public hearing, first held in October, is now entering its fourth month.

Griggs-Janower pairs Brundibar with Amahl

David Griggs-Janower has launched an experiment, pairing two unlikely operas — a sentimental Christmas favorite and a lesser-known Jewish opera from a concentration camp.

EAST BERNE — After opening in October, business at Destination Perfection, a new salon in the hamlet, is picking up, said Melanie Stempel, who owns the salon with her sister, Heather Schwenk.