GUILDERLAND — For the second year in a row, the Guilderland football squad hosted a team for the Section II playoffs.

This year, the Dutchmen made sure the results were different.

GUILDERLAND — What rebuilding year"

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland boys’ varsity volleyball team is near the end of the season and has been winning some big matches.

VOORHEESVILLE — The Voorheesville Blackbirds fell behind early and couldn’t catch up to Cambridge in their first-round playoff football contest last Saturday.

BERNE — What Jim Gillis has on his soccer team at Berne-Knox-Westerlo is a group of good athletes. What he needs is a true soccer player.

Illustration by Forest Byrd.

"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."

— Grover Cleveland’s inaugural address, 1885

GUILDERLAND — Police, firefighters, and trained dogs searched Regal Cinemas at Crossgates Mall for a bomb last Thursday, ending in the arrest of a 39-year-old Albany man. No bombs were found.

ALTAMONT — Attending legislative committee meetings every week from February to May earned Jane Kirstel honor last week.

Appeals for freedom



ALBANY — Two-and-a-half years into a 25-year-to-life sentence, Erick Westervelt is pinning his hopes on an appeal.

Schools deal with stubborn staph infection