Ella Tuxbury, a sixth-grader at Farnsworth Middle School, pushes through nerves to climb to and jump off a high platform.

The Bus Operator Roadeo competition held Thursday, June 11, at Crossgates Mall, tested the eyes and orientation of several area bus drivers.

Farnsworth Middle School student André Valverde was given the 2015 Lt. John F. Finn Community Service award.

The noisy display of hardened, antique machines will go on this weekend, at the 106 Murphy Road in Schoharie.

Track-and-field events sometimes come down to physics and psyche, pushing by increments.

Raising money was the goal, jailbreak was the game last Friday afternoon at Guilderland Elementary in Guilderland to help raise funds to fight cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that often affects the lungs. Two Guilderland students — second-grader Avery Schorr, and fourth-grader Braeden Schorr — have cystic fibrosis.

Inspiring future scientists, Clayton A. Bouton High School students in Ted Simon’s Advanced Placement physics class held a festival on June 7 to launch their weather balloon and get kids excited about science and technology. A balloon with a payload is to reach 100,000 feet as video cameras film the journey and the curvature of the Earth.

Getting to States was just a fingertip away last week in the Section 2 state qualifiers, held at the University at Albany.

Guilderland lacrosse beat Shen at UAlbany Thursday afternoon, 17 to 7, heading to the regional finals on Saturday where the Dutch lost to Suffern, 17 to 6.

Memorial Day parades in Voorheesville and the Hilltowns over the holiday weekend brought a spectacle enjoyed by large crowds lining the streets, with music, gun salutes, and rarely seen vehicles.