Photo: Pokingbrook Morris Dancers

With bells on their shins and scarves in their hands, the Pokingbrook Morris Dancers performed at Altamont’s Orsini Park on Wednesday evening, Jane 4. “Morris,” the dancers say, refers to traditional display dance forms from England that parallels Irish Step Dancing and Scottish Highland Dancing, although those styles don’t have the association with the seasons and with agriculture that Morris has.

Applications open for grants to upgrade municipal parks

ALBANY COUNTY — Albany County is now accepting applications for grants to enhance, improve, or develop city, town, and village-owned parks, playgrounds, or recreational facilities.

Grants are capped at $15,000 each from the $150,000 available. The deadline to apply is June 30.

Photos: Hilltowns Memorial Day Parades

Community members rode through Berne and Knox to commemorate Memorial Day.

Photos: Voorheesville Celebrates Memorial Day

The Village of Voorheesville came out for Memorial Day on May 25, 2025.

Paul Steinkamp presents "A Garden for the People" at Voorheesville library

Nurseryman Paul Steinkamp, owner of Helderledge Farm in New Scotland, will speak at 6:30 p.m. on May 15 at Voorheesville Public Library on “A Garden for the People.”

With a degree in landscape architecture and a lifetime of experience, he’ll also address front lawns.

‘The Great American Songbook’ performed by Mendelssohn Club and Swing Docs

DELMAR — The Mendelssohn Club of Albany will perform its traditional spring concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 16, in the New York State Education Building’s historic Chancellors Hall.

Lupine blooms in May and so does its pine bush festival

Lupine Fest will be celebrated for a month this year.

Every day in May, the Pine Bush Preserve will offer activities and events celebrating the iconic flower that is essential to the life cycle of the endangered Karner blue butterfly.

Octogenarian celebrated by Hannaford co-workers

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Coppola, who works as a customer service associate at the Guilderland Hannaford, was busy helping a shopper at 11 a.m. on April 17 when Michele Fleming’s voice came over the supermarket’s public-address system: “All associates, come to the bakery for a very special huddle,” she said.