If approved, next year’s budget would represent a 0.15-percent increase over this year and a nearly 6 percent increase in the property tax levy.

The most important — indeed essential — service that a library or a newspaper provides is access to information. Without a well-informed citizenry, a democracy — a government of the people, by the ...

You can’t say that education is up to the states while simultaneously demanding that states do your bidding. And yet, here we ...

When they got here, the roof was on fire. They knocked it down fast. Nobody was home. So everybody’s safe and sound, just ...

A majority of the 43 operators, laborers, and mechanics in the potential bargaining unit have signed cards choosing the Civil ...

Joe Giebelhaus, 55, was appointed to the Berne Town Board as its fourth member, and will run for the supervisor position in ...

The New Salem Volunteer Fire Department is holding an open house on April 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at our firehouse at 694 New Salem Road. Join us, along with many other departments across the state, ...

It has always been a fun day; hopefully in the sunshine this year, as villagers gather to green up/clean up and beautify our streets and parks. It’s a great way to get back outside to see each other ...

Paulette A. Payne, a mother and a grandmother, died peacefully in her Altamont home on Tues5, 2025. She was the daughter of ...

The letter from Albany County legislator Jeff Perlee, waxing on about Guilderland town leadership seeking to preserve Altamont was an egregious misstatement of facts [“Altamont was a jewel of a ...

With Robert’s monologue at its seeming end, Katie figured it was time to move on and warn whomever she could with her singing that the bridge over roiling waters is going down. “That was it, Jennie.

Given the road conditions, the consensus rational speed limit is 40 miles per hour The “posted” limit of 20 mph is absurd. No rational school-related safety purpose, if any, is achieved. Just an ...