Guilderland’s town-wide tax rate, which applies inside the village of Altamont, rises from about $1.39 to about $1.42 per $1,000 of assessed value, up about 2.34 percent from this year.

Attorney Javid Afzali, using his laptop computer to make a presentation to the board, summarized the town’s budget dilemma: ...

Sharon Liese’s production company is called Herizon, she said, because she often makes woman-centered films. “Seized,” she ...

A veteran politician, Molinaro, a Republican, was elected with 54 percent of the vote to represent the 102nd District in the State Assembly. The rural district sprawls across 56 towns, including the ...

The village board of trustees on Nov. 4 voted unanimously to draft and submit a letter of intent to New York State Homes and Community Renewal to pursue Pro-Housing Community certification, a ...

Asked why these particular 50 acres were secured, Mark King said, “We work closely with the Albany Pine Bush and have for ...

The state should report mentoring time, completion and teacher retention, including for rural districts. Those measures are more useful than a count of newly enrolled apprentices.

We appreciate that they commit time to helping all of us expand our knowledge of this region we call home by inspiring and compelling our imaginations to visualize what was here before, and explain ...

Beside flying, he wanted his pilots to have a working knowledge of the mechanics of the airplane as well. It was a brief ...

I am pleased to report that our efforts (I am including my household and others in my community who protested Verizon’s goal of ending landline service in the near future) have been successful — at ...

And on the subject of fires, wood stoves, chimney fires, options for fuel for wood stoves, how to build a good chimney, all occupied a lot of thought space, given that we are entering the season of ...