John J. Pieniazek, a jack of all trades who loved fishing with his children, died peacefully on Friday, April 11, 2025 at his Altamont home surrounded by his family. He was 93. “John was a jack of all ...

To help achieve Governor Kathy Hochul’s initiative to plant 25 million trees by 2033, up to 2,500 tree seedlings from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Colonel William F. Fox Memorial ...

Let’s clarify what this is and what this isn’t," Chief Executive Officer Donald Csaposs said, opening a conversation on the topic during the IDA’s March meeting. “We’re not here to pass any policy ...

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

When I was a child in the 1960s, Altamont meant cows and farms, hayfields and apple trees, old houses and open spaces. We had ...

Jason Southwood of Albany is seeking permission to convert the former seasonally-operated Cone Zone at 2028 Western Ave. to a ...

My first whale watch did not go well. At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for ...

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo school district has invested heavily in the concept of social-emotional learning — in other words, attending to children's interpersonal needs in order to increase educational ...

Each of us has our own way of seeing the world. We bring who we are to the art gallery when we look at paintings or sculpture, or to the theater when we see a play, or to the library when we read a ...

Supervisor Peter Barber went through a long list of events happening in town near Earth Day, which is on Tuesday, April 22, ...

The oval at the Altamont fairgrounds has seen a lot of uses and a lot of thrills. From its first harness horse race in 1893 to the beginning of its automobile racing in 1910, the competition has ...