Altamont News

Tomorrow is the BIG day for country music fans when WGNA 's Countryfest09 A hits Altamont.A I believe it's the third year that the festival has been held at the Altamont Fairgrounds.A So, those of you with cowboy hats and a passion for country music, I expect you'll be in your element.

Colonie, Guilderland talk trash Posted on: 07/08/09 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com As the City of Albany plans the expansion of its landfill, one of its customers is planning to bring its waste elsewhere.

Firefighters are back on the scene this morning at a house fire that rekindled after dousing the blaze Tuesday night.

Rapp Road landfill expansion moves forward Posted on: 07/01/09 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com The state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an expansion permit for the Rapp Road Landfill.

On Tuesday, the Capital Region was hit with lightning, rain and hail. On Wednesday, similar storms made their way across area, bringing reports and concerns of flash flooding with them.

For a time, the city of Albany was top dog when it came to drinking water. But this year, the Latham Water District won the taste test.

A National Grid Web site says that power has been restored to all but a handful of customers in Albany County after an outage hit sections of the county earlier today.

The bond to purchase a new fire truck at the Guilderland Center Fire Department was approved 17-4 on Tuesday, June 9. All residents in the Guilderland Center fire district were eligible to vote.

A 100th birthday is a special enough occasion for a party, but a recent gathering in a fire house in an Albany suburb took on added poignancy because the honoree is the oldest surviving Medal of Honor recipient.

Three men, three medals, one village. Three recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, gathered in the Village of Altamont on Sunday for a ceremony honoring the oldest among them: Lt.

ALTAMONT, N.Y. - John Finn, Frank Currey and Nick Oresko are years apart in age, come from different backgrounds and hail from three states.

This village will serve as the unlikely home to a 100th birthday party for the oldest Medal of Honor recipient in the country.

That shaking in Clarksville Sunday night was not a train coming to town. The United States Geological Survey reports this morning that a magnitude 3 quake happened nearly 7 miles underground at 42.571 degrees N, 74.112 degrees W, near the intersection of Switzkill and Willsie roads in Berne.

Nelligan launches town campaign Posted on: 05/12/09 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com Matt Nelligan launched his campaign for Guilderland Town Board at a fundraising event at his home, and said he plans to push for eight-year term limits for all town officials if elected.

Q: Route 156 from Altamont to Knox looked beautiful and offered smooth driving after the state paved it last year.

The Department of Transportation has issued the following travel advisories: 1) Following tomorrow's morning rush hour, Routes 9 and 20 westbound between Washington Street and Broadway in the City of Rensselaer will close for city sewer work.

Posted on: 04/20/09 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com Westmere Elementary School will be welcoming a new principal next year - Beth Bini, who said her roots have always been in Guilderland.

Western Turnpike golf course opens for season Posted on: 04/06/09 Spotlight Newspapers email: news@spotlightnews.com Warm weather and sunshine are right around the corner, and area golfers can break out their clubs and hit the links now that the Western Turnpike Golf Course is open.

Guilderland schools mull major cuts Posted on: 04/01/09 Dan Sabbatino email: sabbatinod@spotlightnews.com Guilderland school officials and residents played tug-of-war with the district's budget at a Tuesday, March 24, meeting.

If you remember the '60s, as the joke goes, you weren't there. It was the perfect storm of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.