Averill Park News

Jenn's commenters got a little frisky this morning over a remark one of her readers made about Kate Gosselin's "East Greenbush hair." Ohh, smack to my Rensselaer County peeps .

Foxes testing positive for the rabies virus in populated areas have prompted Rensselaer County Department of Health officials to issue a rabies warning for the Nassau/Schodack section of Rensselaer County.

A Bennington teenager was among three people arraigned last week for the abduction, torture and attempted ransom of a woman, according to the office of Albany, N.Y., District Attorney P. David Soares.

Three people were arraigned Friday on charges stemming from what officials are calling a "horrific" kidnapping and torture of an Albany woman.

Renewable Power Systems LLC, a solar installation company in Averill Park, N.Y., has had its assets substantially acquired by Wilton, Conn.-based Alteris Renewables Inc.

An appetite for better tasting, more nutritious food and for saving money is producing a bumper crop of new gardeners this year.

Here are the hours and locations of voting for area schools Tuesday. Albany: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at 26 voting locations.

Q: I travel on I-90 every day to and from work, and everyone who travels on that road knows you need to pay a lot of attention to the traffic.

Renewable Power Systems, a solar design and installation company in Averill Park, is doing a lot of site inspections for schools and municipalities these days.

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April 23, 2009 at 1:01 am by Beth Netter, M.D. We continue our series on The Body as Garden with a focus on meditation.

Barbara and Ron Bertis give a tour of their Averill Park home, the historic Knowlson house.

At least a few wealthy New Yorkers are willing to dig deeper into their pocketbooks to help the state's fiscal crisis.

I read in today's Community Calendar on page D2 that St. Henry's Church, located at 17 Crystal Lake Road in Averill Park, is having a Belle of the Ball dress sale this Saturday.

Averill Park filmmakers Maureen and Jim Tusty will be flying to the tiny Baltic country of Estonia next week, where President Toomas Hendrik Ilves will bestow upon them the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, ...

Capeless principal will retire 22.JAN.09 After 11 years, Mary Ellen Trumbull will step down in June as principal of Capeless School.

An Averill Park barn is being called a total loss after a fire this morning. Chief Paul Glasser of the Averill Park - Sand Lake Fire Department says a passerby saw smoke and flames coming from the barn at 8780 ...

Pineapple upside down cake may be a 20th-century version of the old-time skillet cakes that pioneers used on the frontier when they did not have ovens and had to use skillets.

The ice storm of 2008 brought a tree down on Trinity Lutheran Church, 70 Greene Avenue in Castleton.

High winds with gusts up to 35 m.p.h. are expected to blow through the region today.