Delmar News

After nearly a decade of leading Albany County Republicans, Peter Kermani is calling it quits today as a new chairman is selected.

July 21, 2008 Updated 3:02 p.m. Albany - Police have charged 33 people from the Capital Region with defrauding the state's unemployment insurance trust fund out of more than $116,000. 33 charged with ...

National Grid reports roughly 8,000 customers without power in Albany County primarily in Bethlehem and Delmar.

Even though it's summer, it was like the first day of school for the Bethlehem Board ...

The Rev. Virginia Ogden: Assistant pastor at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Delmar and an organizer of the second annual Bethlehem Churches Celebration Service.

The Delmar Rotary Club is sponsoring the exchange of culture, education and ideas by supporting local foreign exchange students. Erika Kristiana, a student from Indonesia, spoke to the Delmar Rotary Club at the group’s breakfast meeting at the Normanside Country Club on Wednesday, June 18. She discussed her year in the Capital District and presented a slideshow. She has been in the area 11 months and will now be returning home.

The town has announced that Elsmere Avenue will be closed “for at least three days” between Maple Avenue and Kenwood Avenue starting on Tuesday, July 8. Supervisor Jack Cunningham made the announcement during the town’s Wednesday, June 25, town board meeting. Commissioner of Public Works Josh Cansler told town board members that they discovered a sewer main running underneath Elsmere Avenue was broken in at least two places and would have to be dug up, resulting in the closure of both lanes of traffic until the sewer line is fixe

Syracuse native Mark Tremont stands in front of his I Fill Inkjets store in Delmar, near Albany.

In a unanimous decision the Bethlehem town board appointed Patricia Parsons its new court clerk during its Wednesday, June 25, town board meeting.

The current long-time court clerk, Barbara J. Hodom, is set to retire on Friday, July 18, from the post she had held for three decades. Parsons has already begun training for the position and working at Bethlehem Town Hall.

She is leaving a job as an administrative assistant from Albany County’s general services department and said she was honored to be selected by town justices Ryan Donovan and Paul Dwyer.

Delaware Avenue in Delmar, Verstandig’s Florist presented its plans for a new building at its Creeble Road location in Selkirk. At the Tuesday, June 17, meeting, the Bethlehem Planning Board heard owner Bob Verstandig’s plans to build a 3,968-square-foot building to house his offices, as well as retail and wholesale plant materials. He is planning to sell the Delaware Avenue location to Keystone Builders, which is proposing to build 40 condominiums on the site. Verstandig also laid out his plans for going “green,” but he wasn’t talking about his shrubs.

During the Town of Bethlehem’s Planning Board meeting on Tuesday, June 17, the McCormick’s Hollow Subdivision plan for a multi-use pathway was accepted by the board, at which time Chairman Parker Mathusa stressed that there “is an interest on the planning board to have this done.” The multi-use pathway would help clear up construction that has been left unfinished for more than a year on North Street when construction on a proposed subdivision was abruptly halted. Surveyor Paul Hite, who presented the revised plan, outlined the details of the multi-use path and the addition of 5-foot islands in the middle of the sidewalk with trees and benches for landscaping. Mathusa outlined a potential schedule where work on the walkway would be started by Aug. 1 and finished by Oct. 1. The board unanimously approved the document.

It sounds like a ghost story: the oven door opens by itself, a fireball shoots out, then the oven door closes.

Some nature events, for this weekend and beyond, of interest to Greenpoint readers: Wildlife program At 2 p.m., Saturday, June 28, the Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center , will host a program on ...

The town has announced that Elsmere Avenue will be closed “for at least three days” between Maple Avenue and Kenwood Avenue starting on July 8. Supervisor Jack Cunningham made the announcement during the town’s Wednesday, June 25, town board meeting. Commissioner of Public Works Josh Cansler told town board members that they discovered a sewer main running underneath Elsmere Avenue was broken in at least two places and would have to be dug up, resulting in having to close both lanes of traffic until the sewer line is fixed.

Jedaiah Chambers of Albany joined the organization as an investment analyst. He interned with former Lt.

By David Robinson Herkimer, N.Y. - The Fallen Stars Tribute Project on Thursday announced Mimi Martin as its spokesperson.

Justin Priddle of Troy was named branch manager for the Delmar branch of the bank, a unit of Pittsfield, Mass.-based Berkshire Hills Bancorp.

The operator of a funeral home in Albany County is facing fraud charges after investigators said he filed a false insurance claim.

ALBANY - A report released by the state inspector general Wednesday said two agencies neglected their duties in investigating alleged abuses of an autistic and developmentally disabled adolescent while he was ...

One Delmar Democrat thinks it time for a new hometown senator to represent Albany County in the New York ...