East Greenbush News

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Cheers, smiles and hugs multiplied throughout the room Thursday, as Albany Medical students open the envelope that determines where they will receive their advanced medical training.

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Music teacher Bob Halek and student Danielle Waggner at Green Meadow Elementary School in East Greenbush.

School Board members applauded musical performances. A crowd of over 350 parents, students, residents and teachers attended Wednesday night's A school board meeting of theA East Greenbush Central School District to protest budget cuts that would affect the district's art and music programs.

There's one week to go before the Table Hopping/timesunion.com Mac-n-Cheese Bowl to benefit the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York.

The Albany County Sheriff's Office Drug Interdiction Unit, along with the assistance of the Tri-County SWAT Team and the North Greenbush Police Department, arrested two men on drug charges Friday, March 5. Police say Ronald A. Davis, 38, and his cousin Torrin Matthews, 26, both of 246 North Greenbush Road, Troy, dealt heroin from their home, and ...

She says one of every seven residents of Rensselaer County is now on Medicaid. Jimino is looking at consolidation, sharing services with other municipalities and closing a juvenile detention center.

Young musicians got quite a thrill Saturday night when they got to play with a world-renowned violinist.

When the flakes start to fly during a school week the thoughts of the students, parents, teachers, and school superintendents throughout the region quickly turn to snow day.

Administrators in the East Greenbush Central School District are weighing major staff cuts that union officials say include talk of the elimination of more than 30 teaching jobs.

The library teen book discussion group can take many forms. Some of them are traditional book discussion groups with all participants reading the same book and then talking about it with their peers under the direction of the teen librarian.

Opponents of the proposal to allow wine sales in grocery stores on Wednesday descended on the Capitol, hoping to convince lawmakers to reject the measure.

Police have arrested and charged three of the four men they say are responsible for a spree of burglaries across Rensselaer County.

Two Rensselaer County men were charged with burglary following an investigation into the theft of furniture, plumbing supplies and police evidence, State Police at Schodack and East Greenbush Police said Thursday.

For 40 minutes on a Saturday last January, Darrel O. Brown brought terror to a strip of I-90 as he used a modified AK-47 to shoot at State Police officers who had tried to pull him over.

The Hannaford Supermarket on Columbia Turnpike reopened for business at noon today after it closed Thursday night when a pallet of paper products caught fire in a back storage area and forced the evacuation of the store.

Artist Jeri Eisenberg poses in the woods at her home in East Greenbush on Tuesday, Jan.

Earlier today I was checking in on the East Greenbush blog. Even though Amanda is no longer blogging for them, I do like to read a bit about the town we hung out in as teenagers I came across a comment that caused me to do a triple reread.

Another local school district says it will have to make huge cuts because of New York State's budget.