Rensselaerville News

The state Parks Department commissioner has a sweetheart deal to rent for just peanuts a Victorian mansion on bucolic parkland.

Samantha Phillips loves to write grants. She belabors every word, writing in the exact, specific way the process demands.

Like early explorers from long ago, history buffs Saturday checked out the Seventh Annual Heritage Day at the town Municipal Building.

It started with a drink called "sex on the beach." It's escalated to reams of paper that three friends in the rural town of Rensselaerville in Albany County said shows evidence that their town needs to be investigated.

The BRILL GALLLERY of North Adams, MA is curating THE HUDSON VALLEY IN PHOTOGRAPHS based on Greg Miller 's book THE HUDSON RIVER published by Rizzoli at the Guggenheim Gallery in Rensselaerville, NY from May 2-31. Located at 63 Huyck Road in Rensselaerville, the Guggenheim Gallery is affiliated with the Guggenheim Foundation .

The St. Louis Public Schools district plans to hire a New York company that guarantees it will help 16 struggling schools meet federal testing benchmarks.

Verizon Wireless has added a new cell site in Rensselaerville, the company said Monday.

ONEONTA _ Civil War history came alive as middle-school students took roles as abolitionists or slaves during a workshop Thursday.

An Albany-area man is accused of shooting his 18-year-old son to death at the family's home.

Sitting in silence in Coeymans Town Court in Ravena, 45-year-old Glenn Vosburgh looked down and did not move, except to answer a question from his attorney.

Children whose parents are deployed overseas may get scholarships to a special summer camp called Operation Purple, sponsored by the National Military Family Association.

As artists' biographies go, those of Wallace Berman and Richard Prince could hardly be more different.

After three years of haggling over how much they owe Albany County for elections expenses, the county's three largest towns are paying up.