Slingerlands News

James Rossi and others purchased the historic Saratoga Polo fields five years ago with the idea of paying for the sport by developing parts of the 42-acre property.

Dressed in a white shirt with a yankee-doodle hat, bowtie and red armbands, Ellsworth Amidon doesn't get strange looks as he walks around Staffords Crossing Road with a drum hanging off his shoulder.

Dara Shareef, director of strategic investments for First Columbia, will advise the seven companies in which First Columbia has part ownership.

The White Management restaurants Creo in Guilderland and Cafe Mangia in Slingerlands have introduced new summer menus .

Charlie Brown seeks advice from Lucy in the musical "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" at NYSTI.

Emma walking Sno, and some funny looking lady getting in the way! Were you ever a Girl Scout, Boy Scout, 4H-er, Campfire Girl?A I was a Brownie, then a Girl Scout too.A I tried Cadettes, but discovered the joys of being a sassy teenager instead.A I was also in a 4H group for a bit when I had my horse.

Business owner Thomas Bowman , 66, of East Greenbush "This is the worst year I've had since I took over the stand more... Junior "Teddy" Hedrington of Albany, 52, unemployed cook "This is a chance to spend more time on my music.

"This is a totally different influenza than anything we've ever seen before"...says State Health Department Griffen Lab Director Dr.

New Scotland group makes appeal to Bethlehem Posted on: 04/29/09 Jarrett Carroll, Spotlight Staff email: carrollj@spotlightnews.com The Bethlehem Town Board listened to a second appeal from an advocacy group in neighboring New Scotland that opposes what is being called a 'big-box development' just across the town line.

In a cleverly crafted April 13 piece, "Deer rolling in clover at Route 85 traffic roundabouts," the Times Union's Cathy Woodruff explains the abundance of deer on the Slingerlands roundabouts.

Q: Once again displaying their wide-ranging interests and expertise, our Getting There readers pounced on an item featured last week about deer that congregate near the new roundabouts on Route 85 in Bethlehem.

Civic leaders in Binghamton vow to reopen the immigrant center where a gunman killed 13 people before taking his own life.

Q: Traffic moves really well since four roundabouts were added on Route 85 between Albany and Slingerlands.

A falling tree crushed a couple cars in Bethlehem this afternoon. It happened at Mangia's restaurant, at the intersection of Kenwood Avenue and New Scotland in Slingerlands.

Gov. David Paterson says "12 or 13" people were killed in an attack on an immigration services center in western New York state.

Leslie Shrager, a Binghamton University senior from Slingerlands who lives next door to the immigration services center in Binghamton, was safely evacuated along with her housemates by a SWAT team from the scene of the gunman's carnage.

A gunman walked into an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing an unknown number of people, wounding at least six and taking as many as 41 hostage, officials said.Two handguns were recovered at the scene, said a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the details of an ongoing hostage ...

Author says suicide shouldn't be taboo subject Posted on: 04/01/09 Jarrett Carroll, Spotlight Staff email: carrollj@spotlightnews.com Dominick Rizzo reads over some of his poetry that he has collected in several notebooks over nearly two decades.

Downed trees and wires in the Capital Region caused several road closures, the Department of Transportation has announced.

Q: With all the upcoming resurfacing projects on the roads in the area and also on the Thruway, why don't we follow the example of certain European countries such as Germany on how they build their super-highways? The Autobahn is built a lot thicker and lasts much longer than the highways built in the United States.