Delmar News

Rain barrels, those old-fashioned and low-tech devices that catch rainwater running off a roof and divert it to thirsty flowers and vegetables, are on the rise across the Capital Region.

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Organizing For America is bringing helping activists organize for health care reform, and they're kicking off their efforts with a National Health Care Day of Service today.

Nearly 150 people filled Bethlehem Town Hall Wednesday night to hear about plans for a nine-mile bicycle trail from Albany to Voorheesville.

Twenty members of the Student Conservation Association a ' an AmeriCorps program a ' have been helping the Five Rivers Environmental Center improve its five miles of trails, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said.

I'm getting married in October, and need to find a place for a rehearsal dinner.

Only the most unpatriotic -- or imbecilic -- Americans consider Punxsutawney Phil of greater importance than the American flag.

Elizabetta Sforza Brewer-Krebs, formerly of Rye Beach, died Friday, May 22, 2009, in New York City.

At one time, farmers were an unknown to city-dwellers and suburbanites -- part of charming country scenes or children's books -- and the supermarket was the only known source of food.

Posted on: 06/05/09 Written by: Jarrett Carroll, Spotlight Staff email: carrollj@spotlightnews.com The Saturday Delmar Farmers Market will open for the season on June 6 at 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and will feature local, organic and natural farm products, baked goods, local and fair trade crafts and music.

Vandals draw hate messages in Delmar Posted on: 06/03/09 Jarrett Carroll, Spotlight Staff email: carrollj@spotlightnews.com Bethlehem police are investigating a spree of offensive vandalism that occurred overnight Friday, May 22, into the early morning of Saturday, May 23.

The former owner of 333 Cafe in Delmar earlier this year opened Saute's to Go in Guilderland.

When retired carpenter Anthony Santiago of Delmar snagged the dead, ribbon-like sea creature while surf fishing for shark in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida five years ago, he knew it was a one-in-a-million catch.

View Larger Map How's this for "beyond the Beltway" experience: Skimming through the new White House 100-days progress report on the economic stimulus package , I noticed that the massive jobs and recovery project has directly impacted my hometown of Delmar, N.Y. "Construction began on May 1st on the $14.9 million Delaware Avenue reconstruction ...

The most solemn of all our holidays hits home ever more sharply this year, as it does any time the nation is at war.

ALBANY Some died at sea, others on land. They were hit by Japanese torpedoes, German mortar rounds and disease at home.

In Andrew Coates' first week as a doctoral intern in Cooperstown, he learned a harsh reality that disturbs him to this day: His ability to care for patients is inhibited by their ability to pay for health care.

Personal: 64, works at the Department of Environmental Conservation's headquarters in Albany and the Five Rivers Environmental Center in Delmar.

May 7, 2009 at 1:01 am by Beth Netter, M.D. We continue our series on The Body as Garden based on Jeremy Geffen's book The Journey Through Cancer: Healing and Transforming the Whole Person .

Groundbreaking was held this morning for Albany's stimulus project rehab of Delaware Avenue.