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Details expected this week, but questions remain unanswered SARATOGA SPRINGS – A racing franchise agreement appears imminent, with details to be announced as soon as Monday and certainly no later than Wednesday, when New York Racing Association’s temporary extension to run Saratoga Race Course, Belmont Park and Aqueduct racetrack expires. Still to be addressed, however, […]

Philip Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton's father, was also a slaveholder, leading Albany to remove a statue of him.

For centuries, a great primeval forest stretched uninterrupted from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. But, after little more than three generations of European development, the landscape was completely transformed.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 20:34 KNOX — The Albany County Planning Board issued a disapproval of the proposed 4.4-megawatt Thompson’s Lake Road solar facility, in part because of a new regulation that requires the board to consider the Helderberg viewshed when reviewing projects. The project’s developer, RIC, disagrees about the visibility of the facility, and Albany County Legislator William Reinhardt, who helped develop the new regulation, told The Enterprise this week that the situat...