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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 LIBRARY COMMITTEE MEETING: The Troy Public Library is holding the following meeting: 4pm, Building Committee. DUTCH SETTLERS SOCIETY MEETING: The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany will hold the following program for the general membership and the public: 7pm at the First Church in Albany, 110 North Pearl St. General Membership Meeting […]

Monday, April 22, 2024 BINGO FUNDRAISER: The Waterford Museum is raising funds for the restoration of the Button Hand Pumper. Come play BINGO at McGreivey’s, win prizes, and bump up the pumper funds! BINGO starts at 6 pm, we do our best to play 5 games and be done by 7:30. $10 buy in for […]

Sunday, April 21, 2024 HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING: The Greenbush Historical Society meeting is on Sunday, April 21 at 2pm at the East Greenbush Library. The gardening season is rapidly approaching. Imagine what planting a garden would have been like during the dark days of WWII. Jeffrey Urbin, an Educationalist Specialist at the Roosevelt Library and […]

Saturday, April 20, 2024 REPAIR CAFE: Rensselaer Repair Café is offering a community repair café on April 20 from 10am to 2pm at Robert C. Parker School, 4254 NY Route 43, North Greenbush. We welcome all broken items, but examples of things we can help you repair include: clothing, furniture, electrical appliances, toys, bicycles and […]

Friday, April 19, 2024 LIBRARY COMMITTEE MEETING: The Troy Public Library is holding the following meeting: 1pm, Outreach Committee. KNIT & CROCHET GROUP: Join the Troy Public Library for a bi-weekly stitching group from 10 to 11 am on every first and third Friday of the month. Whether you have experience knitting or crocheting or […]

Friday, April 12, 2024 CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE: The Capital District Civil War Round Table will hold its monthly meeting on April 12 at the Watervliet Senior Center, 1501 Broadway (across from city hall). Historian Robert Grandchamp will make the case that the tarnished military career of Gen. Ambrose Burnside needs to be reevaluated. Social […]

Thursday, April 11, 2024 POETRY WORKSHOP: A free program at the Waterford Public Library, 117 3rd St, Waterford, 518-237-0891. 5pm. Haiku, Senryu and Tanka are terse poetic forms adapted to English from the Japanese poetic tradition. Their seeming simplicity can unmask breathtaking insights, universal truths and unanswerable questions. This generative workshop will offer poets a […]

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 AIRPORT COMMITTEE MEETINGS: The Albany County Airport Authority will hold a CIC Committee meeting on Wednesday, April 10 at noon. The Albany County Airport Authority will hold a Governance Committee meeting on Wednesday, April 10 at 1:00 pm. The meetings will be held in the 3rd Floor Conference Room located in […]

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING: New Scotland Historical Association presents “Beyond the Pines: Colonial Schenectady” on April 2 at 7:30 pm, at the Voorheesville Public Library’s Community Room, 51 School Road, Voorheesville. Michael Diana, Historian and Director of Education at the Schenectady Historic Society, will take us back to when the settlement of […]

Monday, April 1, 2024 SPRING BREAK BEYOND BLOCKS: A free children’s program at the Waterford Public Library, 117 3rd St, Waterford, 518-237-0891. 2pm. Drop by the library to play with one of our many building toys. Snack provided. FAMILY GAME NIGHT: At the Troy Public Library, 100 Second St. 5:30-7:30pm. Head to the library each […]