“I love to see the kids when their eyes get big as saucers, when they see animals they haven’t seen before,” said Altamont Fair spokeswoman Pat Canaday. “It’s a look of wonderment.” She went on, “We keep getting further away from touching our own food … It’s easy to be divorced from realities.”

BETHLEHEM — A 19-year-old Albany man, Da-Ivion N. Hale, was charged on Monday with felonies for having a loaded gun after he fled from police trying to make a traffic stop, according to a release from Bethlehem Police.

The release said event unfolded this way:

NEW SCOTLAND — Skylin Baestlein knows the value of home. She is building one with her fiancé and their year-old son while at the same time she works to help people without homes.

Caring about others and developing a sense of community is a through line in her life.

NEW SCOTLAND — A Voorheesville resident, Suzanne Picard, says she was nearly scammed by an ad that was printed in The Enterprise last week.

The Enterprise runs free classified ads for lost or found pets or for pets that are free for adoption.

In the first year of 9-8-8, New York has received well over 185,000 calls routed directly to the state’s 9-8-8 Contact Centers. This is nearly a 30-percent increase in annual call volume.

In 2020, a paper published in Ethics and Information Technology, “We need to talk about deception in social robotics!,” begins with a quote from T. S. Eliot: “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” The authors find a risk of users neglecting human relationships in favor of their relationship with the robot.

Arthur Y. Webb has literally written the book on civil service.

This summer, he published “Honorable Profession: My Years in Public Service” because he feels the United States is at a juncture when public servants are not valued.

John Wemple said he got to see most of the town over the last 20 years. “And it’s a beautiful town. And we’ve got a real good board, which will keep it beautiful.”

Thomas F. McGrath, 71, of Slingerlands, was arrested by Bethlehem Police on Tuesday on charges stemming from a two-car crash on May 11 that killed 17-year-old Michael J. Kleinke of Colonie.

ALBANY COUNTY — A temporary bridge for the Helderberg-Hudson Rail Trail over Route 85 in Slingerlands is expected to be in place by the end of September, according to George Penn, Albany County’s director of operations.

The bridge had buckled on July 12, just weeks after being put in place.