HILLTOWNS — Penny Shaw Bartley has always loved to sing and entertain people.

It started when she was a kid growing up on a farm in Michigan. She and her siblings worked in the fields, “hoeing out weeds and driving the tractor and feeding the animals,” says Shaw in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute was one of the first round of awardees of the $40 million New York State Biodefense Commercialization Fund. Researchers at SUNY Poly got a $500,000 grant to develop a more affordable and accurate 30-minute COVID-19 antibody test.

ALBANY COUNTY — After five weeks in a row of being labeled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with a high community level of COVID-19, Albany County this week was

NEW SCOTLAND — David Rodney Miller describes himself as an 85-year-old pacifist.

The Guilderland School Board at its next meeting, on Nov. 15, will discuss the possibility of having a second school resource officer.

“Whether there’s going to be a recession or downturn, who knows but we have to plan for the worst and hope for the best,” said Supervisor Peter Barber.

Speaking on Election Night, even as it looked as if the House would go Republican, Democratic Congressman Paul Tonko cited its work to address climate change, quell violence, protect rights challenged by the United States Supreme Court, and strengthen democracy.

“The policy will also give us a level playing field so the hospital knows that you can’t just hold us hostage,”said Jay Tyler, director of the Guilderland Emergency Medical Services. “We’re not your staff. We have to get EMS crews back into the town and back into the cities to answer 911 calls.”

GUILDERLAND — Sandra Dollard, a woman known for her warmth and sense of style, ran Evoke Style, a women’s fashion boutique, in Stuyvesant Plaza for more than a decade.

NEW SCOTLAND — A 12-year-old boy, a seventh-grader at Voorheesville Middle School, was charged at school with a misdemeanor for “a threat involving a weapon made against other students,” according to a release from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office.