“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.”

Ahead of a presentation on the Inflation Reduction Act in the town of Knox on Aug. 8, League of Conservation Voters Communications Director Devin Callahan spoke with The Enterprise about the group’s efforts to spread awareness of the green-energy incentives currently offered to people, businesses, and municipalities. 

New York state provides services for survivors of crime and their families.

Funded by the state Office of Victim Services, a new campaign highlights the support available at no cost from victim assistance programs, and access to financial help for expenses resulting from a crime.

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.

Eight meetings, including one for the Capital Region, will be held by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to provide progress updates on the statewide Community Air Monitoring Initiative launched in 2022.

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.

The cyclists start their journey, tracing an Underground Railroad route, on July 23 in Cambridge, Maryland, where Harriet Tubman was born, and are expected at Livingston Avenue in Albany on July 27 at about 1 p.m.

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.

We must strive for equity. With support from Albany County, state legislators can move forward in creating a district that will both ensure fair pay for ambulance workers while also ensuring rural towns don’t go broke. It is, indeed, a matter of life and death.