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06/17/2025

ATTENTION FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF THE RAVENA COEYMANS SELKIRK HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2025🗣🎓 Our June 25 edition will feature special pages honoring the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk CSD High School 2025 Senior Class. These pages will include the photos and names of all the students in the senior class. This is a chance for family and friends to purchase an ad to show support and congratulate this year’s seniors for persevering in their studies and achieving their goals. DEADLINE 6/18.

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Spotlight News is a division of Community Media Group, LLC. Our local offices are located at 341 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY 12054. You can contact us at 518.439.4949.

06/10/2025

ATTENTION FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF THE COLONIE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2025🗣🎓 Our June 18 edition will feature special pages honoring the Colonie Central High School 2025 Senior Class. These pages will include the photos and names of all the students in the senior class. This is a chance for family and friends to purchase an ad to show support and congratulate this year’s seniors for persevering in their studies and achieving their goals. DEADLINE 6/11.

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Spotlight News is a division of Community Media Group, LLC. Our local offices are located at 341 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY 12054. You can contact us at 518.439.4949.

06/03/2025

ATTENTION FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF THE SHAKER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2025 🗣🎓 Our June 11 edition will feature special pages honoring the Shaker High School 2025 Senior Class. These pages will include the photos and names of all the students in the senior class. This is a chance for family and friends to purchase an ad to show support and congratulate this year’s seniors for persevering in their studies and achieving their goals. DEADLINE 6/4.
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Spotlight News is a division of Community Media Group, LLC. Our local offices are located at 341 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY 12054. You can contact us at 518.439.4949.

05/27/2025

ATTENTION🗣🎓 Our June 4 edition will feature special pages honoring the Bethlehem Central High School 2025 Senior Class. These pages will include the photos and names of all the students in the senior class. This is a chance for family and friends to purchase an ad to show support and congratulate this year’s seniors for persevering in their studies and achieving their goals. DEADLINE 5/28.
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Spotlight News is a division of Community Media Group, LLC. Our local offices are located at 341 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY 12054. You can contact us at 518.439.4949.

04/21/2025

There are now many more answers to questions that we have been seeking over the last five months. Our water still meets safety standards and PFAS levels are very low, but we now know how important it is to protect our sources for the future.

Biosolids delivered to the farm may have violated state regulations. The post PFAS in biosolids used on New Scotland farm match chemicals detected in Beth

03/13/2025

On our water. More info and more questions.

Approximately two-thirds of a mile from Bethlehem's Vly Creek Reservoir

03/05/2025

This is an update from yesterday's story. We were in the courtroom, just like we were at the crash scene in May.
This killing has to stop here in our town and everywhere.

It is also time to change the road. How many more people have to die on that stretch of Route 85.

Meredith Savitt did a great job of painting a picture of what happened in that courtroom yesterday. It is a tragedy that did not have to ruin so many lives.

John McIntyre

second-degree manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.

03/03/2025

Update this morning: The Clapper Road Water Treatment Plant has resumed operations after receiving clearance from the Albany County Department of Health and the New York State Department of Health, town officials announced Friday evening.

The facility was temporarily shut down earlier in the day as a precaution after town employees found 12 dead geese near the plant’s intake area. The total increased to 30 birds when state Department of Environmental Conservation investigators removed the birds late Friday.

02/28/2025

SELKIRK—The discovery of 12 dead geese near Bethlehem’s Clapper Road Water Treatment Plant has prompted town officials to shut down the facility out of concern for potential avian influenza, or bird flu.

Paul Penman, commissioner of public works, said staff found the migratory birds at approximately 2 p.m. Friday in the holding reservoir at the facility.

Town officials released a statement later that afternoon, informing residents that the plant had been taken offline.

Click on the link below to read more.

Flow stopped within an hour of discovering possibly infected birds

01/07/2025

Spotlight News spent time inside the New Salem Water plant and speaking with staff and officials from the Town of Bethlehem on January 2.

We have seen your comments and heard calls of concern from the community on the ongoing problems with the taste and smell of Bethlehem’s water. While the water has been deemed safe by all levels of government, we wanted to go beyond the official word and do our own research.

Our findings can be found in a story by Meredith Savitt we are posting tonight and will be in the print editions of The Spotlight on Wednesday.
We did not want to wait to publish the information due to a planned question and answer session before the Bethlehem Town Board meeting on Wednesday, January 8.

We moved the story outside our subscriber portal because we believe that this information is a public service and needs to get out to all members of the community regardless of subscriber status.

That being said, keep in mind that our community journalists are funded by our subscribers and advertisers. Please consider supporting your local and independent news source so we can continue to do this in the future.

Thank You
John McIntyre, Publisher, Spotlight News

https://spotlightnews.com/towns/bethlehem/2025/01/06/the-water-still-stinks-town-of-bethlehem-residents-continue-to-complain-about-water-smell-and-taste/

12/20/2024

We are so proud to be part of this program and have a great group of young journalists.

Students in Elaine Salisbury's journalism class spent the Fall 2024 semester reporting for the Spotlight News in Delmar as part of a new program that aims to...

10/28/2024

BPD and FBI announce arrest today

International Probe Uncovers Sophisticated Tech Tactics in Bethlehem School Threats The post BREAKING: Bethlehem phone threat case leads to arrest of teen in Canada first appeared on Spotlight News.