NEW SCOTLAND The fingertips of visitors at the New Scotland Historical Association Museum were able to trace their family lines back to veterans of the Civil War this past Sunday.
GUILDERLAND Christine Hayes is making her first run for school board because, she said, “I want to give back to the community and be a voice for the students.”
BERNE The Reverend Wendy Cook will be installed at a ceremony this Sunday afternoon, as she answers the call to serve as pastor at the Helderberg Evangelical Lutheran Church.
“I love it here. I just love it here. I’ve been totally embraced by the people here,” Cook said.
BOSTON Saturday night, a thousand people filled the seats at the ornate Jordan Hall, which the Boston Globe reported on its opening in 1903 was “a place of entertainment that European musicians who were present that evening say excels in beauty anything of the kind they ever saw.”
GUILDERLAND Emilio Genzano, who has been on the Guilderland School Board for three years, says he wants to use what he’s learned to help the schools weather the economic storm.
GUILDERLAND Jennifer Charron, who has two children in Guilderland schools, would like to use her business acumen to reduce the budget without cutting teachers, she said.
VOORHEESVILLE A Voorheesville Elementary School teacher arrested in December for biting one of his fifth-grade students is having his case dismissed after the alleged victims’ parents told officials they wanted the charges dropped, reported his attorney, James Knox.
GUILDERLAND Catherine Barber served three terms on the school board in each election garnering the most votes before retiring last year when she was the board’s vice president.
After a year as an outsider looking in, she’s decided it’s time to run for a fourth three-year term.
GUILDERLAND Amber Tomaso, a teenager managing to care for her baby while going to school and living in a group home, will be recognized on May 16 by the Rotary of Albany Youth Recognition Program.
NEW SCOTLAND The town board is considering appointing a new highway superintendent after Darrell Duncan accepted a job as head of Public Works in early March.
Darrell Duncan served the New Scotland Town Highway Department for the last 18 years.
VOORHESVILLE A Voorheesville handyman accused of stealing items from his clients’ homes did so while illegally collecting welfare funds by not reporting his jobs, reported the Albany County sheriff.
GUILDERLAND The board of the Guilderland Public Library has adopted at $3.4 million budget proposition that stays under the state-set levy cap, meaning it would pass on May 15 with a simple majority of votes.
The public library has never seen a budget defeat.