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Foodplay, sponsored by Hannaford Supermarkets, is being staged at 35 schools throughout the Northeast to promote healthy eating.

A Helderberg hamlet was bursting at the seems this past weekend as natives and visitors alike enjoyed the festival.

A well-loved fantasy lives again as Peter Pan flies at the Voorheesville stage this weekend.

Good deeds: Girls Scouts helped usher in spring this past weekend, planting flowers at Thacher State Park.

On Saturday, which was International Migratory Bird Day, Audubon New York designated the Albany Pine Bush Preserve as an Important Bird Area

Loyalty Day, to recognize the heritage of American freedom, was observed Saturday for the 24th year at the Boyd Hilton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Altamont.

Lillian Lorraine Yonally loved the freedom of flying and, now in her 90s, has fond and vivid recollections of the pilots — all women — she trained and flew with during World War II.

For the first time in eight years, there is a race for trustee as the public library, in the wake of a resounding defeat to expand, plans to map its future.

GUILDERLAND — “I think we’re in an important transition in the library,” said Robert Feller. “We just had a bond vote go down,” he said of the 2012 defeat for expansion. “We have to think about what that means in our long-term plan.”

GUILDERLAND — Barbara Fraterrigo, the board’s longest serving member, believes, “It’s nice to have an old hand on the board, someone who knows the history.”

GUILDERLAND — Karen Carpenter Palumbo, making her first run for the library board, has a wide and varied career in public service and management, which she believes will serve her well as a trustee.

GUILDERLAND — Currently the library board’s treasurer, Carroll Lynn Valachovic believes her financial expertise is an asset to the other trustees.

GUILDERLAND — “Libraries have always been very, very important to me,” said Carolyn Williams, who is making her first run for the board.

Two incumbents, Chasity McGivern and Vasilios Lefkaditis, and a newcomer, Russell Chauvot, are running for the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school Board. The results could significantly change the way close votes fall.

GUILDERLAND — Tuesday, May 20, is the statewide election day for public library and school budget votes.

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