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GUILDERLAND — The last day before spring break, April 18, was the culmination of almost a year’s work for Guilderland High School’s International Club, when it held its cultural fair.

Students staffed booths from countries around the world, serving food, and relating interesting facts.

Police say that two young children watched parts of an attack where their mother was strangled until she lost consciousness.

This May, voters residing in the Voorheesville Central School District will decide on a $25.4 million school budget for next year.

Despite concerns about a small pool of candidates, Voorheesville had 19 people apply to be the school district’s next superintendent.

The $23 million proposed Berne-Knox-Westerlo budget for 2019-20, adopted by the school board on Monday, will trigger a half-of-1-percent tax-levy increase. While some argued there should be no tax increase at all, others said that the budget was “baseline” and “uncomfortably tight” and would have been better with a slightly higher increase.

Frank Dees and his older brother, Ricky, were both on their high school football team. One week, in 1964, the team played two games. In Tuesday’s game, Ricky made a tackle on a hard hit, and told Frank afterward that his head hurt. At Saturday’s game, Ricky got another blow to the head — and died. Ricky’s number, 54, was retired.

Guilderland’s Democratic committee is looking into whether to change from a caucus to a primary system, but has not yet made a decision.