Birds are on the move — largely migrating in the dark.

Lights can confuse them and even kill them.

The state announced this week that it is once again participating in the “Lights Out” initiative, joining national and international efforts to turn off nonessential outdoor lights on state buildings.

“The personnel we anticipate using for the investigation are billed at rates between $250 and $400 per hour,” says the Guidepost document. “These rates are substantially lower than our normal billing rates. We recommend setting a budget not to exceed $15,000 in professional fees.”

For a few moments today, we felt a sense of shared humanity, stunned by our universe.

We live in an era where we are constantly bombarded with information, a 24/7 news cycle — of wars, and floods, and droughts, and famines.

This is compounded and magnified with the misinformation that comes with social media.

Robert Porter says people he knows are taken aback to learn he didn’t graduate from high school.

He’s 58 and will be receiving his diploma at Guilderland High School on May 14.

“No one can predict the exact time or place of any earthquake, including aftershocks,” says the United States Geological Survey.

“I want to expand what I do as a planner and really dig into what I teach people how to do,” said Sean Maguire.

Superintendent Marie Wiles said the district needs the traditional buses “no matter what.” Splitting the bus purchases into two propositions, she said, would help ensure getting those traditional buses even if the electric buses aren’t popular.

The district had used some of its federal funds, meant to help with pandemic expenses, to hire an extra nurse since there were added needs with vaccinations. Those federal funds run out next fall.

In the midst of the early spring snow and ice storm on Sunday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a G4 electromagnetic storm is currently occurring over much of the northern United States, including the State of New York.” NOAA explained on its website that a coronal mass ejection caused by a flare on the Sun on March 23 “arrived at Earth as expected on 24 Mar. Effects are likely to linger but decrease coming into 26 Mar.”

GUILDERLAND — Two Buffalonians — a man and a woman — were arrested after, police say, they held up a local man who had arranged to meet the woman, whom he’d found on a dating website, at the Hampton Inn.