Much has been made of three major newspapers in our country — the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today — announcing they would not endorse candidates.

The Altamont Enterprise has never endorsed candidates. Why not? We don’t see ourselves as an elite force that can guide our readers to make the right choice.

The demand for emergency response is growing, with a record 6,717 calls answered last year. “We’ve got an aging population,” Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber said at the ceremony, “and the key was how do we do it right,” he said of establishing a town-run service.

Early voting started on Oct. 26 and runs through Nov. 3. Polls are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and from noon to 8 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday. Local early polling places include the Guilderland Public Library, the East Berne firehouse, and the Lynnwood Reformed Church are early polling places.

In the six counties served by the food bank — Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady — 100,000 people are experiencing food insecurity; the Regional food Bank plans to give 55 pounds of food to 30,000 of them for Thanksgiving.

In another month or so, Lipps said, parents will receive notifications on when a school bus is coming to a bus stop and when the bus has left the stop.

Since the program’s inception in New York City, Hochul said, “Red light running at intersections with cameras has dropped 73 percent. I don’t know what more you need than that data point. The T-bone crashes at intersections with cameras dropped 65 percent.” She also said that last year, in New York City alone, “red light runners killed 29 of our friends, neighbors, and family members. All 29 incidents occurred at intersections without red light cameras.”

“Even the hardest days,” Wiles told The Enterprise this week, “have the priceless payoff of knowing you’re playing a part in changing the trajectory of lives. In a district this size, that’s close to 5,000 lives. I just feel it is honorable, rewarding, good work to do.”

Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood has launched Menopause Care Services.

Ted Danz, with the Republican and Conservative lines, is facing off against Patricia Fahy, with the Democratic and Working Families lines, to fill the seat that Neil Breslin will vacate at year’s end.

“If you make a venue that big, it’s going to get out of control,”said a Depot Road resident. “And that’s what happened this weekend.”