ALBANY COUNTY — Three local veteran service organizations were among the 10 to receive a total of $150,000 in grants announced by Albany County in a press conference on Friday morning.

BETHLEHEM — On May 23, an Albany man was arrested on felony gun and drug charges after a domestic incident in Selkirk two months earlier.

“I believe in making a difference in my community,” said Peter Petruski. “By leading the library, I can steer the ship. I want to hear what the community is interested in and then get everyone to pull in the same direction.”

Jill Harbeck has spent more than eight months trying to clear her record after she was involved in what is commonly called a fender-bender last Sept. 12.

To encourage affordable housing and also to protect the town’s water quality and quantify, the law says, there is a six-month moratorium on subdivisions of five or more lots, apartment complexes of 25 or more units, and residential care facilities of 50 or more units.

The lack of a video came to The Enterprise’s attention because of a letter to the editor this week from Luanne Nicholson, formerly the library’s public information officer, who spoke at the May 16 meeting, raising managerial concerns.

Last week, the library’s retired long-time head of maintenance, Lewis Warner, wrote a letter to the Enterprise outlining his concerns. This week, Luanne Nicholson, who had worked as the library’s public information officer for five years and recently moved onto another job, shared her concerns with the trustees at their May 16 meeting and reiterated them in a letter to the Enterprise editor.

As the last results were posted, the three winning school board candidates in a five-way race — top vote-getter Tara Molloy-Grocki, incumbent Blanca Gonzalez-Parker, and newcomer Nina Kaplan — hugged one another with smiles and some tears.

“Last year, there were over 126 overdose deaths in Albany County,” said Albany County Legislature Deputy Chairwoman Wanda Willingham. “It’s heartbreaking and it’s time to derive new ways to save lives.”

Guilderland’s current supervisor, Peter Barber, noted that McKown had served as the town’s supervisor for just over a decade until 1824 and then, 100 years later, the association was formed. “We’re now here,” said Barber, a century after that.