Shhhh. Quiet. Can you hear their cries" Look, look closely. Can you see their wounds"

Every bit helps, says John Conklin.
"No donation is too small," he says as he talks about an Oct. 2 golf tournament he’s organizing to raise funds for April Porter who is fighting cancer.

GUILDERLAND — The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina is being answered with a ground swell of fund-raisers and contributions.

GUILDERLAND — Animals may not have changed much in the last half-century, but people’s relationships with them have.

GUILDERLAND — Visitors Saturday at the Guilderland Animal Hospital open house will be able to look back at the past, tour the present, and glimpse the future.

Notes from a material girl
Seeking a broader, deeper history
What is history" And where is it found" How is it kept"

GUILDERLAND — The school board here is looking at the way citizens participate in the budget-making process.

RPI takes in displaced students
Safe from the storm, O’Hara plans spring return to Tulane



GUILDERLAND — Patrick O’Hara says he feels grateful. Then he says it again. And again.

KNOX — Linda M. Heath showed the same qualities as a wife and mother that she did as town clerk and councilwoman.

Our Old Men of the Mountain correspondent is both wise and witty. We look forward to his column every week.