Superintendent Marie Wiles concluded of the 2023-24 budget, “On some levels, this was a fortunate year that we were able to maintain everything that we have been doing and lower the class sizes in the middle school, which was a huge priority, and begin to transition items that were funded by our federal dollars into he general fund. So I think we’re in a very good spot.”

ALBANY COUNTY — The Albany Pine Bush Preserve will host its annual Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to noon.

A new initiative puts Narcan cabinets in easily accessible places. Cabinets are already installed at the Berne Library, at the Washington Avenue branch of the Albany Public Library, at the University at Albany, and at the Capital City Rescue Mission. “If you want one of these in your building, we’ll make it happen,” said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy.

“He brought the topic to life in a very powerful way, really basing his talk out of the actual words of our students who have experienced some version of hate speech,” said Guilderland’s superintendent about Matthew Pinchinat, the district’s DEI coordinator. Pinchinat used that, she said, “to make sure every child, every student, every adult knows that they are valued and affirmed and cared about.”

The board’s March 28 meeting began with an orchestrated chorus of students and parents pointing out space and safety issues with practice rooms and storage spaces for musical instruments.

ALTAMONT — George Pratt wore a stetson hat and cowboy boots that made his lean frame seem even taller. In his old age, he worked as a cowboy on the Florida range after retiring from a 20-year career as Altamont’s police chief.

A special enrollment period has been set up by Health and Human Services to help people who lose Medicaid between March 31, 2023 and July 31, 2024, move to the Obamacare marketplace: https://www.healthcare.gov/.

On the very last day of the dig, a thunderstorm was coming in from Lake Victoria in Kenya.

“My graduate student … was up on top of the hill with a laser transit, which is a big metal contraption used for surveying,” recalled Thomas W. Plummer, who was overseeing the archaeological excavation.

Guilderland Superintendent Marie Wiles noted that currently Guilderland is allotted $5,400 for each pre-kindergarten student, “which doesn’t begin to cover the cost for the community-based partners that we have.” She went on, “They feel and rightfully so — and were pleased to continue to work with us — that they can actually do better just by being independent and getting self pay from parents who can afford it.”

After a pandemic-induced moratorium on evictions that lasted almost two years, ending early in 2022, proceedings have topped pre-pandemic levels in 40 out of 62 counties statewide, according to an analysis by Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Albany County saw filings for 8 percent of renter households in 2022, according to the Eviction Filings Dashboard. The county, with 55,849 renter-occupied units, had 4,362 filings last year.