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.

Luanne Nicholson, Latham

Vince Virano, Albany

Kristin O’Neill, the assistant director of the Committee on Open Government, said the entire point of the provision is to allow the public to follow along with the public body as it discusses the document. 

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.

Lewis D. Warner, Retired Guilderland Library Employee (2001-2024)

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.

On May 14, project consultants from MJ Engineering provided the  committee with an overview of the preliminary draft plan.