These local students were named to the dean’s list or received a similar honor from their college or university for the fall 2014 semester:

— Alexander Benninger, of Altamont, received academic honors from Arizona State University;

“I knew he drank too much and was going way too fast," said a passenger in a car that flipped on New Year's Eve, according to the police report. " I kept telling him to slow down but he just kept going faster."

GUILDERLAND — A Guilderland native is showing his first independent film project, The CulDeSack Kids, inspired by growing up in suburban New York in the 1990s, to audiences at the Guilderland Public Library.

ALTAMONT — One change Altamont’s mayor, James Gaughan, was happy to see this year arose in response to what he calls the “maleficent looming specter” of the possible closure of Altamont Elementary School.

Facing a much smaller budget gap for 2015-16, most Guilderland School Board members want to beef up the fund balance they have dipped into recently to keep taxes under the state-set cap.

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

As a follow-up to my letter in the Dec. 18 edition of The Enterprise, here is a brief summary of the results of the Schenectady Christmas Bird Count held Saturday, Dec. 20:

Thirty-one birders in nine field parties found 69 species in the 15-mile diameter count circle.