We are shaped by people, often by family we know intimately, but also sometimes by authors or leaders or artists or athletes who are distant but present in our lives. Mario Cuomo was like that for me.

Some basketball leagues of Section 2 will be restructured for next year following the fall out of the Big 10; Guilderland, Voorheesville, and Berne-Knox-Westerlo will have new opponents. 

These local students are among the 391 from the State University of New York at Potsdam recently named to the fall President’s List:

— Jacqueline Cunningham of Voorheesville, whose major is childhood/early childhood education;

We are shaped by people, often by family we know intimately, but also sometimes by authors or leaders or artists or athletes who are distant but present in our lives. Mario Cuomo was like that for me.

Murder can make us pay attention — to things we should have been paying attention to all along.

A public hearing is scheduled for Dec. 29 on cutting the number of representatives to the county legislature from 39 to 29; the reduction could lead to less diversity and less chance of coalitions that don't conform to strict party-line politics.