To the Editor:

Since I heard about the Rodino family, I have been fundraising for them. It is what I can do to help.

The American Red Cross encourages all eligible blood donors to make an appointment to donate blood soon to help prevent a shortage.

During the summer months, on average, about two fewer donors give blood at each Red Cross blood drive than what is needed to meet the needs of patients.

We have some advice on how our representatives should proceed when it comes to hydraulic fracturing and cyberbullying.

For the second time in a week, Michele Salerno was arrested for assaulting a Guilderland Police officer. Police say he bit the first time and then, the second time, slammed his door on the hand of a sergeant delivering a bench warrant.

Three defending champions last spring; not one repeated.

A look back at the exciting soccer season in 2013 with comments from players that were there.

Phyllis Rosenblum grew up with nine siblings on a small farm and learned the value of self-sufficiency; she wants to pass that on to prisoners in the county jail and has started a garden for them to tend. We endorse the project.

In a Court of Appeals decision announced Monday, the towns of Dryden and Middlefield prevailed in cases testing their zoning prohibitions against activities surrounding high-volume hydraulic fracturing.

Of the more than 5,800 undergraduates enrolled at the State University of New York at Oneonta, 143 qualified for the spring 2014 Provost's List by earning a perfect grade-point average while carrying a course load of at least 12 semester hours. Among them were these local students:

These local students are among 904 who graduated recently from the State University of New York College at Oneonta:

— Andrew Brown of Altamont;

— Elizabeth Marshall of Altamont;

— Nathaniel Sentz of Altamont;