Opinion

Theresa Strasser, Publicist, Friendship Singers

Ed Cowley III, Altamont

Wally Jones, Albany

Christine Duffy, Guilderland

Nancy Frueh, East Berne

JoAnne Brady, Vice President, Woodlawn Cemetery Board

Bonnie O’Shea, Church Elder, New Scotland  Presbyterian Church

Robyn Gray, Chairwoman, Guilderland, Coalition for Responsible Growth

My first whale watch did not go well.

At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for students — and a day on which it seemed half the population of the Northeast had poured into Bar Harbor.

Gardner Gurney, President, Guilderland Historical Society

Bill Aylward, Altamont

John B. Haluska, Second Vice President, Guilderland Garden Club

Janna Shillinglaw, New Scotland Kiwanis

Christine Duffy, Guilderland