Editorials

A democracy cannot flourish without a well-informed citizenry

The most important — indeed essential — service that a library or a newspaper provides is access to information. Without a well-informed citizenry, a democracy — a government of the people, by the people, for the people, as Abraham Lincoln phrased it — cannot flourish.

Letters to the Editor

The bridge over roiling waters is going down

Betty Head, Altamont

See if there is a fire in you

Sean Fitzmaurice, 1st Lieutenant, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department

Gather with your neighbors to green up and clean up Altamont

Ted Neumann, Altamont Community Tradition

Swing with the saints!

Theresa Strasser, Publicist, Friendship Singers

Cameras to ticket speeders in school zones are an an outrageous revenue scam

Ed Cowley III, Altamont

Let’s have some fun on April 26

Wally Jones, Albany

Why not model the NY’s College Savings Program for first-time homeowners’ saving accounts?

Christine Duffy, Guilderland

Wally Jones will regale us to raise funds for hurricane victims

Nancy Frueh, East Berne

Help keep our rural cemetery beautiful

JoAnne Brady, Vice President, Woodlawn Cemetery Board

Bring a basket and a smile to church egg hunt

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

Speechless and angry at rejection of IDA funds

Robyn Gray, Chairwoman, Guilderland, Coalition for Responsible Growth

Awe: One on one with whales

by Mike Nardacci

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.

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