Opinion

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

When I was a child in the 1960s, Altamont meant cows and farms, hayfields and apple trees, old houses and open spaces. We had moved from the village mid-decade, but we never really left it. We’d head back to the village at every opportunity — to visit friends, go to church, or often just to “take a ride.”

The Enterprise recently carried the front-page story of the Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School Boys’ Basketball team winning the Class C State Title. The “Bulldogs” had a perfect season, winning every game.