Natalie Joseph overcame a reading disability as a child and now, as a member of Albany’s Tulip Court, is passionate about promoting literacy.

GUILDERLAND — Four candidates are running for four seats on the Guilderland school board. The top three vote-getters will serve full three-year terms; the candidate who finishes fourth will fill out a two-year term.

Teachers fight the darkness that descended after the murder of two elementary-school students with a scholarship, memorials.

GUILDERLAND — Neil H. Malcolm, a truck driver who liked tinkering with cars and loved dogs, died on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. He was 86.

“He was a great friend and a great neighbor,” said Francis McCarthy who, with his wife and children, lived next door to Mr. Malcolm for a quarter of a century on Kent Place in Westmere.