Within 24 hours after the announcement, several prominent Democrats said they were interested in running for town supervisor.

“These are envisioning studies,” Donald Csaposs, the town's grantwriter, said of the neighborhood studies. “It’s a look at what’s possible in the future.”

GUILDERLAND — Marie Jeanne Beliveau, matriarch of the Beliveau family, was raised as a single child in Canada before eventually settling on a Guilderland farm. “Her dream,” her family wrote in a tribute, “was to have children — lots of them. God was good to her and blessed her with ten!”

Nine-year-old William Cleveland ended the school-bus bullying that had been tormenting his sister because the bullies knew of his expertise in taekwondo; he used his confidence but no force.

To the Editor:

Altamont Community Tradition will sponsor its annual Green and Clean on Saturday, April 25. We invite residents to join us, starting at 9 a.m. in Orsini Park.

To the Editor:

At its April 7 meeting, the Altamont Board of Trustees approved the 2015-16 village budget, after a public hearing, and meeting in public workshops twice in March to discuss department budget proposals and village economic issues.  The approved budget essentially contains no increase in village resident taxes for the fifth year in a ro