“I feel unwelcome here. I feel alienated, I feel attacked, and I feel scared ….,” said Savanna Jiang in a speech that at times sounded like a poem. She concluded, “We must demand change …. It begins right here.”

_{Mark Yingling, Clifton Park}

Judi Dineen, Altamont Parade Committee

Christine Duffy, Guilderland

Christine Napierski, Kevin McDonald, Democratic Candidates For Guilderland Town Board

Albany County Sheriff's Inspector J.T. Campbell said there had been approximately 20 different incidents where someone had dumped nails on a Guilderland or New Scotland road.

In a six-way race for four seats on the library’s board of trustees, the two incumbents — Philip Metzger and Herbert Hennings — were ousted while newcomers Vanessa Threatte, Antonio Rivera, Norina Melita, and Michael Hawrylchak were elected.

Last year, with mail-in ballots, well over 7,000 people voted in the Guilderland school elections. On Tuesday, numbers returned to under 2,600.

The $104,979,570 budget carries a 1.89-percent increase in spending over the current year’s budget and will result in a 1.28-percent tax levy increase, which is at the district’s levy limit.