ALTAMONT — N. Joel Edwards, DVM was a humble man with a passion for helping animals and serving his faith and his community.

Cindy Edwards used these adjectives to describe her husband: loving, kind, sincere. “I could use every admiration in the book,” she added.

Dr. Edwards died on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. He was 80.

GUILDERLAND — Julian W. LeVine, an Army Airforce veteran and Syracuse University graduate, taught first- through sixth-grade gym class at Westmere Elementary School for 30 years until he retired in 1986 with a “Julian LeVine Day.”

Marie Wiles, Superintendent of Schools, Guilderland

Cindy Wadach, Guilderland 

Jill Loew, Guilderland

Jim Meade, Los Angeles

Shannon Duerr, Altamont

Barbara Doyle, Altamont

Kerry Dineen, Mayor, Board of Trustees, Altamont

DUANESBURGH QUARANTINED BECAUSE OF CORN BORER 

The town of Duanesburgh has been listed as a quarantined area because of the infection of European corn borer, according to a recent notice issued by the bureau of plant industry of the national department of agriculture.