Col. Gregory Fairbank, with the United States Army Reserve, a Guilderland native, graduated on July 24 from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
The Karner blue butterfly, which lost 99 percent of its population when it was protected as endangered 28 years ago, is making a dramatic comeback this summer in the Albany Pine Bush.
We are profoundly sad that Fazana Saleem-Ismail has died. But we feel sure she moved others just as she did us and, in that way, her work on earth will carry on.
