ALTAMONT — Old-fashioned police work, combined with newer technologies and media —including social media — led police to the second suspect in an attempted Jan. 8 burglary at the Altamont laundry theft.

A middle-aged, middle-class mason says painkillers from work-related injuries led him to heroin and that his first-ever arrest has caused him to turn his life around.

The Dutch had a rough loss in the Class AA quarterfinals.

ALBANY — Gerald Miller was a bricklayer with a keen eye and a deep heart.

Mr. Miller died at Cornerstone Hospice in The Villages, Florida, surrounded by his family on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. He was 75.

To the Editor:

I take a Spanish level 4 class as a sophomore at Guilderland High School. In our Spanish class, we were asked to make an environmental change.

Guilderland gets another chance at a Class AA championship after surviving another wild semifinal.

These local students were among the 814 names to the College of Saint Rose dean's list for the fall 2014 semester:

— Samantha Bland of Schenectady;

— Audrey Goodemote of Westerlo;

— Sean Gunner of Delmar;

— Taylor Macmillan of Slingerlands;