— Maggie Gordon

ALTAMONT — Some lessons stay with you for a lifetime. Helen Vartigan is 63 now. She remembers her tour of duty as a 25-year-old nurse in Vietnam as vividly as if it were yesterday.

— Matt Cook

— Nicole Fay Barr

ALTAMONT — The village’s search for water, Michael and Nancy Trumpler’s agreement to provide it, and developer Jeff Thomas’s desire to tap into the supply has resulted in a lawsuit triangle.

ALTAMONT — When members of the Trumpler family turn on the taps in the Brandle Road farmhouse where they live, the water comes out brown.

— Nicole Fay Barr
GUILDERLAND — As Robert Hunt works busily in his yard, he often forgets about his surroundings. Then he turns, catches a glimpse of his house, and feels like he’s been "socked in the gut," he said.

— Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — Thomas P. Farrelly, a beloved high school math teacher and long-time girls’ softball coach, is being memorialized with a scholarship in his name.

— Matt Cook

— Maggie Gordon

— Maggie Gordon

ALTAMONT — The library’s three-month search for a new director has, just like a good novel, a happy ending.