Meet school board candidates Damarise Alexander-Mann, Ellen Roach, and Tabetha Wilson Monday, April 9 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at 32 Colonial Avenue, Albany. Your presence is welcome.
Please note that the school board election has been moved to May, to match when Albanians vote on the school budget, finally bringing the city in sync with the rest of the state.
There are three seats open: two full four-year terms and one partial one-year term, resulting from Kenny Bruce’s resignation in 2017. Tabetha Wilson, whom the board appointed last year to fill that vacancy, is running. Ellen Roach is running for re-election. President
Sue Adler is not running for re-election.
The Albany school budget vote, Board of Education elections, and Albany Public Library budget vote will take place May 15. The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at these locations, which may be different from those for the general election.
Because I have no idea how to even look this up, and I did try, how do you pronounce “Albanian”?
The pronunciation of Albany in NY is ALL-ban-nee, so the resident is all-BANE-ee-in. A resident of Albania is al-BANE-ee-in, BTW, but spelled the same.
Naturally, I pronounced it in my head like the country. As an aside, there’s an area of Auckland called Albany, but it’s pronounced AL-ban-nee, though I have heard the odd person say ALL-ban-nee. Maybe that’s another example of “Creeping Americanism” that some people complain about.
The City of Albany was founded (or perhaps discovered) by a fellow named Alvin “Al” Baney, thus the name. It’s just down the road from a place called Ski Neck Tadey, and is just south and across the river from another place called Tee Roy.