Conor Webb News Today

Earlier last week, Maya Fonkeu ’25 and I — this year’s president and vice president of the Yale College Council — were contacted by organizers […]

GUILDERLAND — Conor Webb is a student with a mission, a big one: to make not just his school but his nation a safer place. A Guilderland High School junior, Webb is a founder of the first local chapter of March For Our Lives. “It wasn’t just me,” he says of strides made by the local chapter.

Rather than the bitterness and the name-calling and finger-pointing we see on the national level, Democrat Dustin Reidy learned from the Republicans who had rejected his first proposal.

ALBANY COUNTY — At the county’s inaugural gun buyback program on Saturday, so many guns were handed over — 117 — that the Westmere firehouse venue shut down ahead of schedule. The sheriff’s office handed out over $10,000:  $50 for an inoperable firearm, $100 for a rifle or long gun, and $200 for a pistol or handgun.

TWO officers from Stroud saved the big day for one couple last week when snow struck.

“Even before the pandemic, an alarming number of young people struggled with feelings of helplessness, depression, and thoughts of suicide — and rates have increased over the past decade,” says the United States Surgeon General in an advisory on “the urgent need to address the nation’s youth mental health crisis.”

“At least 5.4 million children live in a home with at least one unlocked and loaded weapon and at least 80 percent of school shooters under the age of 18 aquire their weapons from the home, including the recent Oxford, Michigan shooter, who killed four,” said Conor Webb, president of the Guilderland chapter of March For Our Lives.

THOUSANDS of delighted fans were welcomed back to the Amex last night for a Tuesday night clash with the newly-crowned champions. For the first time this year, about 8,000 supporters watched from the stands as the Albion played Premier League champions Manchester City. Many fans took advantage of the relaxation of coronavirus rules ahead of the game, enjoying pints inside city pubs before the 7pm kick-off.  Brett Mendoza, landlord of the Caxton Arms in North Gardens, filled his pub to ...