From Coaching to Common Council

BY KYLE PRATT Executive Editor

Primary day was an important day for elementary school teacher Owusu Anane. He and his team put months of effort into a campaign that, five years earlier, did not result in a win.

This time was different.

After all the counting from Sept. 3 was complete, Anane was the winner of the Democratic Primary for 10th Ward Common Council-member. He received 59.62 percent of the vote.

Incumbent Leah Golby received 37.89 percent, according to online Albany County Board of Election documents. He is running unnopposed for the general election in November.

The victory was the next step in a nearly-decade-long political career.

The 28-year-old was born in Brooklyn to Ghanaian immigrants, and received his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University at Albany.

Anane volunteered for then Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. He appreciates the 44th President’s style and said Obama is his political inspiration.

“I admire President Obama’s cerebral and cool approach to complicated situations and making important decisions,” he said, “It’s an approach I would like to emulate.”

Anane’s work on this cam

Rock Council

Talk” a song she wrote and the band performed at the festival.

Nick Santos, a transfer student and guitarist, originally approached freshman Sweeney