Academic All-Stars: Kelly Isham
Kelly Isham Age: 17 School: Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans Parents: Janice and Todd Isham Hometown: St.
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Academic All-Stars: Kelly Isham
Say cheese: NY to permanently drop licenses for vendors at food markets
The state is moving forward with permanent regulations that would exempt cheese makers from having to get a food -processing license to slice cheese at farmers’ markets.
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Say cheese: NY to permanently drop licenses for vendors at food markets
Scientists Struggle To Wipe Out Bat Disease
A deadly disease is ravaging bat populations in the Eastern and Midwestern United States and several Canadian provinces and if scientists don’t find a way to stop it some species could face extinction, experts said.
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Scientists Struggle To Wipe Out Bat Disease
Pianist Frank Glazer, 96, performing at UAlbany
Frank Glazer is 96, but he still loves playing the 88. The noted concert pianist and longtime professor at the Eastman School of Music has been tickling the ivories since the 1930s, a decade he wrapped up by playing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra .
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Pianist Frank Glazer, 96, performing at UAlbany
Man dies in NY gym fight; officers used Tasers
Home for the holidays: Obama declares US war in Iraq is ending, troops to be out by year’s end COLONIE, N.Y . – Police say a burly 32-year-old man who went on a rampage in an upstate New York gym died after going into cardiac arrest when officers repeatedly shocked him with Tasers.
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Man dies in NY gym fight; officers used Tasers
Murder and kidnapping trial starts Monday in Albany County Court
Jury selection is beginning Monday in the murder and kidnapping trial of three men charged with killing a high-level marijuana dealer who went missing last year in Albany.
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Murder and kidnapping trial starts Monday in Albany County Court
Throwing water on a hot tax
The new Resorts World Casino New York City in South Ozone Park, Queens, officially opened to the public Oct.
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Throwing water on a hot tax
Photos: 40th Annual Festival of Nations
share: digg facebook twitter Photos: 40th Annual Festival of Nations Several cultures were represented Sunday at the 40th Annual Festival of Nations at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. Among them, students representing India performed “The Liquid Dance” to music from the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.” The dance was choreographed by Dhanisha Nandigama. Sarah Yang, representing …
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Photos: 40th Annual Festival of Nations
Albany Ghost Tour brings city’s history back to life
With gangsters, show girls and Revolutionary War soldiers, the historic Albany Ghost Tour isn’t your average haunted Halloween ride, despite plenty of zombies at every turn.
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Albany Ghost Tour brings city’s history back to life
A permanent occupation?
Soojee Eckhardt-Rigberg of Albany plays with her dog Obi near her tent on snow remaining from the previous night’s surprise snowstorm , at the Occupy Albany encampment in Academy Park on Sunday Oct.
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A permanent occupation?
