Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 1993:
COUCH POTATO SHOPPING.(Life & Leisure)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: ANDREA LOUIE Knight-Ridder Picture this: It's a Sunday evening. There is a young man on television, holding a ceramic turkey platter. It's a very nice turkey platter, and he wants you to buy it. But he has been talking about the merits of this ...
SCHOOL BUSING POLICY AFFIRMED.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICHARD WEXLER Staff writer The state Education Department has upheld the right of the city school district to provide school buses for children attending the district's magnet schools and taking part in its open enrollment plan while requiring most other students to use ...
NEARLY 4,500 GIVE MORE THAN $168,000 TO TU'S CHRISTMAS FUND.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... 1992 Christmas Fund totals to date: 4,417 donors, $168,688.39. $500 David A. Weir Family Foundation - Mr. & Mrs. David A. Weir, Albany; Joseph A. Baker, Watervliet. $250 Anonymous, West Sand Lake. $225 Chris Russell, C/O Last Resort, Cohoes. $215 ...
WHAT'S THE ANSWER TO BLACK CRIME RATE?(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: William Raspberry W ASHINGTON - There was a brief cry of anguish and outrage last March with the revelation that some 42 percent of young black men in this city were under some form of criminal justice restriction. Now comes a new report that 56 percent of ...
IN THE COMPANY OF DUKES.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: BOB CROCE Staff writer The agents, some of whom Marie Dukes affectionately lists as weasels, figure she'll be overwhelmingly impressed with their charm and dazzling offers. They don't expect much opposition after Chuckie Dukes refers them to his sister, a ...
UPSHAW'S RETURN SPOILED.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer About an hour before game time Thursday night, Kelvin Upshaw was playing catch-up. He has been away a while. "What happened to the Patroons? How come they call them Pontiacs now?" asked Upshaw, wide-eyed. "Is the (Washington Avenue) ...
BLUE CROSS CAN HIKE RATES.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield on Thursday received the permission it sought to raise its rates an average of 25.5 percent - one of the largest increases in the health insurer's history. The state Insurance Department's approval on the final ...
1992 GETS BIG SENDOFF AT ALBANY FIRST NIGHT.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: DONNA LIQUORI Staff writer First Night buttons were hot property on New Year's Eve as a record number of revelers attended the festivities. Jim Van Apeldorn held up the last two buttons available at City Hall at about 8 p.m. After that, "there's no ...
SARAJEVO VENTS ANGER OVER U.N. ENVOYS' VISIT.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOHN F. BURNS New York Times U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was jeered in the streets Thursday when he flew in to press his appeal to the government not to open a military offensive to break the siege of Sarajevo. Bystanders pounded their fists ...
FAMINE MOVES BUSH.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JANE PERLEZ New York Times President Bush had his first glimpse of the Somali famine Thursday when he visited a feeding center and toured a small hospital with sick and malnourished patients near the capital After seeing some of the needy and being briefed by ...
NO RULES FOR LEAVING KIDS ALONE.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: CRAIG BRANDON Staff writer While leaving a 9-year-old home alone for nine days is, admittedly, an extreme case, there are no firm guidelines to help New York parents decide when it's safe to leave a child unsupervised. Deborah Adler, a spokeswoman for the ...
STATE OKS 12% RATE HIKE FOR CAPITAL AREA CHP.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer On the same day the state Insurance Department granted Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield a rate hike, the agency allowed the Capital Area Community Health Plan a 12.3 percent rate hike on 97,000 members in an 18-county region. The ...
NO MORE 'LAST CALL' AT MUMMERS PARADE.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press The golden slippers will keep on struttin' up Broad Street, but the sidewalk stagger will be gone - booze has been banned at the annual New Year's Mummers Parade. The extravaganza has become known almost as much for sideline partying as the ...
LING-LING'S EGGS PRESERVED FOR POSSIBLE TEST-TUBE EFFORT.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press National Zoo officials on Thursday attributed the death of female giant panda Ling- Ling to heart failure and said they had preserved about 100 of her eggs for possible test-tube fertilization. Ling-Ling was found dead in her enclosure ...
4TH SLAYING OF GAY REPORTED IN DENVER FATHER CLEARED IN KIDNAP CONSPIRACY JUDGE VETOES INMATE BID TO TAPE HANGING.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Police investigating the stabbing deaths of four homosexuals have noted some similarities in the slayings, but were not prepared to say the crimes are related, a department spokeswoman said Thursday. The most recent slaying was discovered Tuesday when the body of Anthony Carr, ...
AFRICAN LION MOVES FROM DRUG HOUSE TO ZOO.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Knight-Ridder She was born to be wild, but was found chained in a dank basement of a crack house in Detroit. She survived on whatever her keepers threw her way. Her owner threatened to shoot her dead unless he could find a buyer for 5-month-old Katie, a ...
IRAN-CONTRA LAWYERS VOW TO PURSUE BUSH NOTES.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Iran-contra prosecutors vowed Thursday to continue to pursue President Bush's notes on the scandal. They denied a Newsday report that chief prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had concluded he could go no further with his investigations or ...
AMERICAN STUDENTS STILL LAG FAR BEHIND JAPANESE IN MATH SKILLS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press American students in a new study did no better than in 1980, when experts found they lagged far behind their Taiwanese and Japanese peers in math education. The study to be published today in the journal Science, tested math comprehension of ...
HEALTH OFFICIALS IN COLORADO BATTLE HEPATITIS OUTBREAK.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Hoping to curb a hepatitis-A outbreak, health officials Thursday ordered workers in 7,000 food establishments to use gloves or utensils when handling food. The outbreak, traced to employees of a catering business who catered nearly 100 ...
AIDS PATIENTS SHOWING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO AZT.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: PAUL RECER Associated Press More AIDS patients are showing early resistance to AZT, the drug most commonly used in its treatment, and researchers say there is an urgent need to develop new drugs to combat the disease. Dr. Wendell T.W. Ching of the UCLA School ...
SCIENTISTS SAY GENES CAN FIGHT CANCER.(Main)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: PAUL RECER Associated Press Researchers report that by altering certain genes in rat brain tumor cells they have been able to turn on killer immune cells that seek out and attack deadly brain cancers. In a study to be published today in the journal ...
TEENAGER CHARGED IN RED CROSS THEFT.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer A 17-year-old who had just finished a court-assigned sentence working for the American Red Cross was charged Wednesday with burglarizing its office. Galen A. Zlotnick of 632 Second Ave. was charged with stealing about $10,000 worth of ...
MAN SETS SELF AFIRE AFTER MARITAL DISPUTE.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JANE GOTTLIEB Staff writer While his wife called police to complain about him, people on Broadway said Thursday they watched as David Allen walked up the block, paid 30 cents for gasoline and then torched himself. "I came downstairs and the guy was on fire ....
ALBANY'S GROUPER LAW FACES FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: CAROL DEMARE Staff writer An organization that sets up residences for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts is suing the city for $325,300, claiming efforts to shut down the homes because more than three unrelated people occupy them are discriminatory and violate ...
HERE'S 10 FOLKS EVEN DAMON RUNYAN COULDN'T HAVE INVENTED.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun Herb Starr, the former area television newsman and profound voice who persists in Albany with some sort of employment, once said that if the Capital District was a person standing on the corner of State and Pearl, no one would notice. I think what ...
WOMEN INMATES TELL THEIR STORIES.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: DEBORAH SONTAG New York Times Like Jean S. Harris, Arlene Caris, a 64-year-old grandmother, is a cooperative prisoner at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. And like Harris, she was a hard worker with no criminal record until she shot and killed the man whose abuse ...
POLICE URGE SHOPPERS TO BE CAREFUL AT MALLS.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: VINCENT JACKSON Staff writer In the wake of two assaults on the same day in parking lots of area malls, town police Lt. Steven Heider urged people to be extra careful when going to or from their cars at shopping centers. "When you pull in to park, look around ...
NEW LAWS SAVE SHARKS, EARDRUMS AND DEMOCRACY.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press New state laws going into effect in New York on New Year's Day are designed to protect democracy, eardrums, workers and even sharks. That's right: 1993 can be remembered as the year when New York officially expanded the dictum, "Save the ...
EX-JUDGE FACES DWI CHARGE ECONOMIC MOVES HELPED RETAIN JOBS ROCHESTER PLANS LEAD PROGRAM NUCLEAR PLANT TO GO BACK ON LINE.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... A former judge faces charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident. Frank W. Getman, 60, former city judge in Oneonta, will answer charges of DWI and second-degree reckless endangerment, both misdemeanors; and leaving the scene of a property damage ...
HASIDIC SCHOOL LOSES APPEAL.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press A special school district set up in a Hasidic community in Orange County violates the constitutional separation of church and state, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. The 4-1 ruling by the Appellate Division of state Supreme court affirms ...
VIGIL REMEMBERS BUFFALO'S MURDER VICTIMS.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Mourners placed carnations and said prayers at the sites where 77 people were murdered in Buffalo in 1992, the city's most violent year in more than two decades. As the vigils were going on, the city recorded its 78th murder of the year, the ...
MAN SEEKS $45M IN WIFE'S ACCIDENTAL CRUSHING DEATH.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press A man has filed a $45 million lawsuit over the death of his wife, who was one of four commuters killed when tons of sheet metal fell off a truck and crushed their cars. Richard Edsell, 39, of Buffalo is suing three companies and two drivers ...
MCENENY, CANESTRARI TAKE OATHS OF OFFICE.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICHARD WEXLER Staff writer Surrounded by admirers in the Assembly chamber of the state Capitol that his great- grandfather helped to build, John J. McEneny was sworn in as a state Assemblyman Thursday. "There's a lot of hopes and a lot of dreams in this ...
CLARKSVILLE WATER DISTRICT OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT LAST.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: ILAINA JONAS Staff writer Town officials brought residents long-awaited news Thursday when, after 10 years of delays, the Clarksville Water District was ready for customers. The Albany County Department of Health gave the town the go-ahead to start operating ...
2 COLONIE WOMEN ALLEGE EX-PRIEST TOOK $126,000.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE MAHONEY Staff writer A former Roman Catholic priest is at the vortex of an intensifying criminal investigation centering on allegations that he fleeced two women out of tens of thousands of dollars, the Times Union has learned. Bertrand T. Fay, already ...
MAN TO TELL POLICE OF ALTERCATION.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE MAHONEY Staff writer An Albany man who has accused a federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent of swiping his jacket and accosting his wife is scheduled to meet with city police detectives next week to discuss the incident. Robert Albert, 42, of 305 ...
MAN HURT WHEN ATV STRIKES CAR.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... A Nassau man was at Albany Medical Center Hospital with head and leg injuries Thursday evening after he struck a utility pole on County Route 7 while riding his all-terrain vehicle, according to police. Jason Fetterman, 19, of Washington Avenue was traveling south in the ...
PEDESTRIANS HURT AFTER CAR HITS THEM.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Two people were struck by a car Thursday evening when they entered the roadway between parked cars, police said. Santo Scilipote, and Josephine Scilipote, 81, both of 58 Highland Ave. were taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital after receiving minor injuries, police ...
MENANDS BANK ROBBED.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE MAHONEY Staff writer The Marine Midland Bank branch at 576 Broadway became the victim of a brazen New Year's Eve holdup when a man wearing a light blue baseball cap claimed he had a gun and made off with an undisclosed sum of cash. The bank's video ...
SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT FAULTS MAINTENANCE.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICHARD WEXLER Staff writer The City School District lacks a maintenance plan for its buildings and has not inventoried surplus equipment, Board of Education President Ward DeWitt wrote in a memo to Superintendent John Bach. Bach said Thursday that progress is being ...
WRITE YOUR LIFE STORY FOR POSTERITY.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... A small Hudson Valley publishing company is offering immortality to people who would never find their way into the regular history books. With an eye focused a full seven years into the future, Gift to the Future 2000 Inc. is offering to publish the life story (or at least 100 ...
VIDEO GREETINGS BOUND FOR SOMALIA.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer Two hundred and fifty videotapes carrying holiday greetings from the Capital Region to American troops left City Hall Thursday on their first leg of a trip to Somalia. The videotapes carry greetings from people ranging from Mayor ...
CDTA LOWERS RATES FOR STAR BUS RIDES.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JULIE CARR Staff writer Rates will drop and some guidelines will change today on the Capital District Transportation Authority's STAR bus system. About 1,500 people who are either mentally or physically disabled use the STAR bus system in the Capital District ....
FIRE AT OHAV SHALOM ACCIDENTAL, OFFICIAL SAYS.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: VINCENT JACKSON Staff writer A fire at the high- rise Ohav Shalom senior citizens apartment complex early Thursday is believed to have been accidental, said Robert Barber, fire department battalion chief. The call came in to the station at about 12:26 a.m., ...
DRIVER SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR DWI.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: CAROL DEMARE Staff writer A Massachusetts man who when arrested last year for drunken driving was wearing only a red plaid flannel shirt, women's pantyhose and cowboy boots, was sentenced Thursday to 1 to 3 years in state prison. James J. Foley III, 44, who at ...
AUDIT FAULTS OFFICIAL OVER MISSING $7,927.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer A state audit claims the village clerk-treasurer, who was indicted earlier this year for allegedly stealing property taxes and water and sewer fees, is responsible for nearly $8,000 in missing funds. According to the state comptroller, ...
GOP MAY PASS ON CHANCE TO CONTROL CLIFTON PARK ZONING BOARD.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: BILL EAGER Staff writer Democratic control of the town's Board of Zoning Appeals ended Thursday, but despite the Republicans' obvious chance to take over, it's not certain they will. The switch is possible because Democratic Chairman Neil Weiner's term is ...
DUCI SEES CHALLENGES IN '93.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer When Mayor Frank J. Duci was sworn in last New Year's Day, his inaugural address contained the word challenge 11 times. The mayor looked ahead to 1993 at a New Year's Eve City Hall news conference where his initial reference to the ...
SCHENECTADY RECEIVES DEED FOR TAVERN SEIZED IN BUST.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer The Landmark Tavern, seized by federal marshals in a massive 1991 drug raid, was deeded to the city Thursday by owner Alexander "Lee" Frescatore. The Albany Street bar had operated for decades under the name of Hogan's Tavern. ...
5 YEARS LATER, MERCHANT ESCALATES CASE AGAINST SPA.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: AISLING SWIFT Staff writer A businessman whose plan for a hair salon was denied by the Planning Board is taking his 5-year-old lawsuit to the state's highest court in an effort to collect damages from the city. However, the case, which has already been denied ...
DELIVERYMAN HELD ON LARCENY CHARGES MALTA HIGHWAY GARAGE TAKES TREES FOR CHIPPING.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... A deliveryman accused of altering receipts and pocketing more than $1,000 was arrested Thursday on felony grand larceny charges. Brian Stewart, 25, who was a truck driver for Palmetto Fruit Co. Inc., was picked up by city police officer Robert Dennis at 12:30 p.m. and charged ...
HVCC OFFICIALS TO MEET NEXT WEEK TO DISCUSS MANOR PURCHASE.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer Hudson Valley Community College officials will meet next week to discuss the latest proposal by Rensselaer County Executive John L. Buono to buy the county-owned Van Rensselaer Manor nursing home. Although trustees and administrators ...
BUONO WANTS TO KNOW PUBLIC'S THOUGHTS ON ITEM PRICING.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer Rensselaer County Executive John L. Buono is encouraging residents to speak out about the new item pricing law as he prepares to schedule a public hearing on the issue. Buono must decide whether the law, approved by an 11-7 vote ...
RENSSELAER'S CORPORATION COUNSEL STEPS DOWN.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARK McGUIRE Staff writer Corporation Counsel James Millea Jr., a prime architect of city policy for almost a decade, resigned Thursday, a month after a public run-in with the mayor and Common Council president. Millea, who said in mid-December he was ...
EASY-MONEY CHAIN LETTERS GO AROUND AND AROUND AND ...(Life & Leisure)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Chain letters, those mail-borne missives that promise megabucks for the simple act of mailing out a bunch of envelopes, are part of a peculiar American folklore that insists there is indeed such as thing as easy money. Don't believe ...
ONBANCORP COMPLETES DEAL TO BUY UNION NATIONAL.(Business)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: ALAN D. ABBEY Business writer Ten months after the initial announcement, Onbancorp Inc. of Syracuse said Thursday it had completed the deal that will bring it into the Capital Region as the owner of Union National Bank. The company said it had completed its ...
CUOMO VETOES BILL TO OUTLAW BEER WAREHOUSE PERMITS.(Business)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer The governor on New Year's Eve granted Stewart's Ice Cream a holiday wish: He vetoed a bill that would have outlawed beer warehousing permits. Stewart's, the 190-store convenience chain based in Saratoga Springs, is one of just four ...
1992 A VERY BAD YEAR FOR LEADING CEOS.(Business)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: PATRICIA LAMIELL Associated Press For the nation's corporate chief executives, 1992 may go down as the Year of the Ax. Shareholders are paying more attention to corporate performance, and they are more willing than ever to fire chief executives of companies ...
2 REPORTS POINT TO IMPROVING ECONOMY.(Business)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press Unemployment claims dropped in mid-December and factory orders for goods other than aircraft rose in November, the government said Thursday in two reports pointing to a new year more prosperous than the old. "There's no question ...
BANKRUPTCY COURT NOTES RECORD FILINGS FCC RETHINKS RULES ON NETWORK PROFITS EPA ALLOWS USE OF PESTICIDE ON GRAPES MARKET CLOSES '92 WITH MIXED REVIEWS.(Business)
Jan 01, 1993 ... On Thursday, William D. Zacek, president of Wm. D. Zacek Construction Inc. of Albany, became the 5,363rd person or business to file for bankruptcy, an all-time one-year high for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Albany. Last year, a record 5,152 people sought the protection of the ...
DO-IT-YOURSELFER SHOULD GO PROFESSIONAL FOR CIRCULAR SAWS.(Life & Leisure)
Jan 01, 1993 ... The circular saw has earned a heralded place among portable power tools because of its power, speed and precision. It can easily saw thick lumber or a sheet of plywood down to size, trim rafters at the proper angle, and with the appropriate blades, even cut paving stones or slice sheet ...
DERMATOLOGIST TELLS HOW TO PAMPER SKIN.(Life & Leisure)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: GEORGIA PABST Milwaukee Journal Winter and summer, year in and year out, your skin takes a beating. In winter, the problem is exposure to icy cold winds outside and dry heat and low humidity inside. In summer, it's hours in the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays ...
GIVE YOURSELF TIME TO BEGIN RESOLUTIONS.(Life & Leisure)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: MICHAEL BLUMFIELD Orlando Sentinel Don't look now, but it's time again for self-loathing, doubt and despair. Happy New Year! You know the routine by now. You make a boatload of resolutions to improve your life. You sail through the first week of ...
'QUINN' ALL QUAYLE COULD WANT.(Life & Leisure)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: Steve Bornfeld Frontier, feminist family values. Consider it a going-away gift for Dan Quayle - sort of. OK, Dan, so she's a pre-feminism feminist. And she's really a substitute mom, not a real one. And there's no father - just a brooding, long- ...
WITH A NEW PRESIDENT COMES A NEW ERA OF HOPE FOR THE ARTS.(Life & Leisure)
Jan 01, 1993 ... Byline: BYRON BELT Newhouse There appears to be at least a vague, tentative aura of hope for those who create, enjoy and support the arts in America. Each new year begins with something of that hope that Burns proclaimed "springs exulting on triumphant wing." ...