Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from February 2000:
COURT HEARS SCHOOL SALE CASE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2000 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer Supervisor Jim Flanigan, Town Board members and Clerk Katie Connolly are to appear in court this morning before Judge Bernard J. Malone Jr. to answer a motion to ``show cause'' that Kevan Seiden served at a public hearing Thursday ...
SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFERS LESSONS IN 2 DANCES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2000 ... SCHODACK -- The Schodack Central School District Continuing Education Department offers these courses: Swing Dance -- Jump and jive into swing dancing. Learn basic dance steps that will have you doing the Lindy and jitterbug, to music from the 1920s right up to the present. This ...
SMALL RURAL CHURCH BLENDS OLD AND NEW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2000 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer - Sun pours through a large stained-glass image of Christ and the Lamb in the front wall of the Poestenkill Christian Church, wrapping the friendly sanctuary and its long, curved pews in a comforting golden glow. The image ...
TODAY TUESDAY, FEB. 1.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2000 ... Averill Park Central School District Eighth-Grade Orientation for Parents. 6:50 p.m. Averill Park High School, 146 Gettle Road. New graduation requirements will be outlined. Snow date: Feb. 7. Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross Prayer, Praise and Bible Study. 7-8:30 p.m. Eighth Street, ...
JUSTICE'S HUSBAND SEEKS TO SUE TOWN.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Feb 01, 2000 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer NORTH GREENBUSH -- The husband of Town Justice Nia Cholakis has filed a notice of claim to sue Town Clerk Katie Connolly and the town for comments Connolly allegedly made in public after an Election Day scuffle at the polls. ...
TOWN TAKES LOOK AT FUTURE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer A 15-month look at the town's individual neighborhoods will help master planners develop a strategy that will ably take North Greenbush well into the new century. Master plan committee chairman Dave Holmes said North ...
SALES TAX CUT WORRIES OFFICIALS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer An association of Rensselaer County town supervisors is encouraging county officials to go ahead with elimination of the local 4 percent sales tax on clothing, but urged county leaders to move cautiously and include safeguards in case the ...
ANTI-VIOLENCE SEMINAR BEGINS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... TROY -- Seton Health is holding a free program titled ``From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Columbine: Preventing Violence Among Our Children'' at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, at St. Mary's Hospital, Troy. Ruth Kelleher, a pediatric nurse at Seton Health's Cohoes Family Health Center, will offer ...
TODAY WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Brittonkill PTSA. 7 p.m. High school library. Agenda: FLY 92 volleyball game.Defreestville Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary. 7 p.m. 480 North Greenbush Road. New members are welcome. East Side Quilters. 7 p.m. VFW Post 7337, Castleton. Information: Joan Armstrong at 286-3454. ...
POLICE BLOTTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... TROY Thursday, Jan. 27 6:56 a.m. ACCIDENT. On Congress Street, a garbage truck reportedly struck a vehicle. 8:57 a.m. ACCIDENT. On Sixth Avenue, someone reportedly struck a parked vehicle. 9:15 a.m. ACCIDENT. On Burden Avenue, a driver reportedly skidded ...
CHIEF PROPOSES COP/EMT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer In a move he hopes would save valuable seconds in a crisis, the town police chief is proposing adding a new officer who would be a trained emergency medical technician. Of the three ambulance squads serving the 11,000 people of ...
BE PREPARED FOR A HEARTY PANCAKE BREAKFAST.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... EAST SCHODACK -- Boy Scout Troop 522 will hold a Valentine pancake breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, Route 7. All-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and tea are available. Cost is $4 for adults, $2 for ages 3-11, with children ...
PHONE SPREADS SCHOOL NEWS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer Thanks to a new telephone emergency alert system, parents in the city school district don't need televisions or radios to learn if school will be dismissed early during winter storms. When nearly 10 inches of snow blanketed the region ...
PLANNING BOARD SET TO HEAR PRESENTATION ON CONDO PLAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer Planning Board members will hear a presentation Monday on an application to rezone 68 acres of farmland on Lape Road for an adult condominium community. The discussion is set for 8:30 p.m. and a recommendation to the Town ...
COLUMBIA PINS HOPES ON TEAM EFFORT.(SPORTS)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer - There is nary a mention of them in the newspaper. Maybe a few lines of agate type with the score. That's about it. You don't hear anything about them on the local television sportscasts. To most, they might not even ...
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES DATES FOR REGISTRATION.(SPORTS)
Feb 02, 2000 ... SCHAGHTICOKE -- The Hoosic Valley Athletic Association has set its 2000 registration dates. The registration dates this year are Feb. 5 through 12. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and run through noon at the Hoosic Valley Elementary School cafeteria. All 2000 house soccer, ...
JOB WAS `TEMPORARY,' BUT IT LASTED 12 YEARS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer Twelve and a half years after accepting the job of president of the Schodack Business Association on a temporary basis, Joan Gross will be stepping down March 31. Gross joined the association in 1982 and immediately became treasurer ....
TODAY WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Galway Lioness Club of District 20Y-2. 7 p.m. C&R Restaurant, Route 29, Galway. Adirondack chapter of Korean War Veterans Association. 7:30 p.m. Cooper Street VFW Glens Falls. 584-2638. Charlton Historical Society meeting. 7:30 p.m. The School House on Maple Avenue, Charlton. Featuring ...
2 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS POSTS STILL UNFILLED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO Staff writer With an impasse last week among committees to recommend candidates for two principals positions, this district's 18-month streak of not having an acting elementary school chief goes on. Last week Superintendent Carl Klossner replaced ...
INNKEEPERS ADMIT NEW MEMBER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: KATHLEEN DOOLEY Staff writer The Batcheller Mansion Inn of Saratoga Springs was honored by admittance into the Independent Innkeepers' Association, an alliance of country inns and bed and breakfasts. Potential inns are selected for inclusion and voted on by ...
WITH LOTS OF SNOW, SKI LESSONS ARE A GO.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: KATHLEEN DOOLEY Staff writer First it was lack of snow and interest within the community. Then, the weather was too cold. Now, with plenty of snow on the grounds, the town of Clifton Park is finally offering beginner cross-country ski lessons. ...
SCHOOLS FORUM RESCHEDULED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... BALLSTON -- A Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake School District forum about construction projects and meeting state education standards is rescheduled to Wednesday, Feb. 9. The meeting, postponed because of a snowstorm, will take place at the Lake Hill Road high school at 7:30 p.m. ...
ANDRE COOK STILL HAS RECIPE FOR WINNING.(SPORTS)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: ALAN HART Staff writer - If Hudson Falls boys basketball coach Andre Cook gets his rampaging Tigers to the Glens Falls Civic Center for late-round Class B games of the Section II tournament later this month, he can be forgiven if he takes a moment to walk out on the ...
STATE AGENCY CHECKS OUT SOON-TO-BE-VACATED SCHOOL SITE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Representatives from the state Office of General Services made a site visit to the soon-to-be-vacated city elementary school last Wednesday to judge its potential as a future office base. The 83-year-old elementary school on Main Street will be left vacant in September 2001 if ...
A WARM HEART IS A VALENTINE FOR THE NEEDY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... The effects of the cold snap that hit the region like a slap in the face last month sent Eileen Keville sobbing all the way home from her job at Albany Medical Center Hospital. ``There was an older woman ... she had no socks, gloves, nothing,'' said the 34-year-old Keville, a ...
SAFE PLACE PROGRAM GETS JUMP-START.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... It's a decal with a town seal that says ``Community Watch Safe Place'' and it's supposed to indicate a participating business or other public place in town where youngsters especially can seek momentary shelter if they feel threatened. The participating establishments are then ...
WATCH THE DOMINOES FALL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... SARAOTGA SPRINGS -- The ninth annual Domino Rally will take place at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday at The Children's Museum. Museum visitors will create a giant domino design and then watch its spectacular fall as it goes through bridges, up and down stairs, and rings bells. ...
POLICE BLOTTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... SARATOGA SPRINGS Thursday, Jan. 27 5:08 p.m. TRESPASS. A complainant claimed someone destroyed property inside their home on Beekman Street. Friday, Jan. 28 8:06 a.m. ACCIDENT. An accident was reported at Regent and Union streets and Park ...
GOVERNMENT ACTION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... SHENENDEHOWA SCHOOLS Monday, Jan. 31 Action items: Chief Information Officer Dean Mayes reviewed the SHENet program from 1995 to 2004, indicating the system averages 4,000 calls. The Shen Web Site is being developed by the Times Union and should be ready by ...
MUSEUM SET FOR FEBRUARY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 02, 2000 ... SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The museum of the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs at Canfield Casino in Congress Park will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays in February. The week of Feb. 21, the Historical Society will be open two additional days, ...
SPEEDSKATING CLUB MEMBERS GLIDE TO MEDALS.(SPORTS)
Feb 02, 2000 ... SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Three members of the Saratoga Winter Club won gold medallions this past weekend at the North American Long Track Speedskating Championships in Lake Placid. Paul Marchese, his wife Liz Marchese and David Okoniewski all won gold for the Saratoga club in their ...
CONTROL FOCUS OF JET PROBE.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: JEFF WILSON Associated Press PORT HUENEME, Calif. -- The pilots of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 struggled with a sudden control problem for at least six minutes before the jetliner plummeted into the ocean with 88 people aboard, federal investigators said Tuesday. ...
AIDS VIRUS DATED TO 1930.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN New York Times SAN FRANCISCO -- Using a new statistical method and one of the world's most powerful computers, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory said Tuesday that they had traced the origin of the AIDS epidemic to around 1930, nearly 30 ...
FATE OF 4 COPS IN THEIR HANDS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer After only two days of jury selection, a panel that includes four African-American women was seated Tuesday and is scheduled to hear opening arguments today in the case of four New York City police officers accused of murdering Amadou Diallo. ...
MCCAIN STUNS BUSH; GORE HOLDS OFF BRADLEY.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Capitol bureau MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The power of insurgency propelled GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain to a big win Tuesday among Republican voters in the New Hampshire primary and gave Vice President Al Gore a brief scare in a tight Democratic race ...
`BEAUTY,' `SOPRANOS' TOPS WITH SAG.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... ``American Beauty,'' a satirical look at a midlife crisis gone over the edge, received a leading four nominations Tuesday for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film got nominations for best actor for Kevin Spacey, actress for Annette Bening, supporting actor for Chris Cooper ...
CRYSTAL, CURTIS WIN HASTY PUDDING HONORS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Billy Crystal will soon find out just how mahvelous he looks in drag, when he and Jamie Lee Curtis are honored at Harvard University. They have been chosen to receive the annual Hasty Pudding awards, given out by the nation's oldest undergraduate dramatic organization. ...
SMASHING PUMPKINS REWARD FANS WITH A VISIT.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... The Smashing Pumpkins are taking time out between gigs to hang with fans. They greeted more than 200 people camped out a record store in Lawrence, Kan., Monday before giving a concert. Some of the diehard fans spent the night before shivering in the cold, ...
FUND CAMPAIGN TO HELP INDIGENT HALL OF FAMERS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation said Tuesday it is starting up a fund to help Rock Hall inductees or nominees who need financial help. Suzan Evans, executive director of the New York-based foundation, said the goal is to make $100,000 available this year for grants to help ...
POPE TO BEATIFY A SWEDISH NUN WHO DIED IN 1957.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Elisabeth Hesselblad, a Swedish nun who tended to sick people in their homes around the turn of the 20th century, is to be beatified in Rome in the spring, church officials said Tuesday. The ceremony -- a step toward sainthood in the Catholic Church -- is to take place April 9 ...
MILITARY TOLD TO STOP HARASSMENT OF GAYS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: ERIC ROSENBERG Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon issued tough new rules Tuesday aimed at preventing harassment of homosexuals in the military while, at the same time, releasing figures showing a decline in the number of service members ousted ...
ANGLICAN MOVE SURPRISES LEADERS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: New York Times In a highly unusual challenge to the Episcopal Church's leadership, the top officials of two Anglican church provinces overseas -- in Africa and Asia -- have consecrated two conservative American priests as bishops to minister to Episcopalians who feel ...
ARMS REPORT IMPERILS NEW BELFAST CABINET.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Northern Ireland's Protestant-Catholic government was plunged into crisis Tuesday after a report by an independent commission confirmed that the Irish Republican Army has failed to begin turning over its ...
CHECHEN REBELS MAKE RUN FOR FREEDOM FROM GROZNY.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: LYOMA TURPALOV Associated Press ALKHAN-YURT, Russia -- Several hundred Chechen fighters have abandoned positions in their embattled capital of Grozny and escaped despite a Russian blockade. Two senior rebel commanders along with scores of their fighters stumbled into a ...
FAR-RIGHT PARTY GETS SPOT IN AUSTRIA'S GOVERNMENT.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press VIENNA, Austria -- Outspoken populist Joerg Haider on Tuesday negotiated a deal to allow his far-right party to share power in Austria's government -- despite warnings from the United States and the European Union that such a move could lead to ...
FIGHTING FEVER, WOMAN MISCARRIES SEPTUPLETS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEPTUNE, N.J. -- A woman in her fifth month of pregnancy miscarried her septuplets after contracting an infection, her doctor said Tuesday. Dr. Charles Hux said it had become clear that a bacterial infection was endangering the life of ...
AFTER STRING OF BURIALS, SHE BACKS ABANDONMENT BILL.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press SAN DIEGO -- Debi Faris hopes to go out of business someday. Over the past 3 years, her nonprofit agency Garden of Angels has buried 38 babies found dead in Southern California, abandoned by their parents shortly after birth. ...
OF VERMIN, PIGS AND POLITICS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Capitol bureau MANCHESTER, N.H. -- He walks around swathed in a leopard-skin cape and wears a knee-high rubber galosh as a hat. He promises to ``tax the bejeezus out of everything'' but refuses to comment on things like torturing curfew violators. ...
VOTERS SPEAK.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Why New Hampshire Republicans and Democrats voted as they did: REPUBLICANS Issues: ``Moral values'' was the most popular issue among Republicans, cited by one in four as most important. Taxes was second at 17 percent, followed by world affairs and the combination of Social ...
KEYES TAKES THE MOSH PIT; GETS THE ADS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Alan Keyes got the promised TV endorsement -- but only a mocking one -- as a reward for meeting a filmmaker's challenge. And it still didn't help him in Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican primary, where he got 6 percent of the vote. ...
NEW HAMPSHIRE CONTRARIANS GIVE INSURGENTS HOPE.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: DAVID M. SHRIBMAN Boston Globe MANCHESTER, N.H. -- This is the morning after -- the morning after a classic New Hampshire primary, the morning after insurrectionary voters gave new life to insurgent candidates -- and suddenly the political world looks new again. ...
4 MILITANTS LINKED WITH BIN LADEN ARRESTED.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Mauritania has arrested four Islamic militants suspected of having links to millionaire fugitive Osama bin Laden, security officials in this West African nation said Tuesday. The arrests were part of an inquiry into ...
HOUSE APPROVES TAIWAN MILITARY AID.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: TOM RAUM Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Ignoring a veto threat and sharp criticism from China, the House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to increase American military ties with Taiwan. ``If we truly love freedom, we must protect democratic Taiwan,'' said ...
INDONESIAN SHOWDOWN TAKES SHAPE.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Setting the stage for a showdown between Indonesia's reformist president and its generals, the powerful security minister on Tuesday ignored calls to resign over allegations he was responsible for crimes against humanity in East ...
END CAME QUICKLY AFTER DISTRESS CALL.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: LYNN ELBER Associated Press Alaska Airlines Flight 261, high over the Southern California coast, was in the final hour of its journey from Mexico to San Francisco. The last hour of daylight ebbed as the sun slipped toward the Pacific Ocean. Then, at 4:10 p.m ....
STABILIZER MALFUNCTION TARGET OF CRASH PROBE.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: MATTHEW FORDAHL Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Early theories on the Alaska Airlines crash focus on the horizontal stabilizer, a tail-mounted wing that helps point the jet's nose up or down. But experts said other, still-unexplained factors probably played a major role, ...
SHARPTON SAYS BRUTALITY, NOT RACE, AT TRIAL CORE.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: THEOLA S. LABBE Staff writer Albany The Rev. Al Sharpton told about 75 local Democrats Tuesday night that the case that brought him to Albany is about police brutality and not racism. ``We are against police no matter what their color if they're brutal, ...
CIA DIRECTOR SAYS AGENCY DID NOT SLOW INVESTIGATION OF EX-CHIEF.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: JAMES RISEN New York Times WASHINGTON -- The director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, said Tuesday that he had taken ``decisive action'' last year after receiving the results of an investigation by the CIA's inspector general into evidence that a former agency ...
KNOCK IT OFF.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, wants the state, with its $1 billion budget surplus, to pay the $340 million that it will cost to extend health insurance to hundreds of thousands of poor people. Governor Pataki wants the counties and New York City to pick up ...
DEATH PENALTY REALITY.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Pay attention, Governor Pataki. You, too, state legislators. This is what can happen when a state has a death penalty law, and enforces it. In Illinois, so many people have been wrongly sentenced to death that Gov. George Ryan has been compelled to order a ...
COVERAGE OF FIRST LADY'S SPEECH DISAPPOINTING.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: LUCINDA S. OLMSTEAD Troy Having attended the recent Council of School Superintendents luncheon at the Desmond, and having had the privilege to listen to the First Lady speak on issues facing New York's schools, I was disappointed with the coverage, or rather lack of ...
POLITICIANS OUT TO TRASH VALUE OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: ANTONIO MILILLO Latham Each day the saga of little Elian Gonzalez becomes more absurd and more tragic. Our politicians are no longer content with verbally supporting those bent on interfering with the father-son relationship between Elian and Juan Gonzalez ....
DISPUTE OVER CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG IS NOT TRIVIAL.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: FRED HUTCHISON Schenectady While I often find Thomas Sowell's views somewhat puzzling, his column of Jan. 22 (``Let's end grievance scavenging'') was nothing short of mystifying. Mr. Sowell states that, as a black man, he is ``not thrilled at the sight of the ...
HATS OFF TO ALBANY FOR PLOWING ITS STREETS.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: ANN CALKA NAYLOR Albany OK, so maybe I'll make a late resolution to write a positive letter to the editor for every negative one I write. Speaking personally, I never saw so many plows on the road as I did during this last n'oreaster, especially ...
STATE TACKLING COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION.(MAIN)
Feb 02, 2000 ... Byline: JAMES C. ROSS President Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities Albany - Your Jan. 25 editorial ``A good college try'' deserves commendation for its insightful approval of the intent of President Clinton's proposal for a college tuition tax break that would ...