Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from September 2000:
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Who:B.B. King Blues Festival with B.B. King, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Native American blues band ...
TRACK FACTS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 2000 ... To accommodate races of different lengths, the track at Saratoga Race Course has a variety of places where the starting gate is set up. The finish line, in front of the Clubhouse, ...
USA EDUCATION TO CUT JOBS.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Dow Jones News Service RESTON, Va. -- USA Education Inc.'s Sallie Mae unit will cut 1,700 jobs, or 25 percent of its work force, as it integrates USA Group into its operations. Costs associated with the move are expected to lower third-quarter earnings by $50 ...
PIER 1 REPORTS HIKE IN SALES.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Bloomberg News FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pier 1 Imports Inc. said same-store sales rose a higher than expected 6.1 percent in August as the company sold more candles, decorative pillows and harvest-colored fall merchandise at full price. The retailer of imported ...
OIL PROVIDER ACQUIRED.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press POUGHKEEPSIE -- Central Hudson Energy Services, through a subsidiary, has acquired Griffith Consumers Co., a heating oil vendor with 43,000 customers in the greater Washington, D.C., area. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. The move is ...
VOLKSWAGEN WORKERS WIN RAISES.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press MEXICO CITY -- Workers at Volkswagen of Mexico won a pay raise substantially higher than the rate of inflation, averting threats of a strike, the union said Thursday. The 21 percent overall settlement is likely to encourage other Mexican ...
FAST-GROWING TRANS WORLD MAKES `FORTUNE' LIST.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Staff report GUILDERLAND -- Trans World Entertainment Corp. has finished 65th on Fortune magazine's annual listing of the 100 fastest-growing companies in America. To make the Fortune list, a company's profits and revenue must grow at a 30 percent annualized ...
4 KEYBANK SITES TO OPEN FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Staff report ALBANY -- Four KeyBank N.A. locations will stay open for the Labor Day weekend. Open will be the offices in Hannaford supermarkets at 579 Troy-Schenectady Road, in the Latham Farms shopping center in Latham; 5239 Western Turnpike, in Guilderland; ...
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 2000.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 2000 ... FOOTHILLS BALLSTON SPA Nickname: Scotties Coach: Dave Leveroni (1st year) Last year: 4-5 Starters returning: Jared LaChance, TB; George Cornelius, TE/FS; Rob Mancini, MLB; Kevin Cross, OL. Outlook: Levoroni was the mastermind behind a state-ranked Class D program at Section ...
TWO MORE YOUNG CROWS TEST POSITIVE FOR VIRUS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Dina Cappiello ALBANY -- Two juvenile crows found in Albany County tested positive for the West Nile virus Thursday, bringing the county's infected bird total to seven. One of the birds was discovered at Fuller Road and Warren Street in Guilderland, an area ...
JOY-RIDING VANDALS DAMAGE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- Vandals played bumper cars with a set of expensive front-end loaders at a downtown construction site, causing an estimated $18,700 in damage, police said. The damaged equipment is owned by Bohl Construction of Selkirk, which is working on the North Pearl ...
ALBANY MAN ROBBED, CUT BY MAN WITH A BOX CUTTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- A city man was cut on his hand and robbed by a man wielding a box cutter late Wednesday, police said. Arthur Knowles, 43, of Lancaster Street, had $60 and some credit cards stolen from him by a man who came up behind him and held a box cutter to his throat at about ...
THREE INDICTED ON FELONY DRUG SALE CHARGES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Theola S. Labbe SCHENECTADY -- Three city residents arrested in a Hildebrand Avenue apartment raid Aug. 9 were indicted Wednesday on felony drug charges. Nathan K. Champaign, 18, of 3337 Woodlawn Ave., and Roxan Nixon, 25, of 1346 Main St., were charged with ...
GERALDO RIVERA CONSIDERS NYC MAYORAL CAMPAIGN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Geraldo Rivera wants to run for mayor of New York City, and he does not mind if that makes people laugh. ``I expect the first reaction to be, `Geraldo as mayor, ha ha,' '' Rivera told The New York Times. But the ...
NYC POLICE STEP UP DWI CRACKDOWN FOR HOLIDAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Since police started seizing the cars of inebriated motorists in February 1999, about 2,500 vehicles have been confiscated, and traffic fatalities related to drunken driving have plunged 18 percent, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said ...
2 STATE LEGISLATORS CALL FOR RESIGNATION OF PSC CHIEF.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY -- Two Democratic state legislators called for the state's chief utility regulator to resign Thursday, saying her agency's stewardship of utility industry deregulation in New York has been a failure. Rising energy prices show that the ...
FIREFIGHTERS' DEATHS PROMPT STARS' CHARITY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Comedian Denis Leary returned to his hometown of Worcester, Mass., on Thursday to promote a benefit that will honor six firefighters who died in a December 1999 warehouse fire. A cousin of Leary's, Jeremiah Lucey, was one of the men killed in the blaze. ``I think ...
NEWEST SALINGER TELL-ALL BOOK IS BY HIS DAUGHTER.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... J.D. Salinger, the fiercely private author of ``The Catcher in the Rye,'' is in the public eye again -- this time, by a daughter who says he frequently fasted, spoke in tongues and rarely had sex with her mother. Margaret Salinger's ``Dream Catcher: A Memoir'' -- due out ...
`SURVIVOR' WINNER FLOODED BY PROPOSALS OF ALL KIND.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Richard Hatch survived 39 days on a tropical island to win a million dollars, but he needs a talent agency, a management firm and a publicist to help him handle his latest challenge -- life in the United States. Hatch is awash in proposals. Among the more bizarre offers, he has ...
DIANA REMEMBERED IN PUBLIC, PRIVATE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... On the third anniversary of Princess Diana's death, her sons remembered her in private, far from the gates of London's Kensington Palace, where a devoted core of admirers gathered Thursday with flowers, candles and an impromptu religious service. There were prayers at London's ...
CLUB LUNCHEON SCHEDULED,FEATURES SPEAKER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... SARATOGA SPRINGS -- A Touch of the East Luncheon will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 12 from noon-2 p.m. at Longfellows Restaurant, Route 9P. The luncheon is sponsored by the Saratoga Christian Women's Club. A special feature will be the ...
SAFE-DRIVING COURSE SCHEDULED SEPT. 9.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... HOOSICK FALLS -- The National Safety and Health Council will sponsor a six-hour defensive driving course on Saturday, Sept. 9 at the Hoosick Falls Health Center, Danforth Street. The class will start promptly at 8:30 a.m. Successful completion of this course ...
COMMUNITY GARDENS FESTIVAL HAS BOOTH SPACE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... TROY -- Booth spaces are being offered by the Capital District Community Gardens for the annual Harvest and Craft Festival to be held Sept. 24. The festival is scheduled to take place on the block of Eighth Street, between Hoosick and Jacob streets. Approximately ...
LIBRARY TRUSTEES SEEKING RE-ELECTION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... EAST GREENBUSH -- The East Greenbush Community Library will hold its annual district election 5-10 p.m. Thursday at Town Hall, 225 Columbia Turnpike. There will not be a 2001 budget proposition on this year's ballot because in September 1998 East Greenbush voters approved an $893,791 ...
DISTRICT TO RESUME CONTINUING EDUCATION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... EAST GREENBUSH -- The East Greenbush Central School District will again be offering community members an opportunity to attend many of the regular day classes held at Columbia High School. Among the courses offered are drawing, photography, studio art, keyboarding, personal ...
RPI.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... If MIT is the West Point of tech schools, Troy's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is its Naval Academy. Known worldwide for its physics and engineering programs, RPI produces some of the best-trained recruits in the technology field. To ensure even the most mundane classwork is hands-on, ...
PARTING GLASS HAD A SHOT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: KATE GURNETT They came from north and south Thursday -- Albanians to catch The Albany and Saratogians to see if Joan Desadora's filly The Parting Glass would finally win her first race in the fifth. She didn't. ``I bet her backwards and forwards,'' said Joan, who named ...
HISTORY BIT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 2000 ... In Saratoga in 1948: Elizabeth Arden Graham was the latest of the Spa denizens with household names: Pullman, Seagram, Fleischmann, Sinclair, duPont, Loft, Mars, ...
SENATE RACE HITS RECORD WITH $60M.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Political writer Albany New York's race to replace Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan appears to have broken the record for the most expensive U.S. Senate contest in history, according to records released Thursday. All told, donors have poured more than ...
EVACUATION ORDER STILL IN EFFECT.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON and MIKE HUREWITZ Staff writers Fort Edward For the 800 evacuees of the village, waiting into their second night away from their homes, the laws of physics became the question Thursday. - And late Thursday night, one answer came -- another night away ...
GAMING WEALTH ELUDES TRIBES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: DAVID PACE Associated Press SAN CARLOS, Ariz. -- The plaque outside the Apache Gold Casino declares the $40 million hotel, golf and gambling resort has ``helped enable the San Carlos Apache tribe to give a better quality of life to its tribal members.'' But ...
SUN LIKELY TO SHINE ON YOUR FAREWELL-TO-SUMMER PLANS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer Registers will ring. Traffic will creep along highways. Grills will be fired up. And the kids will have their last dip in the pool before heading back to school. Labor Day weekend is here -- the chance for a final dose of summer, ...
CLINTON VETOES GOP `DEATH TAX' BILL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: ROBERT A. ROSENBLATT and RICHARD SIMON Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- Mocking the Republican bill to repeal the estate tax as a doomed ``snowball in August,'' President Clinton vetoed the measure Thursday, setting the stage for a bitter election-year battle over how to ...
PRINCETON GAINS TOP SPOT IN RANKING OF UNIVERSITIES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press Princeton University tops this year's U.S. News & World Reports annual annual ranking of the nation's universities, followed quickly by its Ivy League brethren Harvard and Yale, which were tied for No. 2. Princeton tied for No. 1 with Harvard ...
CHINA'S FORMER PREMIER FACES RIGHTS-ABUSE SUIT.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Li Peng, the premier of China at the time of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, was served Thursday with a civil lawsuit alleging massive human rights abuses occurred after he declared martial law. The lawsuit, ...
GOP AD TARGETS GORE ON CREDIBILITY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: CATHLEEN DECKER and JEFF LEEDS Los Angeles Times The Republican National Committee launched a long-awaited assault on Democrat Al Gore's honesty on Thursday. An RNC ad -- due to begin running today in several states -- accuses Gore of perpetually ...
SCIENTIFIC GROUPS OPPOSE SCIENTIST'S INCARCERATION.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In an apparently unprecedented move, the nation's three most prestigious scientific academies Thursday publicly protested the government's incarceration of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. The criticism was aired ...
26 MORE DEATHS PROBED IN TIRE INQUIRY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities said Thursday that 26 more U.S. traffic deaths -- for a total of 88 -- are under investigation in connection with recalled Firestone tires. Meanwhile, authorities in Venezuela recommended ...
AGENCY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Citing a presidential order against discrimination, the Interior Department is reviewing whether it should end some of its ties to the Boy Scouts of America because of the group's ban of gays. Interior asked the ...
CONCORDE COCKPIT TRANSCRIPT INDICATES TOWER GAVE ALERT.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS -- The first word that something had gone terribly wrong with the Concorde came from the control tower when the plane was in the air, according to a preliminary report made public Thursday by investigators probing the fiery crash. ...
STUDY OFFERS NEW HOPE FOR ASTHMA SUFFERERS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: EMMA ROSS Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy -- A study suggests that an experimental drug could halve the number of asthma attacks suffered by people whose condition isn't well controlled with current treatment -- about 15 percent of all asthma patients, a researcher said ...
WACO COUNSEL TO CHARGE OFFICIAL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The whistle-blower who sparked a probe of whether the federal government was responsible for the deaths of 74 Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, has been notified he faces criminal charges after acknowledging he withheld notes from special ...
STUDENT HELD IN STOCK HOAX.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: GARY GENTILE Associated Press = [100.0] LOS ANGELES -- A former employee of an Internet press-release distributor was arrested by the FBI and accused Thursday of making $241,814 by putting out a phony release last week that sent a high-tech company's stock plummeting. ...
ANTI-MISSILE UNIT READY TO GO TO ISRAEL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: THOMAS E. RICKS and JOHN LANCASTER Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Concerned about a possible threat from Iraq during the U.S. presidential campaign, the Pentagon Thursday alerted an Army Patriot anti-missile battery for possible deployment to Israel, defense officials ...
DELAY SEEN ON MISSILE DEFENSE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: ERIC ROSENBERG Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- With the Clinton administration divided over whether to deploy a controversial missile-killing system by 2005, a top Pentagon official says the complicated system of rockets, satellites and sensors faces so many ...
RELIGION AND POLITICS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... As the Democratic candidate for vice president, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman regularly receives political counsel from a wide range of sources. But the advice he needs to heed right now comes from outside the political arena, from Abraham Foxman, the national director of the ...
MR. TRUMP'S TRUMP CARD.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... The latest example of how ludicrously weak New York's lobbying laws are is named Donald Trump. The Donald long has been opposed to the expansion of legalized gambling in this state. It's not that he shares the concern of this page and other gambling critics that ...
ARTICLE ON DWI CONTAINED MISLEADING INFORMATION.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: DORIS AIKEN RID Founder Schenectady Your interesting article (Aug. 7) on DWI justice has several misleading quotes which are unjust to the many justices and district attorneys in the Capital Region. While Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy III claims to have ...
MULTIPLE MEASURES NEEDED TO COMBAT DWI.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: MAUREEN FISHER RICCARDELLA State Chairperson Mothers Against Drunk Driving Albany The New York Chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving strongly agrees with your editorial (August 21) that laws protecting us against drinking drivers must be strengthened and enforced to ...
DRUNKEN DRIVERS DON'T DESERVE COURT DEALS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: OWEN H. JOHNSON Vice President Pro Tempore New York State Senate Albany I read with great interest your Aug. 7 article entitled ``DWI Justice stirs debate about policy of breaks.'' I too feel that plea bargaining for repeat DWI offenders needs to be limited. ...
NUMBERS UNRELIABLE ON DEATH PENALTY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: IAIN MURRAY - The death penalty arouses strong emotions. Those who have lost a loved one to a vicious killer may feel righteous in their desire to see the punishment fit the crime. Those who worry about the effects of incompetent defense lawyers, appeals procedures ...
NIXON BIOGRAPHY A COLD, HARSH VIEW.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: MARIANNE MEANS WASHINGTON -- No one can ever be certain whether President Richard Nixon beat his wife Patricia, as a new biography charges. Most of those in a position to know are dead, after all. But there is plenty of evidence on the record to demonstrate ...
OUTLOOK BLEAK FOR GOLF COURSE PLAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer Saratoga Springs Saratoga Spa State Park's proposed new golf course appears doomed by environmental problems, Parks Commissioner Bernadette Castro said Thursday. The 18-hole High Rock golf course was to open this month, but ...
THURSDAY MARKS SCHOOL YEAR'S START.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer AlbanySaying they want to conform with the city's public school schedule, officials at New Covenant Charter School have pushed back their opening date from next Tuesday to Thursday. ``It's consistent with the city school district ...
LONG AND WINDING ROAD LEADS TO A GROCERY STORE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: LYDIA POLGREEN Staff writer Rensselaer After three years of red tape, government bickering and cold feet, construction started Thursday on an Aldi Foods discount supermarket that should mean hometown grocery shopping for city residents by March of 2001. It ...
MORE AT STAKE THAN JUST TASTE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: FRED LEBRUN Like any real contest, wine competitions come down to winners and losers. For the 2000 New York Wine & Food Classic held this year at Scribner Hollow resort, overlooking Hunter Mountain ski slopes in the Catskills, the moment of truth was 10:10 ...
THIS ENCORE GETS NO APPLAUSE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER Staff writer Saratoga Springs After Britney Spears, candy wrappers and fast-food leftovers. After Pearl Jam, beer bottles (in the parking lot), cigarettes (on the lawn), hypodermic needles (in the men's room). Dave Matthews Band: a few bags of ...
DONORS' STATE PROJECTS EYED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Two fund-raisers for Gov. George Pataki and Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta have won more than $37 million in state and county contracts and subsidies despite a history of debts, delinquent tax payments and misrepresentations of their ...
GIULIANI: TREATMENT HALTS CANCER'S SPREAD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Associated Press NEW YORK -- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Thursday that the hormone treatment he is taking has halted the spread of his prostate cancer, but that he still plans to undergo more intensive treatment to rid his body of the disease. ...
NADER LAMBASTES GE, BUSH, GORE AND NYC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: SHARON L. CRENSON Associated Press NEW YORK -- Consumer advocate and presidential candidate Ralph Nader blitzed Manhattan on Thursday, bashing General Electric over the condition of the Hudson River, George W. Bush and Al Gore for failing workers and the city for ...
AD WATCH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: Lara Jakes and Mark McGuire - Candidate: Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat)Sponsor: New York State Democratic CommitteeTitle: ``Stand'' (TV)Time: 30 secondsProducer: Axelrod & AssociatesWhen and where it aired: Began airing Wednesday statewideWhat it says: The ad features ...
MINORITY POPULATION RISE SPURS UPSTATE GROWTH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: ERIKA ROSENBERG Gannett News Service ALBANY -- Growth in minority groups was critical to stabilizing upstate New York's population in the 1990s, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. Between 1990 and 1999, 193,000 non-Hispanic whites left ...
REGULATORS FAULTED FOR NUCLEAR LEAK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: SERGIO BUSTOS Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- When Indian Point 2 officials sent the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an inspection report of its aging steam generators in 1997, the NRC ignored the report. Two years later, the federal agency tapped a ...
CLINTONS WEREN'T TOLD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... Byline: SERGIO BUSTOS Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- In the hours after the discovery this winter of a radioactive leak at a nuclear power plant 12 miles from President Clinton's New York home, nobody bothered to alert the first family. Federal authorities ...
OPEN/CLOSED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2000 ... With the observance of Labor Day on Monday, there will be some schedule changes in the Capital Region:SHOPPING: Shopping malls will be open mostly normal hours, with some closing slightly earlier than usual. Grocery markets will be open normal hours. BANKS: Area banks will all ...