Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 2008:
MEETINGs.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... EAST GREENBUSH SCHOOL BOARD Dec. 17 Granted Superintendent Dr. Rebecca Furlong a leave of absence for personal reasons and appointed Dr. Angela M. Guptill acting superintendent, effective immediately. Guptill was assistant superintendent for curriculum ...
Pets ready for adoption.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... The Mohawk & Hudson River Humane Society has been providing shelter for lost, abused and unwanted animals since 1887. Its animal care facility is the largest in the Capital Region, receiving an average of more than 9,000 animals per year. The society hosts adoption centers at ...
Skating, exercise classes at HVCC.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Staff reports TROY - Hudson Valley Community College will offer learn-to-skate and exercise programs beginning this month. The Mice on Ice program, which teaches children ages 3 to 5, includes a 30-minute session of fun and games on the ice for preschoolers ....
Pets need new homes.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... BALLSTON SPA - Saratoga County's Animal Shelter, 6010 County Farm Road in Ballston Spa, is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for adoptions and visiting Monday through Saturday. To reach the shelter, call 885-4113, fax 885-2570 or e-mail sarpets@govt.co.saratoga.ny.us. To ...
MEETINGs.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... DUANESBURG SCHOOL BOARD Dec. 18 Set aside until Jan. 8 action on a planning calendar for the 2008-09 district budget. Residents will vote on a proposed budget on May 20. Revised the district mileage reimbursement rate to 50.5 cents per mile, ...
Scotia shelter offers pets.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Staff reports SCOTIA - The Animal Protective Foundation always has animals for adoption. The shelter, located at 53 Maple Ave. in Scotia, is open from noon to 4:30 p.m. for adoptions and visiting Tuesdays through Saturdays. To contact the shelter, ...
Shelter has pets to adopt.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... GUILDERLAND - Noah's Kingdom Humane Society is an all-volunteer shelter for cats. The shelter houses its rescued animals at the adoption center at the Crossgates Commons PetSmart, Washington Avenue Extension, Guilderland, or in the homes of volunteers. Adoption ...
MEETINGs.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... WESTERLO PLANNING BOARD Dec. 18 Scheduled a Jan. 22 public hearing on a three-lot subdivision proposal by Leyla Pinarli for property along Johnny Cake Hill Road. Scheduled a Jan. 22 public hearing on a revised annexation proposal by Niall ...
WHAT'S OPEN, what's closed.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... New Year's Day is today. The following is a partial list of holiday schedule changes. Banks: All will be closed today. Buses: Capital District Transportation Authority buses will operate on a Sunday/holiday schedule today. For more information, call CDTA ...
B-12 absorption problem linked to pernicious anemia.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: DR. PAUL DONOHUE DR. DONOHUE: A friend was informed by her doctor that she has pernicious anemia. He didn't give much information. Would you please give details? - O.R. DEAR O.R.: The basic story is that pernicious anemia comes about from a lack ...
2-stage effects of alcohol.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: RICHARD HARKNESS - McClatchy Q: I'm always hearing the term "drugs and alcohol" as if alcohol is not a drug. Isn't alcohol a drug? A: I think the above phrase is intended to emphasize that alcohol is a drug. Ethanol (drinking alcohol) use is so commonplace ...
Albany man to ride in the Rose Parade; Alvin Grant will be among 24 transplant recipients riding Donate Life float.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY - Staff Writer ALBANY - Alvin Grant would rather be on the field during the Rose Bowl, but he's riding a float in the parade. He considers himself lucky. Grant had a heart transplant in April 2005 at age 18. During the 119th Rose Parade ...
calendar.(Capital Region)(Calendar)
Jan 01, 2008 ... TODAY COMMUNITY Bounce in the New Year, Glens Falls Civic Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Glens Falls When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $8; $2 per ride Contact: 798-0202 Notes: More than 10,000 square feet of inflatable fun, including a 22-foot giant slide, an air adventure ...
checkup.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sweet dream power A study at Stanford University gives new meaning to the phrase "Sleep it off." Researchers showed that lack of sleep lowers leptin levels and raises ghrelin, two hormones that regulate appetite and influence weight. The average American adult sleeps ...
mark your calendar.(Life-Health)(Calendar)
Jan 01, 2008 ... FRIDAY Teen Ice Skating,Glens Falls Civic Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Glens FallsWhen: 8 p.m. Cost: $5; $3 to rent skates Contact: 798-0202 or http://www.cityofglensfalls.comSATURDAY Introduction to ...
Global warming dangers are known, but we wait.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008 ... The federal Environmental Protection Agency's latest denial to enable California and 17 (and growing) other states to regulate global warming emissions from automobiles is but another example of the approach that actions dealing with global warming can wait. While the problem ...
Independent investigation needed of cops, guns.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008 ... We attended the Dec. 18 Common Council Public Safety Committee meeting, at which Police Chief James Tuffey offered information about the purchase of guns in the Police Department's name, including machine guns comparable to automatic and semiautomatic weaponry used by NATO (Times Union, ...
Seniors get to enjoy a bus ride with a smile.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: CHRISTEN GOWAN - Staff Writer COLONIE - Whenever bus driver Rob Armao picks up a client, he tries to use humor to brighten his passenger's day. Armao, 61, is a driver for a senior transportation program provided by the Colonie Senior Service Centers. ...
Exercise benefits both workers, companies.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: DIANA KUNDE - Dallas Morning News DALLAS - Steve Zuhoski's loss is a net gain for his employer, Texas Instruments Inc. Truth be told, the 80 pounds he's dropped from his 6-foot-4 frame are his gain as well. "I feel like I've taken 10 years off ...
Make holidays special for families of veterans.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008 ... During this usually hectic season when obligations abound, it has been my honor and pleasure to help make Christmas joyous for two U.S. veterans' families. Our ladies organization, the Daughters of Penelope, of which I am the president, has annually adopted a family in need ...
Influx of foreign workers lowers wages and forces Americans out of work.(Main)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008 ... The Dec. 16 article "Locking out the best and brightest" hit home. I am an information technology professional and have had several experiences that suggest a shortage of foreign workers is exactly where America wants to be. Companies had trouble filling IT slots in the late ...
Looking back, ahead.(Main)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Today we continue a tradition begun last year, when this page took a look back at what we had to say about various issues, and whether our words had had an impact. And today, the first day of a new year, is a time to look ahead as well. Last year 2007 proved to be mostly one of ...
Political maneuvers of '07 to play out in '08.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: SUZANNE FIELDS It was neither the best of times, nor the worst of times, to steal an opening line from Dickens. It was neither the age of wisdom, nor the age of foolishness. We mixed belief with incredulity, light with darkness, enjoyed good and feared evil. Looking back ...
Healthy starts on Mondays.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: ELLIS HENICAN Now's as good a time as any, I guess. Not a single New Year's resolution has been violated yet. And Sid Lerner has a promise that he swears all of us can keep. It's the "Healthy Monday Initiative," and he's already signed up some big ...
Count success, friend by friend.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: ROBERT KELLY-GOSS It was cold and windy the other night. After several days of warm weather Jack Frost came a calling, and all I wanted was for my truck to start. But it didn't. All I had was the "click, click, click" of a dead battery; and so I was stranded ...
A soldier's story brings the war home.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: STEPHEN E. WRIGHT One of the hardest things a parent can do is to send a child off to war. The second hardest thing is sending him back. My son is an Army Cavalry Scout who is part of President Bush's surge in Iraq. After nine months on the front lines, he got ...
British law protects Russian art.(Arts & Entertainment)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press Britain and Russia settled a politically tinged dispute about art Monday, with Moscow saying it will grant permission to send Russian masterpieces for a major exhibition in London now that Britain has protected the works from seizure. ...
Vandals ransack Frost home.(Arts & Entertainment)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Associated Press RIPTON, Vt. - A former home of poet Robert Frost has been vandalized, with intruders destroying dozens of items and setting fire to furniture in what police say was an underage drinking party. Homer Noble Farm, a former Frost residence that's ...
nfl star has union pedigree.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Brian Westbrook, one of the NFL's premier running backs, may have inherited some of his talent from dad, former Union College football whiz Ron Westbrook. Nary a gridiron fan doesn't know Brian has been a touchdown machine for the Phila ...
looking back.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... On this date in ... 1908: Henry McCarthy, 18, appeared before Judge Brady. He had been staggering on Division Street and admitted to the judge he had a little wine. McCarthy promised he would from then on abstain and was let go. 1958: A defective gas heater started a ...
DA investigating beating allegations; 5 Schenectady cops on paid leave pending inquiry into complaint.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: PAUL NELSON - Staff Writer SCHENECTADY - Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney said Monday that his office is probing whether five city officers beat a drunken driving suspect they arrested last month. "We're jointly investigating the matter with ...
Lupus Alliance scholarships.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... The Lupus Alliance of America's Upstate New York Affiliate is accepting applications for the Cheryl Malke Memorial Scholarship Award. Applicants must meet these qualifications: be diagnosed with lupus or be the child of a person diagnosed with lupus and be in an undergraduate ...
A surge in banality leads to word banishment.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press DETROIT - Resist the urge to say you will "wordsmith" your list of New Year's resolutions rather than write one. And don't utter, "It is what it is" when you fail to meet your first goal. Those are two of the 19 words or phrases ...
ALBANY COUNTY EDITION.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Book signing Science fiction and fantasy author Joshua Palmatier will read and sign copies of his new book, "Vacant Throne," at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Flights of Fantasy, 488 Albany Shaker Road, Loudonville. Call 435-9337 for more information. Wilde play offered ...
quizzes, web site help test nutrition.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: GWEN SCHOEN - McClatchy By The Dole Nutrition Institute, a branch of Dole Food, the world's largest producer of fresh fruits and vegetables, is a valuable source for nutrition information. The site, http://www.dolenutrition.com, provides information on diet, nutrition, ...
get started.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Do you prefer to work out in the comfort of your own home, wearing mismatched sweats and ratty T-shirts? We're with you. Check out our reviews of some of the most effective fitness DVDs. And then, ...
book opens dialogue on maternal depression.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: ERICA NOONAN - Boston Globe "The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children, and Struggling with Depression" is what the book business might call a slow burn. It's a book about maternal depression whose virtues have been communicated not by best-seller ...
the gym jungle; Be on the lookout for hidden costs in your search for a place to get fit.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: JENNIFER GISH and KRISTI L. GUSTAFSON - STAFF WRITERS Joining a gym can be as complex as picking a cellphone provider. Beside the monthly fee, you often have an initiation cost, a penalty for breaking your contract and additional charges for personal training sessions ...
BIRTHS.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... SAMARITAN HOSPITAL LEDBETTER, Aaliyah-Jean Marie, daughter of Janelle and Nicholas Ledbetter, East Greenbush, Oct. 1. MITCHELL, Leila Messina, daughter of Kindra Prater and James Mitchell, Troy, Oct. 1. SHANAHAN, Joshua Michael, son of Nicole Raymond and ...
Everett Charles workers qualify for job aid; U.S. labor department says employees in Clifton Park office lost jobs because of foreign competition.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: LARRY RULISON - Business writer CLIFTON PARK - Workers at Everett Charles Technologies Inc., a company that makes circuit board testing equipment in Clifton Park, have been made eligible for training, cash and other benefits through a federal program that helps workers ...
Willie Robinson, 81; Boston blues singer.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: Associated Press BOSTON - Weepin' Willie Robinson, a blues singer who performed with Steven Tyler and Bonnie Raitt but also spent time homeless, has died at age 81. Robinson had been a sharecropper, and was an Army veteran and a friend of performers including ...
Salaries rise for coroners, attorneys; Raises effective today, along with increase for funeral services for indigent in Albany County.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE - Staff Writer ALBANY - The new year will see a little extra cash added to the paychecks of the county's four coroners and attorneys employed in various county agencies. County legislators, in approving the $566.8 million budget for 2008, gave ...
Story of the year? Triumph of the human spirit, of course.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: FRED LeBRUN Like the American voter choosing a president, the reading public prioritizing the news cannot be wrong. What they choose to read is what they choose. It is what it is, and second-guessing what possessed them usually means the person wondering is ...
New mayor takes reins in Watervliet; Manning says biggest part of job will attracting, keeping city residents.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIMMY VIELKIND - Staff Writer WATERVLIET - Working as an engineer taught Mike Manning to approach problems methodically. At first, they were metallurgical problems, then gradually they included a greater element of eco nomics. Now he will apply that ...
Ellis, St. Clare's merger is still not complete.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ALBANY - The year ended without a formal merger agreement between Ellis and St. Clare's hospitals. The Schenectady hospitals were supposed to have submitted a plan by Monday to the state Department of Health as to how they will merge, as required by the Berger Commission a year ...
Stickley buys its showroom for $5.62M.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... COLONIE - Furniture retailer Stickley, Audi & Co. has bought its 41,000-square-foot Wolf Road showroom for $5.62 million. The deal closed in late September. "We had been talking to the owners for a few years," Chief Executive Aminy Audi said. "It was the right time for them to ...
MTI executive receives $20,000 salary boost.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... ALBANY - Robert Kot, general manager and vice president of MTI Instruments Inc. in Albany, saw his annual salary rise from $175,000 to $195,000, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. MTI Instruments is a ...
Mall owner chairman increases stock holding.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... COLONIE - Some investors may lack confidence in Feldman Mall Properties Inc., the Long Island-based co-owner of Colonie Center, but Chairman Larry Feldman isn't one of them. In three purchases over the past week, Feldman bought 163,098 shares. "I think the stock is cheap," he ...
Cut cravings; Learn how healthy eating can quell your food desires.(Life-Health)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: MOLLY BELMONT - Special to the Times Union When you have a headache, you reach for an aspirin. When you're tired, you take a nap. When craving a plate of pasta, you head for your favorite Italian restaurant. We've learned to trust our feelings when it comes ...
Partner's death shatters law firm; Richard H. Friedman of Albany drowns while on vacation in Puerto Rico.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE - Staff Writer An Albany attorney who was active in the local Jewish community and had a knack as a communicator drowned over the weekend while vacationing with his family in Puerto Rico. The death of Richard H. Friedman, 56, a partner in the firm ...
Engineering a world all on his own; Sprawling across a Colonie home's basement, model train project is both hobby and therapy.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: DAVID FILKINS - Staff Writer COLONIE - Don't tell Jim Ford toy trains are for kids. He's spent 15 years converting his basement into a model of towns and landscapes connected by railroad tracks. Ford, 76, a retired state worker, is the president of the ...
Housing market statistics conflict; Realtor data show either sales are down and prices holding, or prices also falling.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: CHRIS CHURCHILL - Business writer How healthy is the Capital Region housing market? The answer depends, apparently, on which real estate association you ask. The Greater Capital Association of Realtors Inc. on Monday said the median home price in November ...
BEST OF; OUR BLOGS.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Marcia Pappas, president of the Albany-based state chapter of the National Organization For Women, joined a delegation of women's rights activists in Iowa working on behalf of getting votes for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the ...
web top 5.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Most-viewed stories on timesunion.com for Monday: 1 Deep snow, sloppy roads 2 Capital Region's snow-clearing ways standard 3 ...
Winter takes another shot at us; A second storm rolls into region, and it may disrupt political ceremonies.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: JULIE A. VARUGHESE and JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST - Staff Writers A year after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's risky outdoors inauguration was graced with temperatures in the mid-40s and only light rain, we're expected to wake this morning to the second significant winter storm in ...
Robbers targeting food deliverers; Schenectady has seen a number of incidents in recent weeks, many allegedly involving teenage attackers.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: LAUREN STANFORTH - Staff Writer SCHENECTADY - The city is experiencing a spate of robberies of people delivering food that has resulted in one beating and two armed hold-ups in the last month. Police say teens appear to be the culprits. The latest ...
Insurer plans to go public; Hearings set on Group Health Inc.'s proposal to become a for-profit entity, offer stock.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER - Business writer ALBANY - The public will have its say at the end of the month on a proposal for New York City health plan giant Group Health Inc. to turn into a for-profit entity. GHI merged in 2006 with another large insurer, HIP Health Plan ...
A reluctant NASA releases air safety study.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public over concerns it would upset travelers and hurt airline profits. It published the findings in a format that made it cumbersome for analysis by ...
Kenyans renew call for president's ouster.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's president threatened a tough crackdown Monday as rioters rampaged for a third day to protest what they called his sham re-election - a bloody convulsion threatening what has been East Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy. At least 135 Kenyans ...
Ford's would-be assassin released on parole.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... SAN FRANCISCO - Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Gerald Ford in a bizarre assassination attempt just 17 days after a disciple of Charles Manson tried to kill Ford, was paroled Monday after 32 years behind bars. Moore, 77, was released from the federal prison in ...
More Guantanamo Bay prisoners ill, lawyers say.(Main)
Jan 01, 2008 ... SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Several Guantanamo Bay prisoners are seriously ill, lawyers said Monday, rejecting U.S. claims after the death of one prisoner that no other detainees are in immediate medical danger. On Sunday, a 68-year-old Afghan died from cancer at the isolated U.S ....
A building's promising encore; Capital Repertory Theatre agrees to sell downtown Albany structure to developers.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: CHRIS CHURCHILL - Business writer ALBANY - The building, as it now looks, would never grace a postcard. It's squat and concrete, and its tan paint provides only a splotchy coating. But its future might be brighter: A Saratoga Springs development duo with a ...
Man dies from earlier injuries; Work-related accident at Wilton Mall claims life of contractor's employee.(Capital Region)
Jan 01, 2008 ... WILTON - A man who was severely injured Friday in a work-related accident at Wilton Mall has died from injuries received while repairing a tire on a piece of heavy equipment. Joshua P. Maloney, 24, of Troy, died Sunday at Albany Medical Center Hospital after suffering head ...
Dismal end to tough year; Stocks decline again as investors brace for more bad news on housing, mortgages and credit.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Byline: MADLEN READ - Associated Press NEW YORK - Wall Street ended a painful year with another steep loss Monday as investors glumly anticipated that 2008 would bring more of the uncertainty and turbulence of 2007. The Dow Jones industrials fell 101 points, the ...
Vonage, Nortel strike deal in patent fight.(Business)
Jan 01, 2008 ... JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Vonage Holdings Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. have settled their patent litigation, allowing for cross-licensing of the telecom companies' technology. The agreement does not call for any payments by either company. The settlement involves a ...