May 17, 2013

News in a Nutshell

Headlines that caught my eye
  • Landmark tower slowly giving in 
  • Cuomo to Lopez: Quit or be expelled 
  • Authorities: cigarette smuggling ring linked to Capital Region
  • Verizon Wireless Secretly Passed AP Reporters' Phone Records to Feds
  • 7 still missing from deadly Texas tornadoes
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May 15, 2013

Steve McLaughlin Visits CES


This morning, I was a guest reader in Mrs. Donnelly's kindergarten class at Castleton Elementary School.

May 14, 2013

Budget Newsletter Available on Website



The Schodack Central School District’s budget newsletter was mailed on Friday, May 10 to all district residents. If you did not receive a newsletter or would like to view it online, it is available as a .pdf on the district website, www.schodack.k12.ny.us

May 13, 2013

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Famous TV Psychologist
Dead at 85
Breaking News
 
0513_joyce_brothers_getty_article2Dr. Joyce Brothers -- once considered the most famous psychologist on the planet -- has died in NYC at the age of 85.

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Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize


By PATRICK E. JONES and MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press
BELIZE CITY (AP) - A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.
The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.
"It's a feeling of Incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill," Awe said. "It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous."
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