School Cafeterias Improved at No Cost to District

School cafeterias are receiving new equipment and improvements this year at no cost to the district thanks to funding received from a settlement between the parent company of Chartwells food services and New York State’s Attorney General Office.

Last year, the state Attorney General announced a settlement with Compass Group USA after the company did not pass on rebates from vendors, manufacturers and distributors. As a result, Schodack CSD was one of dozens of schools to receive part of the settlement. Schodack received $105,000.

“I want to stress that we could not use this money for anything except to improve our food services. The State Attorney General’s Office was very specific about that,” said Superintendent Bob Horan. “We decided the best way to use the money was to improve our facilities for students.”

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The British aren't coming

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WASHINGTON — The goal of the cruise missile strikes the

United States is planning to carry out in Syria is to restore

the smudged “red line” that President Obama drew a year 

ago against the use of poison gas.

Even an attack that the president has described as no more than an effort to restore the “red line” could diminish the ability of Syrian forces to attack population centers with conventional munitions, depending on how the attack is devised.

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4th Annual Gathering of the Tribes

Another Uncle Sam statue vandalized

TROY, N.Y. -- Another case of vandalism against an Uncle Sam statue in Troy in under investigation by police.

This time is was the Uncle Sam at Barker Park that was damaged. Like two others before him, the head was removed, and the body of the statue is now in storage.

Police have not made any arrests, although they have located the head of one of the statues at a home in Mechanicville and an arrest could be imminent. 

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Thoma Tire Closing for good

766 - 8473 (TIRE)

Our hours are:  Monday - Friday    8:45am  --  5:30pm

Saturday                  7:45am   - 12:30pm

WE WILL MAINTAIN THESE HOURS UNTIL WE CLOSE 9/28.

WE WILL BE CLOSED FOR LABOR DAY.

Thoma Tire - 3725 US RT 20  Nassau

Since 1945 - A family of tire professionals.

YES, IT IS TRUE.......

Thoma Tire is closing for good,

09/28/2013.  

See "Newsletter" page for all the details....

I am retiring to do some of the things I didn't make time for earlier.  I'll be 68 soon and can use the old joke about "retire-ing."

Nikki Hart's killer to be sentenced - 20 years to life

Updated: Monday, August 26 2013, 
12:22 PM EDT TROY -- 

The estranged boyfriend of the local 33-year-old real estate agent he admitted to killing in a drunken rage  
will be sentenced on Monday morning.   
29-year-old Jason Guynup of Troy, the live in boyfriend and father of Nikki Hart's two young 
daughters, pleaded guilty to second degree murder earlier this year. Guynup confessed to breaking into Hart's Schodack home and  stabbing her to death while she slept back in December 2012.