New Lebanon Junior-Senior High School Advance to Nationals

Updated: Saturday, January 10 2015, 11:32 PM EST 

A look to the Future competition

SCHENECTADY – 26 teams of sixth, seventh and eighth graders are giving us a look into the future. 

Teams competed at Proctors in Schenectady, creating future cities from recycled materials. 

This year’s theme was “Develop a futuristic solution to growing crops within the city.” This year’s winner is the New Lebanon Junior-Senior high School; they advance to the National competition in February in Washington D.C.

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Sheriff hopes laws that hindered Kenneth White investigation will be amended

Updated: 01/08/2015 3:12 PM
Created: 01/07/2015 11:23 PM WNYT.com
By: Anna Meile

ALBANY - The new legislative session at the Capitol comes with new hopes for a lot of people.

The Albany County Sheriff investigating the murder of Kenneth White in Knox hopes the legislature uses this new session to make changes to laws that complicated their investigation.

Sheriff Craig Apple says during those crucial hours when they were trying to find the five year old, they were faced with a huge roadblock from Child Protective Services and now he's calling on the legislature to make sure that never happens again.

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Tech Valley teacher wins Fulbright Award

Leah Penniman 

Updated: 04/24/2014 4:20 PM Created: 04/24/2014 10:44 AM WNYT.com 
By: Jessica Riley

A Tech Valley High School teacher has won a Fulbright Distinguished Award in teaching.

Leah Penniman is a science teacher who will spend six months in Mexico writing curriculum and helping craft projects for use in schools there.

She’ll travel to Mexico City in January 2015. Once she returns in June 2015, Penniman will lead accompanying professional development for aspiring facilitators of the curriculum.

The Tech Valley teacher is one of 43 teachers across the country to receive a Fulbright award to travel abroad.

Penniman was profiled in NewsChannel 13's Today's Women feature in November.

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For birth control, what's old is new again

(CNN)"I can't afford to get pregnant," says 25-year-old Aisha Mukooza.

So every morning, for the past two and a half years, Aisha's been strict about taking her temperature as soon as her alarm goes off at 6 a.m.

"I have my thermometer under my pillow. I take it, and then take the reading and put it in Kindara," Mukooza says.

Public Forum

Public Forum  on Proposed Fracked Gas Pipeline

   Through Rensselaer County, NY

Saturday, January 10, 2015

2 p.m. St. Mary’s Church, Route 20 Nassau, NY

Becky Meier a co-founder of “Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline” will narrate a Power Point Presentation about a proposed high-pressure fracked gas pipeline/compressor station in Rensselaer County to be routed along the powerlines.The environmental impact, health concerns, and the rights of communities will be discussed. The proposed pipeline and compressor station would affect the towns of Schodack, Nassau, and Stephentown, NY, and continue into Hancock, Massachusetts. Both parking and event itself are free of charge.

For more information:

https://www.facebook.com/stopnyfrackedgaspipeline
Contact: John Serio: seriojj@gmail.com or

 Sandy Nathan: snathanwrites@gmail.com  Sponsored by: Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline

Robert Connors

Canaan, NY 12029

raconnors@yahoo.com
Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline

https://www.facebook.com/stopnyfrackedgaspipeline

http://www.nofrackedgasinmass.org/columbia-county-news/

Don't forget to sign our Anti-Pipeline Petition:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-new-york-fracked.fb48?source=c.fb&r_by=2156007

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Special Bus Procedures for Thursday, Jan. 8 Due to Extreme Cold

Superintendent Bob Horan would like to let our community know that due to the extreme cold temperatures expected for the morning of Thursday, Jan. 8,

Oldest US Time Capsule Opened Today Jan 6, 2015

The oldest time capsule discovered in the country that dates back to 1795 was opened today in Boston as history buffs waited to get a glimpse of items from the nation's infancy.

Pamela Hatchfield, head of objects conservation at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, first removed the lid then inspected a newspaper, after loosening the screws beforehand for about four or five hours, she said.