EG Pizza Night and more...fund raising for the Peter's Dairy Farm

Lots of people attended the EG Pizza Night and Bake Sale to Benefit the Peters Dairy Farm.

Don't forget Monday Night - November 4th from 6 - 10 pm,

Scarnato's Ristorante is holding an hors d'oeurves fundraiser

to benefit the Peters Dairy Farm.

Photo by Martin E. Miller

You can also order a T-shirt CLICK HERE

Can Yoga do all that?

Your body on Yoga

Rock Pioneer dies

Lou Reed, rock legend, dies at 71

By Steve Almasy, CNN

updated 5:37 PM EDT, Sun October 27, 2013

Reed, violist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and

drummer Maureen Tucker played their first show as the

Velvet Underground in 1965.

To Benefit The Peter's Dairy Celebrating 101 years!

Please Help us give Support to one of the Last Dairy Farmers in Rensselaer County..

CBS 6 Albany: Peter dairy farm loses barn, cows to fire

ABC 10 Albany: Twenty heifers killed in Schodack dairy barn fire

NBC 13 Albany: Fire destroys Castleton dairy barn​

Times Union: Blaze consumes barns, cows

YNN: Fire damages Rensselaer County farm

Dontations are being accepted HERE

7th Annual Chowder Fest

Where: River Street, Troy, NY

Cost: FREE ADMISSION

Troy Chowderfest - October 13th, 2013 

We wouldn't want them to get fat and LAZY?!?

Amanda TerkelBecome a fan

aterkel@huffingtonpost.com

Congressional Perks Deemed Essential During Government Shutdown While Public Sacrifices

Posted: 10/09/2013 7:30 am EDT  |  Updated: 10/09/2013 4:54 pm EDT

WASHINGTON -- Around the country, furloughed federal workers are wondering how they're going to pay their bills while they wait for the government to reopen. Businesses that rely on tourists are taking a hit due to shuttered national parks. And scientists conducting groundbreaking research have had to put the brakes on their work.

Be Aware!

Attention East Greenbush residents!

Starting October 25th, 2013 at 6:00pm and continuing until 6:00am Monday, October 28th, 2013, Route 4 will be CLOSED, except for local traffic beginning at the I-90 exit through to the Third Ave Ext. in order to allow for paving. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but keep a look out for the upcoming completion of the Mannix Road Roundabout.

From the Town of East Greenbush website.

Smokin’ Joe’s Barbecue closes suddenly

Table Hopping

Eat, drink and be candid

By Steve Barnes | Email | About Table Hopping

Smokin’ Joe’s Barbecue closes suddenly

Shots fired near the Captial

Driver killed after chase from White House to Capitol

View Photo Gallery — Shots fired near the Capitol: View photos from the scene.

By Peter Hermann, Ed O’Keefe and David A. Fahrenthold, Updated: Thursday, October 3, 6:33 PM

downtown Washington, when police shot and killed the driver on a street near the U.S. Capitol, police said.

Tom Clancy, Best-Selling Novelist of Military Thrillers, Dies at 66

By JULIE BOSMAN

Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline-fueled military novels spawned a new genre of thrillers and made him one of the world’s best-known and best-selling authors, died on Tuesday in Baltimore.

WNYT

Obama: Shutdown is result of ideological crusade

Posted at: 10/01/2013 5:35 PM
By:

President Barack Obama addresses the nation on the government shutdown, Tuesday afternoon. 
NBC News

(AP) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says House Republicans have shut down the federal government over an "ideological crusade" against his health care law.

Health Exchange Website Keeps Crashing

NY Health Exchange Website Keeps Crashing 
Updated: Tuesday, October 1 2013, 05:42 PM EDT ALBANY – New York State’s health exchanges opened for business on Tuesday and almost immediately, the website that hosts the exchange was crashing and the call-center set-up to field questions was inundated.

Congressman Chris Gibson

I voted "no" tonight on attaching a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the latest version of a “Continuing Resolution (CR)” because I don’t agree with this approach.

I believe the Senate will reject this CR and we'll be back to square one on Monday, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown – which I oppose.

From my perspective, the desired end state remains the same - a delay of the Affordable Care Act / Obamacare and a temporary lifting of the sequester - both to January 2015. However, we need a successful strategy to get that implemented and this approach will not do it.

What we should do instead is take the Senate CR and add a simple amendment - overturning the Obama Administration's recent rule providing health care insurance subsidies for Members of Congress and their staff.

The Administration made an exception for Congress to permit these benefits. “Fixing” this problem for Congress before the American people are protected from adverse impacts of the law is wrong.

Community Fair Information

Posted on FB 9/26/13

The Castleton Elementary School PTO

Community Fair

Saturday, September 28^th, 2013

From 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

The Fair will go on rain or shine at Castleton Elementary School.  Many special events are scheduled through the day, including:

• Ø  Adrenaline rush obstacle course
• Ø  Wrecking ball inflatable
• Ø  18ft Super Slide
• Ø  Bounce House
• Ø  Photo Booth with lots of props for fun pics

1. Ø  Dunking Booth
2. Ø  Carnival games and prizes
3. Ø  Pie eating contest
4. Ø  Face painting
5. Ø  Pumpkin painting
6. Ø  Pizza, burgers, dogs
7. Ø  Cotton Candy, Popcorn, and desserts
8. Ø  Silent Auction
9. Ø  Pony rides

WTEN Breaking news. Arrests in Stephentown Party

#BREAKING: Police say the first six - out of what are expected to be hundreds of arrests - are being brought to court now facing charges for being ‘key players’ in the large party that took place at former NFL player Brian Holloway's Stephentown home. The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office says they expect to arrest between 100 and 200 young people in connection to the party - a record for one case in the county.

Anya Tucker - WTEN is at court where the arrests are taking place & will have more on NEWS10 ABC tonight.

FULL STORY: http://www.news10.com/story/23538163/record-number-of-arrests-to-be-made-in-break-in-party-at-former-nfl-players-home

Stock up on Forever Stamps

The U.S. Postal Service has requested to raise the price of stamps by three cents - that would make the price of a first-class stamp 49 cents. 

STORY: http://www.news10.com/story/23525964/cash-strapped-usps-considers-emergency-rate-hike

Many consumers won't feel the increase immediately. Forever stamps bought before an increase still would cover first-class postage. The price of new forever stamps would be at the higher rate, if approved.

Pakistan's Earthquake Was So Powerful It Created a New Island

Twitter: @Senator_Baloch

A major earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan earlier 

today killing over 100 people; injuring thousands more; 

collapsing building and houses; and, incredibly, causing a 

small island to form in the sea off Pakistan's coastline.

Read more...

Brian Holloway hosts picnic after party creates headlines Updated:

Saturday, September 21 2013, 11:26 PM EDT

STEPHENTOWN -- It's the party gone viral, that has left a community outraged. Hundreds of teens broke into former NFL player Brian Hollaway's Stephentown home, leaving behind thousands of dollars in damages, and a line of evidence on social media. And it's that exposure that has parents of the teens threatening to sue Holloway for outing their kids. "I don't see how that makes sense to sue someone when you destroyed their property," Holloway's son Brian

tells us.

Read more...

Mobbed

       

Schodack Valley Pizza Night - Huge crowds of people packed the firehouse for the first Pizza Night of the season. With this month's special- Shrimp & Garlic or Hawaiian- mozzarella sticks, freshly prepared salads and of course-the  wings! 

Next Pizza Night is October 19!

East Greenbush man reported missing

Posted: Sep 19, 2013 2:19 PM EDT

 

 

EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. - The East Greenbush Police Department is asking for the public's help finding a man reported missing from his home.

63-year-old John A. Paige, Jr. is a local building contractor with offices located on Columbia Turnpike in Schodack Center, and residence on Ponderosa Blvd. in East Greenbush.

Paige was last accounted for Tuesday around 4 p.m. but has not been seen or heard from since. His family is greatly concerned for his well-being.

Paige is described as a white male, 6'02", 250 pounds, brown eyes, black hair. He was in possession of a company truck which is also missing; a black, 2007 GMC Sierra pick-up truck with New York commercial registration 93800JH. The truck has ladder racks and high-board side tool boxes bearing the company name in white lettering, "PAIGE CONSTRUCTION".

Anyone with information is asked to call 479-2525.

CASTLETON'S VILLAGE-WIDE GARAGE SALE

VILLAGE-WIDE GARAGE SALE – our annual village wide garage sale will be held Saturday, September 21st. Applications to be on the map are available at Village Hall. 

Check out photos from previous years.

East Greenbush man dies in climbing accident

Posted at: 09/13/2013 9:48 AM | Updated at: 09/13/2013 5:55 PM
By: Dan Bazile

NEW SCOTLAND -- Ronald Czajkowski, 44, of East Greenbush, fell 120 feet to his death early Friday morning at Thatcher Park, according to police.
The Indian Ladder trail at Thacher State Park. 
File

"He had a harness rope with him. It appears it was human error as far as attaching it to the anchor point on top of the cliff," said Captain John Layton, from the Albany County Sheriff's Department.

Layton said Czajkowski, who had very little experience climbing, came to the park just around sunrise. He said it appears the victim did not have the proper knot on the rope as he was trying to rappel off the cliff.

"He's only been climbing a few times. It's a new thing for him. It's only been over the last few weeks," Layton said.

India Gang Rape Case: 4 Men Sentenced To Death

By SHIVANI RAWAT and KATY DAIGLE 09/13/13 11:33 AM ET EDT

NEW DELHI -- An Indian court Friday sentenced to death

four men for the gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the widespread mistreatment of women and the government's inability to deal with crime.

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Fire devastates Jersey shore

AP PHOTOS: Fire devastates Jersey shore towns hard-hit by Superstorm Sandy

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By Associated Press, 

Furious efforts to restore a Jersey shore boardwalk hard-hit by Superstorm Sandy last year were undone Thursday by a wind-whipped fire that wiped out more than 50 businesses in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights. Firefighters worked for hours to bring the 6-alarm blaze that began in a frozen custard stand under control.

Here’s a gallery of images from the blaze and early glimpses of the damage.