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SCHENECTADY
College issues warning after gun-point robbery
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Union College officials are telling students to take necessary precautions and are stepping up off-campus patrols following an armed burglary of three students living in a Gillespie Street apartment.
    Schenectady police are still looking for three men who forced their way into the home and removed a number of valuable electronic devices Tuesday evening. Sgt. Eric Clifford said the case is still under investigation and wouldn’t rule out a connection between a number of thefts that occurred near the college earlier this winter.
    “It’s possible,” he said Wednesday.
    Union spokesman Phil Wadja acknowledged the neighborhood is where a good number of the roughly 200 students living off campus reside. He said students are being advised to demonstrate a greater degree of “situational awareness” both on and off campus.
    “We’re starting to work with the Police Department to keep an eye out in that neighborhood,” he said...........>>>>...............>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01500&AppName=1

]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:21:46 Admin http://www.rotterdamny.net/m-1268233375/ http://www.rotterdamny.net/m-1268233375/#num1 Schenectady Superintendent Looking to Montana for New Job
     by Christen Gowen {TU}--3/10

  Schenectady Superintendent Eric Ely is one of the top candidates to run the school district in Billings, MT, according to a story in today's Billings Gazette.

  Administrators in Montana have decided to visit Schenctady to help formulate more follow up questions. Mr. Ely is one of two people considered for the job the other is the associate superintendent from Chico, CA.]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:55 benny salami http://www.rotterdamny.net/m-1268162662/ http://www.rotterdamny.net/m-1268162662/#num1 Our County Legislature has scheduled a meeting for tonight {3/9} at 7PM to consider a bill that would require chain restaurants with more than 15 locations nationwide to post calorie counts on every menu!

  The usual ninny-nanny groups will be there to support this nonsense. A similar bill passed the Albany County Legislature and starts on March 22nd. Critics and all restaurant owners are urged to attend.]]> Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:24:22 benny salami http://www.rotterdamny.net/m-1267968756/ http://www.rotterdamny.net/m-1267968756/#num1

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Sitting At My Desk
March 6, 2010 at 10:25 pm by Philip Morris

Well, its not a desk, really.  Its an old and kind of wobbly wooden drafting table.  It used to be my wife’s when she started her graphic design business.  It was in the days of a waxer plugged in 24/7 and galleys of printed copy that came from a typesetter and was laid down and cut to fit carefully around blank spaces meant for graphics and photos and art.

Yes, well before the computer changed that business as well as most others.

So, its about 10:00 Saturday night.  There are two shows happening, Bill Cosby in the Mainstage and Richie Havens in the GE Theater.  Now that we are the cablecaster of public access television in the community (Open Stage Media, channel 16, which was named previously SACC-TV), that, too, is coming from Proctors.

At my desk is a small flat screen television.  I use it to watch and monitor channel 16.  I can also monitor both theaters on other channels.  That means I use the remote to see and hear Bill Cosby and the concert by Richie Havens.  I flip to see whats on Open Stage Media.  Soon, as we add and education and a government channel, those, too, will be available at my desk.

Its sort of amazing to me.  I can research a potential trip to New Orleans, while keeping up with the live and the broadcast activities coming out of Proctors.  At my wooden drafting table full of the small cuts from the tip of the knife used thousands of times on those galleys of type.

All in one middle aged lifetime.

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Joblessness for the month was far higher than the highest rate in 2009, which was the June rate of 7.1 percent. The rate in December was 6.9 percent. The numbers are not seasonally adjusted.

The labor department also reported today that the number private sector jobs in the Capital Region fell by 2.6 percent over the course of 2009.

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=907765#ixzz0hEYxjg41
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