After Midnight (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
7:45 PM uptown Schenectady Friday night, it seems like summer is well on its way out. We are still having way too much rain. One half hour after the photo was taken it started again and was still raining at midnight. This photo is a great example of a shot that would have been saved by [...]
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Downtown Chess In the Circle Blitz Event Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Registration: 11-11:30am Tournament: 11:30am-1:30pm 6 rounds, 5 minutes for each player Chess sets and clocks available Exciting prizes for winners and deserving players! Organized and run by the Schenectady Chess Club Sponsored by The Third Way of Schenectady Chess Folks: The "Chess in the Circle" in downtown Schenectady...
f/k/a . . . (Free subscription) | yesterday
After five years of blogging (and a lifetime of dealing with deadlines and project estimates), you’d think I would know better than to think I could throw an interesting and informative posting together quickly enough to be able to enjoy most of our “best ever August weather” here in Schenectady. Instead, [...]
The Business Review of Albany (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Officials from Galesi Group and Schenectady County will unveil a $3 million "small business hub" at the Rotterdam Corporate Park in Rotterdam, N.Y. on Aug. 19.
f/k/a . . . (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
It’s not designated HR 1984, but the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (HR 800, S. 1041, 110th Congress) sure does have an aura of Orwellian rhetoric about it. In his “The View from Here” column for the Schenectady Sunday Gazette, yesterday, Word Watcher and Hypocrisy Hound Carl Strock says he likes the name given to [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Road. Miles Davis continues work on the album Bitches Brew . Led Zeppelin plays the Aerodrome in Schenectady, New York, doing two shows, one at 8PM and another at 11. Yes plays the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany. Blind Faith plays San Antonio. At KHJ in Los Angeles , “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies dethrones the Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” from Number One; “When I Die” by Motherlode blasts from...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Online Registration at KidPower Web Sites Begin Today SCHENECTADY, N.Y., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MVP Health Care and its operating subsidiary, Preferred Care, announced today that registration opens at noon for Abby Wambach's youth soccer clinics scheduled for September 4-7 in the Hudson Valley, Albany, Syracuse and Rochester. All registrations will be online at the health plans' KidPower Web sites, ...
Double-Tongued Word Wrester Citatio (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
gasoline siding n. The wood-frame home, which is adjacent to Vale Park on the south side of Eastern Avenue, also has what firefighters euphemistically call “gasoline siding"—a petroleum-based imitation brick that feeds the flames. —“Schenectady blaze fueled by faux-brick siding” by Jordan Carleo-Evangelist in Schenectady TImes Union (Albany, New York) Aug. 16, 2008. Categories: Construction...
Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The Democrat-controlled Assembly passed what’s known as a circuit-breaker tax this afternoon, meaning property taxes would be capped based on homeowners’ ability to pay. The goal is to help middle class homeowners. Assembly members are not taking up legislation to cap school property taxes, which the governor recommended and the Senate previously passed. Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco, R-Schenectady,...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Quoth the sales agent on this one which - like all Charlie Kaufman films - defies easy synopsis: Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful theatrical run in his hometown of Schenectady, New York, Caden decides to trade in the suburban spectators and local theater for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Awarded a “Genius” grant and determined...
The Business Review of Albany (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The Albany-Schenectady-Troy area had a net loss of 6,200 jobs from June to July, as its unemployment rate ticked upward to 5.0 percent, the state Department of Labor reported on Thursday.
The Business Review of Albany (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Railex LLC, a company that makes cross-country deliveries of fresh produce by train, will receive top corporate honors at the Chamber of Schenectady County's annual business awards dinner in October.
Extra Technology News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
FireThread, a Schenectady-based full-service interactive Web design and custom software development firm, today announced the launch of its new, complete ecommerce solution - FireThread Ecommerce. FireThread Ecommerce is designed to help companies of all sizes market their products and services for improved results and increased revenue. For more information about FireThread Ecommerce, please...
