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Mort handily wins Stockade-athon battle
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 23 Hours 23 Minutes ago
The Daily Gazette - A year after just five seconds separated the men?s and women?s Gazette Stockade-athon winners from their respective runners-up, Emory Mort of Ghent and Kaitlin O?Sullivan of Syracuse each won by almost a minute on Sunday after dropping their closest rivals for good on the uphills after the hafway point.
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Hunters encouraged to donate deer to help feed those in need
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 8 Hours 38 Minutes ago
Times-Union - Capital Region hunters can help feed hungry families in local communities this fall by donating deer to the Hudson Mohawk Resource Conservation and Development Council's venison donation program.Hunters can donate legally tagged and properly field dressed deer by calling ahead to participating processors. The venison will be legally processed and packaged at no charge to the hunter. With the rise in food and gas prices, many families in New York have found themselves unable to afford nutritious food. Venison is all natural, preservative-free, and an excellent source of protein. The Hudson Mohawk Resource Conservation and Development Council works with sportsmen's organizations in Columbia, Greene, and Schenectady counties and the Venison Donation Coalition to reimburse processors at $1.25 per pound. In Columbia and Greene counties, venison processed in the county stays within the county thanks to the efforts of volunteers. Elsewhere, venison is picked up and distributed by the Food Bank of Northeastern NY. The program is funded through the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Hudson River Bank and Trust Co. Foundation. Last year, 3,341 pounds of venison were donated in Albany, Columbia, and Greene counties. The following are participating processors in the Hudson Mohawk region: Albany County: Bill Leary (Albany 438-2755), Rich's Custom Meat Shop (Greenville 966-8597), Columbia County: Alan Briggs (Columbiaville 828-6348), Ed Uhnak (Hudson 828-5912), George Whitbeck (Hudson 851-2385); Greene County: Les Armstrong (Cornwallville 622-8452); Montgomery County: Butcher Block Custom Meat Cutting (Palatine Bridge 993-4182), Hunters Custom Processing (Pattersonville 858-2353); Rensselaer County: Kreutziger Custom Butchering (East Nassau 376-1777); and Schenectady County: Jack's Venison Cuts (Scotia 399-6420). For a complete listing of participating processors and their contact information, please visit http://www.VensionDonation.org. The Hudson Mohawk RC&D Council is a nonprofit organization that promotes regional economic and natural resource conservation development in Albany, Columbia, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer and Schenectady counties and is funded in part by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services. All programs and assistance of the Hudson Mohawk RC&D Council are available without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status. For more information, please contact Hudson Mohawk RC&D Coordinator Elizabeth Marks. She can be reached at 828-4385, Ext. 105....
Prize money has helped lure exceptional women?s field
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The Daily Gazette - The 33rd annual Gazette Stockade-athon 15k, which will start at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday from Central Park, has benefitted from an infusion of $3,000 in prize money by Fleet Feet Albany for open division runners. That?s attracted several women from outside the Capital Region, making the top level of the women?s field a hodgepodge of runners with various degrees of early speed, endurance and experience.
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Niskayuna man dies after falling from horse
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 16 Hours 18 Minutes ago
The Daily Gazette - A Niskayuna man died Saturday after he was thrown from a horse....
Fall from horse kills Niskayuna man
Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 19 Hours 54 Minutes ago
Times-Union - NORTH CHATHAM ? A 79-year-old Niskayuna man was killed over the weekend after being thrown off a horse he was riding on Dorland Road. Gerald Malone of died Saturday evening at Albany Medical Center Hospital as a result of severe head trauma. Malone was riding on Dorland Road just after 2 p.m. Saturday with his daughter when his horse bucked and threw him to the ground, according to the Columbia County sheriff's department. Malone was a retired civil engineer with the state Department of Transportation. He also worked at the state Department of Mental Hygiene before retiring in 1985. Malone was an avid outdoorsman and a graduate of the Wanakeena forestry school in the Adirondacks. He also was a cyclist and birdwatcher ,and enjoyed carpentry and building models. The Chatham Rescue Squad and members of the Tri-Village Fire Company responded to the scene. Malone was airlifted to Albany Medical Center, where he died about four hours after the accident. Survivors include his daughters, Chris Malone, Caren Malone and Patricia Malone, as well as six grandchildren and a brother, Richard Malone. A funeral will be held 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the French, Gifford, Preiter and Blasl Funeral Home, 25 Railroad Ave., Chatham. Scott Waldman can be reached at 454-5080 or by e-mail at swaldman@timesunion.com....
Rider thrown from horse and killed
Found: 2 Weeks 4 Days 1 Hour 8 Minutes ago
WRNN News - Associated Press - November 3, 2008 3:15 AM ET NORTH CHATHAM, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say a 79-year-old rider is dead after he was thrown from a horse south of Albany over the weekend.
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BH-BL girls, boys both earn ?A? sectional titles
Found: 2 Weeks 5 Days 10 Hours 51 Minutes ago
The Daily Gazette - Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake made a clean sweep of Class A with Section II championships in both the boys? and girls? races Friday at Saratoga Spa State Park, each with predictably tight competition from Queensbury
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CBA's Reilly commits early to Johns Hopkins
Found: 2 Weeks 5 Days 10 Hours 51 Minutes ago
The Daily Gazette - In the world of lacrosse, Jack Reilly of Christian Brothers Academy has come a long way in a short period of time. Not even three years into his lacrosse career, the 6-foot-3, 215-pound junior made an early commitment this week to play for national power Johns Hopkins in Baltimore
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New trooper from Latham also a lawyer
Found: 3 Weeks 1 Day 22 Hours 29 Minutes ago
Times-Union - It was a whirlwind week for Jim Horton, a 27-year-old Latham resident. Consider:On Oct. 21, a Tuesday, he was sworn in as a state trooper with 91 other graduates of the State Police Academy. Two days later, he was among 100 new lawyers sworn in and admitted to the New York state bar. His name may sound familiar to those in the legal and law enforcement communities. His dad, Jim Horton, who when he retired from the State Police in 1999 after just short of 22 years was the senior investigator in charge of the Major Crimes Unit of Troop G in Loudonville. The elder Horton went to work as deputy chief investigator for then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and is now an assistant director at state Homeland Security. After the son started his police training, his father wanted him to carry the same shield he had carried ? No. 955. Troopers identify themselves by their shield number, and uniformed troopers, unlike municipal police, carry the shield in their pockets as do investigators. They don't wear it on their uniform. After a member of the State Police retires, the shield remains idle for six months and is then assigned to a new trooper. Without telling his son, Horton located his former shield. It was being carried by a trooper in the southern part of the state. He e-mailed the trooper and explained the situation. "I told him there was no pressure, just if he would consider it," Horton said. The trooper, who has since been promoted to investigator and assigned to Catskill, called Horton and said he was willing to give it up. Horton said he choked up when the trooper said, "Your son should have it. It should stay in the family." The day before graduation, a shield ceremony was held at which the father presented the No. 955 shield to his son. The new trooper was delighted, having assumed the shield wasn't available. After several weeks with field training officers, working out of Troop G, the young Horton will be assigned to a barracks somewhere in the state. He has a degree in information technology from the University at Albany and is a May 2007 graduate of Albany Law School. While in law school, he took the exam and was called by the State Police. However, he asked for a deferment until he completed law school. The father of two young boys, he began police training six months ago. "His primary focus today is to be a state trooper," his father said. "I think he'll be a very good fit because of his education, his background. He grew up around troopers and investigators and he showed an interest. And, the two can go hand in hand ? his law degree and the State Police." Lt. Glenn Miner, State Police spokesman, noted how unusual it is to have someone "who has already gone through law school to become a trooper." A handful or so of current troopers have law degrees which they earned while on the job, including Miner, who is a graduate of Albany Law and a trooper of 23 years. "The background knowledge from a law degree is very useful in law enforcement," he said. Judge honored At the Court of Appeals lecture last week on "Woodstock: The Music of the First Amendment," speaker Sam Yasgur of Monticello took a minute to pay tribute ? not to his father (he did that later) on whose 600-acre Bethel dairy farm the 1969 music festival was held ? but to Chief Judge Judith Kaye who retires at year's end, having reached the age of 70. Yasgur, a lawyer, characterized it as "an arcane provision in our Constitution" mandating the retirement. "She has done more to elevate, modernize and enlighten, not only the courts, but the legal profession, as well," he said of Kaye's tenure as chief judge for nearly 16 years. She was an associate judge for 10 years before that. "She's our chief judge, not the chief judge," Yasgur said. Kaye's "vitality, common sense, wit and compassion" will be missed, he said. Kaye grew up in Monticello and her family knew the Yasgurs. She has been behind the lectures that began in 2006, as a means of opening the state's top court to the public. Each lecture has drawn a packed house of about 200. Cyber safety Columbia County District Attorney Beth Cozzolino has teamed up with several of the county's parent-teacher associations to make the Internet safer for children. "Working together, we can send a message loud and clear that we will not let our children become victims to Internet stalkers," Cozzolino said. She is kicking off the campaign by sending home with school kids a packet of information explaining to parents and guardians how to protect children from the dangers of the Internet and how to talk to them about the risks involved. Included in the packet is a pledge for students to sign, promising they will report to their parents or guardians anything they come across on the Internet that makes them feel uncomfortable. The campaign also includes a series of radio public service announcements. For more information, call the DA's office at 828-3414. Carol DeMare can be reached at 454-5431 or by e-mail at cdemare@timesunion.com....
High Schools: Patriots rally past Warriors
Found: 3 Weeks 2 Days 2 Hours 5 Minutes ago
The Daily Gazette - The Schenectady volleyball team was one game away from sectional elimination Tuesday in its Class AA rematch with Niskayuna at the Pat Riley Sports Center.?We really pulled together. We didn?t want to go home, and we came through,? senior Meghan Devlin said after the Lady Patriots ended the Silver Warriors? hopes of a repeat title. ?We got our minds in the game.?And feet, hands and everything else in a stirring comeback victory....
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