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DUANESBURG
Canceled class irks Duanesburg students
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Carissa Baum, who plans to major in nursing at the SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome, is among six students imploring the district’s Board of Education to give them the grades they earned in an organic chemistry class that was abruptly cancelled last winter, rather than simply assigning them a passing mark.
ALBANY
Approval for SCCC expansion into Albany on hold
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Schenectady County Community College’s plan to expand into the city of Albany hit a bump this week, as the Albany County Legislature put approval of the general contractor for the project on hold.
GLENVILLE
Girl’s love for autistic brother leads to dance
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Meredith Cuddihy has opted to skip the prom so she can escort her 16-year-old brother, Chris, to his spring dance, hosted by Wildwood Programs in Schenectady.
TROY
RPI gets $1.8M for upgrades to supercomputer
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute got $1.8 million Tuesday for upgrades to its supercomputing center that are expected to save the university more than $1 million in annual electricity costs.
WATERFORD
Waterford library budget up for vote
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Residents of the Waterford-Halfmoon Union Free School District will vote June 5 on the Waterford Public Library budget.
FORT PLAIN & CANAJOHARIE
2 school districts face different fortunes with budgets
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Fort Plain students will likely spend more time in art class over the coming year if voters approve the district’s proposed budget, but the Canajoharie Central School District, Fort Plain’s neighbor to the east, wasn’t quite as fortunate during its recent budget process.
SARATOGA
Essay on McDonald wins Profile in Courage contest
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
An Indiana high school student has won the national Profiles in Courage contest with her essay on former state Sen. Roy McDonald and his vcte for gay-marriage that cost him re-election to the New York state Legislature.
ALBANY
‘Grease,’ 1950s theme help St. Catherine’s Center for Children raise $35K
Sunday, May 12, 2013
St. Catherine’s Center for Children raised $35,000 at its fifth annual Golden Age of SCCCript & SCCCreen dinner and dance gala on May 3.
MECHANICVILLE
Mechanicville Elementary School teaches students to be community-minded
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Mechanicville Elementary School isn’t just training students for the next grade.
SCHENECTADY
Schenectady’s teachers lacking in diversity
Saturday, May 11, 2013
About 66 percent of Schenectady’s students are not white, but only a handful of their teachers share their diverse background.
GLENVILLE
Virtanen book is all about the ending for class
Saturday, May 11, 2013
If you want to know how Michael Virtanen’s book, “Within a Forest Dark,” ends, just ask a Schenectady County Community College student.
ALBANY
1,600 at Saint Rose earn degrees
Saturday, May 11, 2013
“Good people finish first” was the central message of James Sandman’s commencement address Saturday morning to the College of Saint Rose Class of 2013.
SCHENECTADY
Union students show off fruits of their labors
Friday, May 10, 2013
An annual rite of spring at Union since 1991, the Steinmetz Symposium gives undergraduates a chance to demonstrate projects in their discipline that they’ve toiled over for the better part of a year or more.
NISKAYUNA
School fundraiser gives Mother's Day gift ideas
Friday, May 10, 2013
As head of the school’s annual Mother’s Day plant sale, Joan Thompson helped children choose begonias, impatiens, Gerbera daisies, petunias and other flowers that will brighten Sunday for many moms.
SCHENECTADY
Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons seniors leave lasting impression
Friday, May 10, 2013
Instead of banning senior pranks, Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons Assistant Principal Pat Moran gave the seniors strict rules: no destruction of property, and nothing that could harm people. Then he let them go at it.
