ALBANY COUNTY — A score of Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education students earned medals at the regional SkillsUSA competition on March 16 in Schenectady and Scotia.
The six first-place winners and many of the other medal winners will advance to the state SkillsUSA competition in Syracuse next month.
SCHOHARIE — Plans are finalized for the 2022 Spring Antiques in Schoharie, to be held at the Quality Inn, 160 Holiday Way in Schoharie on April 2 and 3.
The annual statewide ban prohibiting residential brush burning will begin March 16 and run through May 14.
Since 2009, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation has enforced the ban to prevent wildfires and protect communities during heightened conditions for wildfires each spring.
In mid-March, amphibians typically migrate to breed. Volunteers are sought to help them safely cross roads as they travel from forests to vernal ponds.
After the destruction of the Second Temple by Rome in 70 CE, the diaspora of Jews of the East — Israel and Babylonia — developed very differently from those of the West — Egypt, northern Africa, Asia Minor, and southeastern and southern Europe.
The New York Army National Guard has made these recent promotions:
— Ajay Raghavendra from Guilderland, assigned to the Company D, 3rd Battalion, 142nd Aviation, received a promotion to the rank of sergeant on Jan. 21; and
