As we approach budget-drafting season in our towns, we urge our municipal leaders to set aside some funds for their town historians to carry on worthwhile work.
People can become less afraid, experts believe. Treatment often focuses on gradually increasing exposure to the feared object or situation, together with learning alternative beliefs about one’s own response to it.
SCHOHARIE — The Old Stone Fort Museum is hosting a weekend full of immersive, living history reenactments and activities on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5 and 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., during Stone Fort Days.
Professor of nanoscience at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Serge Oktyabrsky, has received $276,000 in funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research as part of a collaboration with the University at Buffalo’s SUNY Distinguished Professor Vladimir Mitin.
There are about 16,000 children in foster care in New York State, says Sandra Flach of Justice for Orphans. She wishes more churchgoers would open their homes to foster children, but says there are other ways to help.
In both cases — a splendid Guilderland home for foster children on a break, and a remade wing of county jail for parolees and people without a home — we can see the importance of respite.
Starting on Saturday, Oct. 26, Albany County voters will for the first time be able to vote before the general election, which this year is on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Nicole M. (née Ferraino) Clagett will receive the 2019 Global Humanitarian Award from the Corporation for National & Community Service in an Oct. 23 event at SearStone Retirement Community in Cary, North Carolina.
Clagett graduated from Berne-Knox-Westerlo in 1994.
