KIEV, Ukraine - Vice President Dick Cheney insisted that Georgia will join NATO and backed its attempts to rebuild from its war with Russia on Thursday, using a trip to former Soviet republics as a show of U.S. support for their pro-Western leaders.
Cheney flew to Kiev from Georgia, where he denounced Russia's "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw the U.S. ally's borders by force. "Georgia will be in our alliance," Cheney …
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The Southern Adirondack Audubon Society will present a slide lecture on ``Spring Time in the Adirondacks'' with emphasis on birds and wildflowers. The program takes place in the Community Room of the Saratoga Springs Public Library at 7:30 p.m. today.The group meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month at Crandall Library, Glens Falls.Little League parade planned in Ballston Spa BALLSTON SPA -- The opening day parade of the Ballston …
Themes of the November midterm elections have popped up in the handful of primaries and runoffs held in four states, the latest cluster of contests to determine matchups for this year's congressional elections.
It's shaping up to be an anti-establishment year, with angry voters casting ballots against candidates with ties to Washington and the political parties.
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A recent publication of the Cornell Waste Management Institute (CWMI) cites the following pilot projects in New York State:
Mohawk Valley Community College (enrollment 6,000) at its Utica and Rome campuses demonstrated alternatives to traditional food scrap disposal with a pilot program beginning in fall, 1996. To date, 9,450 pounds have been composted.
Keene Central School (250 students, faculty and staff) have diverted more than 6,080 pounds of food scraps since starting a composting project in 1996. "KCS has also developed meaningful ways to incorporate the compost project into learning experiences for their students," notes CWMI.
Camp Loyaltown in Hunter …
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Washington, April 8 -- Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden, are hiding in Pakistan's tribal areas, where the US is fighting a war on terror, Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday.
"In the FATA, the western part of Pakistan in the mountains on the Afghan border, that is a war on terror. That's where al-Qaeda lives. That's where bin Laden is. That's where the most radicalised part of the Taliban is," Biden told Wolf Blitzer of the CNN in an interview.
"The situation we have as it relates to problems that exist in other parts of the world, they aren't all related to terror," he said in response to a question if the Obama Administration …
Area police departments will participate in the annual statewide "Safe and Sober" campaign starting today until Sept. 4.
The campaign involves stepped-up patrols to find drunken drivers.
Capt. William Valenza of the Glens Falls Police Department, one of the agencies promoting safe and sober driving, asked citizens to refrain from driving if they have …
