About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Op-ed column: Reading a book in public can be a risky proposition
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Daniel T. Weaver
There were six of us waiting outside Hometown Healthcare on State Street in Schenectady. It was a Saturday morning, July 5, and none of us wanted to be there, but teeth and other body parts have a way of causing pain on holidays as well as ordinary days.
We were a cross-section of the Mohawk Valley — male and female, young and old, black and white, from Schenectady, Amsterdam and Fonda. What struck me as unusual, however, was that four out of the six of us were reading books while waiting for the clinic doors to open....
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