Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Only half of the children who sign up for Head Start in Schenectady County actually get into the program each year, which has such a long waiting list that some children enter kindergarten before they can get a preschool spot....
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