It's international Bat Week, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wants to teach you how to save bats that remain here in the winter.
The U.S. Department of Education named their 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools on Friday and one local district made the grade. New Hartford Senior High School is one of 297 schools throughout the country, and one of only 20 from New York State to receive Blue Ribbon status, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
A juvenile was arrested after allegedly making a threat on a school bus at VVS High School serving Vernon, Verona, and Sherrill, on September 15, 2022.
The U.S. News and World Report college rankings came out this week and it was not good news for one Capital Region institution. The University at Albany continued to fall behind the other New York "University Centers"; Stony Brook, Binghamton and Buffalo in gold standard of national university rankings. For more than a decade there have been rumblings of concern by faculty and alumni about the academic direction of the school. Once a proud research institution with a stout business school, UAlbany is now struggling to be recognized academically.
You may not agree with the recent loan bailout but it is pretty crazy that teenagers with no financial responsibility are allowed to take these kinds of loans out.