any meat on those bones?

I attended the candidates forum at Riverfront Center. I paid particular attention to those running for aldermen, as you may expect. There was much ado about the ominous upcoming budget, holding the line, improving infrastructure, and cleaning up the city, but not a word about how we will pay for it. Cut, cut, cut… but [...]

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make a difference

City of Amsterdam
National Make A Difference Day

Saturday, October 24th (rain-date October 25th) • 9am

Locations:
- West-end: War Memorial Park
- East-end: DPW parking lot at East Entrance
- Arnold Avenue area: Bunn St & Lindbergh Ave
Neighborhood clean-up.
Bring your rake, shovel, weed-whacker, hedge cutter.
Garbage bags/pick-up provided.
Volunteers appreciated.
It’s all good.

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poem

COMPANY OF FRIENDS
When I die, let them judge me by my company of friends
Let them know me as the footprints that I left upon the sand
Let them laugh for all the laughter
Let them cry for laughter’s end
But when I die, let them judge me by my company of friends
When I die, let them toast to [...]

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hmmmmm

Albany Tech has offered $50K to secure a new option agreement for the Chalmers luxury apartment project, and should the project not come to fruition, they will pay any additional cost beyond what the City has secured in grants for demolition.
It’s an estimated $24-40M construction project with the potential to produce over a million dollars [...]

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Benefit for Mark Martuscello

Sunday, October 25, 2009
12:00pm – 5:00pm
at LaCucina, Port Jackson Square, Amsterdam, NY
Seventeen year old Mark Martuscello was involved in an extremely serious motor vehicle accident on September 21, 2009. As a result, Mark is now paralyzed from the waist down. He has gone to Atlanta, Georgia to the Shepherd Center where he will receive rehabilitation [...]

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smile and say “golf”

Good friend, gosh-darned great accountant, amazing folk artist, community activist and, now, boogie-woogie star of Amsterdam’s Muni: Michael Zumbolo!
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getting through the day

“Reflect on your present blessings,
of which every man has many,
not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.”
- Charles Dickens, 1812-1870

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prayer of philaret

My Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee.
Thou and Thou alone knowest my needs.
Thou lovest me more than I am able to love Thee.
O Father, grant unto me, Thy servant, all which I cannot ask.
For a cross I dare not ask, nor for consolation;
I dare only to stand in Thy presence.
My [...]

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quote

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
– George Bernard Shaw

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