Health
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A Firefly Atlas: Research Hopes to Help Declining Species
Most people have heard about insect declines, with recent headlines like “Insect Declines: The Great and Merciless Thinning.” Bumble bees…
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Canadian Wildfires Trigger Air Quality Health Advisory
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and State Department of Health (DOH) have issued an Air Quality Health…
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Trump Regime Kill’s Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced it close it’s doors. The move follows the Republican Party’s cutting of…
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Sugar, Slave Labor & Art Galleries
Sugarbaker is a relatively common name that began to appear in American censuses from the 1830s onward. As an occupational…
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Bald Eagle Rescued From Erie Canal Lock; Rattlesnake Rescued from Home
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs) made two notable wildlife rescues recently, including a eastern timber rattlesnake…
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1925 Northern New York Radio History
Orrie Gould had a radio and would travel. “Gordon Russell and George Wilson were at J. Hebert Bly’s Sunday evening…
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Changing the Game: Board Games, Card Games & Tabletop Role-Playing Games
In celebration of the history of games and the universality of play, the New York State Library has created a…
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Adirondack Independence Music Festival Announces 2025 Lineup
The Adirondack Independence Music Festival has revealed this year’s musical lineup as it prepares to celebrate its 10 year anniversary.…
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New Netherland Settlers’ Biographies Go Online
The first set of individual sketches under the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society‘s New Netherland Settlers initiative has now…
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The Educational Legacy of Lucretia Foot Booth
Lucretia Foot Booth was born in 1804 in Troy, NY, the only child of Ebenezer Foot and Betsey Colt Foot.…
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