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Digital Affordable Childcare Portal Launched For New Yorkers
Not long ago, we learned about the historic investment for New York State's child care assistance programs. On Friday July 19th, Governor Hochul helped to officially launch the web portal that will allow hundreds of thousands more New Yorkers access to those assistance programs. Digital Childcare Portal Launched For New...
NOAA Says New York State Will Stay Very Warm Well Into the Fall
While the brutal heatwave finally broke across New York state this week, meteorologists say the much warmer than average weather isn't going to stay away. Could summer-like temperatures last well into the fall across New York and the Northeast?. So far this year, Extreme Weather Watch says that it has...
N.Y. Lottery: 3 winners score $6k in TAKE 5 jackpot prizes, including 1 on Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Three jackpot-winning tickets worth nearly $6,000 were drawn recently in New York state — including one winner on Staten Island, according to lottery officials. The New York Lottery announced that three winning tickets worth $5,882 were sold for the July 21 midday drawing. One...
Spotted Lanternfly Detected In Finger Lakes
Spotted Lanternfly has been detected in the grape-growing region of the Finger Lakes. The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets confirmed the presence of the invasive species in Romulus. State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball said, “We have been working with our partners for years to contain Spotted Lanternfly...
Donegal Momentum Makes Graded Stakes Debut in G2 Amsterdam
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.— Donegal Racing’s lightly-raced Donegal Momentum is set for his graded stakes debut in Friday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Amsterdam, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for sophomores, at Saratoga Race Course. Trainer Tom Morley, who saddled The Big Torpedo to win the $150,000 Cab Calloway division of...
New Lightning Lane Flyers Given Out at Disney World Hotels
Disney Genie+ is being phased out next week, and flyers with information on how to use Disney’s new and upcoming Lightning Lane system have started to be distributed to guests staying at various Walt Disney World Resort Hotels. We found this flyer in our room while staying at Disney’s...
Future Is Now Faces Familiar Foes in G3 Caress
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.— R. Larry Johnson’s Maryland-homebred Future Is Now headlines a talented 11-horse field as the top-three finishers of last month’s Grade 2 Intercontinental reunite in Thursday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Caress presented by Albany Med Health System, at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Michael Trombetta,...
Professor Coleen Edwards Leads New York Sea Grant Plankton Workshop for Teachers
Coleen Edwards, a faculty fellow in biology and environmental sciences at Niagara University, hosted a professional development workshop sponsored by the New York Sea Grant and the Center for Great Lakes Literacy. Twenty teachers and educators representing 17 school districts participated in the two-day workshop, which was held July 18-19, 2024, and focused on plankton, the organisms that form the base of the Great Lakes food web.
Sunday’s Saratoga picks – July 21
The second week of the 2024 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with an 11-race card highlighted by the rescheduled Gradd 1 A.P. Smithwick over jumps and a strong renewal of the Grade 2 Shuvee Stakes for older fillies and mares. The $150,000 Smithwick, originally scheduled for Wednesday,...
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