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Adirondack – Save – A – Stray Pets for Adoption

IMG_1104IMG_1109Boxer mixes- These babies are about 4.5 months old. They both have wonderful personalities and need forever homes. They have come to us as an emergency because their time was up and they would have been put to sleep. One is male and the other is female, they have had their first set of shots and rabies. They desperately need a home to call their own. For more information please call the shelter at 518-654-6220 or just come by and see these and all of our other babies.

fairy1 Rollo tangerineKittens - Yes we still are overloaded with kittens. We have many colors, and ages between 6 and 16 weeks old. Please come to see these and any of our other kitties. For more information please call 518-654-6220 or just come.

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Town of Halfmoon to Hold September 11th Ceremony at Abele Memorial Park

 

HALFMOON - Supervisor Kevin Tollisen announced today that the Town of Halfmoon will hold a Patriot Day Ceremony on September 11, 2014. The ceremony will take place at the Abele Memorial Park on Harris Road and will begin promptly at 6:30pm. The ceremony will include prayer and reflection on the events of 9/11/01, Fire Department and Emergency Service Personnel, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and members from the community.

   Harris Road will be blocked for traffic between Stage Run and the entrance of the Town Hall Complex prior to the ceremony to allow Emergency Responders to make a procession to the ceremony.

 

 

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Timothy J. Sweeney – 63

HALFMOON – Timothy J. Sweeney, 63, of Staniak Road, passed away peacefully, Sunday, August 31st, at Albany Medical Center, with his loving family by his side.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday, Sept. 8th at 10 AM at Corpus Christi Church, Route 9, Ushers. Burial with military honors at St. Paul’s Cemetery. Calling hours at the DeVito-Salvadore Funeral Home, 39 So. Main St., Mechanicville on Sunday from 3-6 PM.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to the American Red Cross, Northeastern NY Region, 33 Everett Rd., Albany, 12205.

To leave condolences and for directions visit www.devito-salvadorefh.com

 

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Josef Charles Mueller, Jr.

 

Josef Charles Mueller, Jr. of Colonial Road passed away on Monday, September 1, 2014 at Albany Medical Center.  He was 86.   Born in Boston on November 22, 1927, Joe is the oldest son of the late Josef Charles, Sr. and Cornelia (MacLeod) Mueller.

A memorial service will be held at 1PM on Thursday, September 4, 2014 at the Stillwater United Church, Hudson Avenue, Stillwater.   Burial with military honors will follow at the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery. Arrangements by Chase-Smith Family Funeral Homes, Stillwater (664-3731)

Memorials may be made to the National Brain Tumor Society, 124 Watertown Street, Suite 2D
Watertown, MA 02472, in memory of Erik A. Mueller in Joe's honor.

 

Online remembrances may be made at www.chasesmithfamily.com

 

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Bicentennial of the Battle of Plattsburgh – by Chris Kelly

 

I will take a week off from Schaghticoke mill history to remind us all that 200 years ago at this time of year, New York State was being invaded by a large British Army via Lake Champlain. I was reminded of this because recently I heard an NPR radio broadcast recreating the invasion of Washington, D.C. two hundred years ago in August. The British Army, fresh from beating Napoleon at Waterloo, marched into Washington and burned the White House and Capitol buildings.

 

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Valley Falls FD Awarded Bid – by Christine Barton

 

Town of Pittstown-A letter of concern went out to town and village residents in early August, urging them to attend the August 11th Town Council meeting to show support for the Valley Falls Fire Department to continue to provide the fire protection services to the Tomhannock District Residents.

According to the information in the letter “the Valley Falls fire department has been providing services to the Tomhannock District for more than 50 years.”  It kept it’s rate flat on town residents for the five years from 2007 to 2011 and then cut its tax rate by 15% in the past 3 years.” The information in the letter titled “Tomhannock District Residents Tell Pittswtown Town Council: Say YES to Valley Falls Fire Department, was confirmed as accurate by Richard Andrew, Mayor of Valley Falls.

 

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Photolithography & Microchips – by Lauren Peterson

 

So what is photolithography and how does it relate to microchips?

Also called UV lithography and optical lithography, this process describes how light is used to transfer patterned coatings from a ‘reticle’ to a light sensitive ‘photoresist’ on a substrate. Chemical treatment engraves this exposure pattern onto the substrate (the substrate is the silicon wafers we have been talking about, in this case), beneath the photoresist. This can be done multiple times; indeed, some microchips (integrated circuits, to the electronics world) have up to fifty layers on them. The process is not so different from regular photography, before the age of digital cameras, when a pattern was created in the presence of light, except that our resist (the layer used to transfer a pattern to a substrate) is not a picture but an exceedingly precise circuit pattern.

Read the entire article in the Sept. 4th issue of the Express.

 

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The Canary Just Died – by Harold Wessell

SCHUYLERVILLE, August 27 - As a visitor to Hudson Crossing Park, near Lock 5 of the Champlain Canal, takes the path to its "Riverwalk Sensory Trail," one of the first signs is a warning familiar on the river: "Catch and Release area... Take no fish. Eat no fish."

Reaching the trail, to the left one can walk to the historic, restored for non-automobile traffic Dix Bridge; which has become a hiker and cyclist access across the Hudson to trails in Washington County and north.

Read the entire article in the Sept. 4th issue of the Express.