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CDTA summer fun youth passes now on sale at Mr. Subb

CDTA summer fun youth passes now on sale at Mr. Subb

CAPITAL REGION –CDTA summer fun youth passes will be available for $30.00 for unlimited rides for the month of July and August. Following is more information:

The Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) is partnering with Mr. Subb again on the sale of CDTA Summer Fun passes, good for all Capital Region youths 17 and under. The Summer Fun Pass is currently on sale at multiple Mr. Subb locations throughout the Capital Region. 

Summer Fun passes are also available online here and at CDTA sales office located at 85 Watervliet Avenue, and Proctors Theatre in Schenectady.

Canajoharie Library kicks off summer reading

CANAJOHARIE - The Canajoharie Library’s Summer Reading program starts June 21 inside the library.

The program is for children and teens.

All families who sign up will receive prizes.

The Junior Bookworms program is new this year for parents and their babies-toddlers.

When parents register they will receive a card with 20 different activities to do with their children and help prepare them.

Milestone prizes will be given out to the kids who complete portions of their activity card.

Every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. there will be stories read and fun projects to do based on the story.

Lexington Foundation holds fashion show

JOHNSTOWN — The Lexington Foundation will be holding its 2013 fashion show June 20 at Lexington’s newly renovated facility at 465 North Perry Street at 11:30 a.m.

Local women will be in the show modeling clothes and accessories by Saratoga Trunk in Saratoga Springs and the jewelry by Castiglione Gem Jewelers in Gloversville.

There will be a silent auction and raffle for prizes including artwork.

For more information contact Terry Swierzowski at 518-736-3909. 

Tractor trailer accident in Sloansville causes delays

Traffic is down to one lane as crews work to clean up shredded recycling from the roadway at Rte. 20 and Rte 30A in Sloansville.

Officials say a tractor trailer that was hauling the material rolled over. Police are investigating what caused the accident, but say there were no other vehicles involved.

The driver was taken to the hospital with an arm injury, but is expected to be fine.

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NY maple syrup rebounds 59 percent after slow 2012

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's maple syrup production surged this year, thanks to better weather for the sweet crop.           

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says production was up 59 percent, from 360,000 to 574,000 gallons.           

Sap flow was held down in 2012 because of the relatively warm weather in late winter and early spring. Federal experts say the colder early spring slowed budding on the trees and extended the season.           

They say only Vermont produced more syrup than New York.           

A total of 3.25 million gallons was produced nationally, up 70 percent from 2012.

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Auditors say NYS mistakenly paid unemployment to deceased people

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York auditors say the state mistakenly authorized nearly $3 million in unemployment payments for people who were dead, employed, out of the country, not authorized to work in the U.S. or had exceeded their benefits.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says $1.9 million was prevented from actually being paid, while the state Labor Department should pursue recovery of $1.1 million.

Labor officials say they have increased fraud-fighting measures by funding five positions in the comptroller's office to ensure overpayments are quickly identified and recouped, the very staff who identified the overpayments in this report.

That $3 million is less than 1 percent of $7.1 billion paid out to 1.13 million people in 2012.

Mario Cuomo's portrait joins the Hall of Governors

ALBANY - A portrait of former Governor Mario Cuomo, now hangs at the Capitol in the Hall of Governors.

In a ceremony on Saturday, current governor and Mario's son Andrew unveiled the portrait.

Saturday was also the former governor's 81st birthday.

Mario Cuomo is credited with delivering some of America’s most important political speeches.

The Democrat was Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994.