Sleeping with the dinos
It's not the cuddliest of sleeping companions, but that didn't stop Jonathan and Sebastian Mendez.
Give warm welcome without a guest room
Entertaining is a big part of the holiday season. Guests stop by for a meal, for a party and sometimes, for the night. For those without a guest room, it's that night part that can add to holiday stress.
Low in the Lower East Side
The Lower East Side fascinates us. How many New Yorkers how manyAmericans can trace their family histories to that part of Manhattan? We're fascinated, and appalled, by the grinding, primitive poverty in which so many New Yorkers once lived, and worked like mad to leave. A new twist on our longstanding fascination is that some of the very tenements that once exemplified the worst living ...
Today's high school schedule
Boys basketball Carmel at Arlington, 6 p.m. Beacon at Lourdes, 6 p.m. Poughkeepsie at Peekskill, 6:15 p.m. Girls basketball Arlington at Carmel, 6 p.m.
NY village sending out phony water bills?
It started as a gimmick but has mushroomed into a nasty spat between officials and residents of the village of Croton-on-Hudson.
Your lawmakers
U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley n 2431 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515 1-202-225-6335; Fax: 1-202-226-0774 Web site: www.house.gov/hinchey n 291 Wall St., Kingston, 12401 845-331-4466 Activities: No report.
Flats fixed; trains get back on track
Metro-North Railroad no longer has a flat-wheel crisis. The railroad has been back in business with a full complement of trains since Christmas.
Extension Service: Ambassadors name became a Christmas household word in long-blooming Poinsettia
The Poinsettia was introduced to the United States by Joel Roberts Poinsett. Poinsett was the United States ambassador to Mexico, appointed by President John Quincy Adams in 1825, serving until 1829. The exact date of his appointment is not nearly as important as his contribution to the plant industry as we know it today.
Today's high school sports schedule
GIRLS BASKETBALL Roosevelt at New Paltz, 6 p.m. Highland at Rhinebeck, 6:45 p.m. Rondout Valley at Marlboro, 6:45 p.m. Ellenville at Millbrook, 6:45 p.m.
