Posted Jan 27, 2011 By EMC News Email    Print   Tweet This Any community organization based in our circulation area wishing to list an event of community interest is invited to submit a description of 25 words or less in writing. Admissions or event costs, will not be included. Deadline is Thursday at 4:30 p.m. prior to publication date. This service is provided free of charge. Events will be listed no more than two weeks in advance. Write, St. Lawrence EMC, 7712 Kent Blvd., Brockville, Read more [...]

Thursday, January 27 Winter Film Fest features ‘Winter’s Bone’ (2010), 6 p.m. at Floyd Memorial Library, 539 First St., Greenport. Unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Free. 477-0660. Hands-on resume writing, 6-8 p.m. in adult computer lab at Riverhead Free Library, 330 Court St. Learn how to create, style, format and e-mail resume. Free. Register: 727-3228, ext. 0, riverheadlibrary.org. Indie Read more [...]

Freshman Caitlin Ludlow went to dodgeball Jan. 11 expecting a friendly game. She walked out with a jammed thumb."Some one threw a dodgeball at me, I tried to catch it but it bounced off my thumb," Ludlow said. "It happens in friendly competition, you can't avoid injury."Ludlow is one of a number of students that have taken advantage of the increased campus-sponsored events during Winter Term.Uzoma Oluka, the assistant director of campus activities, is in charge of all campus-sponsored events Read more [...]

After dominating the headlines in the run up to the November elections, the controversy over a proposed thirteen-story Islamic cultural center and mosque to be located two blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan has largely abated.  Last week, however, the developers of Park 51, as the project is known, suddenly announced that the controversial imam who had been the chief public proponent of the mosque was leaving the project to focus on other initiatives.In a statement released last Monday, Read more [...]

Not all calendars have all of the celebrated holidays listed on their pages, so an overdue review might be in order. Look at a calendar as we conduct this review.Jan. 1, New Year’s Day — not only the traditional day to start the new year, but the time to enjoy traditional festivities such as the Rose Bowl Parade and football game. It is also a day to recover from the exciting night before, the prelude to New Year’s Day, when in Times Square the nation watches as the ball descends on schedule Read more [...]

Almindoro will begin a light autumn campaign aimed at the Group Two Alister Clark Stakes when he resumes at Sandown on Saturday.The Redoute's Choice three-year-old is still a maiden after five starts but showed he was one of the better middle distance/staying prospects around last spring with two seconds in Listed and Group Three events.The gelding was runner-up by a long neck to Eclair Surprise in the UCI Stakes (1800m) at Flemington and beaten a half-length when runner-up to Retrieve in Read more [...]