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Schodack native graduates basic training

Schodack native graduates basic training

 

SAN ANTONIO - Air National Guard Airman Brendon Walsh graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Walsh is the son of Sherry and William Walsh of Schodack Landing.

He is a 2011 graduate of Maple Hill High School, Castleton on Hudson.

Troy native graduates basic training

 

COLUMBIA - Army National Guard Pfc. Kayla M. Rost has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.

She is the daughter of Ruth and Bob Bahret Troy, and granddaughter of Janet Liszewski Schenectady.

Rost graduated in 2010 from Troy High School.

Averill Park native graduates basic training

Averill Park native graduates basic training

 

SAN ANTONIO - Air Force Airman Timothy J. Morin has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Morin is the son of Adrian Morin Sr. of Troy.

He is a 2012 graduate of Averill Park High School.

Michelle Williams joins FELA! at Proctors

Michelle Williams joins FELA! at Proctors

SCHENECTADY – The award-winning Fela! will arrive at Proctors Mainstage for three shows only on Friday, March 8, featuring Grammy-award winning recording artist Michelle Williams from Destiny's Child, as Sandra Isadore.

“I am thrilled to join the cast of Fela!,” said Michelle Williams. “This musical journey

is one that I’ve wanted to be a part of since first seeing it on stage in 2008.  The sounds, the passion and the politics of Fela Kuti have long intrigued me and speak to my heart.  I am simply honored.”

Fela! tells the true story of Kuti, who created Afrobeat music, by mixing together pounding eclectic rhythms with lyrics that attacked the dictatorships that ruled Africa.

Rensselaer County native graduates basic training

Rensselaer County native graduates basic training

 

SAN ANTONIO – Air Force Airman Michael T. Jones has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Jones earned the distinction as an honor graduate.

He is the son of Tina Jones of Rensselaer; he is also a 2007 graduate of Columbia High School in East Greenbush as well as a 2011 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

Leading candidate for pope has strong ties to Capital Region

TROY - In the United Kingdom, the short money at betting parlors is going to a 64-year-old cardinal from Ghana with strong ties to the Capital Region, Peter Turkson.

"Peter Turkson is the red hot favorite," said Rupert Adams of William Hill Bookmakers. "Interestingly, we put him in at five to one yesterday when the big announcement occurred. He's been backed quite heavily, in from five to three to one, which would suggest that some people think that he's a genuine contender."

Turkson studied for the priesthood at a seminary along the Hudson in Rensselaer.

The future Cardinal and possible pope carried the word and lived his faith in places like Arbor Hill.

He's continued to visit here, taking part in a service at Siena College last May.

Sage to name center after Newtown principal

TROY, N.Y. (AP) - The Sage Colleges plans to establish a new education center in honor of Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, who was a doctoral candidate in the college's educational leadership program.
    
Hochsprung, five other educators and 20 children were killed in the Dec. 14 mass shooting at the school in Newtown, Conn.
    
The Sage Colleges has announced that its Esteves School of Education is creating the Dawn Hochsprung Center for the Promotion of Mental Health and School Safety.
    
College officials say Hochsprung will receive her doctorate posthumously with her class in May 2015.
    
A memorial service in honor of Hochsprung will be held Saturday on the Sage College of Albany campus. The college also has a campus in nearby Troy that's home to the Esteves School.