Letter: Sheehan, Hawkins right to clear South Station protestors
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FILE. Letter writer says, Protests and occupations are not synonymous. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)Lori Van Buren
Protests and occupations are not synonymous. Protests are legitimate exercises of our First Amendment right as Americans to peaceably demonstrate and call attention to injustice. Occupations are the illegitimate seizure of public space by individuals for prolonged periods of time who commandeer that space exclusively for themselves until their “demands” are met.
Recent events at the Albany Police Department’s South Station where protestors morphed into occupiers highlight the difference in stark detail. The First Amendment is not a license to defecate, urinate and set fires in the street nor to deface and destroy public property nor to defy law enforcement’s requests to peacefully disperse. Those who engage in such actions only damage the legitimate causes
Washington County Sheriff looking for fisherman who saved boy from drowning
Rescuer brought him to shore, and he went back out fishing
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A kayaker watches a flock of geese fly over him while out for a paddle on Cossayuna Lake in Cossayuna, NY on October 26, 2010. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)Lori Van Buren
GREENWICH The Washington County Sheriff s Office and the families of two 10-year-old boys are looking for a fisherman so they can thank him for saving one of the children from drowning Sunday in Cossayuna Lake.
A 10-year-old child in a kayak fell into the water around 2:37 p.m. Sunday, and another 10-year-old in a kayak was able to help the other child hang on to the boat. Neither child was wearing a life jacket, according to the sheriff s office.
Table Hopping By Steve Barnes, senior writer on April 23, 2021 at 1:13 PM
I have a story,
online now and slated to be the centerpiece on the front page of Sunday’s newspaper, talking to local restaurateurs about the unprecedented staff shortages faced by the hospitality industry. Short version:
As the weather warms, vaccination rates rise and area residents, after a year of restricted socializing, seem eager to get out of the house, the effects of restaurants’ staff shortages on the dining experience have the potential to be significant, according to area owners. They include continuing diminished days and hours; spontaneous one-day closures; longer waits for food or servers’ attention; the challenge of serving a growing number of in-house customers while maintaining takeout service; and the inability to seat at full capacity, once allowed by the state, because there aren’t enough employees to make the orders or bring them to additional tables.
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