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of — Luke Glaser was once a struggling math student. Academically, he often excelled. But learning polynomials, as well as quadratic equations and functions, just didn’t seem applicable to his life as a high school teenager. “I hated math, and I took AP classes to simply not have to take math in college.” But 10 years later, in one of life’s little ironies, Glaser finds himself at the head of the classroom teaching AP Calculus. “The biggest challenge wasn’t going to be re-learning integrals or derivatives but convincing students that taking the hard classes are worth it.” A...

BUSINESSES will soon be asked to lend their support to a key organisation in as it seeks to be at the forefront of York's recovery. The York Business Improvement District (BID) is nearing the end of its five-year term, and will be holding a ballot to secure its renewal. As the city goes into 2021 on an unsteady footing, with a new lockdown threatening livelihoods, the BID team wants to play a key part in York's survival and revival post-Covid-19. It is asking York businesses to support them to secure a further five years of investment, business support and strong delivery.

Historic Native American site at issue in Troy Concern by Native and non-Native groups alike FacebookTwitterEmail TROY -- Opponents of a 240-unit apartment complex proposed for the north part of the city have created a group, Friends of the Mohicantuck, which has a distinctly Native American sound to it. Mohicantuck is an ancient Mohican Indian name for the Hudson River. But the group fighting the project in part because it sits on an historical Native American site is not affiliated with the tribe. In fact, tribal leaders in Wisconsin didn’t initially know that Friends of the Mohicantuck h...

Historic Native American site at issue in Troy Concern by Native and non-Native groups alike FacebookTwitterEmail Mohicantuck is an ancient Mohican Indian name for the Hudson River. But the group fighting the project in part because it sits on an historical Native American site is not affiliated with the tribe. In fact, tribal leaders in Wisconsin didn’t initially know that Friends of the Mohicantuck had been formed over the issue. “We have no relationship with the Friends of the Mohicantuck,” Heather Bruegl, the tribe’s cultural affairs director said in a recent interview. Despite th...

(Rochester) Democrat & Chronicle Cars pass by the Exit 3 overpass on Interstate 87 in the town of Colonie, just north of Albany, on Dec. 15. The site is supposed to have murals depicting Native American history but the state has not yet installed them. (Provided photo — Democrat & Chronicle) COLONIE – On a chilly November day last year, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo climbed into Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 Packard and took it for a spin. Cuomo had the vintage car restored two years earlier so he could drive it to mark special occasions. And this, by the governor’s estimation, was ...