Elise Stefanik: from ambitious private school student to ardent Trump backer
A look back at how the Times Union chronicled her ascent
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While New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who was recognized by President Donald Trump the day after the U.S. Senate acquitted on two articles of impeachment, has been a person noted in the Times Union’s pages since the newspaper interviewed her as a 14-year-old fan of former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D Amato in 1998. (File photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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At a Kids Health conference held in Albany in 1999, Elise Stefanik, far right, fights off Butt Man with NYS Comptroller H. Carl McCall and fights Albany Academy For Girls students Genevieve Burger-Weiser and Caroline Feinberg. (Times Union archive photo)Skip Dickstein/DGShow MoreShow Less
Courtesy of Joe Lawrence, Cornell University
COLLECTING DATA: A harvester readies to collect silage as part of the Cornell and University of Vermont corn silage trials. Dozens of hybrids were tested in Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont.
Still looking for good data on corn silage hybrids? University silage trial results are now online for your viewing pleasure.
New York and Vermont’s trials led by Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and University of Vermont Cooperative Extension featured 90 entries from 16 seed brands planted in five locations: Albion, Aurora, Madrid and Willsboro, N.Y.; and Alburgh, Vt. Planting was done between May 5 and 21, and harvest was completed between Sept. 1 and 21, depending on location.
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Dec 15, 2020
Russell Glen Mason, 65, passed away, unexpectedly on Friday, December 11, 2020, at the University of Vermont Medical Center, in Burlington, VT.
Mr. Mason was born in Elizabethtown, NY on July 16, 1955. He was the son of James and Arlene (Jones) Mason. He grew up on the family farm on Reber Road, in Willsboro, NY, where he received his early education, and was a member of the Willsboro, NY High School, class of 1973. Russell lived his life as a hardworking man who cared for anyone he met. He started that life at his family farm. He was a volunteer fireman and Chief, for the local fire department, in his younger years. He had worked as a woodsman, logging various area of New York State, as well as driving tractor trailer for himself and others. Russell spent 25 hardworking and dedicated years at McIntyre Fuels in Middlebury, where he did everything from driving gas tankers, to fixing them, and eventually installing commercial fuel tanks and systems. An accident forced hi