10 years ago
July 29, 2011: Hungry folks couldnât get a $5 footlong Thursday on Public Square. The Subway restaurant, 32 Public Square, was seized by the state Department of Taxation and Finance on allegations that the restaurant had not paid nearly $10,000 due to the state. The restaurant, operated by Hiru Enterprises Inc., was closed and locked. A notice on the door said the department has a âlevy on the title and interest in and to all personal property on these premises.â
25 years ago
July 29, 1996: Off-Track Betting is taking another run at Jefferson County. A capital region OTB official will make his pitch to county Finance and Rules committee members tonight. Efforts to bring OTB into Jefferson County first stalled in 1975, when the former Board of Supervisors voted it down. Neighboring St. Lawrence County dealt with multiple votes and numerous petitions for about five years before its Legislature finally decided to allow OTB in 1987. There now are parlors in
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Santha Rama Rau: The prolific wordsmith who wrote for the ‘New Yorker’ and was wooed by a mafia don
In her peripatetic life, the accomplished writer got many opportunities to observe major events and changemakers from up close. Courtesy: The Nikhil and Dottie Wagle Family Collection.
When she was six years old, Santha Rama Rau left India for the first time. Her father, Benegal Rama Rau, a civil servant, moved to England as the first Round Table Conference to discuss constitutional reforms in India got underway in 1930. For her, it was the beginning of a lifetime of travel, during which she wrote books and journalistic articles, had a ringside view of global events and met the changemakers of the time. Rau once told a newspaper that she lived in three-year cycles, spending “a year in New York, a city I adore, a year in India, and a year travelling”.
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