Funeral home tour helps living deal with death
In Schenectady, Griswold Funeral Home offers tours and a media center on death to help the living cope. Funeral directors Van Valkenburgh and Lasky explain embalming, vaults, and cremation myths while teens and communities visit, view tools, and discuss rituals to aid grieving and prepare for loss.
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John Strachan
Schenectady
Terry Vani Valkenburgh
New York State
Griswold Funeral Home
van Valkenburgh
Holywood
Griswold
John Lasky
Lasky
van Valkenburgh and Lasky
Terry van Valkenburgh
Albany Faces Clash Over Bottle Bill and Casinos
Rumors swirl as New York lawmakers debate a five cent bottle bill and casino gambling. Robach cancels a wine committee vote pending Gov Carey’s report, which will survey opinions but not take a stand. Senate action remains uncertain with opposition from breweries and concerns about jobs and crime.
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Kenn Peters
Albany Bureau
Albany
Assembly Commerce Committee
Roger J. Robach
Rochester
Hugh L. Carey
Robach
Commerce Committee
Assembly
Stanley Fink
Robert Abrams
Senate
James H. Donovan
R-Chadwicks
Senate Committee On
Donovan
Membership in cult bad time for her
Pat Murphy tells of a six month 1975 1976 stint in the Children of God, calling it brainwashing and prison of the mind. She joined with Assemblyman Howard Lasher to back a bill allowing court ordered 45 day deprogramming for cult members, despite opposition fearing government intrusion into religion.
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Joel Stashenko
Albany
Pat Murphy
Children of God
Murphy
Little Falls
Hawaii
Les
Howard Lasher
Brooklyn
Hugh Carey
Lasher
Carey
Rockland County
Unification Church
California
William Goldberg
Family Health Services Department
Morton Steinberg
Scarsdale
Steinberg
San Francisco
Caserpiere
Elizabeth Connelly
Crematories face pacemaker blast risk in New York bill
Albany AP report says exploding pacemaker batteries during cremation prompted new legislation. Assembly passed 10 measures requiring death certificates to note if a body contains a battery or power cell. Tallon cited several incidents. cemetery officials described near misses and safety concerns for crematory workers.
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Albany
James Tallon
Binghamton
Senate toughens sex abuse law for juveniles
Albany News reports the state Senate passed a bill expanding the juvenile offense definition to include aggravated sexual abuse and designating it a felony act. Senator Donald M. Halperin says current laws let 14 and 15 year olds be charged as adults for rape, but not aggravated sexual abuse. The measure mirrors an adult statute enacted in 1978 and awaits Assembly action.
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Albany
State Senate
Donald M. Halperin
Brooklyn
Reading scores top U S average in NYC schools
New York City public schools posted reading scores above the national average for the first time in 12 years on a citywide test. The April exam showed 50.7 percent at or above grade level, with math at 49.6 percent, and gains across all 32 districts. The chancellor cited higher expectations and a new promotion policy beginning this year.
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New York Times Service
New York
New York City
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Washington
Detroit
Frank J. Macchiarola
State limits some jobs of guards based on sex
Albany AP. Female guards face on the job limits in New York prisons as sex based policies restrict assignments such as supervising showers and accompanying inmates to bathrooms. Anna Cuomo challenges the policy, arguing discrimination while the department cites constitutional rights to enforce gender based rules.
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Mary Fiess
Albany
New York State
Green Haven State Prison
Department of Correctional Services
Anna Cuomo
Coxsackie State Prison
Cuomo
Budget breakdown from state postal zone data and daily papers
The fragment lists costs for newspapers and postage across daily and Sunday papers. Totals show sums for Paper and Postage with various subtotals and a final line of All Quer. No clear event or人物 appears beyond financial figures and itemized charges.
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Madison Square Garden
Richard Jr
Vani Valkenburgh
Anheuser-Busch
Radisson
Miller
Fulton
Lieve
New York Times
Tallon
Bernard Jaffee
Melville
Halperin
Ball
Nyc
U.S
Herald-Journal
The
Herald Co
Syracuse
N.Y
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Tyroma
Sma.ma
John Roark
Homilist Regional Episcopal
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