Link Central: Animal Fund, Mafia arrests, control of schools, more (CNYCentral.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:23:07 GMT
Welcome to Link Central. Each weekday we will collect and publish links to stories that may be of interest to our Central New York readers.
GOBIS: Stars lead Feehan Hall class (The Sun Chronicle)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:47:13 GMT
Former tennis great Robbie Manchester and current swimming coach Kyle VanDenBerghe are among the eight individuals to be inducted into the Bishop Feehan High School Athletic Hall of Fame in May. Marchester, arguably, the area's best male tennis player ever went on to play at UMass-Amherst and is currently a teaching pro in Florida.
Update on shooting investigation (The Ithaca Journal)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:03:07 GMT
On Feb. 23, 2010 the City of Ithaca was thrust into an event of unforeseen tragedy. A police officer, in the performance of his official duties, encountered a situation that resulted in the tragic death of Mr. Shawn Greenwood.
Shooting stars (The Pottsville Republican & Herald)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:05:36 GMT
MAHANOY PLANE - In one action-packed year, brothers Joe and Ian Recla have made a huge mark in the highly competitive world of trap shooting, winning championships in Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and Ohio. Neither 15-year-old Joe, a sophomore at Nati
Cuffe, Mosley, NFA relay team star in state track (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:17:30 GMT
Aisling Cuffe of Cornwall and Mel Mosley of Middletown each produced individual victories within the Federation and public schools at the New York indoor track and field championships at Cornell University in Ithaca on Saturday.
Elmira vaulter wins public school title (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:36:23 GMT
ITHACA -- David Miller, a senior on the Elmira District team, won the public school title in the boys pole vault Saturday to lead Section 4 athletes at the New York State Indoor Track and Field Championships at Cornell University's Barton Hall.
Ahadzi, Sandiford, Duggan claim state boys indoor titles (New York Post)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:56:21 GMT
ITHACA, N.Y. – Richmond Ahadzi stood with the rest of his competition staring anxiously at the results board. The Sheepshead Bay junior and Amityville’s Sancho Barnett appeared to have crossed the line together. “I was just nervous,” Ahadzi said of the feeling during the wait. “No other words.” Finally...
Today in History (KTVQ Billings)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:37:36 GMT
Today is Saturday, March 6, the 65th day of 2010. There are 300 days left in the year. On March 6, 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
Good Morning! (KWTX-TV Waco)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:32:43 GMT
Good morning, it’s Saturday March 6 and it’s shaping up as a warm and partly sunny day in Central Texas. It’s the 105th anniversary of the birth on a Central Texas farm of a baby boy who would grow up to be king.
Mourners of police shooting victim Shawn Greenwood fill Ithaca church (The Ithaca Journal)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:56:58 GMT
On and on the mourners came -- men and women, young and old -- filing into St. James AME Zion Church and shuffling past the casket of Shawn Greenwood, who was shot and killed by an Ithaca Police Department narcotics investigator last week.
