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Today's riddle: Why do some birds fly south for the winter? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Filth, Narcotic Wasteland And Killcrown Announce December Tour (themosh.net) — Metal fans in Albany can mark December 20 on their calendars, when Filth, Narcotic Wasteland, and Killcrown bring their "Very Filthy Christmas Tour" to Empire Underground. The heavy lineup mixes deathcore, death metal, and slam, with additional tour dates expected elsewhere around the country. Local listeners get the closing night of the run right here in town.
• Capital Region BOCES offers a future this Cohoes teen can really 'dig into' (troyrecord.com) — A Cohoes High School senior is training at Capital Region BOCES' CTE Albany Campus to become a heavy equipment operator, gaining hands-on skills with real machinery. The two-year HERO program teaches students across the region to operate and maintain construction equipment, preparing many, like this teen, to move directly into the workforce after graduation.
• Town of Bethlehem wins award for conservation programs (dailygazette.com) — Bethlehem's open space work, partly funded by Albany County's Land Preservation Fund, just earned the town a major conservation award from the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy. A recent 133-acre Delmar land purchase will be preserved as parkland, showing how dedicated local funding and partnerships can permanently protect green space in Albany County communities.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do some birds fly south for the winter?" — Because it's too far to walk..! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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