Amsterdam business expands, adds about 16 new jobs to the market

Submitted by Sophia Sofferman, WNYT Web Producer

Monday, October 10th, 2011, 2:09pm

Hill & Markes, Inc. has expanded its facility in Amsterdam and constructed a new 127,000-square-foot facility to celebrate the grand opening of the addition on Friday, Oct. 14.

The 105-year-old family owned business distributes janitorial, industrial packaging, food service, ice cream products, farm and office products to various market segments throughout the country.

The company is moving from its previous location in the Edson Industrial Park in Amsterdam to the new building, located at 1997 State Highway 5S in Amsterdam ,which will provide improved truck access and modern space. The move will also help the company add about 16 employees in the next two years.

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Local restaurant to make green deliveries

Submitted by WNYT Staff

Monday, October 10th, 2011, 1:04pm

GUILDERLAND - A local restaurant will now be making deliveries using a green friendly vehicle.

Bountiful Bread in Stuyvesant Plaza has converted one of its trucks to run primarily on vegetable oil. Each week it travels about 1,200 miles. It's expected to not just save energy, but costs for the company as well.

“We have a 40 gallon tank in the back. We get 30 miles per gallon on the vegetable oil, which is actually better than we were getting on the diesel fuel,” said Catering Director Doug D’attilo. “We estimated we used to go through about 400 gallons of diesel fuel a month. So having it on vegetable oil now will pay for itself in two, three months.”

The truck still needs a little bit of diesel fuel to get started, but switches to the vegetable oil, after about a minute

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Mabee Farm opens environmentally friendly education center

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Friday, October 7th, 2011, 6:30pm

ROTTERDAM JUNCTION - A historic site in Schenectady County is expanding in an environmentally friendly way.

The Mabee Farm on Route 5S in Rotterdam Junction officially opened its new education center today. It was built facing south to capture passive solar heat in the winter time. Other high tech features help cut utility costs as well.

Much of the building was also made with recycled materials. In fact, the timber trusses on the solar picnic pavilion are recycled from the former Dexter shoe store on Central Avenue in Colonie.

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Albany Medical College to unveil sophisticated Medical Simulation Facility

Submitted by Sophia Sofferman, WNYT Web Producer

Friday, October 7th, 2011, 4:40pm

Officials at Albany Medical Center will be unveiling a new Patient Safety and Clinical Competency Center on Monday, October 10.

The 12,000- square-foot facility that incorporates lifelike computerized mannequins and other virtual technology, simulated hospital settings, and trained actors to mimic real medical conditions for the purpose of medical education. The facility is among the largest and most sophisticated in the nation.

In addition to training medical students and residents, the center also will serve as a resource for health care providers throughout the region for training with new techniques and technologies, competency assessments, and disaster preparedness exercises.

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BOCES Students Visit FMCC

Submitted by Sophia Sofferman, WNYT Web Producer

Friday, October 7th, 2011, 1:46pm

Students from both HFM BOCES Digital Multimedia & Communications program and Engineering Technology program came to Fulton Montgomery Community College earlier this week to work on a dual project.

The Digital Multimedia & Communications students were asked to film the Engineering Technology students as FM Electrical Technology Professor taught them about the College’s Manufacturing Lab.

HFM BOCES Electrical Technology program is a collaborative partnership with FM and the National

Science Foundation to create career opportunities for students in the field of engineering technology.

Ryan Mahoney, a junior in HFM BOCES Digital Multimedia & Communications program, gives FM’s Electrical Technology program the ‘thumbs up’ as he films his classmates. Credit: FMCC

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Library offers computer classes

Submitted by Sophia Sofferman, WNYT Web Producer

Thursday, October 6th, 2011, 3:16pm

The Troy Public Library is offering computer classes throughout October at the Lansingburgh Branch.

An Introduction to the Internet will be on Saturday, October 8, an Email Workshop will take place on Saturday October 15, and an Introduction to Word will be on Saturday, October 22. All classes take place at 11 a.m.

One-on-one computer instruction is available by appointment on Saturdays from 12 to 1 p.m.

These programs are free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 518-235-5310.

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