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A pair of bishops came to the East Village last week to bear witness to a marriage of convenience between two local Catholic schools.
St. George and La Salle academies — separate schools with long histories in the neighborhood — began sharing space last fall in an effort to relieve financial pressures that had threatened each institution.
More than just about any other sport, hockey relies on teamwork and trust. The average shift on the ice lasts anywhere from 35-55 seconds, and even the best players usually skate for only a quarter of the game.
The best teams turn this mix of skill, smarts and solidarity into a winning formula. Maybe that explains why the New York Aviators, one of six teams in the Federal Hockey League, have won 20 games in a row and gone undefeated since December 27. Members of the hottest team in professional hockey do more than trust each other – they share the same refrigerator.
Thousands of grandparents, aunts and uncles and others who raise their relatives’ children could see their support services drastically reduced if the state legislature approves Governor Cuomo’s proposed budget.
Up to two-thirds of the state’s kinship care programs – which offer legal guidance and benefits information, housing help and support groups for relative caregivers – could be eliminated this year.
“Those children are in need,” says Patricia Bell, 57, who lives on disability and food stamps and raises her grandson, Rasheen, 13, in Bed-Stuy. “They need all the funding they can get.”
A first-time documentary filmmaker is outraged by the natural gas industry’s “despicable” attempts to kill his movie’s chances of winning an Academy Award.
Energy In Depth, a group sponsored by a coalition of natural gas companies, sent a letter to the Academy asking that “Gasland” – a film about a controversial mining technique called hydro-fracking – be removed from the Documentary Feature category.
“I’m continually amazed by all the developments,” filmmaker Josh Fox said during a screening of the film at NYU in early February, “both in terms of great things that have happened and real acts of courage that I have seen, and also these incredible, despicable attacks from the industry. I find them utterly irresponsible and horrific.”
