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1 week ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Melanie Lekocevic
By Toby MooreFor Capital Region Independent MediaHave you ever been lost in a daydream so vivid it felt real? A moment that left your heart racing and produced emotions even though it never happened? Your brain didn’t know if it was real or imagined. The mind responds to imagined experiences as if they were reality. Scientists have shown that when you visualize an event with clarity and emotion, your brain fires in the same patterns as if you were actually living it.
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2 weeks ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Melanie Lekocevic
By Melanie LekocevicCapital Region Independent MediaALBANY — The county is in a stronger position now than it was 12 months ago, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said in his 11th annual State of the County address. When McCoy delivered the previous State of the County in 2021, New York was at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and recovering from the health crisis has taken longer than expected, McCoy said March 7.
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3 weeks ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Columbia Paper |Melanie Lekocevic
By Russell GloorFor Capital Region Independent MediaDear Rusty:I will be 70 in January and my wife will be 65 in February, at which time we will both go on Medicare. I am currently working, and my approximate Social Security benefit will be around $2,900. My wife was a stay-at-home mom and, therefore, has minimal Social Security benefits on her own. At 65 she is eligible for $870 and at full retirement age will qualify for $990.
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4 weeks ago | 
shawlocal.com | Toby Moore |Scott Holland
It’s 1943. World War II is raging. Hitler’s war machine stretches across Europe, and his concentration camps are operating at full force. Millions are dying. The United States has turned the English countryside into a staging ground for one of the most dangerous missions of the war: daylight bombing raids deep into Nazi Germany. The B-17, nicknamed the “Flying Fortress,” earned its name for a reason. It wasn’t built to outmaneuver or dogfight – this was no fighter jet.
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1 month ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Melanie Lekocevic
By Toby MooreFor Capital Region Independent MediaWe’ve all had that moment—the instant regret of saying something we wish we could take back. Maybe it was in a business meeting where you overexplained your point, only to realize no one was actually questioning you in the first place. Or perhaps you tried to lighten the mood with a joke that didn’t land, filling the silence with unnecessary words that only made things worse.
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1 month ago | 
shawlocal.com | Toby Moore |Rich Miller
If you’re someone with ambition – someone who wakes up every day thinking about your goals, your dreams and where you want to be – it can be easy to feel frustrated when things don’t go as planned. You work hard, you sacrifice, you put in the hours and yet, success feels just out of reach. Your business hasn’t taken off. You haven’t received the promotion. Maybe your big break hasn’t come. Maybe you’re looking at your life, comparing it to where you thought you’d be, and you feel disheartened.
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1 month ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Melanie Lekocevic
By Marlene McTigueFor Capital Region Independent MediaSo, what are your kids up to after school on any given weeknight? Watching TV, playing video games? Here in the town of Coeymans, kids as young as 10 can learn how to engineer those video games thanks to one of the new slate of spring programs offered by the Ravena Innovation Station. Local kids can sign up for the Innovation Station’s Game Design with guidance from Albany’s Can Code Communities.
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1 month ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Columbia Paper |Melanie Lekocevic
By Toby MooreFor Capital Region Independent MediaWe’ve all been there. You’re just minding your business, maybe running errands or sipping coffee, when—BAM—someone snaps at you like you personally ruined their day. A rude cashier, a cranky co-worker, or a stranger in traffic acting like you committed a federal offense just by existing. Bestselling author Robert Greene famously says, “What people do to you is not personal.”Wait, hold on—what? People’s bad attitudes aren’t personal?
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1 month ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Melanie Lekocevic
By Marlene McTigueFor Capital Region Independent MediaRAVENA — At her spacious home on Pulver Avenue in Ravena, 100-year-old Mabel Klenk accepts visitors. Her hair is white now and she breathes with the assistance of oxygen delivered by cannula, but it doesn’t take long to draw out the funny and, frankly, quite entertaining life-long resident who has lived and played in these streets for an entire century.
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1 month ago | 
theupstater.com | Toby Moore |Columbia Paper |Melanie Lekocevic
By Marlene McTigueCapital Region Independent MediaIf you haven’t had the experience yet, you really should know, just over the river and through the woods a bit, there is magic happening at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. As it has each summer since the 1930s, thousands and now hundreds of thousands converge on the idyllic 500-acre campus to learn, explore and experience music.
