Oneida County schools leaders praise aid boost  (Mohawk Carpet)

The state’s education spending increase for 2007-08 will help many Mohawk Valley school districts decrease class sizes, prevent program cuts and alleviate tax burdens on local residents, administrators said Monday. Continue reading…

SPRINGFIELD - The wife of accused eagle-slayer Michael Zak Jr. testified yesterday that he was gone from the Mohawk Trout Hatchery several hours each day while delivering trout to customers across the region. Continue reading…

CALUMET From a Victorian tea to a talk on potato farming, the Copper Country is gearing up for the Key Ingredients Smithsonian Institute Exhibit, and the corresponding Michigan Foodways exhibit. Continue reading…

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Mohawk Carpet - More Assistance for Mohawk Valley Flood Victims

WXXA - The Montgomery/Fulton Faith and Community Response Team says it is setting up a mechanism to coordinate the use of the money and volunteers to help families get back to normal. That money is of course on top of federal and state money offered to help Read more

Globe Gazette - The Mohawk varsity won t be top heavy, either as another pair of seniors, three juniors and a handful of sophomores will compete for varsity singles and doubles honors. We ll probably play our five seniors in our top six, Kruger said Read more

Little Falls Times - ILION Theresa Tokarowski, 22, of Amsterdam was crowned Miss Mohawk Valley 2007 during the annual pageant held Saturday night at Ilion High School. She will now advance to represent the Mohawk Valley at the Miss New York State Pageant in July Read more

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Mohawk Carpet - Ga. Mega-millions winner plans to do ‘lot of fishing’ 

DALTON, Ga. - A Georgia truck driver stepped forward yesterday to claim half of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history. More details…

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Mohawk Carpet - A tradition of charity

Memphis Commercial Appeal - Joe said his creation began as a man with a mohawk, but he turned the head into a Spartan in a helmet. David Lusk Gallery is Roll out the red carpet The next best thing to attending the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles is attending Oscar Night Continue

Syracuse Post-Standard - The area most likely to be affected includes areas east of Interstate 81 including the Western Mohawk Valley, Susquehanna Region, Western Catskills and the Poconos. The mixture of precipitation may fall heavily at times and could change to rain Continue

Observer-Dispatch - Business and Technology Park, succeeding the air base that closed in 1995, has become the nexus for growth in the Mohawk The company’s first plane - sporting two tones of purple - is being outfitted at Empire Aero with leather seats, new carpet Continue

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Richardson sails through ‘Idol’ (Mohawk Carpet) round

Hampton Roads Daily Press - American Idol” is about singing, but it was contestant Sanjaya Malakar’s Tuesday night mohawk that has had people talking. Show host Ryan Seacrest even introduced the program wearing a mohawk wig. This week’s special guest mentor and artist Gwen More

New Castle News - However, Mohawk and Shenango seriously considered a second option — a personal income tax increase. This tax — on interest, investments, dividends and other income — is collected by the state. It was attractive, said tax study commission chairmen More

Boston Globe - Idol:’ Mohawk Nation I’ll leave the spoilers ’till after the jump, but I’ll note, with more pride than I probably deserve, that I predicted it right in today’s “Idol” chat . Not just the loser, but the bottom three. Which is probably a scary More

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Flooding possible; sunny skies ahead (Mohawk Carpet)

Observer-Dispatch - The National Weather Service in Binghamton says a flood warning is still in effect for most of the Mohawk Valley, but the extended forecast is actually looking a lot like spring: Today: Mostly cloudy skies until mid-morning, then gradual clearing Continue

Marion Star - MORRAL - Ridgedale claimed wins in both the boys and girls meets as the Rockets hosted Elgin and Marion Catholic in triangular track action on Monday. Ridgedale totaled 95 points in the girls meet while Elgin counted 44 and Marion Catholic finished Continue

Boston Herald - S PRINGFIELD - The owner of a Sunderland trout hatchery pleaded guilty Monday to killing herons and osprey that were feeding at his fish pools. Michael Zak, 59, owner of the Mohawk Trout Hatchery, entered guilty pleas to two counts of violating the Continue

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Reward Offered in 2005 Murder Case  (Mohawk Carpet)

FOREST–Police received permission form the Forest Board of Alderman this month to offer a $2,500 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of James Mohawk Moore. More details…

The 21st annual Zebra Classic boys and girls high school basketball tournaments tip off with a boys doubleheader Tuesday night at Syracuse’s Nottingham High School that will feature two teams from the Mohawk Valley area. More details…

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GA’s Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold In Dalton  (Mohawk Carpet)

A winning Mega Millions ticket perhaps worth half of a 370 million dollar jackpot, the richest in U.S. history, was sold at a convenience store surrounded by carpet mills in the self-proclaimed “Carpet Capital of the World.” read more More details…

Second winning ticket in record $390 million jackpot sold in N.J. A Georgia truck driver stepped forward today to claim half of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history. More details…

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Mohawk Carpet - Water authority voting Monday on rate increase 

UTICA The Mohawk Valley Water Authority board will vote Monday on a 10 percent rate increase for customers that would begin April 1. …continued

MOHAWK - Herkimer BOCES Superintendent Sandra Simpson presented BOCES’ administrative and capital budgets for 2007-08 on Monday night at the Mohawk Central School Board of Education meeting. …continued

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Winter roars back (Mohawk Carpet)

North Adams Transcript - customers, but the storm inspired two shoppers to hit downtown instead of driving to the Berkshire Mall in Lanesborough. “We were going to get her ears pierced,” Elizabeth Davis said, looking down at her daughter huddling in her parka under the Mohawk Continue

News 10 Now - If you live in the Mohawk Valley, starting in April, your water bill could jump up ten percent. And for some that is just too much. Mike Giancotti is a landlord in Utica. He says this will not only affect him, it will also hurt some of his tenants Continue

Observer-Dispatch - Mohawk and Herkimer have separate police departments, but share a chief. Now officials are looking at going a step further and formally merging the departments. Little Falls and Dolgeville have used Herkimer’s pool as part of an effort to provide Continue

Der Spiegel - The bartender sports a pink Mohawk haircut. It’s hardly the bar of choice for Edinburgh’s chic nonsmoking crowd. Nevertheless, smokers at the Blind Beggar have shown tremendous discipline, just as they have done almost everywhere else in Scotland Continue

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