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Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 16:54:37 EST

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Westhill district warns of Web site
Derogatory comments on site "creating pain and hurt," school
principal says.
November 20, 2003
By Cammi Clark
Staff writer
Westhill school district officials are warning parents about a Web
site where students can anonymously sling mud at other students.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
2/1069322373287781.xml

New Web site to list data about community groups
November 20, 2003
Onondaga County Executive Nicholas Pirro will unveil a Web-based help
line today that will provide information from more than 700 community
groups about services ranging from child care and emergency food to
job training and health care.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
9/105592541426921.xml

Oswego County ponders cell tower plan
Officials discuss modifying a structure now in storage or building a
new one.
November 20, 2003
by Delen Goldberg
Staff writer
Oswego city Fire Chief Edward Geers said he has not slept well since
Nov. 13, when a 165-foot, 50,000-pound steel cell phone tower
collapsed less than 10 feet from his fire station.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-
3/1069322291287780.xml

Time Warner to raise rates
Standard monthly cable charge to rise $2.24 on Jan. 1
BY JEFF PLATSKY
Press & Sun-Bulletin
VESTAL -- Time Warner Cable television subscription rates are rising
for the fourth time in the past two years.
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/topstories/stories/to112003s47191.s
html

Potential jurors can qualify on Internet
Phone service also available
BY NANCY DOOLING
Press & Sun-Bulletin
BINGHAMTON -- Broome County residents responding to jury service
questionnaires can qualify to join the county's jury pool on the
Internet, or by telephone, as part of a state pilot program.
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne112003s47150.shtml

New wireless service helps travelers make connections
By SHARON LINSTEDT
News Staff Reporter
11/18/2003
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority is joining with Wayport
Inc. of Austin, Texas, to put the Buffalo airport on a fast-growing
list of airports offering "Wi-Fi" - for wireless fidelity - Internet
access to the traveling public.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031118/1053211.asp

NYPD to Have Access to Interpol Data
By Daryl Khan
Staff Writer
November 19, 2003, 6:22 PM EST
The NYPD will be the first police department in the United States to
plug into a Interpol database that allows access to fingerprints,
passports and pictures.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/nyc-
terr1120,0,4068235.story?coll=ny-nycnews-featured

Kodak targets IT needs of hospitals
By Ben Rand
Staff writer
(November 19, 2003) — In a rare bit of good news for Rochester, Kodak
will establish a headquarters locally for its new and fast-growing
health care information systems business. That operation aims to help
hospitals store and manage digital X-rays on computer networks and
link them to physician reports and other clinical data.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/11191B2DDC2_kodak19_busine
ss.shtml

Cable TV to cost you more
Time Warner blames 4.7% increase on programming costs
By Richard Mullins
Staff Writer
(November 19, 2003) — The cost of cable television in Rochester will
go up again next year. Time Warner says it needs to balance the
increased cost of television programs with the overall monthly rates
subscribers pay.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/11191B2DDEM_Cable19_busine
ss.shtml

County helps Clear Channel
By Todd Grady
Staff writer
(November 19, 2003) — The County of Monroe Industrial Development
Agency board on Tuesday approved up to $100,000 in tax abatements and
other incentives for Clear Channel's plan to build a 30,000-square-
foot building for its radio stations in Canal Ponds Business Park.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/11198B2DDB8_COMIDA19_busin
ess.shtml

Corning stock tumbles after Verizon report
- Company isn't on first list of vendors for big fiber project.
By LARRY WILSON
Star-Gazette Corning Bureau
CORNING -- Corning Inc. stock took a nose dive Monday when the
company was not among the first vendors Verizon Communications
selected for its multibillion-dollar optical fiber-to-the-home
project.
http://www.stargazettenews.com/local/Tulocal4.html

21,600 accept Verizon buyout
By ALLAN DRURY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 18, 2003)
Verizon Communications Inc. will shed 21,600 workers at the end of
this week as a result of a severance offer.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/111803/a0118verizon.html
Verizon workers leap at buyout opportunity
The number of employees accepting payment surpasses company's
estimates.
http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business
-4/1067680563184154.xml

Timesunion.com wins Web journalism award
Site recognized for its special package on sub-Saharan troubles
Staff reports
First published: Monday, November 17, 2003
EVANSTON, Ill. -- The Times Union's Web site, timesunion.com, was
awarded an Online Journalism Award, one of the top honors in the
industry, for its special report on AIDS, poverty and hunger in sub-
Saharan Africa.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?
storyID=190229&category=REGION&newsdate=11/17/2003

Streaming videos put in some Monroe classrooms
By Enid Arbelo
Staff Writer
(November 17, 2003) — HONEOYE FALLS — When a third-grader at the
Manor Intermediate School in Honeoye Falls wanted to learn more about
magnetism, she didn't consult the encyclopedia or even ask her
teacher. She watched a video.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/1117LK2CIPQ_boces171_news.sht
ml

Web sight lacking
Study shows some communities could have a better presence on the
Internet
PLATTSBURGH — A team of researchers at Plattsburgh State is about to
release data showing that the Internet presence of many North Country
communities has not been keeping up with the growth of the World Wide
Web.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2003/11_2003/111720036.htm

Telecom recovery hasn't started yet, signs indicate
Corning Watch column by LARRY WILSON
Star-Gazette
There were two signs last week that the telecommunications market has
not yet begun to bounce back from its 2001 collapse.
http://www.stargazettenews.com/local/Sulocal11.html

Public access station may close
By MARCELA ROJAS
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 16, 2003)
OSSINING — Officials from GO-TV, the town's and village's local
public access station, say they are in jeopardy of shutting down
operations next year due to a lack of financial support from the
municipalities.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/111603/b0116gotv.html

Frontier seeks its edge
Regional chief wants to mold it into an aggressive competitor.
By Richard Mullins
STAFF WRITER
(November 15, 2003) — Frontier's priority must be to stop losing
local customers to rivals by competing more aggressively with its
telephone and Internet service offerings, says Bill Griswold, the
company's new chief of local operations.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1115GU2C4O7_Griswold15_bus
iness.shtml

Time Warner moving local offices
By JASON FAZZIO, The Leader-Herald
Time Warner Cable will close its offices in Johnstown and Amsterdam
and move into a new location on Route 30 sometime in December,
company officials said Thursday.
http://www.leaderherald.com/news/story/1115202003_new03_timewarner1115
.asp

Sprint sues Brewster over cell antennas
By MICHAEL RISINIT
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 15, 2003)
BREWSTER — A federal lawsuit brought by Sprint PCS against the
village for not allowing antennas on a Main Street building focuses
on Mayor John Cesar's most famous trait — his loquacious nature.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/111503/b01p15sprintbrew.html

Church a Haven for Cell Technology
By Víctor Manuel Ramos
STAFF WRITER
November 14, 2003, 3:00 AM EST
The cross-bearing spire atop the Congregational Church of Manhasset
is becoming Manhasset's hot spot for concealed cell phone antennas.
The hidden-antenna arrangement is favored by a village law that calls
for the grouping and concealment of the devices - increasingly an
industry trend on Long Island and elsewhere.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-
licell143541914nov14,0,4617583.story?coll=ny-linews-archive

Stalking, cyberstalking focus of session
11/14/2003
About 300 law enforcement officers and advocates for stalking and
cyberstalking victims from all over Western New York and the Niagara
Region of Canada attended a training conference on stalking and
cyberstalking in Hamburg on Thursday.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031114/5009404.asp
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