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This almanac of community news provides coverage of local governments, local courts and police calls from selected communities in our region. Government listings focus on communities in Albany County, and police calls are taken from the actual police blotters from larger communities throughout the area. This feature usually appears on this page Mondays through Saturdays. P B Tuesday, March 28 4:16 p.m. MENACING. On Clinton Avenue, someone threatened a person with a box cutter.

4:25 p.m. LARCENY. On Morton Avenue, a screen was removed and $40 taken from a dwelling.

10:45 p.m. ARMED ROBBERY. On the 200 block of Second Street, a complainant in a vehicle claimed a subject opened his door, displayed a weapon and demanded money. The subject made away with $3,000 and a cell phone.

Wednesday, March 29 12:30 a.m. LARCENY. On Central Avenue, a CD player, camera and $550 cash were taken after a vehicle window was broken.

4:35 a.m. HARASSMENT. On the 200 block of Western Avenue, a subject grabbed a female's hair.

8:45 a.m. LARCENY. On the 300 block of Hudson Avenue, a six-foot tree with a pot was taken from in front of a house.

9:04 a.m. GRAND LARCENY. On Oneida Terrace, CDs, clothing and a camera were reported stolen from a vehicle.

9:48 a.m. MENACING. At Hoffman Park, a youth held a handgun to two victim's heads …

Amata cuts 2006 revenue target 12.7%: Industrial land plot sales slowing down.

Byline: Busrin Treerapongpichit

Sep. 6--Amata Corporation Plc, the country's largest industrial estate developer, has cut its revenue target by 700 million baht or 12.7 percent, to 4.8 billion baht from an earlier target of 5.5 billion, due to continuing political uncertainty and the sluggish economy, according to the company's treasurer, Varaporn Vatcharanukroh.

Amata had earlier set a revenue target of 5.5 billion baht this year based on expected sales of 2,000 rai of industrial land plots. However, it sold only 250 rai in the first six months of this year.

As a result, the company has set a new land sales target at 1,500 rai worth 4.8 billion …

Icing, overload are questions in MT crash probe

Speculation over the crash of a single-engine turboprop plane into a cemetery shifted to ice on the wings Monday after it became less likely that overloading was to blame, given that half of the 14 people on board were small children.

While descending Sunday in preparation for landing at the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Mont., the plane passed through a layer of air at about 1,500 feet that was conducive to icing because the temperatures were below freezing and the air "had 100 percent relative humidity or was saturated," according to AccuWeather.com, a forecasting service in State College, Pa.

Safety experts said similar icing condition existed when …

He's Betting on Helping Local Businesses Succeed

The look pretty much told the story.

It was a slight, almost apologetic grin, and then a laugh accompanied by a look up toward the ceiling lights.

Lenny Weake was asked about casinos - not just in Palmer, where they're been talked about for years, but also Brimfield and perhaps Warren, three of the 15 towns represented by the Quaboag Hills Chamber of Commerce, which he serves as president. And casinos are a subject he just can't, and thus won't, talk about.

They are a huge issue in the Quaboag region and Western Mass. as a whole, but Weake represents all of his roughly 275 members, and that constituency is quite divided on the issue. So the chamber has no official …

CROWLEY LAUNCHES SECOND SAILING.

Crowley American Transport has added a second weekly direct sailing from Port Everglades, Fla. to Rio Haina. The new sailing complements the existing weekly, fixed-day service between Port Everglades …

Spa rider a restless rookie: Garcia, Funny Cide's last jockey, wants his own glory.

Byline: Mark Singelais

Aug. 3--SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Jockey Alan Garcia wants to be known as more than the answer to the question, "Who rode Funny Cide in his final race?"

Toward that end, the 21-year-old from Peru is trying to make a name for himself in his first meet at Saratoga Race Course.

"I want people to say, 'Alan Garcia, good jockey,' " Garcia said Thursday in the backyard behind the jockey's room. "I want to have my name not be with one horse."

So far, his claim to fame is guiding Funny Cide to victory July 4 in the $100,000 Wadsworth Memorial Handicap at Finger Lakes. That turned out to be the swan song for the Kentucky Derby and …

DON'T BASH QUAYLE TO THE EDITOR:.(MAIN)

Byline: DAVID CRAWMER WYNANTSKILL

Marianne Means' recent column welcoming Dan Quayle to journalism was filled with predictable disdain for the former vice president.

She implies that Dan Quayle loved to hate the world of journalism. After a constant beratement by the press, Mr. Quayle never showed the kind of anger that conversely, she seems to feel toward him.

I interpret Mr. Quayle's foray into …