Rensselaer...Online!

Wednesday, February 24, 2010, Rensselaer City School district is closed.

I'm in the process of actually doing something with this site, but as a result of this the registration process has failed, and all the pending registrations were lost. Sorry about that, but I should be significantly more responsive to registration requests now.

Some of the things that I am doing are:

improving the blog engine
improving the registration engine
changing the theming
reaching out to the community in several ways. For example, any city employee just has to ask and I will give them their own email account here.

Amtrak has issued their all-clear.

Amtrak travel between Rensselaer and NYS (Penn Station) is cancelled today until at least noon.

Metro North is not cancelled - so you can go to/from Poughkeepsie/Grand Central as needed.

Amtrak is cancelled in all directions subject to inspection. Amtrak is announcing "Until Further Notice" so give them a call.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=822531

By KENNETH C. CROWE II, Staff writer
Last updated: 2:04 p.m., Wednesday, July 22, 2009
NORTH GREENBUSH - The Rensselaer County Health Department lifted the boil water order this morning for four communities that faced the loss of water after a main broke on Monday.

Residences on Glenmore Road must continue to boil water until further notice, the county said.

The boil water order was issued after a break in the main on Glenmore Road. The 45-year-old main links the town to the water supply from Troy.

Today the School confirmed that at least 1 case of H1N1 has been at the school. They are urging precautions. What I haven't seen in the news is that most of the 4th grade is reportedly sick as well with Strep Throat. This may have been spread widely on a class trip to the The Great Escape. The School's web page has their h1n1 notice up - http://www.rcsd.k12.ny.us/documents/H1N1LettertoParents.pdf.

Update - Times union reports that there are actually only "2" cases of strep throat. What?
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=813244