New York expects to spend $1.2 billion to close the 'digital divide,' largely by making broadband accessible and training disconnected people.

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Tue Apr 4 2023

 
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How can New York close the 'digital divide'? Spend $1B and think local

Steven Singleton, 61, of Mount Vernon, is helped by technology teaching assistant Kevin Alvarez as he takes a class called Digital Pathways, at the Family Restoration Project in Mount Vernon Nov. 15, 2022. The class, provided by the STEM Alliance, a non-profit based in Mamaroneck, teaches basic internet skills to formerly incarcerated people.

New York expects to spend $1.2 billion to close the 'digital divide,' largely by making broadband accessible and training disconnected people.

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Cannabis products being sold at Union Square Travel Agency: A Cannabis Store, located on 13th St. in Manhattan Feb. 13, 2023. The cannabis dispensary is the third to open in Manhattan in recent weeks, and the fourth to open in New York State.
 

Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess in line for first round of pot shops

 

Five Mid-Hudson region companies received licenses for adult use cannabis sales. Now they need to find a storefront.

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James Nester with Sheet Metal Workers Local 38 guides Pearl River junior Brendan Bosco, 17, to cut sheet metal at the 23rd annual Hudson Valley Construction Career Day March 31, 2023 at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in Suffern. Career day is an opportunity to educate high school students about rewarding and diverse careers in the building trades.
 

More than 700 students at annual Hudson Valley Construction Career Day

 

More than 700 students from the lower and mid-Hudson Valley took part in the 23rd annual Hudson Valley Construction Career Day.

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Palm crosses are made at the Polish Community Club, Apr. 8, 2014, in Utica, NY.
 

How to: Make a palm cross for Palm Sunday

 

Using palm fronds to weave decorative crosses is a long-standing Palm Sunday tradition. Follow these easy instructions to make your own palm cross this year.

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A family from Haiti approach a tent in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, stationed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as they haul their luggage down Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Officials on both sides of the border first began to notice last fall, around the time of the U.S. presidential election, that more people were crossing at Roxham Road. Since then the numbers have continued to climb.
 
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U.S., Canada agree to tighten border, inflaming NY migrant crisis

 

Canada and the U.S. agreed to limit asylum seeker crossings at the border, inflaming a migrant crisis that has lawmakers pushing for action.

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