Stories from Friday, September 9, 2011

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A rich blue tint stretches across a clear morning sky as a group of Crane employees step off a bus. They head toward the Pentagon to start a day that none would have ever dreamed of and all would forever remember. "It was a beautiful day, sunny, nice and warm; a very, very comfortable day," reflected Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane employee Shashi Kumar. "I remember having a cup of spicy tea I had made in my hand as I walked into the room."...

An effort to raise at least $1,000 to benefit the Eastern Greene School art department will be offered this weekend. Between 2 and 4 p.m. Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum will be selling scratch blocks at the Eastern Fire Department Outdoor Pavilion in Solsberry...

Greene County Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coalition Coordinator Nancy Cummings is enthusiastic about an upcoming Women's Health Conference. She hopes it will help empower women about all aspects of their being. "We are trying to reach all different ages of adult women, from ages 18 to 180 I guess you could say," Cummings said...

The Secretary of the Navy will visit Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center on Tuesday morning. Secretary Ray Mabus will address an All Hands meeting at NSWC. Following the All Hands program, Mabus will tour a classified lab working on IED jamming followed by a tour of the Special Weapons Assessment Facility where he will tour various technology developed and will shoot several different weapons used by the special forces community, according to Brett Day, Public Affairs Staff, McKean Defense Group NSWC Crane.. ...

They were war babies, born just weeks before Sept. 11, 2001. As infants, their mothers held them, watching tragedy unfold, wondering what kind of world their kids would inherit. Now, a decade later, those babies have grown to fourth graders, never knowing a world without a War on Terror and the aftermath of that tragedy...

People around the nation are thinking back to that horrible day a decade ago when terrorist attacks killed thousands on Sept. 11, 2001. Life changed for many that day -- the anniversary of which will be observed Sunday. Rural Bloomfield resident Eric Moody acknowledges that the events of 9-11 changed many things around the world and in our daily lives...

Many are remembering where they were and what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. As the 10th anniversary of the event dawns Sunday, rural Bloomfield resident Eric Moody doesn't have a problem remembering what he was doing that memorable day. He was sitting in the Pentagon with 29 other co-workers from NSWC Crane base -- attending a Public Management Certificate (PMC-XIII) class conducted by IUPUI School of Public and Environmental Affairs...