Citizens Fiscal Advisory Committee

The Citizens Fiscal Advisory Committee has scheduled a meeting for Monday, January 23, 2012 at 7:00 PM.

The meeting will be held in the Community Room at Town Hall and is open to the public.

Missing teen Hannah Smith found safe

By LEIGH HORNBECK, Staff writer Times Union
Saturday, January 14, 2012
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Missing-teen-Hannah-Smith-found-safe-2534016.php

EAST GREENBUSH — Hannah Smith, a 16-year-old reported missing on New Year's Day, has been found, police said late Saturday.

The Columbia High School junior apparently ran away from home, according to her parents, Loriann and Stephen Smith, who began an intensive search for their daughter.

Scanner chatter around 11 p.m. indicated Hannah was a passenger in a vehicle spotted on the Thruway near Kingston, but the East Greenbush police would not confirm that, or if anyone was arrested in connection with Hannah's disappearance.

According to police, the teen is safe.

Hannah was last seen at about 12:45 a.m. Jan. 1 when her father kissed her goodnight after a New Year's Eve party. She left the family home between 1 and 8 a.m., taking her cellphone, iPod and laptop computer. Fox23 News reported Saturday evening that Hannah communicated with her father through Facebook.

"The first thing she typed back to me was, 'I love you daddy,'" Stephen Smith said. "Then I asked if she was OK, and she said she was fine and not to worry about her."

The Smith family has been worried throughout the ordeal that Hannah might need medical attention. She suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2009 when the car in which she was riding was hit by a drunken driver.

US manufacturing activity rises at fastest pace in 6 months and hiring at factories increases

By Associated Press, Published: January 3

WASHINGTON — Manufacturing grew in December at the fastest pace in six months and hiring at U.S. factories picked up. The data helped bolster the view that the economy gained momentum at the end of last year.

To read the full article go to:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-manufacturing-activity-rises-at-fastest-pace-in-6-months-and-hiring-at-factories-increases/2012/01/03/gIQAZQ2CYP_story.html

Pete Stenson

Hannah Smith Missing