Check out this story about Remsen native, Erin Hamlin. Hamlin placed 16th in the Luge competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics. But before she competed, NBC ran a story on the Luger and her hometown.
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This morning The Today Show featured several live reports from Fulton, NY because of the excessive amounts of snow they’ve received. According to the report, it has snowed for 9 days straight in Fulton with no relief in sight. Hopefully they will upload some video of the reports on their website sometime today.
The lead singer of Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger hospitalized.
Rivers Cuomo, 40, is still in St. Mary’s Hospital in Amsterdam, New York where he is suffering from several injuries including broken ribs and injury to his spleen.
Luckily, Cuomo’s wife, daughter, and a fifth passenger on the bus were not injured. The bus was traveling from Toronto to Boston for a show Monday night at the Agganis Arena at Boston University.
The accident occurred shortly after 7:30 a.m. Sunday, while the bus was traveling eastbound on the Thruway near Amsterdam.The driver said the back end of the bus slid on ice, then went into the median and hit some reflective posts before crossing back over the highway and going over a guardrail.
Weezer has canceled the rest of their tour until Cuomo has recovered.
Dustin Diamond, better known as Screech on “Saved By The Bell”, signed copies of his new book, “Behind the Bell”, at the Barnes and Noble in New Hartford on Friday. Fans were lined up around the building waiting for an autograph from the star who has also appeared on “Celebrity Fit Club”.
According to Amazon.com, “Diamond’s new book gives readers the disheartening story of an ex-child star. Dustin faced serious challenges moving his career beyond his comic role as the smart, funny, and endearing nerd of Bayside High School (Samuel ‘Screetch’ Powers) on the show that made him an audience favorite. Through his eyes, we uncover Hollywood’s myths and see what happens when the lights go out and career expectations are shattered. Dustin also reveals how working as a child actor on SBTB created emotional turmoil that hurt his life at home and his future. For the first-time, Diamond presents the inside story of the young cast from Saved by the Bell that the viewing public thought were so lucky.”
Diamond also made an appearance at the 20th Anniversary party for a local DJ, Bill Keeler, which was held at the Stanley Theater Friday Night.
It looks like the Turning Stone may have played a role in the Tiger Woods scandal. Tiger, who recently admitted to “transgressions” after a suspicious car accident on Thursday night, apparently spent some “quality” time with two women while staying at the Turning Stone this summer. Apparently, women were “interviewed” for Tiger’s gig in Verona and Us is reporting, “Woods had other ‘dalliances’ [...] with a blond and a brunette at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in upstate New York.”
A country band with upstate roots beat out Lady Gaga to win the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at last night’s American Music Awards. According to WKTV, the band, Gloriana, was officially founded in 2007 and features two brothers originally from New Hartford, Tom and Mike Gossin, in addition to two other members, Rachel Reinert and Cheyenne Kimball. It has been a big year for Gloriana whose single “Wild At Heart” is currently best selling single by a new country artist with sales reaching upwards of 350,000 copies.
An upstate NY rape and murder case that has been open since 1985 will get nationwide attention soon when the case is profiled on “America’s Most Wanted.” The case of 16-year-old Kimberly Simon, whose bruised and partially nude body was found in Whitesboro in September 1985, was thought to be closed when Marcy resident Steven Barnes was convicted of her murder in 1989. But Barnes was released from prison last year after DNA tests exonerated him, prompting investigators to reopen the case. According to the OD, “A crew from the show will visit the Utica area to interview those involved with the case, and re-enactments may be filmed on location here or in a studio, depending on the show’s needs.”
Stephen Colbert took his show on the road this weekend and went on a ride with U.S. bobsled driver Steven Holcomb in Lake Placid.
“Having won today’s competition, you are today the fastest in the world at this,” Colbert said to Holcomb and his team. “I had to pick the fastest team. Thank you. It felt like I was being hit in the head with ice hammers. It was like losing the worst snowball fight of your life.”
There isn’t much information yet about the Con yet but they have announced the dates and they did get a decent turn out of guests at last year’s event so it may be something to keep an eye on. Below is a link to their website where they should be announcing an official line-up soon:
This morning on The Today Show, while Al Roker was mingling with the crowd, he came across a girl celebrating her Sweet 16. When he asked her name and where she was from, she responded, “Marina from Utica, NY”, and then proceeded to shriek and scream in a pitch that only teen girls are capable of. In response to her screaming, Al said, “A little Genny Cream Ale for breakfast.” Was Al trying to reference Saranac but got his Ales wrong?
