Upstate New York

TAKING A NAP, Ernie Williams (left) and Eric Stevens sprawl on picnic table benches at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken. The men, both from South Jersey, said they had just returned from a construction job in Upstate New York. Temperatures in the mid-80s made sleeping outside pleasant yesterday, but later this week, the highs will be in the low 90s.

Chelsea Clinton's wedding Saturday evening along the Hudson River in Upstate New York will be under a no-fly zone. Local airspace will be restricted from 3 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 a.m. Sunday, said the Federal Aviation Administration. Clinton , the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, about 90 miles north of New York City. The FAA website said the restriction would be in place for "VIP Movement.

LYONSDALE, N.Y. - A 62-year-old Mount Laurel man died of injuries suffered in a kayaking accident in Upstate New York, authorities said Monday. The Lewis County Sheriff's Department said William De Angelis was kayaking Sunday afternoon on the Moose River when his craft went over a ledge in the town of Lyonsdale, on the western edge of Adirondack Park 60 miles northeast of Syracuse. Deputies said De Angelis was ejected from his kayak. Other kayakers pulled him onto a rock in the middle of the river and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency responders arrived.

A 62-year-old Mount Laurel man died of injuries suffered in a kayaking accident in Upstate New York, authorities said Monday. The Lewis County Sheriff's Department said William De Angelis was kayaking Sunday afternoon on the Moose River when his craft went over a ledge in the town of Lyonsdale, on the western edge of Adirondack Park 60 miles northeast of Syracuse. Deputies said De Angelis was ejected from his kayak. Other kayakers pulled him onto a rock in the middle of the river and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency responders arrived.

Peter G. Brown, 53, a scientist and civil rights advocate who enjoyed working as a handyman, died suddenly Thursday at Lankenau Hospital. He lived in Wynnewood. At the time of his death, Mr. Brown was an associate director of scientific meetings and telecommunications at Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceutical in Radnor. In that capacity he was involved in setting up a global meeting system for the company. "We were supposed to go to Paris next week," said his wife, Esther. "He was working to get a video system in place there.

The purge of major-league managers continued yesterday as the New York Mets fired Bobby Valentine and the Texas Rangers fired Jerry Narron. Both teams finished in last place. Their dismissals brought to five the number of managers fired since Sunday. The Chicago Cubs fired Bruce Kimm that day, and on Monday, Detroit let go Luis Pujols and Tampa Bay dropped Hal McRae. The Mets opened the season with a $92 million payroll, and Texas had an opening-day payroll of $105 million.

Back in June, Joann Taylor thinned out her irises in Portland, Ore., packed about 18 pounds of extra rhizomes into a box, and shipped them off to Cheltenham Township, where she grew up. These irises are special, descended from a variety planted by John McDermott, Taylor's great-grandfather, more than a century ago on the 49-acre estate belonging to the Elkins family, for whom the Cheltenham neighborhood Elkins Park is named. The estate, known as Elstowe Manor, was on Ashbourne Road. McDermott, an Irish immigrant, was the Elkinses' gardener, and as Taylor recounts the story, he loved these flowers so much he planted them at his own house on Beech Avenue.

When it was over and Philadelphia University coach Herb Magee had become the eighth man in NCAA history - and the first in the history of this city - to win 800 basketball games, television cameras engulfed him before his players could even get to him. The pressure was off. "All these people in the gym, and they're here for one reason - to see a celebration after we win," the 64-year-old Magee said. In the relative anonymity of a gym in East Falls, between bleachers that go up eight rows, Magee has carved out a legend.

NEW YORK - Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power - but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared. Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage, up to $7 billion by one private estimate. For many the danger had not passed: Rivers and creeks turned into torrents tumbling with tree limbs and parts of buildings in northern New England and Upstate New York.

Win for workers in GM contract DETROIT - The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses for its workers and a promise to reopen an assembly plant in Tennessee as part of its tentative new contract with General Motors, according to people briefed on the negotiations. In what is being viewed as a landmark deal, the union also preserved health care and pensions and improved profit-sharing for its roughly 48,000 members who work at GM. The UAW's tentative, four-year agreement with GM, announced late Friday, also opens the door for the automaker to bring back laid-off workers and move jobs back to the United States.

LYONSDALE, N.Y. - A 62-year-old Mount Laurel man died of injuries suffered in a kayaking accident in Upstate New York, authorities said Monday. The Lewis County Sheriff's Department said William De Angelis was kayaking Sunday afternoon on the Moose River when his craft went over a ledge in the town of Lyonsdale, on the western edge of Adirondack Park 60 miles northeast of Syracuse. Deputies said De Angelis was ejected from his kayak. Other kayakers pulled him onto a rock in the middle of the river and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency responders arrived.

A 62-year-old Mount Laurel man died of injuries suffered in a kayaking accident in Upstate New York, authorities said Monday. The Lewis County Sheriff's Department said William De Angelis was kayaking Sunday afternoon on the Moose River when his craft went over a ledge in the town of Lyonsdale, on the western edge of Adirondack Park 60 miles northeast of Syracuse. Deputies said De Angelis was ejected from his kayak. Other kayakers pulled him onto a rock in the middle of the river and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until emergency responders arrived.

Win for workers in GM contract DETROIT - The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses for its workers and a promise to reopen an assembly plant in Tennessee as part of its tentative new contract with General Motors, according to people briefed on the negotiations. In what is being viewed as a landmark deal, the union also preserved health care and pensions and improved profit-sharing for its roughly 48,000 members who work at GM. The UAW's tentative, four-year agreement with GM, announced late Friday, also opens the door for the automaker to bring back laid-off workers and move jobs back to the United States.

NEWFANE, Vt. - National Guard helicopters rushed food and water Tuesday to a dozen cut-off Vermont towns after the remnants of Hurricane Irene washed out roads and bridges in a deluge that took many people in the landlocked New England state by surprise. "As soon as we can get help, we need help," Liam McKinley said by cellphone from a mountain above flood-stricken Rochester, Vt. Up to 11 inches of rain from the weekend storm turned placid streams into torrents that knocked homes off their foundations, flattened trees, and took giant bites out of the asphalt across the countryside.

NEW YORK - Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power - but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared. Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage, up to $7 billion by one private estimate. For many the danger had not passed: Rivers and creeks turned into torrents tumbling with tree limbs and parts of buildings in northern New England and Upstate New York.

A Penn Relays official sidetracked the ecstatic girls from Fayetteville-Manlius High and doubled, if not tripled, their pleasure. Though Jillian Fanning, for one, at first wasn't sure what was happening. "I was kind of confused," she said. "I thought he was taking us back to where our warmup stuff was. But it didn't look familiar. " Instead, the man herded the girls into the building at the west end of Franklin Field and stopped just a few feet down a hallway. He then reached into a box and, presto, out came four red-and-blue batons, which would serve as lifetime mementos.

The friendship between Ameen Tanksley and Juan'ya Green goes back to the sixth grade and, over the next 4 years, it promises to get only stronger. Reason: They're headed to college together. Green, a 6-3, 200-pound senior guard at Archbishop Carroll High, and Tanksley, a 6-5, 200-pound senior swingman at Imhotep Charter, last night co-committed to play basketball at Niagara. In case you're wondering, neither guy was the ringleader. "I was talking to him about doing this as much as he was talking to me," Green said.

Chelsea Clinton's wedding Saturday evening along the Hudson River in Upstate New York will be under a no-fly zone. Local airspace will be restricted from 3 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 a.m. Sunday, said the Federal Aviation Administration. Clinton , the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, about 90 miles north of New York City. The FAA website said the restriction would be in place for "VIP Movement.

Back in June, Joann Taylor thinned out her irises in Portland, Ore., packed about 18 pounds of extra rhizomes into a box, and shipped them off to Cheltenham Township, where she grew up. These irises are special, descended from a variety planted by John McDermott, Taylor's great-grandfather, more than a century ago on the 49-acre estate belonging to the Elkins family, for whom the Cheltenham neighborhood Elkins Park is named. The estate, known as Elstowe Manor, was on Ashbourne Road. McDermott, an Irish immigrant, was the Elkinses' gardener, and as Taylor recounts the story, he loved these flowers so much he planted them at his own house on Beech Avenue.

With his football team set for a Division III quarterfinal game, Rowan coach Jay Accorsi hasn't tensed up under the bright lights. "Coach has been running all over the field, squirting the ball and squirting the players with water," senior quarterback Mike Orihel said. "He's just trying to liven practice. " Part of Accorsi's plan is to prepare his players for the sloppy weather expected in Rochester, N.Y., where the 9-2 Profs will take on St. John Fisher in a noon kickoff today.