Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.
It’s already complicated to predict who will get laid off if the city’s proposed budget passes at the end of this month, and veterans’ priority tangles the issue even more.
Tuesday’s Republican sweep of city races underscores the problems in the fractured city Democratic Party, observers of city politics said the day after the election.
Robert Goepfert of Ballston Lake is a theater reviewer, a former director of the Palace Theatre in Albany, a playwright and now the grand prize winner of a national essay contest.
A public hearing on the town’s preliminary 2010 budget, which cuts spending by more than $300,000, will be held at 7 tonight in the Town Hall on Clifton Park Center Road.
Five-term Clifton Park town supervisor Philip Barrett won an easy victory Tuesday, defeating William “Bill” Casey, a former president of the Shenendehowa Central School District Board of Education, by a 2-to-1 ratio.
Mayor Scott Johnson coasted to re-election today, taking 60 percent of the vote over Democratic challenger Ron Kim, with 92 percent of precincts reporting.
Hector Ruiz, chairman of the GlobalFoundries board of directors, will take a voluntary leave of absence effective immediately before resigning from the company in January, the company’s board announced today. Dr. Ruiz had submitted his resignation in September with an effective date of January 4.
New bike-to-school regulations for the city school district’s six elementary schools and Maple Avenue Middle School could be announced soon.
Planning committees at each of the schools buildings are busy developing regulations for those buildings, according to district officials.
The district’s old policy — forbidding students from riding their bikes to the elementary schools or Maple Avenue Middle School — was criticized by parents and community members as well as by people from across the country and even Canada via the Internet. Former House speaker and conservative author Newt Gingrich even sent the district a letter encouraging the school board to adopt a policy that encouraged biking and walking to school for the students’ health.
A pair of Schenectady men are expected to be sentenced to prison for stabbing and beating another man outside of a Saratoga Springs night club in February.
Following a hunter’s discovery of a child’s skull near Lake Desolation, police Wednesday searched the area with cadaver dogs and turned up more bone fragments before rain ended the effort. Police said they expect to continue combing the area today.
