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DUANESBURG
Canceled class feud may spur change
Monday, June 17, 2013
Duanesburg’s school board is codifying the process of introducing new curriculum to the district following the uproar caused after an organic chemistry class taught at the high school was abruptly canceled by administrators last winter.
SCHENECTADY
Funding to help Schenectady hazmat service
Monday, June 17, 2013
Schenectady will receive $100,000 in county funding if the city fire department can maintain a staffing level of 20 or more firefighters per day for the rest of this year.
SCHENECTADY
‘Get into trouble,’ grads told
Monday, June 17, 2013
As keynote speaker U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, looked out at the excited group of 470-plus Union College graduates-to-be Sunday morning, he remarked on the sweet, warm spirit he felt on campus, and then challenged the Class of 2013 to go out and get into trouble.
SCHENECTADY
Seniors, kids grow as one
Monday, June 17, 2013
On a recent weekday, a team of raincoat-clad retirees spread wood chips around the raised garden beds at Schenectady’s Zoller Elementary School.
ROTTERDAM
200 documents turned over in Rotterdam double homicide
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Prosecutors in the double Rotterdam homicide that shook the town in April turned over nearly 200 separate documents to the defense last week as part of standard pre-trial disclosures.
SCHENECTADY
Vale Cemetery seeks plot owners to repair damaged head stones
Sunday, June 16, 2013
The Vale Cemetery Association is in search of the owners of about 80 plots in the historic, 100-acre burial ground.
ROTTERDAM
Girl, 8, to compete at Yankee Stadium
Sunday, June 16, 2013
A local 8-year-old will have an opportunity later this month all New York Yankee fans dream of. Even her father.
SCHENECTADY
Union Graduate College confers degrees
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Under his black cap and gown, Lt. Cmdr. Marc Smith humbly wore his U.S. Coast Guard uniform at Union Graduate College’s commencement ceremony.
NISKAYUNA
Niskayuna union set to grieve school bus outsource
Saturday, June 15, 2013
The Niskayuna school district and the union representing its bus drivers appear to be on their way to a legal battle over a district outsourcing plan, after the drivers resoundingly rejected a last-ditch proposal last week.
CLIFTON PARK
Wiffle ball league stars enjoy fast-paced game
Saturday, June 15, 2013
You’re never too old for Wiffle ball. In fact, the Hess Field Wiffle Ball league is proving the game can get better with age, because you can afford uniform T-shirts, bases, an outfield fence and multiple balls and bats.
SCHENECTADY
Close-knit Mekeel class ready to take on world
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Half the members of the Mekeel Christian Academy Class of 2013 received a brick as they walked up to the alter of First Presbyterian Church in Schenectady, dressed in their white and blue caps and gowns. The brick, given to seniors who had attended Mekeel since kindergarten, represented the foundation the school laid for them and the future they can build upon that foundation.
SCHENECTADY
Authorities say Schenectady man with shotgun tied up woman, stole belongings
Friday, June 14, 2013
A city man was arrested this week on accusations he broke into a woman’s home last weekend armed with a double-barreled shotgun, tied her up and made off with some of her belongings in an apparently random incident.
GLENVILLE
Gillibrand terms 109th Airlift Wing abuse claim ‘a crisis’
Friday, June 14, 2013
A former New York Air National Guard officer’s allegations of abuse within a high-profile unit are more evidence of a “systemic crisis” in the nation’s armed forces, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said today.
SCHENECTADY
Officials: Schenectady Free Health Clinic patients won’t ‘fall through the cracks’
Friday, June 14, 2013
Compensating for the soon-to-be shuttered Schenectady Free Health Clinic won’t be easy, but it’s a task the city’s hospital network and health center believe they can accomplish with help from the city’s various human service agencies.
ALBANY
Drug charges land Delmar man 6 1⁄2-year prison sentence
Friday, June 14, 2013
A man arrested after a 2011 police chase in Schenectady was sentenced Friday to more than six years in federal prison on drug and conspiracy charges, officials said.
