Amsterdam native Ben Kroup, Jr. of Waterford has a question, “Can anyone date an (Amsterdam) fire that claimed the lives of Catherine DiRosa or DeRosa and her children? She was the wife of James DiRosa, a steeplejack, who I believe was killed while working on a local smokestack. Catherine, whose ...

The premiere of the movie “Drums Along the Mohawk” was a major event in the Mohawk Valley in 1939. Tonight at 8:00 p.m. (Aug. 16, 2008), Old Fort Johnson historic site will sponsor a free open-air showing of the film. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. The Old Fort is ...

Driving north through the town of Florida toward Amsterdam on Route 30, motorists notice the windmill barn, a tribute to Dutch settlers. Amsterdam’s city seal also shows a windmill. Historian Barbara Spraker of Canajoharie would like to see a windmill rebuilt in Amsterdam that would be visible as motorists arrive ...

In 1991, when Henry Nicols was a high school senior, he announced to the world that he had AIDS. He became an AIDS activist and a national celebrity and told one young questioner that he planned to run for president. Henry died in 2000, and his father, Henry J. Nicols, has written a memoir of his son's life.

More than 2,000 people died on May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam collapsed at Lake Conemaugh sending a wall of water and debris into Johnstown, Pennsylvania, already experiencing flooding from the Little Conemaugh and Stony Creek rivers. Six weeks later, a flood struck Johnstown, New York along the ...

Anxiety and boredom motivated George Washington to travel through northern New York and the Mohawk Valley in 1783. This weekend, the Fort Plain Museum will sponsor a reenactment of General Washington’s trip of 225 years ago. The festivities were previewed this past Sunday in the Gazette in an article by ...

People in Fort Hunter, a Montgomery County hamlet off Route 5-S where the Schoharie Creek meets the Mohawk River, are proud to call themselves “canawlers.” Chief Ray Tylutki said that the Fort Hunter Engine and Hose Company has a painting on its trucks and T-shirts with the words, “Fort Hunter ...

The Friends of the Sanford Stud Farm today (07-24) were to retrace by bus the annual trek that Amsterdam’s thoroughbreds made from Hurricana Farm (also known as the Sanford Stud Farm) to the Sanford stable on Nelson Avenue in Saratoga Springs. Headed by former Sanford jockey Lou Hildebandt and his ...

The story of Amsterdam native Adam Golab came to the foreground recently because the Walter Elwood Museum of the Mohawk Valley needed copies of Golab’s popular books for the museum gift shop.

Bob Going, most recently Amsterdam’s city attorney during the administration of Mayor Joseph Emanuele, is out with his second book, “The Judge Report: Musings of a Conservative Republican Pro-life Catholic Red Sox Fanatic Currently Hiding Our in Amsterdam, NY USA.”