For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
Frank Del Gallo’s time as town supervisor might not win him any awards, but his charity as a town resident has garnered him a designation as the Rotterdam Elks’ Citizen of the Year.
After 105 absentee ballots were tallied Wednesday in the Malta town supervisor race, Republican incumbent Paul Sausville retained the roughly 60-vote lead he had on election night.
The first day of absentee ballot counting in the Schenectady mayor's race went slowly, with just 148 ballots examined, because attorneys went back decades in their search for reasons to throw out votes.
The race for Colonie town supervisor could be decided today, as officials at the Albany County Board of Elections began the arduous process of counting absentee ballots Wednesday.
The first day of counting absentee ballots in the Schenectady mayor's race went slowly, with just 148 ballots examined, because attorneys went back decades in their search for reasons to throw out votes.
Today, four attorneys will scrutinize the 529 absentee ballots cast in the Schenectady mayor’s race, looking for reasons to throw some of them away without ever counting them.
With absentee ballots counted Tuesday, incumbent Democrat Ann Thane has been — still unofficially — declared the city’s next mayor, winning re-election in a close race with former Republican mayor Joseph Emanuele III.
Democratic mayoral candidate Brent Wilkes conceded defeat to Mayor Scott Johnson today, saying that Johnson’s 225 vote lead in Tuesday’s election is too large, even with 400 absentee ballots yet to be counted.
Brent Wilkes, the Democratic mayoral candidate who trails Republican Mayor Scott Johnson by 226 votes after Tuesday’s election, wouldn’t concede defeat Wednesday.
