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SCHENECTADY
Separated by generations, penpals meet
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Mont Pleasant Middle School students have been writing with residents at The Avenue nursing home all year, and on Tuesday they got to meet their penpals at the Altamont Avenue facility.
ROTTERDAM
Abandoned storage units can be full of surprises – or junk
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Auctions are part of the self-storage business. Whenever people fall behind in their rents or abandon their possessions, business managers are allowed to sell the contents and find new “tenants” for storage areas. A lot of the auction commotion is thanks to “Storage Wars,” a reality television series that began on A&E Network in 2010.
SCHENECTADY
Community Action Program brings in human element
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The goal of the Schenectady Community Action Program’s new story-sharing campaign, Long Story Short, is to educate people about the work SCAP does to lift people out of poverty, provide a deeper understanding of what it’s like to be poor and counteract negative stereotypes about poor people.
SCHENECTADY
Fire victims remembered at emotional service
Saturday, May 18, 2013
On a sunny Saturday morning, the mood inside Bond Funeral Home was gray, with dark clouds of emotion brimming with electricity. This was not a quiet service.
NISKAYUNA
Fun + friendship + food + fireworks = Niska Day
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Vegas theme for the 32nd edition of Niska Day meant jugglers, acrobats and Elvis impersonators.
NISKAYUNA
6 vie for 3 open seats on Niskayuna Board of Education
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Three incumbents and three challengers are vying for three seats on the Niskayuna Board of Education in Tuesday’s vote.
DUANESBURG
Restaurateur Payne remembered for his high standards
Friday, May 17, 2013
Restaurant owner Robert L. Payne will live on through The Bear’s Steakhouse and his Capital Region disciples and in classrooms around the country.
SCHENECTADY
Brooklyn man gets 15 years in Schenectady shootout
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Brooklyn man convicted in February of attempted assault and weapons charges in a 2011 shootout on Close Street — but acquitted of attempted murder — was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.
SCHENECTADY
Prison term for Schenectady accidental shooter
Friday, May 17, 2013
A Rockland County man accused of accidentally shooting himself and his girlfriend in October pleaded guilty Friday to a felony weapons charge.
SCHENECTADY
Jack’s Place has four walls to go with dream
Friday, May 17, 2013
Jack’s Place finally has a home.
SCHENECTADY
Company to redo bad pavement on Schenectady streets
Friday, May 17, 2013
Patches of new pavement have failed throughout the city because they were paved too late last year, City Engineer Chris Wallin said.
SCHENECTADY
Three charged in Schenectady prostitution sweep
Friday, May 17, 2013
Authorities arrested three Schenectady women on prostitution charges after conducting a sweep Thursday evening.
GLENVILLE
Police investigate series of early morning burglaries in Glenville
Friday, May 17, 2013
Glenville police are searching for the person or people behind a series of similarly conducted burglaries around town the last several months.
GE’s Nancy Fitzroy is subject of latest Wizards of Schenectady video
Friday, May 17, 2013
Most of Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy’s friends were all about going to Skidmore College and finding a husband. She had other plans. “I didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go to Skidmore and get my degree in ‘Mrs.,’ ” said Fitzroy, a Pittsfield, Mass., native and a mechanical engineer at General Electric Co. for 37 years from 1950-87. And she did get married, too.
SCHENECTADY
Gazette buys press to cut costs
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Daily Gazette is making a $1.5 million investment in a replacement printing press for its operations on Maxon Road Extension.
