An Amsterdam native’s memoir about growing up in the former Rug City has been nominated for a National Book Award.

Like Amsterdam’s present mayor, Ann Thane, Marcus I. Breier never had run for elected office when he defeated a political icon in the mayoral election of 1963.

“Why don’t you write a column about Mill Point?” asked the caller.

The fire that consumed four old mill buildings on West State Street in Johnstown Thursday brought the Fulton County glove industry back to the front pages.

Richard Montgomery, for whom Montgomery County in the Mohawk Valley was named, was a hero of the American Revolution.

If all goes according to plan, my Focus on History column in the Daily Gazette on Saturday, May 3 will be about Marcus Breier—an Amsterdam industrialist who served as mayor from 1964-1967.

Carved in stone over the front entrance to the Amsterdam Free Library at Church and Grove streets are the words, "Open to All."

Amsterdam Mayor Ann Thane is taking a personal interest in cleaning up the city of Amsterdam.

People who live in river towns are fascinated by the power of nature passing through. Mark Twain wrote about the Mississippi, of course, and now an Amsterdam native—Jim LaBate--has penned a novel about the mighty Mohawk.

An Amsterdam city firefighter lost his life in the line of duty the year the department came into existence in 1907.