A loom fixer for an Amsterdam carpet mill set up shop as a gunsmith in 1948 and then made his living building custom rifles and repairing firearms until his death in 1960.

The military plane that crashed in Amsterdam on Oct. 13, 1943, apparently was not a bomber.

My radio career began 50 years ago after an audition conducted by the late Philip J. Spencer Sr., who then managed Amsterdam’s WCSS.

The crew from the Amsterdam crash was lucky to survive.

If you were a regular reader this past year, you might recall the story of Stan and Irene Burza, who operated the Highland House tavern on upper Locust Avenue from 1961 to 1986. The tavern had a Wall of Fame where clippings were posted when patrons did something outstanding in ...

Retired high school Principal Bert DeRose of Amsterdam remembers helping to plant as many as a dozen trees around what was then Wilbur H. Lynch High School to honor those who had died in World War II.

Amsterdam native Liz Andryszczyk Biondi has come across diaries from her youth describing a snowstorm that blanketed the Mohawk Valley in the winter of 1965-66.

One of the most spectacular train wrecks in Amsterdam involved the Empire State Express and the New England Express, two of the fastest passenger trains on the New York Central main line on the north side of the Mohawk River.

A steam pipe that broke in the boiler room of an Amsterdam laundry 64 years ago claimed three lives.

The 1958 New York State Volunteer Firemen’s Convention was nearing its conclusion at the former Coessens Park in Amsterdam’s East End when tragedy struck.