Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.
In case you read my column today (Sunday, Aug. 30) and went looking for the photos I wrote about, well, you might have been too late. When I checked Facebook a few minutes after 7 a.m. they were already gone. These were the photos of Schenectady school board member Jim ...
Is it possible? Shahed Hussain, alias Malik, possibly the slimiest character in the history of law enforcement, or at least the slimiest character I have ever personally observed in law enforcement, is back at work. Yes, the same dude who on behalf of the FBI tricked two Albany Muslims into ...
In today’s (Fri., May 8) Daily Gazette, the president of the Schenectady school board, Jeff Janiszewski, protests that he had nothing to do with his wife getting a nice job with the school district without having to take a Civil Service test. Why, his wife had already worked seven years ...
I find this hard to believe myself, but Jack Carroll has been granted parole and will soon be released from prison -- after 11 long years. A year ago he was denied parole when one of the parole commissioners voting against him was Chris Ortloff, the former assemblyman who has ...
As for the presidential inauguration, I might not have gone to Proctors and watched it at all if only I had been notified in time, but alas, the notification arrived after the event. It came from an outfit with which I was not previously acquainted, the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, and ...
I just came back from watching the presidential inauguration at Proctor’s Theatre, which carried a live, high-definition transmission from CBS News, and one thing it did for me is remind me of why I long ago stopped watching television. Such non-stop gab on the part of commentators to fill every ...
Here we go again – another Schenectady cop in trouble. This time it’s Detective Sherri Barnes, who works in the police department’s Youth Aid Bureau. All that Chief Mark Chaires will say, as relayed through department spokesman Kevin Green, is, “She’s on paid suspension pending an internal investigation.” He will ...
