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5of32 Albany police clashed with anti-brutality protesters Thursday as officers cleared them from an encampment of tents built next to the departments South Station. Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less 6of32 7of32 Albany police physically removed demonstrators from a camp they set up in front of South Station Thursday, April 22, 2021.Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less 8of32 An Albany police officer with tape over his badge on April 22 at South Station.Eduardo MedinaShow MoreShow Less 9of32 10of32 A...

Share This: Michelle Black’s husband, Bryan, was a Green Beret and one of four American soldiers killed in an ambush in Niger in October 2017 by ISIS terrorists. If her husband’s death wasn’t bad enough for her, the nightmare that followed was worse as she couldn’t get a straight answer from his unit, and the various headquarters that the Green Berets fell under, of what had caused that fateful outcome.  Now, Michelle Black has published a book titled Sacrifice, A Gold Star Widow’s ...

All of Us leads protest for ban on police knee-to-head holds | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SCHENECTADY — NAACP of Schenectady President, the Rev. Nicolle Harris, told protesters outside of City Hall Thursday that she’s received phone calls this week suggesting that police would be unable to do their jobs if her organization and others continued with its demand that the city ban knee to neck holds. “I’m not asking any police officer not to do their job,” Harris, pastor at Durye...

Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS By Brian Lee | All of Us leader Mikayla Foster speaks on the steps of City Hall during a press conference as they request changes to be made in city hall meetings for the voices to be heard during public hearings at Schenectady City Hall Monday Shares0 SCHENECTADY — The city’s draft police reform plan fails to go far enough to reforming the police, the majority of more than a dozen people who spok...

Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS By Brian Lee | Shares0 SCHENECTADY — The city’s draft police reform plan fails to go far enough to reforming the police, the majority of more than a dozen people who spoke at a City Council public hearing on the plan said Monday night. Some speakers were members of All of Us, a community group that continues to push for consideration of 13 demands for reform it made last summer, in the middle of l...

As 2 churches merge, working class congregation praises gay, young pastor FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Pastor Jon Vanderbeck, 30, ushers visitors  into Trinity Reformed Church where socially distancing volunteers make free pancakes for any one who drops by in honor of Mardi Gras (or Shrove Tuesday). Vanderbeck is Asian American, the first openly gay person of color to be ordained in the denomination. Trinitys congregation was dwindling when he arrived 3 years ago. Now, it has a bright future and ...

Covid-19: Vaccines a lifeline for housebound people By Marie-Louise Connolly Published media captionMore than 2,800 people who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid jab Delivering Covid-19 vaccines to housebound patients is "like a light at the end of a very dark tunnel", a community nurse has said. Gillian Quinn works at Bangor Health Centre which is responsible for delivering vaccines to peoples homes in the South Eastern Health Trust. So far over 2,800 people in Northern ...

Author of the article: Peter Hendra Publishing date: Feb 04, 2021  •  February 4, 2021  •  1 minute read Mourners meet with family members of a loved one through a window during at drive-through visitation at Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Home on Davis Drive in Kingston on June 3, 2020. Photo by Ian MacAlpine /Ian MacAlpine/Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network Article content A COVID-19 outbreak at a west-end Kingston funeral home on Tuesday has resulted in three of its staff members testin...

Thursday, January 21, 2021 July After hours of planning and lots of hard work, Jayden Spenner of Remsen completed his Eagle Scout project, a flag retirement box located by the VFW Hall in Remsen. Spenner is the eighteen-year-old son of Jeff and Lori Spenner of Remsen. He has three siblings, Olivia (13), Rylie (12), and Faith (10). His hobbies include hunting, archery, camping, boating, and scuba diving. He recently graduated from MMCRU High School on May 17, 2020. He currently works for CMG Con...