After being cancelled last week due to inclement weather, the Gloversville Holiday Parade has been rescheduled to step off on Saturday at 4 p.m. Parade organizer Jordan Twardy, who also serves on the Gloversville Recreation Commission, said a predicted thunder and wind storm on Dec. 11 forced the
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Looking west this morning on Summer Street in Gloversville, icy conditions prevail. (The Leader-Herald/Michael Anich)
GLOVERSVILLE Area residents woke up today to a slippery coating of ice and rain on driveways and streets, and a forecast from the National Weather Service indicates more snow on its way later this week.
“Across the area we saw three-hundredths to three-tenths of flat ice,” NWS Albany forecaster Andrei Evbuoma said this morning.Â
He said the area generally didn’t receive too much snow, only about one to two inches in Fulton and Montgomery counties. He said bad weather from Texas, with its “mixed bag of precipitation,” made its way up to the Northeast.
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The independently elected Johnstown Water Board has filed a lawsuit seeking to regain control of its NBT bank accounts, the city’s Water Department personnel and its budget from the city of Johnstown and lame duck officials Mayor Vern Jackson and City Treasurer Mike Gifford.
Water Board member Brandon Lyon introduced the resolution to hire Albany-based law firm Goldberger & Kremer at the board’s meeting Tuesday, stating Johnstown City Attorney Michael Poulin has denied the Water Board’s requests to “enforce the city charter” and has advised the Water Board that the Common Council will not authorize the Water Board to hire outside legal council to begin legal action against the city. The board voted unanimously to hire the law firm anyway, defying Poulin and the Common Council’s authority.