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Top Workplaces 2021: Small employers May 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FIRST PLACE Top Workplaces 2021 The team at Schenectadys Jahnel Group, the 1st Place Small Employer among 2021 Top Workplaces. (Provided photo) Provided Jahnel Group had just relocated to their fifth-floor office space overlooking Schenectady when the pandemic hit. But the custom software development and consulting company quickly pivoted and was able to flawlessly transition to a work-from-home mode...

Top Workplaces 2021: Midsize employers May 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail   These 19 businesses, each with 100 to 299 Capital Region employees, came out on top based on employee surveys. FIRST PLACE Top Workplaces 2021 A view of Mohawk Honda on Monday, April 26, 2021, in Schenectady, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union) Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union When the world shut down in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mohawk Honda in Schenectady did the same. And lik...

Allison Mack to be sentenced on June 30 for crimes in NXIVM FacebookTwitterEmail 1of8 Actress Allison Mack arrives at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York for a status conference, June 12, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Mack was charged in April with sex trafficking for her involvement with a self-help organization for women that forced members into sexual acts with their leader. The group, called Nxivm, was led by founder Keith Raniere, who was arrested ...

The 2008 Shen grad and Halfmoon native found music success in the middle of the 2010s as...

Workers from the state Canal Corp. were on the water Monday, preparing for the seasonal...

School districts across the Capital Region have submitted 2021-2022 budget proposals,...

Bibliofiles: Nourishment for a book-loving soul Finding safe haven at Half Moon Books in Kingston Donna Liquori FacebookTwitterEmail Owner Jessica DuPont stands by the window of her used bookstore in Kingston, Half Moon Books.Donna Liquori The owner of Half Moon Books, Jessica DuPont, a friend and fellow school mom, let me work at a small desk in the basement of her Kingston shop during this odd school year. She handed me a key and the bookstore became my safe haven. I would drop my daughter of...

Ice cream shops look forward to busier season, but constraints remain FacebookTwitterEmail The 2020 season for ice-cream stands still had sprinkles and waffle cones and banana splits, but one thing noticeably missing was the deep connection to the customer. “There were no hugs last year,” said Lynn DeVoe-Warn of DeVoe’s Rainbow Delights ice-cream stand in Halfmoon. Her business, which runs as an extension of her family’s DeVoe Rainbow Orchards, is a spring and summer institution for loc...

TROY, N.Y. — The city of Troy is committing to strengthening the citys water infrastructure connections for both the short and long term. Mayor Patrick Madden gathered with city, county, and state officials to break ground on the major water infrastructure project to preserve the reliability of the city’s water infrastructure network for at least the next 200 years. The groundbreaking set forth phase 1 of a multi-year effort to replace vital water transmission lines that connect the C...

State Unemployment System has been a Disaster for More than a Year – Struggling New Yorkers need Relief NOW ALBANY, NY – Senator Daphne Jordan (R,C,I-Halfmoon) and her Senate Republican colleagues today called on the State Legislature and Cuomo administration to fix multiple issues that continue to plague New York’s broken unemployment system, as well as enact measures to provide relief to New Yorkers who continue to struggle as a result of the pandemic. More than a yea...