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An environmental advocacy group has put a price tag on cleanup and economic impacts on the Hudson River following decades of pollution by General Electric.

CATHERINE Corden still remembers that knock on the door, 5am in the morning. It was never going to be good news. “You open the door. You are half asleep and you…

Historically Speaking: Soap Box Derby in Exeter By Barbara Rimkunas In 1951, the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Exeter sponsored the town’s first Soap Box Derby. Racing down Town Hill, eleven boys competed in the distance race: Robert Sargent, Stephen Pluff, Scott Carlisle, Dan Carlisle, Victor Rogers, John Rogers, Ralph Landry, John Anderson, Robert Lowther, Robert Taylor and Kenneth Linscott.  Lowther, Landry, and Anderson won the race, earning them $5, $3, and $2, respectively. The VFW garne...

Study finds Hudson PCB dredging did environmental damage | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS February 19, 2021 A worker on the Hudson River dredging project shovels stone on a barge near the Route 4 bridge in this Gazette file photo. Shares0 HUDSON RIVER — The dredging done by General Electric as part of a federally-ordered cleanup of PCBs did significant harm to the environment, destroying wetlands, according to a report released Friday by the Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees. The trustees s...

Sacandaga region looks to grow while keeping its character FacebookTwitterEmail 1of20 Jason Kemper, right, with his sons Cal and Cole, ice fishing on the Great Sacandaga Lake.  (Photo provided)Jason KemperShow MoreShow Less 2of20 From left, Harper Richardson, Ella Hammons, Macy Weaver, Carter Richardson, Cole Kemper, Callan Kemper, Logan Hammons and Parker Kemper Brown (in orange) with a pike that was released in February of 2020.Jason KemperShow MoreShow Less 3of20 5of20 A shot of the 2016 "R...