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AMSTERDAM — Riverlink Park has a new attraction with the donation of a nearly 100-year-old work boat by the state Canal Corporation for permanent display. “For many years, Tender 4 plied the waters of the Erie Canal supporting our workforce as they maintained the navigable waterway, and now throu

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ROME — New contracts with Olney’s Flowers for the Mohawk River Trail and CDM Smith NY for pipe inventory were approved by the Rome Board of Estimate and Contract this

UTICA, N.Y. — County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. announced the completion of significant capital projects to upgrade and expand Oneida County’s Water Pollution Control Plant in Utica and the Sauquoit Creek Pump Station in Yorkville, fulfilling its New York State Department of Environmental Conservation-issued consent order. “We have worked diligently with NYSDEC for more […]

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As the cold months approach, a Schenectady-based non-profit is continuing their annual fundraiser to bring clean socks to local youth in crisis.Things of My Ver

Not far from its end where it pours into the Hudson River, the Mohawk River makes a crescent bend that is crossed by a bridge carrying New York State Highway 9 between Saratoga Springs and Albany. Right there on the east side of the bridge and north side of the river, I recently stood next […]

Speed skating champion Ted Ellenwood, Jr., 27, died instantly on June 11, 1946 when struck by lightning while golfing. A friend, Lee DeGroff, was ten feet away but not injured. The golf course then was called the Antlers, today it’s called Rolling Hills. Ellenwood had skated for the Fort Johns

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