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Flood watch, wind advisory issued for Christmas Day | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SCHENECTADY — Santa may need to swap his sleigh for a boat as heavy rains overnight Friday bring the prospects for flooding in the Capital Region. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for all of eastern New York from Thursday evening to Friday at 6 p.m. as a result of temperatures soaring to the mid-50s paired with 1 to 3 inches of rain. “Rain is moving in and it’s going to come down ...

Stirling & Glasgow, Scotland. Est. 1878 That the stash is so well preserved is not surprising: Each bottle was sheathed in the original Old Smuggler tissue-paper, reading, “The Produce of the Heather Hills of Scotland,” then painstakingly cloaked in long, hardened sticks of straw. The bundles were stuffed with loose straw, then wrapped together in multiple, heavy layers of brown packaging paper. Like a cherished Christmas present, the bulky parcels are tied and knotted tightly, several ...

Those piles of snow? They arent clean Where snow is put to melt matters, as it is contaminated with salt, gas and oil FacebookTwitterEmail ALBANY— After the Capital Region saw a historic amount of snowfall last week, snow plows, trucks, and crews worked tirelessly— and are still working— to remove the snow from the streets. But all of that snow doesn’t just disappear -  and where it gets piled up to melt matters because the runoff from snow melt isn’t clean. Snow can often contain sa...

Most roads are plowed - but where do you put all that snow? FacebookTwitterEmail 1of68 Snow removal crews get to work Friday on Washington Avenue by the Capitol and City Hall in Albany. Troy said Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020 that the state Department of Transportation is going to help with snow removal on Congress Street starting Monday.Will Waldron / Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 2of68Buy PhotoCrews work to remove snow from Edward St. on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Schenectady, N.Y. New York State Depa...

Work underway on Schenectady pump station | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS PETER R. BARBER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jensen Construction crews continue working on the new pump station at the foot of North Ferry Street in the Stockade on Tuesday. Shares0 SCHENECTADY — Cement trucks wound through the Stockade last week, making their way down North Ferry Street. The convoy of roughly 30 vehicles was headed to the site of the city’s new sewage pump station, the city’s largest ongoing infrastructure proj...

Capital Region restaurants prepare diverse range of menus for Christmas dinners to go | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 For some, the joy of the 2020 holiday season is tempered by thoughts of those we’ve lost this year. Others may think wistfully of all the community and family events they can’t or shouldn’t attend amid a pandemic. None of this, however, precludes marking the holiday with a good dinner. Numerous Capital Region restaurants are preparing special takeout offerings for Chr...

2:53 A new strategy is being deployed this winter to mitigate ice jam flooding on the Mohawk River. Schenectady’s historic Stockade district along the Mohawk  River is prone to flooding. And some years, like in 2018, when the river clogs with ice, water levels can rise by several feet, putting some streets and homes underwater. As part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Reimagine The Canals Initiative, a new pilot program will try to break up sheet ice before it has a chance to break up, bunch u...

Tugboats, icebreaker to be deployed to break up ice jams along Mohawk | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS ERICA MILLER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Tugboats Margot, front, and Benjamin Elliot, are docked at Lock 7 on the Mohawk River in Niskayuna on Monday. Shares0 SCHENECTADY — An icebreaker and tugboats will be deployed this winter along the Mohawk River and Erie Canal as part of a pilot project to break up ice jams that have long plagued the waterways. The effort is part of the state’s “Reimagine the...

4:08 WAMCs David Guistina speaks with Miles Reed of The Daily Gazette about a new initiative to break up ice jams along the Mohawk River and Erie Canal.  They also discuss a new cap on delivery fees for apps like Uber Eats and GrubHub in Albany County.  Tags: 

Retired HVCC instructor Jim LaBate publishes 6th novel Streets of Golfito is loosely based on LaBates experiences in the Peace Corps Jack Rightmyer FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Jim LaBate has just come out with his sixth book, "Streets of Golfito," loosely based on his experience with the Peace Corps.Provided, Jim LaBateShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Jim LaBate has just come out with his sixth book, "Streets of Golfito," loosely based on his experience with the Peace Corps.Provided, Jim LaBateShow MoreSh...