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The Common Council Tuesday night voted unanimously to modify the city’s garbage collection ordinance to allow city residents to place their Twin Bridges trash receptacles within view from the street, while prohibiting garbage bags from being visible inside the cans or near them.The council’s action

GLOVERSVILLE -- The city of Gloversville is set to receive $178,750 from the New York state Local Initiatives Support Corporation to help fund the enforcement of the city's anti-blight and vacancy laws.On Nov. 5 the city received a letter from the New York state Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Nearly 70 years later, the mystery of what exactly it was that they saw remains unresolved. The Lancaster New Era noted that the three boys, Gordon James, Bill Ford and Tom Groff, all about 14 years old at the time, saw what they believed to be a flying saucer “whirring overhead” near the Neffsville Ground Observation Post at around 4 a.m. on Aug. 20, 1952. The post was one of many civilian air-spotter posts set up as part of Civil Defense initiatives in the 1950s and crewed by vol...