Former Schenectady Boys & Girls Club leader running for school board | The Daily Gazette
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Erica Brockmyer
Erica Brockmyer, a 2003 Schenectady High School graduate and former program director with the Schenectady Boys & Girls Club, is seeking a seat on the Schenectady school board in May.
Brockmyer, who now works as a school counselor at the private Emma Willard School in Troy, previously worked nearly nine years at Boys & Girls Club centers in Schenectady. While working at the Mont Pleasant clubhouse, Brockmyer helped implement programs focused on bolstering the social, emotional and mental health of the city’s youth. She also worked as a substitute teacher in Schenectady schools, filling in in classrooms across buildings and grade levels.
Two seats open for Schenectady school board; Board President John Foley says he won’t run again | The Daily Gazette
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Two seats open for Schenectady school board; Board President John Foley says he won’t run again
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Schenectady school board President John Foley on Wednesday said he does not plan to run for re-election in May, and board member Andy Chestnut said he still hasn’t decided whether he will pursue re-election.
Foley, who has served on the school board since 2012 and announced his decision to not run for re-election at Wednesday night’s board meeting, recalled how he decided to run for the school board after reading an article that no candidates had emerged for open school board seats. He said he didn’t think it was right for no one in a community as large as Schenectady to step up for such an important position, so he did.
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Local hip-hop emcees and creatives are ready to put Schenectady on the map | The Daily Gazette
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March 10, 2021
Local hip-hop artists Touchmoney Cease, right, Super Starr Gutta, bottom left, and filmographer Breaz, top left. (Stan Hudy/The Daily Gazette and provided photos)
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Hip-hop and New York are synonymous with each other.
The genre was born in a Bronx apartment building in the early ‘70s, carried for years by New York greats in Nas, Jay-Z and the Notorious B.I.G. and found a fresh edge in newcomers like Fivio Foreign and the late Pop Smoke.
But recently, it isn’t just the city that never sleeps that’s bringing New York attention from hip-hop heads.
Schenectady school district officials moved back the planned start of new elementary school “learning pods” in the face of a slow rehiring process and other…