Eidens replacement to be named | The Daily Gazette
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The Schenectady County Legislature will appoint a successor to Legislator Michael Eidens, whose r The meeting requires a 10-day notice. Three candidates told Savage they are interested in completing the remaining two years of Eidens’ four-year term in District 3, and others are expected to come forward, she said. Eidens left the Legislature to become a state judicial hearing officer. District 3 consists of Glenville and Niskayuna and is the largest of the four county Legislature districts. Any replacement would have to seek re-election in 2009 for a full four-year term. The seat carries an annual salary of just over $14,000.
Man gets up to 10 years in Niskayuna, Schenectady elder scams; Daughters tell court of many impacts | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – Alma Hurwitz’s family tried to keep her safe. They even tried to get the 94-year-old an aide, daughter Robin Inwald recalled in Schenectady County Court Tuesday.
But Hurwitz, a trained scientist, was fiercely independent. She even continued to handle her own finances, something she enjoyed doing. That was, Inwald said in court, “until you came along.”
Inwald spoke of Craig Kearsing, the now-admitted scam artist who preyed on at least three elderly victims in Schenectady and Niskayuna in 2019 for thousands of dollars in bogus home work.
Scrapbook 1982: Ever Had a Ride on a Drunken Camel? Then Try Flying the Goodyear Blimp | The Daily Gazette
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The Goodyear blimp over General Electric in Schenectady Aug. 1, 1982. Right: Pilot Pat Henry with Gazette reporter Carl Strock.
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“It’s just like riding a wave,” pilot Pat Henry t ried to explain. “The warm air comes up from the ground in a corkscrew. When you enter the corkscrew, you get twisted to the side and go up, and when you come out of it, you get twisted the other way and go down.”
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Scrapbook 1963, 1982: Over Schenectady and Albany in the Goodyear Blimp | The Daily Gazette
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Gazette file photos by Ed Schultz (1982) and Sid Brown (1963)
A Goodyear ground crew prepares to help company airship “Columbia” land in Albany in 1963.
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Roy Belotti, who lived in Oxnard, Calif. and was a retired lieutenant commander with the U.S. Navy, keeps and eye on the sky and his controls inside Goodyear’s “Columbia” on Aug. 21, 1963.
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Schenectady Gazette reporter Tommy Kahan prepares to board the six-passenger gondola of Goodyear’s “Columbia,” the $750,000 blimp that had been christened Aug. 18, 1963. Kahan took his ride into the sky on Aug. 21, 1963.
Rotterdam man accused of murder in death of foster child
Rotterdam man accused of murder in death of foster child
Dequan Greene of Rotterdam arraigned Friday after grand jury probe into Dec. 20 death of child in his care, Schenectady County District Attorney says
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Charlie Garay, 4, died on Dec. 20, after, prosecutors said, he was abused by his foster father at a home in Rotterdam.Submitted photographShow MoreShow Less
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SCHENECTADY A Rotterdam man who told authorities a foster child gravely injured in his care fell from a chair was indicted on murder charges for inflicting the internal injuries that killed the boy, the Schenectady County District Attorney s office said Friday.