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Hearing speakers say Schenectady police reform plan falls short | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS By Brian Lee | Shares0 SCHENECTADY — The city’s draft police reform plan fails to go far enough to reforming the police, the majority of more than a dozen people who spoke at a City Council public hearing on the plan said Monday night. Some speakers were members of All of Us, a community group that continues to push for consideration of 13 demands for reform it made last summer, in the middle of last summer’s nationwide Black Lives Matter movement against police-involved deaths of unarmed Blac...

As 2 churches merge, working class congregation praises gay, young pastor FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Pastor Jon Vanderbeck, 30, ushers visitors  into Trinity Reformed Church where socially distancing volunteers make free pancakes for any one who drops by in honor of Mardi Gras (or Shrove Tuesday). Vanderbeck is Asian American, the first openly gay person of color to be ordained in the denomination. Trinity's congregation was dwindling when he arrived 3 years ago. Now, it has a bright future and is merging with Messiah Lutheran.Lynda EdwardsShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Congregation members handed o...

Covid-19: Vaccines a 'lifeline' for housebound people By Marie-Louise Connolly Published media captionMore than 2,800 people who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid jab Delivering Covid-19 vaccines to housebound patients is "like a light at the end of a very dark tunnel", a community nurse has said. Gillian Quinn works at Bangor Health Centre which is responsible for delivering vaccines to people's homes in the South Eastern Health Trust. So far over 2,800 people in Northern Ireland who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid jab. Vaccinating that cohor...

Author of the article: Peter Hendra Publishing date: Feb 04, 2021  •  February 4, 2021  •  1 minute read Mourners meet with family members of a loved one through a window during at drive-through visitation at Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Home on Davis Drive in Kingston on June 3, 2020. Photo by Ian MacAlpine /Ian MacAlpine/Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network Article content A COVID-19 outbreak at a west-end Kingston funeral home on Tuesday has resulted in three of its staff members testing positive. The three staff members work at the Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Home on Davis Drive and t...

Thursday, January 21, 2021 July After hours of planning and lots of hard work, Jayden Spenner of Remsen completed his Eagle Scout project, a flag retirement box located by the VFW Hall in Remsen. Spenner is the eighteen-year-old son of Jeff and Lori Spenner of Remsen. He has three siblings, Olivia (13), Rylie (12), and Faith (10). His hobbies include hunting, archery, camping, boating, and scuba diving. He recently graduated from MMCRU High School on May 17, 2020. He currently works for CMG Construction and plans to attend WITCC for an associate's degree in police science. Remsen Postmaster H...