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Recent incidents involving the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Department have led to proposed changes for the department's new contract with its union.

Recent incidents involving the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Department have led to proposed changes for the department's new contract with its union.

Tradition lends a hand in Mira Costa High School CIF volleyball championship SHARE                                                                         by Paul Teetor When the Mira Costa boys volleyball team won the CIF Southern Section title Friday night in front of 1,500 delirious fans in their brand-new gym it felt like the glorious end of an inspiring championship season. It wasn’t. It could easily get even more glorious. Mira Costa will now host a semifinal state championship tournament game Thursday night. If ...

“They're like, ‘Oh, there’s a farm in there?’” Kreider said. A proposal to build a new 1,200-bed county prison on the sprawling property, next to Greenwood Cemetery and just south of the city, is the latest attempt to develop this well-situated land where others, at least over the past 50 years, failed. It remains an open question why builders never got to this land just a seven-minute drive from Penn Square and zoned for residential use. That the land is tucked away behind a cemetery, out of sight and out of mind, may have played a role. But interviews with Kreider, ...

MARS RODEO (Courtesy Photo) If you’re a musician who’s been kicking around the Northern Virginia music scene long enough, you know that it can be hard to find that one part of the area where every song you play resonates. Blame it on the region’s transient population that’s either moving here for a job or leaving town for their next one, or the fact that a given venue’s clientele changes each night of the week, or the animal spirits that decide bands like Imagine Dragons are what we now classify as “alternative rock” (they’re not, just FYI). Only the most skilled artists are a...