Daily Gazette Local News (2024)

LOUDONVILLE — A new Siena College research poll released Thursday revealed Gov. Kathy Hochul and President Joe Biden's favorability ratings among New York state voters at their lowest point yet.

Jeremiah Wiedemann of Wiedemann Sons Roofing on June 10 was sentenced to five years of probation and forced to pay a fine for the May 12, 2023 incident.

When the Nature Bus Albany program began, Sarah Walsh, the associate director of the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy, thought it would be a pandemic-era one-off.

AMSTERDAM — A splash pad is coming soon to Amsterdam’s East End with initial work on Esperanza Verde Park finally ready to proceed.

Bite-sized is a regular feature highlighting local food festivals, special events, menu changes, restaurant news and more. Let’s dig in.

ALBANY — Michael Bellizzi spent much of his childhood fascinated by the players on his father’s College of Saint Rose baseball team.

Barbara Thomas’ small frame belies her outsized presence.

SCHENECTADY— Schenectady police are investigating a reported early Wednesday morning shooting at Central Park that left one man injured, police said.

The smoke shop moratorium that has been in place in Schenectady since March is on the verge of lifting as the city council finalizes smoke shop zoning that would limit the shops to four business and manufacturing zoning districts in the city.

DOWN TO BUISNESS - In the decade between 2011 and 2021, more than 5,800 acres of land in the four-county Capital Region core became developed. Lost were forest lands and water acreage, the latter primarily converting to wetlands.

Several recent developments have our columnist optimistic we’re trending away from social media.

20 college and high school students took a whirl around the skies from Fulton County Airport on Juneteenth.

AMSTERDAM — The Greater Amsterdam School District announced its 2024 Hall of Fame inductees Wednesday.

AMSTERDAM — After a recent proposal to eliminate the city’s contribution to Medicare Part B premiums for all future retirees sparked backlash, Amsterdam officials unanimously approved a compromise preserving the benefit for existing employees…

SCHENECTADY - City firefighters Thursday fought a blaze on Parkwood Boulevard.

Schenectady Fire Chief Don Mareno said the three-family home on Parkwood Boulevard that caught fire Thursday is expected to be torn down Friday morning. But, while he said the investigation is ongoing, the chief said,“At this point, [the fir…

LAKE GEORGE - Parents from Pennsylvania were arrested Tuesday, accused of leaving their infant child alone on a Lake George beach while they went boating, New York State Police said.

MOHONASEN - Ella Scorzafava has always been a compassionate person.

Newly named Washington Post editor Robert Winnett decides not to take job amid turmoil at the newspaper, the Post says.

South Carolina will hold runoff elections next week to decide a handful of races in which no candidate received a majority of the vote in the primary held just two weeks earlier. In the 3rd Congressional District, primary voters winnowed the …

Democrats are putting a spotlight on more than 1 million union workers and retirees whose pensions are being saved under a 2021 law. The Butch Lewis Act will ultimately stop cuts to the retirement benefits of 2 million workers and retirees ac…

Authorities in Western Balkan countries are warning citizens to be cautious, drink water and avoid sunshine as an early heat wave this summer gripped the region, sending temperatures soaring to nearly 40 degrees Celsius. Meteorologists say th…

The U.S. military says a floating pier it built in Gaza has been reattached to the shore and is unloading humanitarian aid again. The pier had to be removed for a second time last week because of rough seas. However, much of the aid has linge…

The cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has denied it is a security threat after the U.S. Commerce Department banned the use of its software in the United States. The Moscow-based company, whose CEO is Russian, said in a statement that the Commerce …