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Union Football to Hold Free Youth Clinic on August 13
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Head Coach Jon Drach announced last week the Union College football team will be hosting a Free Youth Football Clinic to kick off the 2024 season. The clinic, scheduled to be held on Tuesday, August 13, is set to serve the local football community for all campers ranging from the ages of 7-13. A "FUNdamentals" based camp, the football team invites participants of all skill levels and positions. The camp will emphasize the basic football skills of passing, catching, running and defensive techniques, and will include team-building exercises and competition. The camp coincides with the return of football to Schenectady, as preseason practice launches for the 2024 season on August 14. The entire football team will not only be in attendance but will serve as the lead instructors for the clinic.
Upstate New York Airport Adds Another Direct Flight
Albany International Airport is undergoing a one hundred million dollar renovation but it isn't stopping them from adding more flights. A new discount airline has taken flight and offering direct flights to two different cities in North Carolina. Which New Airline Is Flying Out Of Albany Airport to North Carolina?
Governor Hochul Announces Completion of “Ravens Challenge” at State Preparedness Training Center
Governor Hochul Announces Completion of “Ravens Challenge” at State Preparedness Training Center. Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that New York State recently hosted the 2024 “Raven’s Challenge,” the world’s largest annual training exercise for public safety bomb squads and military explosive ordnance disposal teams at the State Preparedness Training Center (SPTC) in Oriskany, NY. Bomb technicians and military personnel representing various places around New York State, the country, and the world, including Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Canada, participated in the exercise and engaged in training on response tactics for improvised explosive devices.
House in New York State Explodes Leaving One Person Dead
Officials are saying a resident is dead, with another one being airlifted to a hospital, after a house exploded in New York state. The Post Standard reports that other residents as far as ten miles away claim they heard the blast Wednesday evening. Natural gas leaks can sometimes cause an...
Ben Oreskes joins The New York Times
We are thrilled to announce that Benjamin Oreskes, most recently of The Los Angeles Times, will be joining The New York Times to become a statehouse correspondent in Albany, N.Y. For Ben, this is a coming home of sorts, in more ways than one. He’s a native Upper West Sider,...
Men's Basketball Announces 2024-25 Schedule
LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – Rider University Men's Basketball Head Coach Kevin Baggett has announced his team's 2024-25 schedule. The Broncs are set to face four high-major opponents on the road in the non-conference, with a season-opening trip to UCLA (Nov. 4), a meeting with former Siena Head Coach Fran McCaffrey's Iowa Hawkeyes (Nov. 19), a Nov. 27 trip to Villanova and a Dec. 16 trip to Raleigh to face North Carolina State highlighting the docket. The Broncs wrap up their Californian trip with a stop at the University of San Diego (Nov. 6), before playing a pair of games in Maryland (Coppin State – Nov. 9; Navy – Nov. 12).
Pilot Unharmed After Plane Goes Down in the Hudson River
Remarkably, a pilot is ok after his small sea plane crashed into the Hudson River shortly after 5pm Thursday. Catskill Police said small sea plane that went down in the Hudson River near Dutchman’s Landing. The pilot, a 71 year old man from Cairo was attempting to land his...
Youth is served with local soccer franchise owner ahead of her time
Hudson Valley Crusaders owner finding great success at young age. When Hannah Esslie founded the Hudson Valley Crusaders of the United Women’s Soccer League, she was thought to be the youngest sports franchise owner in the country. That was four years ago, when she was a student at Cairo-Durham High School.
DA Soares launches write-in campaign
Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who lost the Democratic nomination in a primary race in June, announced he’ll pursue an independent write-in campaign as he seeks a sixth term this November. The post DA Soares launches write-in campaign first appeared on Spotlight News.
Budd returns to his roots and to safe pasture at Cherry Hill, fundraiser August 11
Budd was a standardbred whose original destiny was to become a racehorse. At two years old, he didn’t make the required time and instead became a working horse. He ended up as a driver for an Amish family for the next 18 years.He click-clacked his way for more than 100,000 miles over those years, and when it became evident that Budd could no longer perform his daily tasks due to old age, his family didn’t really want to send him to auction. Lucky for Budd, his family came across the Cherry Hill Farm Sanctuary business cards that President Pamela Harmon had scattered throughout nearby harness shops and community centers.
Man sentenced for PPP loan fraud at Saratoga Springs restaurants
An Albany has been sentenced for allegedly defrauding a loan program for businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scott Solomon, 38, was sentenced to just over a year in prison and three years probation.
This New York Camper Is Missing In the Adirondacks, If You See Him, Do Not Approach!
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) are seeking the publics help in locating a missing camper last seen in the Adirondacks. Should you locate this person DO NOT APPROACH. Contact DEC immediately at 1-833-697-7264, press 2 to speak with a dispatcher directly. Take a look at the photograph...
Troy Author and Former Bank Robber Daniel Killion to Read at ACW
SARANAC LAKE — Troy author Daniel Killion will be at Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) on Wednesday, July 31, at 7 p.m. along with co-author Michael Klane to read from his book, Portrait of a Bank Robber. Portrait of a Bank Robber is a work of creative nonfiction that...
Details Emerge On Ex-Cuomo, Hochul Aide Whose $3.5M Manhasset Home Was Searched By FBI
A former top aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo whose Long Island home was searched by the FBI earlier this week was fired by the state last year after "evidence of misconduct, according to new reports. According to a report by Politico, Linda Sun was...
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