| | | | Happy Sunday!Welcome to February! Hope everyone has a great weekend. Bundle up if you're heading out and about today. Before you head out or enjoy that morning cup of coffee or tea, check out some of the top stories on our website. Be safe and enjoy the day. — Ron Rosner, Senior Editor
e-edition obituaries | | | | TROY, N.Y. — The City of Troy hosted a street sign designation ceremony honoring the life and legacy of Honorary Fire Captain George Boone, with multiple speakers testifying to the impact Boone had on the community. The designation sign, which now sits proudly on the corner of Grand Street and 5th Avenue, where Boone’s longtime […] | | | | | ALBANY, N.Y. – The New York State Department of Veterans' Services will host a special Black History Month virtual program, "The Weight & The Witness: Honoring Black Veterans Through Story, Poetry, and Living Memory," on Friday, Feb. 6 from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. This reflective and powerful program will honor the legacy, resilience and lived experiences of Black Service Members across generations through film, spoken word, artistic expression and dialogue. The special event is free. The event will be moderated by Special Assistant for Community Engagement at the New York State Department of Veterans' Services Dr. Lessie Branch. Branch is an […] | | | | | TROY, N.Y. – The Division 4 Sectional boys' meet was a thrilling showcase of speed, strength, and endurance, with Maple Hill asserting dominance to capture the team championship with 117 points, followed by Mechanicville Central with 89, Berne-Knox-Westerlo with 47, and Fonda-Fultonville with 42.5 points. Sprints and Hurdles Berne-Knox-Westerlo's senior Kole Irwin was the meet's sprinting standout, winning both the 55-meter dash in 6.69 and the 300-meter dash in 37.85, combining explosive starts with top-end speed. Maple Hill's Liam Connelly cleared the 55-meter hurdles in 8.68, while his teammates Colin Prendergast and Koen Ahmed also scored in the hurdles, contributing […] | | | | | TROY, N.Y. – In a thrilling meet, Mechanicville emerged as the team champion with 91 points, narrowly defeating Voorheesville, which finished with 81 points. Both teams showcased remarkable depth across sprints, distance, and field events. Sprinting Highlights: Meaghan Lynch of Schuylerville dominated the 55-meter dash, clocking 7.37 seconds to claim first place. In the 300-meter dash, Brooke Coon of Stillwater led the field with a swift 44.42, while Voorheesville's Chloe Kinzel and Shayla Hyman consistently scored points in sprints and middle distances. Relay events were hotly contested: Maple Hill took the 4×200 relay (2:01.75), while Greenwich Central captured the 4×400 […] | | | | | TROY, N.Y. – The Section 2 indoor track and field Division 2 Sectionals were held at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy on Saturday morning. The boys' 55-meter dash finals delivered exactly what sprint fans expect—pure speed and razor-thin margins—with Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake junior Allan Cooper emerging as the fastest man on the track. Cooper […] | | | | | TROY, N.Y. – The Section 2 indoor track and field Division 2 Sectionals were held at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy on Saturday morning. The girls' 55-meter dash finals turned into a blink-and-you-miss-it showdown, with eight sprinters flying down the straightaway and the top three separated by just one hundredth of a second. When […] | | | | | TROY, N.Y. — Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) is enacting a plan to strengthen campus safety, in line with the best practices of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. According to a press release, the plan was agreed on at the Jan. 27 meeting of the college's Board of Trustees. It includes the […] | | | | | Q. I recently had My Toyota RAV4 shipped from the South up here to the North. The car was shipped in an open carrier truck, and the car was held down with straps on the tires, nothing tied to the undercarriage. When I drove my Toyota RAV 4 after it came off the carrier, I heard a dry rubbing noise. So I filled up the tires and drove some more to get everything moving again. I even washed the undercarriage hoping that would help. It has now been a week, and that rubbing sound is still there – not loud […] | | | | | I had been asleep. But now, it was 12:01 a.m., and I was wide awake. As my husband snored, I scrolled through a certain Paper of Record on my phone: I had already spent days soaking up the unending stories of mortal wounds the Trump administration is choosing to inflict with vengeance on the inhabitants of this nation. I needed to do something more active than just being thoroughly steeped in existential misery. Which is how I started indexing past all the headlines describing the mounting horrors replicating around the country, and landed on a story about how a person […] | | | | | For the past year, "affordability" has become Albany's favorite buzzword. Governor Hochul has leaned heavily on it in her most recent State of the State address and her proposed 2026 Executive Budget, presenting herself as a champion for working families struggling with rising costs. But if affordability is truly the goal, we need to be honest about what that word actually means, and whether the Governor's agenda delivers it. To me, affordability does not mean a $112 billion increase in state spending over the last decade. Nor does it mean continuing to mandate the very policies that have made New […] | | | |
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