Amsterdam News Archives

AS a means of communication, speech may be vastly overrated. Or so you could think, at times, watching the veteran conductor Bernard Haitink rehearse the Juilliard Orchestra this week for an hourlong concert of Brahms and Mendelssohn at Alice Tully Hall late Saturday afternoon.

The annual Election Day sale to benefit the Mission of the Church will be from 6 a.m. until closing Tuesday at the Amsterdam United Methodist Church, 347 Golf Course Road.

Fulton and Montgomery counties have taken massive third-quarter sales tax hits, and county officials say fourth-quarter revenues are unlikely to provide much relief for already strained municipal budgets.

Town residents may face a new fee for trash removal next year, town officials said this morning.

Bringing affordable art to the masses has proved to be a credit crunch -proof business model as the Affordable Art Fair celebrated crashing through the A 100m mark in sales last week.

Now Shanghai's future depends on finding ways to prevent the same waters from reclaiming it.

Share + Oct 17, 2009 1:53 pm US/Eastern BOSTON 1 of 2 The chestnut tree in the backyard of the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family were hiding during World War II, is pictured 16 November 2007.

In Amsterdam, New York, about 30 miles northwest of Albany, travelers can stay in a bed and breakfast which used to serve as an armory for the New York National Guard.

The weapon, according to Amsterdam police, was a hammer. The woman who wielded it, police say, is 22-year-old Traci Tylutki of 43 Reid Street in Amsterdam.

A human rights group is honoring an 89-year-old New York woman who hid more than 100 Jews in Amsterdam during World War II -- not far from Anne Frank's house.

A source of local entertainment for area residents - the Johnstown Movie Plex - has closed.

The Common Council must decide whether to put out a request for proposal for an administrator of a $750,000 economic development grant being sought to help a local business.

The Montgomery County Republican Committee has chosen former Amsterdam mayor Joseph Emanuele III as its new leader.

One's out on bail. The other's in jail. Police say one had drugs and the other drove drunk.

A raid on a retail store located less than a mile from police headquarters Thursday led to the arrest of two men, one of whom is charged with selling drugs from the store.

The priority groups established by the Center for Disease Control to receive the H1N1 influenza vaccine are: Pregnant women; Health care workers and emergency medical services personnel; People who live with or provide care for infants under 6 months of age; n Children and young people ages 6 months through 24 years; and People age 25 through 64 ...

Video shot this summer in Afghanistan by a British television crew near an American military base that was attacked on Saturday - in a battle that left eight Americans and four Afghan security officers dead - illustrates quite dramatically how tough the fight there is for soldiers trying to secure villages nestled in high mountains.

The first cars won't hit the track until Wednesday, but already there are dozens of campers and RVs lined up in the parking lot outside the Fairgrounds.

One year ago tonight, Kellisue M. Ackernecht of Johnstown was last seen leaving her job as a night shift manager at the Rite Aid in Amsterdam.

Delta wants to leave no doubt that it is the world's dominant airline. It will let nobody stand in its way, particularly American , the second largest airline, with which Delta has picked a fight.