Cohoes News

I read with interest last week's report that a local man had been charged with trying to illegally massage an undercover police officer.

The city won its third $400,000 state HOME grant, Mayor John McDonald said today.

It's time to cue the horns and face the music in Cohoes. Trains rolling through the Spindle City soon will be playing their old song again, tooting out warning signals as they approach eight grade crossings ...

Local, independent pharmacists are warning their businesses are in jeopardy due to delayed Medicare payments.

They voiced their alarm Tuesday to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

If it were another private company causing the problem, Schumer says a lawsuit could probably clear things up. But when it is the U.S. government serving as deadbeat, you get big problems.

They've been filling prescriptions, counseling customers and doing the other things you expect of a family-owned pharmacy at Marra's in Cohoes for 77 years. President Barbara McDonald joined with other area pharmacists to warn that staying in business is getting increasingly hard because the federal Medicare bureaucracy is failing to reimburse them promptly for the expensive drugs they dispense.

"Pharmacists deserve to be paid promptly, to be treated with respect and to not be the whipping dog for all the government agencies that are out there," McDonald said.

Voting on the Cohoes school district's $22.5 million renovation project continues until 9 p.m. tonight.

The Cohoes Fire Department responded to a house fire at 129 Central Avenue Saturday afternoon.

Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, D-Cohoes, said the bill would involve Momentive moving major office operations to a new building to be constructed off the Interstate 90 spur in East Greenbush.

A 50-YR-OLD COHOES MAN....ARRESTED LAST YEAR ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES....IS IN TROUBLE AGAIN.

A Cohoes man investigated last year for allegedly trying to arrange interstate sex trysts with a 5-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday and charged with trying to illegally massage an undercover police officer.

Keith Comire, 50, of Walnut Street, posed on the Internet as a man named "Erik" offering massages to singles and couples for between $60 to $75 per person, according to the Albany County Sheriff's Department.

Posted on: 06/24/08 Written by: Ashley Lucas, Clifton Park-Burnt Hills reporter email: lucasa@spotlightnews.com Soft Tex, a pillow, mattress and comforter manufacturer, held an open house of their new factory, ...

' A Fulton County traffic safety sweep over the weekend resulted in 30 tickets and seven arrests, Sheriff Thomas J. Lorey said.

The first time around, brothers Art Perry and Harold Perry rejected the old, abandoned warehouse in Waterford as a possible new site for their pillow and comforter manufacturing.

A Troy man is facing misdemeanor charges on allegations he followed a 13-year-old girl who was walking to school.

The City of Cohoes, north of Albany, will spend more than $24,000 this year on health insurance for City Council members, according to a story in the Times Union of Albany.

The Spindle City will spend over $24,000 this year on health insurance for the part-time members of the City Council, a financial analysis shows.

Fredonia plays Cohoes at 11 a.m. today in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class C girls softball semifinal at the BAGSAF Complex at Nimmonsburg.

Still simmering from Saturday's 90 temperatures? Well, today may set a record. According to George Maglaras of the National Weather Service in Albany, today's projected high is in the mid-90s, which means ...

Two men have been charged with stealing street signs from the scene of a recent fire, police said.

Four people passing through town were arrested after police found 74 packets of heroin in their car.

The farmers market opens Friday. People walking the streets of the Spindle City may have noticed painted carrots under their feet.