Scotia News

FROM SCHENECTADY POLICE: Due to the Schenectady Holiday Parade, on Saturday 11/21 the following routes will be CLOSED to all traffic from 4 PM until approximately 7 PM NY 5 from the Western Gateway Bridge to Nott Terrace in the City of Schenectady -> NOTE: The Western Gateway Bridge will be CLOSED at the Scotia side of the river I-890 westbound ...

SOME NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PLANS TO SHUT DOWN SEVERAL HUNDRED POST OFFICES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

The U.S. Postal Service has removed the Scotia branch on Mohawk Avenue from its list of retail stations and branches that remain under review for possible consolidation.... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

BETH J. HARPAZ Ungrateful teenagers living in your house? Ask them to contribute, and to say thanks NEW YORK - NEW YORK a ' Is there an ungrateful teenager living in your house? Lisa Butler feels your pain.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Paul Tonko called on the U.S. Postal Service to consider local impacts including pedestrian access and neighborhood benefits when evaluating a consolidation plan that affects post offices in Albany and Scotia.

Potsdam Village Police responded to a squirrel harassment complaint on Hamilton Street in the village Sunday afternoon.

Therea s a roast beef dinner starting at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Scotia United Methodist Church.

Cranesville Aggregate Co., doing business as Scotia Bag Plant, Scotia, N.Y., faces a total of $509,000 in proposed fines from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration .

The Scotia-Glenville girls cross country team had little trouble winning the Class B title at last Friday's Section II Championships at Saratoga Spa State Park.

Juan S. McCray has been arrested by the Scotia Police Department on charges of burglary in the first degree with a dangerous weapon and robbery in the first with a dangerous instrument, at 20 Sunnyside Road, Scotia, at 9:30 p.m. on Nov.

Police have charged a parolee from Schenectady with robbing an 83-year-old woman, who was brutally beaten, during a violent home invasion in this quiet neighborhood.

Scotia police have charged a parolee with beating and robbing an elderly woman in Scotia last night.

We received two very similar questions from our readers. Q: At the State Street intersection on South Swan Street in Albany there are no lane markings.

Scotia-Glenville Parents Advocating for Challenging Education will be hosting a forum on November 10 at 7 p.m. in the library at Sacandaga Elementary School,300 Wren St.,Scotia. The group will host speaker Pat Schuler, a nationally recognized speaker in the area of gifted education.

In what might be a last chance before any changes are made, public information sessions will be held for four Capital Region post offices scheduled for possible closing.

The flight instructor's failure to abort the flight has been found the probable cause of a crash that killed the three people aboard a small airplane after the pilot and instructor failed to extend the wing flaps correctly on takeoff at Mohawk Valley Airport in Scotia, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

With the legal fight over for the state's expanded bottle law, new deposit bottles are quietly appearing on store shelves in advance of a Saturday deadline.

They were chaperoned that first time in 1964, when four of the self-proclaimed Mountain Girls - all turning 16 within a week of each other - left Pittsford for a long weekend trip to the Adirondacks town of Eagle Bay, Herkimer County.

SCOTIA, N.Y. - Members of an upstate New York-based Air National Guard unit are preparing to depart for the South Pole.

Johnstown and Fort Plain turned in big wins Friday, the Sir Bills scoring a rare victory over Foothills Council rival Scotia-Glenville and the Hilltoppers ending Northvillea s unbeaten run through the Western Athletic Conference, 2-1.... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.