Wynantskill News

A car is pushed out of a flooded section of Broadway and Clinton St. due to heavy rains on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Schenectady, N.Y. Authorities in Troy have closed Lincoln Avenue after a sink hole opened up on Tuesday, May 22, 2013.

Ed Foley's grandparents opened up the former restaurant and bar in the 1940s. It was a popular spot for more than 40 years.

It was two weeks ago when a fire forced a mother to make some quick decisions to save her children.

In 2011, the chef/entrepreneur founded The Hungry Fish Cafe in Wynantskill. In 2012, she moved to more suitable quarters at 615 Pawling Avenue, Troy, next to the New Old Stuff furniture store, the current location of the restaurant.

NORTH GREENBUSH The cause of an early Friday house fire in which a family of five narrowly escaped out a second-story window was a discarded cigarette the ignited a pile of mulch, police said.

An overnight fire caused extensive damage to a single-family home on Friday, May 3, 2013, at 15 Bellmead Ave., Wynantskill.

An overnight fire broke out in the town of Wynantskill. Around 2:00 A.M. firefighters responded to a structure fire on Bellemeade Street.

The state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to designate the Wynantskill Creek as an "inland waterway," which would allow communities that border the Hudson River tributary to apply for grants from the state's Environmental Protection Fund.