Wynantskill News

A leak in a high-pressure gas main on Mayfair Road near Whiteview Road was sealed late this morning, according to the Wynantskill Fire Department.

At least twenty homes were evacuated in Rensselaer county Tuesday morning because of a gas leak.

State Police made two arrests during a crackdown on underage drinking Sunday. Police checked 17 bars, liquor stores and convenience stores throughout Rensselaer County.

Passion outside work: Piloting airplanes. Glickman, a Wynantskill resident, starting flying in 1998 and owns a 1968 Piper Cherokee 140.

A Troy man is facing several charges after police say he broke into several cars during April and May and use the credit cars to buy merchandise.

The buildings have been demolished and rebuilt in Mechanicville, Palatine Bridge, Amsterdam, Clifton Park and Watervliet.

The Times Union caught up with some of the women we wrote about during the past week to see how they fared in Saturday's 31st annual Freihofer's Run for Women: Karen Cusato, a Guilderland mother of six, finished the race in 26 minutes, 12 seconds.

The Freihofer's is a family affair for the Gerstenberger clan, whose 79-year-old matriarch, Nancy, still walks 5 miles a day in The Crossings of Colonie park with her dog, a boxer named Luna.

A huge piece of Americana will be missing from some Memorial Day parades this year as volunteer fire departments hold out their pumpers and fire engines.

The 53-year-old labor union treasurer from Wynantskill convicted of embezzlement has been sentenced to three years of probation.

If you catch a fish in Rensselaer County today , you may have reason to thank Bill Shorter Sr.

Tensions rise among the members of the Secret Annex in the musical rendering of the Anne Frank Story, a oeYours, Annea at the New York State Theatre Institute, opening today.

A 17-year-old Wynantskill woman is facing charges for filing a false kidnapping report, then for giving a false name to police when she was arrested for lying about the alleged kidnapping.

In Latham Friday evening, 15 Wounded Warriors, as they are being called, come to the Capital Region for a weekend of rehabilitative winter activities.

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A former treasurer for the region's largest state and municipal workers' union pleaded guilty to a felony embezzlement charge today in U.S. District Court.

Elvis Presley was born on Jan. 8. 1935. He died on Aug. 16, 1977. Since that time, he has continued to hold onto his crown as The King.

The Old Chicago Restaurant on Wolf Road closed Sunday after trying to remain open through bankruptcy proceedings.

Police are investigating the death of a Wynantskill man discovered lying on the side of a North Greenbush road Sunday before he was transported to at a hospital and later died.

A WYNANTSKILL MAN, WHO WAS FOUND ALONG THE SIDE OF A ROAD OVER THE WEEKEND, HAS DIED FROM HIS INJURIES.