Schenectady County News

The Big House is out. And Big Hair is in. Metroplex, the economic development agency in Schenectady County, is today announcing that the downtown Big House prew pub and nightclub project is officially dead, but will be replaced by a retail store and training facility operated by hair product company Paul Mitchell.

This morning, 3,400 customers in Scotia, Glenville and Schenectady lost power from an underground cable fault.

The county will begin work this year and complete it in the fall of 2010. The federal money will create and refurbish a 4.7-mile section of the Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail between Washington Avenue in the Stockade and Balltown Road in Niskayuna.

Schenectady County water contest a matter of taste Posted on: 07/01/09 Jackie Sher email: news@spotlightnews.com On Thursday, July 2, municipalities from around Schenectady County including Scotia, Glenville, Rotterdam and Niskayuna will compete for the title of best-tasting water at the Schenectady County Green Market.

A Patersonville man has been arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl.

Ricky Savage, 31, of Schenectady faces eight counts of first-degree perjury, felonies.

One charge against suspended city police Officer Kyle Hunter was dropped in City Court this afternoon after the Schenectady County district attorney's office said it cannot find the case's main witness, Hunter's ex-girlfriend. Hunter's ex-girlfriend, who is a correction officer, accused him in March of driving her car without her permission, ...

"This is the biggest retail development in 20 years in downtown Schenectady and the tide has really turned," said Schenectady County Legislature Chairwoman Susan Savage.

Eric Ely, right, arrives with his attorney, Frank Putorti, for a meeting with Schenectady County District Attroney Robert M. Carney this morning.

Officers Gregory Hafensteiner and Andrew Karaskiewicz, who have been out of work since December 2007, were charged administratively two weeks ago, Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett said.

A Saratoga Springs man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges he broke into the Niskayuna home of his children's mother last August, stabbing her in the abdomen and back as she pleaded for him to stop, the Schenectady County District Attorney's Office said in a press release.

A Hammond man was charged with felony aggravated driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident Monday night after his vehicle struck and knocked down a fence at Converse Welding, 267 High St., according to Watertown police.

A registered sex offender was charged with raping a 14-year-old girl earlier this week.

FBI agents created a stir in Schenectady when they swarmed an auction house wearing hazardous materials suits, reportedly to check out a suspicion that there might be anthrax in the trash at the building.

Police say divers have recovered the third person killed when a small plane crashed into a river in eastern New York.

"Schenectady's Finest" are no longer welcome at the Schenectady County Adult Softball Field.

SCOTIA, Schenectady County - A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says a small plane has crashed into New York's Mohawk River with 3 people aboard, and at least two have died.

Schenectady firefighters make their way to the roof of a house at 1027 Congress St.

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted Middle FBI agents toting cameras and wearing hazardous material suits swarmed a city warehouse Friday after the discovery of vials with labels suggesting they contained anthrax.

All around it, buildings have been restored, new ones constructed, trees planted and new businesses opened.