3/10/10
Bring your bling: 'Roadshow' comes to Amsterdam
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff Amsterdam residents are invited to clear out their drawers, look through their attics...
Reynicke given OK to appoint coordinator
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff The Common Council on Tuesday gave City Controller Heather Reynicke the go-ahead to...
Fire probe continues
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff CHARLESTON — Officials confirmed Tuesday that a body was discovered Monday...
Balancing act
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff In discussing the proposed 2010-11 budget for the first time during Tuesday's...
Supervisors upend decision, agree to college's request
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff FONDA — With assurances that Montgomery County wouldn't have to reach into its...
County bridge projects likely to move ahead
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff FONDA — The replacement or rehabilitation of three bridges is likely to go...
DEC confirms knowledge of structure's demolition
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff BROADALBIN — While Broadalbin village officials were not formally notified of...
Code enforcement officer plans to issue stop-work order on mill
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff BROADALBIN — Demolition of the former Mohawk Furniture Mill in Broadalbin...
Thruway work begins
ALBANY — The New York State Thruway Authority has announced that a bridge replacement project on the bridge at exit...
3/9/10
Marcellino fired after probe into altercation
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff A Department of Public Works employee has been terminated from his job for his...
'Junie' stepping down from 42-year post
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff FONDA — When Rosario Ault Jr. was first elected to the village board of...
Homeowner feared dead
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff CHARLESTON — The resident of a home on Brand Road apparently died Monday...
Supervisors ask for commissioner's resignation
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff JOHNSTOWN — As the deadline for the state's budget adoption nears and closure...
District eyeing 15 potential personnel cuts
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff BROADALBIN — The Broadalbin-Perth Central School District may be looking at a...
Woman charged with endangerment
An Amsterdam woman faces charges child endangerment charges after police said she was found to be intoxicated at over...
Police investigate reported equipment sabotage
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff After storing a piece of equipment in Amsterdam's Department of Public Works...
Funding in place for bridge replacement
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff EDINBURG — In a move that pulled together a project that's been 15-years in...
Thompson pleads guilty to porn charge
FONDA — An Amsterdam teen who admitted to having child pornography on his family's computer will serve jail...
3/8/10
Fire chief to examine structures
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff For many houses the city now owns through foreclosure, there are generally three...
Isabel discloses budget meeting
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff Days after lambasting a closed-door meeting scheduled by Amsterdam Mayor Ann Thane...
More than 300 served at annual dinner
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff TRIBES HILL — Every year, Sacred Heart Church parishioners make more spaghetti...
On the agenda
Amsterdam Housing Authority: special meeting at 5:30 p.m. today at 52 Division Street, Amsterdam
Selecting the right college
By LAURA LaPORTE Special to the Recorder Selecting a college is an important decision. It is a decision many high school...
Police report
Gloversville Police Department * A Gloversville man faces charges following a complaint of people fighting in the...
3/7/10
Students getting involved in school beyond classroom
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff The days of schoolchildren being told to be seen and not heard are over. Area school...
Week in review
SUNDAY AMSTERDAM — Zonta Club of Fulton and Montgomery Counties' Soup was held at the at the Inman Center,...
Agency hosts mini-golf day at AHS
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff TOWN OF AMSTERDAM — While the hallways of Amsterdam High School are a long ways...
Old Broadalbin building being razed after all
Staff report BROADALBIN — The former Mohawk Furniture Mill is apparently coming down after all.
Be counted so you can be heard
By DEBORAH AUSPELMYER Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce president One of the chamber's goals this year is to offer...
3/6/10
Budget meeting irks officials
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff Amsterdam Mayor Ann Thane will be hosting a budget review meeting today, but the...
Sex offender law introduced in city
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff The Amsterdam Common Council was introduced to a local law this week that would...
Tenant-ive Solution
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff Christina Haggerty doesn't want to leave her 21 Union St. home, but her new...
Event highlights impact of count
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff JOHNSTOWN — The importance of standing up and being counted was expressed to an...
Sewer upgrades planned in town
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff TOWN OF AMSTERDAM — Long-needed sewer work in the area around Wallins Corners...
In brief
Water shutdown set for Monday The city of Amsterdam announces that due to a water valve replacement on Guy Park Avenue...
Four bid on buying nursing facility
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff JOHNSTOWN — Of the 80-plus Requests For Proposals Fulton County released,...
3/5/10
FMCCrally to focus on census
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff With 2010 United States Census forms set to hit mailboxes in the next few days,...
Ownership of city lot in question
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff Members of the Greater Amsterdam School Board of Education were all set to close out a...
FMCCrally to focus on census
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff With 2010 United States Census forms set to hit mailboxes in the next few days,...
Canajoharie supervisor quits
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff CANAJOHARIE — After 18 years on the job, the senior member of the Montgomery...
Perth board makes changes to proposed wood boiler ban
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff PERTH — A potential local law that would regulate the use of outside wood...
Man arrested twice in span of three hours
TOWN OF AMSTERDAM — An Amsterdam man faces charges stemming from two separate incidents at his residence Wednesday....
Two plead guilty to drug charges
FONDA — Two men pleaded guilty to drug charges Wednesday in Montgomery County Court.
Judge tells town, superintendent to settle dispute over health insurance
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff BROADALBIN — Fulton County Judge Richard Giardino has rendered a decision in...
3/4/10
Lights, camera, action
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff Three college radio station employees have decided to move into an apartment above...
Minivan collides with building
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff For the third time in a month, a car collided with an Amsterdam property late...
Officials take new approach with talks
By JESSICA MAHER Recorder News Staff Negotiations between the city and the Greater Amsterdam Volunteer Ambulance Corps...
In brief
Water shutdown set for today The city of Amsterdam and Bombard Excavating announce that due to a water valve replacement...
County to release bid information
By HEATHER NELLIS Recorder News Staff JOHNSTOWN — The public will have the opportunity today to review information...
Police report
Amsterdam Police Department * Pamela L. Birmingham, 39, of 175 Burke Road, Saratoga Springs, faces charges after her...
Jail gate confused with border
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff FULTONVILLE — A New Hampshire driver apparently missed his destination by a few...
United Way honors those who serve
By MARK ROBARGE Recorder News Staff What is it that would possess a man to sit atop the roof of the Amsterdam Riverfront...
Town planners OK complex expansion
By ERIC JONES Recorder News Staff TOWN OF AMSTERDAM — A review application for a 36-unit expansion to the...