Amsterdam News

Three people are charged with cocaine sales in the city, police say. City officers, the New York State Police CNET Investigation Unit and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department executed two search warrants Friday and one arrest warrant at another spot.

The Montgomery County Educational and Cultural Council on Arts will host a free seminar on careers in the arts from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Fulton-Montgomery Community College Theater.

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Voters throughout Montgomery County will find challenged supervisor races in four of the county's 10 towns when the polls open Tuesday.

AS a means of communication, speech may be vastly overrated. Or so you could think, at times, watching the veteran conductor Bernard Haitink rehearse the Juilliard Orchestra this week for an hourlong concert of Brahms and Mendelssohn at Alice Tully Hall late Saturday afternoon.

The annual Election Day sale to benefit the Mission of the Church will be from 6 a.m. until closing Tuesday at the Amsterdam United Methodist Church, 347 Golf Course Road.

Fulton and Montgomery counties have taken massive third-quarter sales tax hits, and county officials say fourth-quarter revenues are unlikely to provide much relief for already strained municipal budgets.

Town residents may face a new fee for trash removal next year, town officials said this morning.

Bringing affordable art to the masses has proved to be a credit crunch -proof business model as the Affordable Art Fair celebrated crashing through the A 100m mark in sales last week.

Now Shanghai's future depends on finding ways to prevent the same waters from reclaiming it.

Share + Oct 17, 2009 1:53 pm US/Eastern BOSTON 1 of 2 The chestnut tree in the backyard of the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family were hiding during World War II, is pictured 16 November 2007.

In Amsterdam, New York, about 30 miles northwest of Albany, travelers can stay in a bed and breakfast which used to serve as an armory for the New York National Guard.

The weapon, according to Amsterdam police, was a hammer. The woman who wielded it, police say, is 22-year-old Traci Tylutki of 43 Reid Street in Amsterdam.

A human rights group is honoring an 89-year-old New York woman who hid more than 100 Jews in Amsterdam during World War II -- not far from Anne Frank's house.

A source of local entertainment for area residents - the Johnstown Movie Plex - has closed.

The Common Council must decide whether to put out a request for proposal for an administrator of a $750,000 economic development grant being sought to help a local business.

The Montgomery County Republican Committee has chosen former Amsterdam mayor Joseph Emanuele III as its new leader.

One's out on bail. The other's in jail. Police say one had drugs and the other drove drunk.

A raid on a retail store located less than a mile from police headquarters Thursday led to the arrest of two men, one of whom is charged with selling drugs from the store.

The priority groups established by the Center for Disease Control to receive the H1N1 influenza vaccine are: Pregnant women; Health care workers and emergency medical services personnel; People who live with or provide care for infants under 6 months of age; n Children and young people ages 6 months through 24 years; and People age 25 through 64 ...