Amsterdam News

Amsterdam/New York - 19th November 2009 - Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. , an independent worldwide publisher of entertainment software, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with AFA Interactive.

New York state's agency for economic development approved $300,000 in grants Thursday to help two area companies.

Marie Garvy peered at renderings of what a pedestrian bridge over the Mohawk River could look like.

A MAN HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM THE MOHAWK RIVER THIS AFTERNOON AFTER FALLING IN NEAR LOCK 10 IN AMSTERDAM.

State police say one eastbound lane of the New York Thruway has reopened after both lanes were shut down for about three hours following a tractor-trailer collision in the Mohawk Valley.

The port of Amsterdam risks disappearing from Europe's ocean container map, as its sole box terminal is about to lose its last major liner shipping service.

Police say they have made an arrest a recent string of daytime burglaries in the city, with the help of the K-9 unit.

As a sprightly middle-aged man in the 1950s, Heinrich Boere dug for coal in the rich deposits surrounding the West German town of Eschweiler.

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The Greater Amsterdam School District is in negotiations with a potential buyer of 300 Guy Park Ave., the former home of the Walter Elwood Museum, according to Superintendent Thomas Perillo.

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.