Fort Edward News

John Haggard, GE's Hudson River project manager, explains how newly designed buckets work to dredge sediment from the river in this April 30 photo.

July 3, 2009 3:16 p.m. Caspian Makan begged his friend, Neda Agha-Soltan not to go to a demonstration in Tehran fearing she would be arrested or hurt.

Local health officials are launching a grass-roots, multilingual effort to warn residents about contamination in Hudson River fish.

The 150-acre site in Fort Edward, New York is now the processing site for the PCB clean up of the Hudson River.

A water-skiing show to be performed by the Camp Mohawk Valley Ski School on June 6 has been cancelled because of a warning issued by the state Department of Health, according to Mechanicville Mayor Anthony Sylvester.

Yesterday, at the annual Pulitzer Prize banquet, Mark Mahoney laughed and pressed his forehead to the table as he and his fellow winners were congratulated on joining an exclusive club that counts Sylvia Plath, Walter Lippman, and Ernest Hemingway as members.

The kind of disaster we're talking about would be a river rescue, if someone falls off a barge or a dredge.

High water on Wednesday temporarily limited dredging operations in the Hudson River, including this location just west of Rogers Island in Fort Edward.

Halfmoon turns to Troy for water as Hudson River dredging begins On Friday, May 15, the blue claw of a crane pulled the first load of PCB-laden river bottom from the Hudson River in Fort Edward.

The fifth century since Henry Hudson made a voyage up the river that bears his name, changing New York forever, best begins with this thought: Imagine the upper part of that river, restored to a promise it hasn't had in generations.

Dredging of the upper Hudson River to remove PCB-contaminated sediment began Friday near Roger's Island in Fort Edward.

Billionaire and gubernatorial also-ran Tom Golisano says he's moving away from New York State.

With family in town, Lee Coleman intended to take Friday off. When he learned that the Hudson River dredging would finally start that day, he canned the day off.

Saratoga County leaders are concerned about new PCB levels that have just shown up in the Hudson River hours before a dredging project is set to start.

A lawsuit which could have delayed the Hudson River dredging project until next year has been dropped.

The largest environmental dredging project ever is expected to begin on the Hudson in just over a week.

People look funny at David Mathis when he takes a dip off his dock in the Hudson River.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding an informational meeting on the dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River that is scheduled to start this month around Fort Edward.

If you think youa re eating local, think again. New York does rank high among the top states for agricultural products, but one of the challenges is transportation.

Jacquie Freihofer and Bonnie Colomb say they've had a long struggle with Alzheimer's. "For so many years, our mother was a vital, very, very productive, very happy, cheerful person," said Colomb.