Gloversville News

On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Retired Senior Chief Gerald Brown lost his battle with mesothelioma at the age of 83.

The congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of Gloversville will hold its last service Sunday after 148 years in the community.

The city is at a standstill in negotiations with two unions whose contracts expired Dec.

After the streets of Gloversville quieted from the marching bands, fire trucks and noisemakers in the Memorial Day parade, shots rang out at Prospect Hill Cemetery as a salute to all the men and women who lost their lives fighting for the United States.

Opening weekend of the Monster Motorcross season drew a large turnout of riders to Royal Mountain Ski Area this weekend.

Gloversville's two secondary principals were interviewed last week among six final candidates seeking the principal and superintendent position at Wheelerville Union Free School.

He was born May 13, 1941, in Gloversville, the son of the late Anthony and Kathryn Smuk Raczynski.

For a few days each year, the Mayfield Mobil Mart takes on the appearance of a fairgrounds, complete with midway rides, food, games and exhibits.

It was deja vu Tuesday for members of the Senior Citizens Service Center of Gloversville & Fulton County who arrived to find obscenities scrawled in nail polish atop a picnic table made by one of the center's veterans' groups.

The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously approved an intermunicipal agreement with Greek-yogurt maker Fage, the city of Johnstown and the Gloversville-Johnstown Joint Sewer Board, that lays out terms for working together toward Fage's upcoming $120 million expansion.

Gloversville graduate Lacie Newland, a senior at the State University of New York at Oneonta, competed for the women's outdoor track and field team in 2012.

To a melee. Every resident should be outraged over the free-for-all fracas that occurred in Gloversville this week.

City Engineer Chandra Cotter wants to implement a Rail Trail Improvement Program, mostly in 2013, that uses some of about $180,000 in federal money available to modernize parts of the trail in the city.

Audrey A. Elmendorf, 88, of James Street, Gloversville, died Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at the Fulton Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care following a long illness.

Survivors include her husband, Edward Darling, whom she married on March 22, 1981; mother, Delores Erb of Gloversville; one son, Fred Rulison Jr.

The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously appointed Johnstown Deputy City Engineer Kevin Jones as director of the city's Department of Public Works.

A wastewater treatment plant in New York state has become the first in the United States to reach the capability of energy-independence. The plant is almost entirely powered by methane gas derived from its own wastewater and therefore hardly imports energy.

Carl Douglas Case Sr., age 72, of 105 Protection Avenue, Herkimer, formerly of Mill Road, Oppenheim, passed away on Wednesday evening, May 16, 2012, in Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center.

The city approved an intermunicipal agreement supporting the project and hired an administrator of a $750,000 city grant for the project.

A Saratoga County man drowned Sunday after police said he fell into about 10 feet of water in Lake Algonquin.