June 2015

Mini hot dogs from Pete's Pups

A big enough Lyft?

For sale: caboose

Solarize Albany

Take a different way

Midmorning music break

More details on Dannemora escapees' flight and the search for them, "officer-invovled" fatal shooting in Saratoga County, long lines for Sonic

Today's moment of summer

Who lived in the neighborhood knocked down for the Empire State Plaza?

New York closer to $15/hour for fast food workers?

Latham Sonic now open

Second Dannemora escapee captured, indictments in Lansingburgh arson case, skepticism about "Breathing Lights"

The week ahead

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A quick recap of the week

Albany on a different scale

Here and everywhere

Capital Region Swimming Pools 2015

Stuff to do this weekend

State legislature closes sessions with Whatever, prison contraband allegedly traded for art, Albany's middle schools struggling, longtime top editors at Record/Saratogian leaving

Today's moment of summer

Albany I Spy 2015

"In City Hall, the ice cream tasted like belligerence."

Four takeaways from the kickoff for the study about the future of I-787

Oh, deer

Rail, River, Hudson II update

Still no vote on legislative "framework" agreement, second prison employee charged in Dannemora escape, on racism and the Albany flag

The Making of the Hudson River School -- online

Bright sky

The Purple Line

Walking tick vacuums

What's up in the Neighborhood

ValleyCats open home season this week

Framework agreement reached in legislative overtime, Dannemora investigation focuses on guard, Capital Region unemployment drops

Sweet: Record maple syrup production in New York State

A good lawn care service?

Lights, camera, Kaloyeros

Brunching about: Carmen's Café

Capital Region project wins national public art challenge

State Police: evidence prison escapees were at cabin, push for increasing fast food minimum wage, no free open house at Saratoga Race Course this year

A plan for the state to remake a part of downtown Albany -- before the Empire State Plaza

Ride along

"Our only real desire was to make a festival we wouldn't be miserable at"

A new level for the Stockade?

Checking out Huck Finn's Playland

Dannemora manhunt shifts around state, lawsuit filed over Mount case in Saratoga Springs, digging into the Normanskill landslide timeline

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Update on the Albany skate park plan

Good mechanic / specialist for car exhaust system repair?

Stuff to do this weekend

State legislature slog continues, Dannemora manhunt continues, alleged Lansingburgh arson trio back in region, thought mining for mind grapes

Car-free parks

"The Late Drawings of Andy Warhol" at The Hyde Collection

The goal: For everyone in the Capital Region to make a video game

Contractor for a tub replacement?

Legislative session in overtime, Cox named APD chief, casino designers will tweak the plan, manhunt for convicts expands

Basilica Soundscape 2015 music lineup

Downtown Albany food market

A license plate (hoped to be) worth more than its car?

West Coast win for YouthFX

What's up in the Neighborhood

Chasing the wholesale dragon

Drawing: Prize pack for Shmaltz "Two Beer Fests in One" celebration

Lots to wrap up as legislative session closes, manhunt for Dannemora escapees expands, Shop Rite is feeling the squeeze of competition, dining with dogs legislation passes Assembly

Today's moment of summer

Ethiopian platter at Umana

Planning for how we'll all get around the Capital Region in the future

Dogs in restaurants

Huck Finn's Playland set to open this week

Mid-morning music break

Dannemora escapees still not captured, Dontay Ivy's family files notice of claim alleging excessive force, worries about Normanskill flooding

Possible Schenectady casino design adjustments

The Mercer Street Project

"We kind of got here saying, 'This is an amazing place, do you mind if we join you?'"

State Museum to get large makeover

Dannemora manhunt in 10th day, state Inspector General to investigation prison escape, teens in prison, concern over dollar stores

The week ahead

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Today's moment of summer

Old bird

The way they got out

Where to buy sparklers?

"I create the narrative to that debate."

Stuff to do this weekend

Dannemora escapees still not captured, state legislation goes to the dogs, she's not dead

Suggestions for a casual engagement party?

Habitat change

Unlucky streak

New York popular baby names 2014

Search for escaped convicts heads into day six, Guilderland broker charged in alleged Ponzi scheme, zip line and aquarium coming to the region

Today's moment of summer

Found Footage Festival 2015

What's up in the Neighborhood

Workshops on the future of I-787

Drawing: Hidden City House & Garden Tour + Lark Street goodies

Manhunt continues for Dannemora escapees, tornado hits Scotia, jail sentence in ongoing Greenfield horse farm case, Mr. Fredericks goes to the Capitol

"Escape to the man in prison presents a soluble problem."

Fewer and fewer New Yorkers are smoking

The score

Pick your own strawberry season 2015

"It's very difficult to hide from us."

New York Capital District Renaissance Festival 2015

Hunt continues for escaped prisoners, first responders described devastation of oil train crashes, 1st round pick

Today's moment of summer

Statewide beer

A history in plastics

A family home in the country

Out in Albany

Two prisoners escape from Dannemora, arrests in Troy arson case, thinking about the Stockade in a flood-prone future

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Today's moment of summer

Defending the architecture of the ESP

Grilling with Kate

Stuff to do this weekend

Charges dropped in Saratoga Springs PD middle finger case, GlobalFoundaries adding jobs, apartment plan in the works for Rensselaer waterfront

New look for the Schenectady casino project

The Arabella Chapman Project

Photos of Albany (not this one, the other one)

"Who has an 80-foot screen? We have an 80-foot screen."

Brunching about: City Beer Hall

Cuomo asks agencies what they think of Schneiderman, Albany/Troy police investigating Troy shooting death, NYRA has a new chairman, Henry Johnson honored at Pentagon

Rail, River, Hudson II

1938/2015 dissolve

What's up in the Neighborhood

NYS Summer Writers Institute 2015

Qpoll: Cuomo rating at new low, Jay Street building owner claims hydrants not functioning, Pioneer bank leaves Troy

Another look at the planned Thacher State Park visitors center

What's the word?

Naan pizza at A Better Bite

Henry Johnson awarded the Medal of Honor

Yo La Tengo at Troy Music Hall

White House ceremony for Henry Johnson, settlement in Troy police civil rights lawsuit, NYRA chair's company said to be connected with Skelos, who owns Washington Park?

Today's moment of summer

Governor Blank

One version of the next Warehouse District

May was hot and dry. So June starts cold and wet. Because of course it does.

Albany Tea Festival

Tech Valley Game Space: River Jam

Fatal shooting in Troy, Troy officials treating May fire as a homicide, Brown's Beach opens to the public, Chebet wins third Freihofer's run title

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