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BLM activist set to run against retired deputy for Gloversville council seat | The Daily Gazette
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On Saturday, Lashawn Hawkins, candidate for city councilperson-at-large, did one of the things she’s best known for in Fulton County, conducting a peaceful “SAY HER NAME Breonna Taylor” memorial protest at the Four Corners in Gloversville.
The event marked the one-year anniversary that Taylor, 26, an emergency room technician, was shot to death in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky by police officers conducting what has been described as a botched drug raid. After forcing entry into her apartment, police exchanged gunfire with Taylor’s boyfriend, who survived and was not criminally charged, but she was killed by police in her bed. Her family has since settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the city of Louisville for $12 million, but her story did not initially receive the national attention it would gain later in the summer after the police killing of Ge
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Gloversville Council votes 5-2 to grant severance pay | The Daily Gazette
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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to amend the city’s personnel policy to include a “separation package” providing a 90-days-of-pay severance check and health insurance coverage to the city’s appointed officers who have served longer than one year.
If a new mayor in January 2022 were to change personnel for each of the appointed positions, under the new policy it would cost the city an estimated $100,135 worth of severance pay to replace those positions, not counting the cost of maintaining the health insurance for those officials.
Rowback running again for Gloversville mayor | The Daily Gazette
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March 2, 2021
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GLOVERSVILLE Councilman-at-large William Rowback Jr. announced Tuesday he would be running as the Republican Party candidate for mayor in November.
Rowback was the Republican candidate during the 2017 city mayoral election when he lost to former Mayor Dayton King 1,800-1,490, after a recount reversed what had initially been thought to be a Rowback victory. After his defeat Rowback, who worked for 30 years as a city firefighter, vowed to one day become mayor of Gloversville. The current mayor is Vince DeSantis, a Democrat.
On Tuesday Rowback said he hopes 2021 will be the year he achieves that ambition.