Town board member Mike Aragosa is aiming for supervisor Chris Koetzle's job in Tuesday's election. Both candidates have said if they are elected they support…
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If they aren’t already, Guyanese-Americans are widely considered Schenectady’s largest ethnic group, says former Mayor Al Jurczynski, who’s credited with the city’s recruitment of them from the commercial and residential Richmond Hill section of Queens in 2002.
They were drawn, in part, by property-investment opportunities. At the time, Schenectady offered rundown homes for as cheap as $1 to people who could prove they had the wherewithal to bring them back to life while adhering to code restrictions, then-city development director Jay Sherman said.
Glenville supervisor seeks another term as Dems try to unseat him
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GLENVILLE - Chris Koetzle rattles off a long list of achievements when discussing his tenure as supervisor and why he deserves four more years in office.
For that to happen, he’ll have to beat back a challenge from Town Board member Mike Aragosa, a Democrat at the top of a ticket that features incumbent Michael Godlewski and Jenny Lippmann, who is seeking elected office for the first time.