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5of32 Albany police clashed with anti-brutality protesters Thursday as officers cleared them from an encampment of tents built next to the department s South Station. Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less 6of32 7of32 Albany police physically removed demonstrators from a camp they set up in front of South Station Thursday, April 22, 2021.Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less 8of32 An Albany police officer with tape over his badge on April 22 at South Station.Eduardo MedinaShow MoreShow Less 9of32 10of32 Albany city workers are seen cleaning up after police forcibly moved an encampment of Black Lives Matter protesters from in front of South Station April 22, 2021.Paul BuckowskiShow MoreShow Less ....
Newest Schenectady Greenmarket vendor looks to steer youth away from incarceration | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Niyanna Brooks is rewriting child labor laws. The 8-year-old city girl was engaged with the public as she and other youngsters helped sell baked goods from under the Cornerstone Bakery Project’s tent at the Schenectady Greenmarket Sunday. A new addition to the weekly farmers market, Cornerstone Bakery is a segment of the nonprofit Community Fathers’ Occupations Instead of Incarceration, earn-to-learn program. The OIOI program aims to set youngsters on a path of business and entrepreneurship, hopefully derailing them from incarceration, Community Fathers executive director Walter Simpkins said. ....
Project aims to catalog ‘African American experience in Schenectady’ | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS January 31, 2021 Members of the Refreshing Spring Young Adult Choir, under the direction of Sister Georgetta Dix, perform during inauguration ceremonies for the Schenectady City Council on Jan. 1, 1996. Historians are reaching out to churches and other organizations to help preserve and make available local Black history. Gazette file photo Shares0 Got any Black history? If you do, and you want to preserve it and make it easily accessible for later generations, please contact Marietta Carr at the Schenectady County Historical Society. The librarian/archivist at the society’s Grems-Doolittle Library since August of 2019, Carr is overseeing the African American Historical Records Project, an initiative of the New York State Archives. ....
McCalmon, Rivas enter Schenectady City Council race | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0
SCHENECTADY Community activist William Rivas and former Democratic candidate for state Senate Thearse McCalmon on Friday entered the race for Schenectady City Council, on which there will be five seats open in the fall. “Their independent approach would provide fresh ideas and solutions to issues within the city,” the pair said in a joint press release. The announcement comes with two vacancies about to occur on the council, and the terms of three other council members due to expire this year. Fellow Democrats Carl Williams and Brendan Savage have already announced themselves as candidates for the vacancies, which can be filled by appointment by the all-Democratic council. ....