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Todd R. Mcadam

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Fulton County supervisors adopted a 2026 budget Monday that raises the property tax levy 8.1%, but that increase is down from 16% just two weeks ago....

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Todd R. Mcadam

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Alexis St. John looked over the flower arrangement on the table before her. It needed some baby’s breath. Maybe she understood that the design...

23.11.2025 2

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The crowd chanted “Run, Bobby run!” and the Marines mingling exchanged “Semper Fis” as congressional candidate Robert Smullen of Johnstown...

22.11.2025 3

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Dean Spencer’s knife passes quickly and cleanly through the roast, turning it into steaks. He tosses it into a container, then trims the connective...

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Linda Spring loads a grocery car with food for distribution at the Foothills Worship Center's food pantry in Johnstown. The pantry saw more than 80...

16.11.2025 3

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JOHNSTOWN — They come for the piglets, Matthew Brower said. They leave with the corn. That’s the nature of agritourism, and Fulton County...

05.11.2025 1

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Fulton County Office Building JOHNSTOWN — The Fulton County Board of Supervisors will see a proposed $116.6 million budget Nov. 10, and will...

04.11.2025 2

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I sat some years ago in Binghamton with then-Sen. Hillary Clinton as she told me why she brought the 200-or-more brownfield developers to the room...

02.11.2025 3

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Fulton County officials are preparing to distribute more food as federal funding to help people buy groceries dries up in the wake of a four-week...

31.10.2025 4

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The city of Gloversville notified more than 3,000 people that their data with the city may have been hacked following a security breach last spring,...

29.10.2025 2

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One might sympathize with Jessica Henry McClements on the day after her wedding, when she and her husband couldn’t get out of their Johnstown...

28.10.2025 1

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A Perth town justice who has not heard cases since May is still drawing a paycheck as he faces a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, the Perth town...

24.10.2025 2

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Herr Johnstown Treasurer Thomas Herr has been charged with two felonies alleging he falsified business records and stole more than $6,000 in payments...

23.10.2025 2

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The Fulton County Correctional Facility in 2021. An Albany man faces 16 felony charges — two of them labeled hate crimes — following a shooting...

17.10.2025 2

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Gary Antonucci, Republican candidate for mayor, at Gloversville’s Four Corners on Nov. 11, 2024. Gary Antonucci, left, is Republican candidate for...

15.10.2025 2

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The Methodist church in downtown Gloversville was built in 1869 and is an architectural attraction for the city, even as it's boarded up right up to...

14.10.2025 2

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Expect the initial staging for the Greater Johnstown School District’s new solar field to begin before snow flies, with construction perhaps next...

10.10.2025 3

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Today, the site is a pile of bricks nearly 10 feet high, littered with rusted steel, mortar, charred wood and soot. It’s burned-out testament to a...

08.10.2025 2

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The math says Gloversville must trim $2 million in spending to achieve a 2026 budget that doesn’t increase spending, but the math is a bit...

05.10.2025 2

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Todd R. Mcadam