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Grondahl: Lance Morrow, 85, master of the essay in a golden age of print

Time writer Lance Morrow in Central Park's Literary Walk. Morrow, who lived in Spencertown, died Nov. 29 at 85. Kikuyu school children sitting and...

12.12.2024 20

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Missing on the mountain

Linda Weinman with her late husband, Jim Weinman, her late son Jim and son, Bob, 55, of Queensbury in an undated photo.  Jim Weinman was a skilled...

04.12.2024 8

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Decades after death, Clifton Park adventurer's remains found in Andes ice

Jim Weinman was a skilled mountaineer and extreme adventure who grew up in Clifton Park and went missing at age 32 on a solo ice climb in the Andes...

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Grondahl: D. Colin, a preacher’s kid, bares her soul in new play

This is a photograph of poet, playwright, and actor D. Colin, of Troy, as Preacher's Kid in her play Psalm 91: Releasing Religion. The play, a blend...

27.11.2024 7

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New York sunk millions into a historic ship. It sold the vessel for $5,050.

At 259-feet long with a vast hold that could carry 100 dump trucks worth of cement, the Day Peckinpaugh plied the Great Lakes and the Barge Canal to...

20.11.2024 6

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Grondahl: The durable healer of the North Country

Dr. John Rugge came to the North Country in 1974 and was the prime architect of award-winning Hudson Headwaters Health Network, which provides primary...

14.11.2024 7

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Grondahl: Basement find in Delmar reveals immigrant stories from the past

Barry Farnol, a junkman's son from Poughkeepsie, was an accomplished academic, theater professional and ad agency owner who also wrote fiction on the...

07.11.2024 10

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The Albany lobbyist, author, runner who wrote his own obituary

Longtime Albany lobbyist Bob Mackin published his first novel “Jackhammer” in 2013. His family plans to publish a posthumous espionage novel as a...

30.10.2024 4

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Grondahl: New plays probe misinformation, artificial intelligence

Two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz, far left, who plays opposition newspaper editor Kostya, joins other "Vladimir" cast members in a discussion...

24.10.2024 4

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Grondahl: 1911 quadruple homicide in East Greenbush still haunts 

Photo of the Morner house from 1911. Four members of the family were murdered in 1911, the most notorious unsolved murder in Rensselaer County...

16.10.2024 5

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Grondahl: Albany’s oldest building gets makeover centuries in the making

48 Hudson Ave., Albany’s oldest building, is viewed looking south on Tuesday. Renovation work on the property is taking place under Historic Albany...

03.10.2024 10

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Grondahl: Group visits Dutch sister city 80 years after WWII liberation

An Albany contingent of students, staff and faculty from the University at Albany, Hudson Valley Community College and city officials depart Albany en...

18.09.2024 4

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Grondahl: 'Gray Love' is happily ever after for Saratoga County couple

Dan Lundquist, 70, and Stephanie Mumford Brown, 71, who wrote a chapter in the book "Gray Love" on dating after 60, met on the online dating app...

11.09.2024 5

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In the box, David takes on Goliath

This article was originally published March 18, 2000. MALONE — A heavy metal door opens with a thunk. Two uniformed correction officers release the...

03.09.2024 3

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Grondahl: Remembering civil rights champion Alice Green

President Barack Obama thanks Dr. Alice P. Green for her civil rights work as her husband Charles Touhey looks on in a White House ceremony.  Alice...

29.08.2024 5

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Grondahl: Dr. Thomas Older, 90, cardiac surgeon, Renaissance man

Dr. Thomas Older, a retired cardiac surgeon, who died Aug. 13 at 90, celebrates with his daughter, Shannon Older, who in 2020 became the 76th...

21.08.2024 3

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From the archives, 1996: Hello Marylou, goodbye heart

John Hendrickson and Marylou Whitney in August 1996 in the living room at Cady Hill, the socialite's Saratoga Springs home. (Luanne M. Ferris, Times...

20.08.2024 7

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USA Track and Field runs up audience for East Greenbush's Nbhd Nick

When USA Track and Field team needed a song for an Instagram video, they tapped Nick Sprague's song "Who Ready." It invigorated the East Greenbush...

15.08.2024 20

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Grondahl: What I saw at the Olympics

A beer at a corner bistro in the golden hour in the Marcadet section of Paris.  Heavy underdogs Cuba men’s beach volleyball team took Sweden to...

07.08.2024 4

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Grondahl: Crabgrass — It's ornery, opportunistic, and out of control

A storm drain in Guilderland, where a river of crabgrass runs through it.  Crabgrass is one of the toughest, most resilient weeds that can grow in...

01.08.2024 5

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The newspaper versus the machine

Legendary Times Union photographer Bernie Kolenberg took this iconic image of Albany County Democratic boss Dan O'Connell — the embodiment of...

28.07.2024 10

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Grondahl: Examining life of the thoroughbred after racing is done

Horses head to the track for their exercise time the day before the opening of the 2024 season at the Saratoga Race Course on July 10 in Saratoga...

24.07.2024 2

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Grondahl: How two friends became 'The Kidney Bros.'

John Church, left, kidney donor, and Stephen Smith, kidney transplant recipient, were nicknamed "The Kidney Bros." by friends.  Stephen Smith, 64, of...

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Grondahl: Frank Houde, 89, Vietnam War pilot turned warrior for peace

Frank Houde made a major transformation of his life philosophy and world view, moving from gung-ho Cold War aviator in the U.S. Air Force, to a...

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