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Friday, July 7, 2023-Episode 482-American Revolution Stories. Eric Schnitzer and Nina Sankovich, spoke at last month’s Revolutionary War conference sponsored by Fort Plain Museum. Schnitzer has written the text to artist Don Troiani’s Campaign to Saratoga 1777. Sankovich discusses how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families of Braintree, Massachusetts fanned the flames of America’s revolution.
Saturday, July 8, 2023-A landlocked “lighthouse” that helped motorists on a busy Mohawk Valley highway.
Sunday, July 9, 2023 (Printed in The Gazette and Recorder each Saturday)
Weston the Pedestrian
When Edward Payson Weston strode into Amsterdam in 1910, the New York Times reported that Weston received “the merriest reception which has been accorded him at any place during his walk across the continent.”
Mohawk Valley Weekend Weather, Friday, July 7, 2023
75 degrees in The City of Amsterdam at 5:41AM
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. West wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 85. Southwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. Southeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Friday, July 7, 2023
Daily Gazette *Support Local JournalismTo subscribe https://dailygazette.com/subscribe/Paper-Paper, On-line and e-editionWhen Credibility MattersJury finds Amsterdam violated law by firing worker with medical marijuana RX for failed drug test FONDA — An Amsterdam wastewater treatment plant worker has been awarded $191,762 by a jury in state Supreme Court in Gloversville residents charged in Bleecker armed robbery, troopers say BLEECKER – Three Gloversville residents have been arrested, accused of participating in an armed robbery at a home in Bleecker…***https://dailygazette.com/ RecorderNews
Amsterdam native Jackson, former Siena star Pickett set to open NBA Summer League against each other Friday Andre Jackson Jr. and Jalen Pickett are slated to make their NBA Summer League debuts against each other on Friday….
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