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• Activists urge Cuomo to sign pesticide ban in New York

  14-10-2019 22:13 via timesunion.com
  With California this month agreeing to ban its sale, environmentalists in New York are renewing their call for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would eliminate the agricultural use of chlorpyrifos, an insecticide that came into heavy use after DDT was banned in the 1970s.Under the Trump Administration, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has resisted calls for a ban even though it's been disallowed for household use since 2000. That has sparked a lawsuit from Attorney General Letiti
  
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• Morris Street fire displaces more than 20 migrants

  16-04-2024 21:52 via timesunion.com
  A fire Wednesday afternoon destroyed a Morris Street home that housed eight Spanish-speaking immigrant families.
  
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• Albany, Hudson Valley cities may be able to adopt modified 'good-cause'

  16-04-2024 21:50 via timesunion.com
  Municipalities outside of the city may be given the chance to opt-in to a modified version of "good-cause," according to multiple sources familiar with the negotiations.
  
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• Popular home care Medicaid program faces cuts as Hochul decries fraud

  16-04-2024 21:16 via timesunion.com
  Gov. Kathy Hochul has said a significant overhaul of an expensive Medicaid program for people with long-term medical needs is a top priority.
  
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• Police: Man charged with making terroristic threat at Hudson church

  16-04-2024 20:51 via timesunion.com
  Police say a man wearing a mask and a black cloak charged the altar of St. Mary’s Catholic Church during Easter Mass.
  
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• Community Bank to expand presence in Capital Region

  16-04-2024 20:49 via timesunion.com
  Community Bank is adding branches in the Capital Region.
  
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• Caroga Lake Music Festival announces 2024 summer lineup

  16-04-2024 20:39 via timesunion.com
  Cory Wong, Sawyer Fredericks, Eddie Barbash, “Rhapsody in Blue” and Woofstock among the 40 genre- and discipline-spanning events to play Sherman’s Park.
  
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• What to Know About New York’s Housing Deal

  16-04-2024 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  New York leaders agreed to a framework designed to help the state build more housing and keep prices down. Here is how it could work.
  
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• Troy welcomes $1.2M fire truck

  16-04-2024 20:13 via timesunion.com
  Photos: Troy welcomes new $1.2M fire truck, dubbed Truck 2, at the Central Station.
  
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• Review: Hudson’s The Hereafter a hidden hit of a cocktail lounge

  16-04-2024 20:00 via timesunion.com
  Though only a few months old, culinary and mixology expertise make The Hereafter cocktail lounge in Hudson feel complete and accomplished already, from decor to glass to plate. 
  
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• Sprite, puppy found starved at unregistered rescue, is ready for new home, shelter says

  16-04-2024 19:32 via timesunion.com
  Sprite, a husky puppy that was near-death and taken from an unregistered rescue back in January, is now ready to be adopted, according to the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society.
  
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• Puppy found starved at unregistered rescue, is ready for new home, shelter says

  16-04-2024 19:32 via timesunion.com
  Sprite, a husky puppy that was near-death and taken from an unregistered animal rescue back in January, is now ready to be adopted, according to the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society.
  
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• Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein seeks election reform

  16-04-2024 19:17 via timesunion.com
  Jill Stein, a presidential candidate under the Green Party, has her eyes set on reaching the White House, saying that voters are eager for more options
  
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• Vacancy study shows Poughkeepsie can declare housing emergency under ETPA

  16-04-2024 19:11 via timesunion.com
  The full results will be presented to Poughkeepsie’s Common Council on Tuesday.
  
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• Speech by N.Y.C. Mayor Eric Adams Is Disrupted by Protesters

  16-04-2024 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Protesters accused Mayor Eric Adams of failing working-class New Yorkers before being escorted off the stage at an event for business leaders.
  
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• Protesters Disrupt Mayor Adams’s Speech to Business Leaders

  16-04-2024 18:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The mayor’s speech at a “power breakfast” was interrupted by demonstrators who stormed the stage and accused him of abandoning the working class.
  
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• Is Bethlehem the next site of a Trader Joe's grocery store?

  16-04-2024 18:41 via timesunion.com
  The owner of Glenmont Plaza in the town of Bethlehem is looking at bringing in a grocery store that appears to have the same footprint as a Trader Joe's.
  
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• Real Estate’s Martin Courtney on new album ‘Daniel,’ living upstate

  16-04-2024 18:00 via timesunion.com
  The Beacon-based indie-rock frontman discusses the beauty of the Hudson Valley, making a “perfect” pop record and growing more comfortable as a musician.
  
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• News: African restaurant due in Troy, beer to support track workers

  16-04-2024 17:43 via timesunion.com
  In the latest Table Hopping roundup, a West African restaurant moves to Troy from Pittsfield, and DZ Restaurants teams up with Wolf Hollow for a beer to support backstretch workers.
  
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• Foiled in Schoharie: The final heist of dapper bank robber Max Shinburn

  16-04-2024 17:41 via timesunion.com
  Maximilian Schoenbein was one of the world’s most successful bank robbers. The late 1800s career of the so-called “King of Crooks” was dethroned in the unlikeliest of locations upstate.
  
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• Do you remember Secrets at Guptill's? Here's what happened to it

  16-04-2024 17:30 via timesunion.com
  Secrets was the place to be for teens. It’s now gated off. Why did it close and will it reopen?
  
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• Schenectady County Sheriff's Office probes death of inmate early Tuesday morning

  16-04-2024 17:27 via timesunion.com
  Investigators from the Schenectady County Jail are looking into the death early Tuesday morning of Hussayn McClain, 53. 
  
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• Kisa Brings South Korean Roadside Fare to the Lower East Side

  16-04-2024 16:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Rosemary’s offers pizza and a family-style meal in Midtown, the owners of Oxalis open Laurel Bakery in the Columbia Street waterfront district, Brooklyn, and more restaurant news.
  
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• Orange County continues to use controversial medical provider at jail as it prepares new request for proposals

  16-04-2024 16:01 via timesunion.com
  Orange County continued working with New York Correct Care Solutions after inmate deaths, but the county is preparing to solicit new bids for medical services.
  
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• Saratoga Biochar uses EPA research on PFAS destruction to rally support

  16-04-2024 15:00 via timesunion.com
  Controversial Saratoga Biochar says the EPA is on its side when comes to technology on PFAS destruction, but the environmental group says EPA recommends more tests.
  
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• Celebrating life, music milestones finds Michael Eck onstage for 60th

  16-04-2024 15:00 via timesunion.com
  With a little help from friends, singer-songwriter Michael Eck will celebrate at Caffe Lena his 60th birthday and a life of making music.
  
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• Paterson fire displaces dozens of residents

  16-04-2024 14:22 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Residents of two buildings were displaced by a four-alarm fire in Paterson, New Jersey on Tuesday afternoon, according to the city’s mayor. The fire heavily damaged two buildings on 18th Street, video from Chopper 4 showed. The mayor said 24 residents were displaced as a result of the fire. No injuries were reported and no rescues took place, Mayor Andre...
  
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• Niskayuna supervisor defends inflated water and sewer bill fixes aimed at equity

  16-04-2024 14:00 via timesunion.com
  Niskayuna Supervisor Jaime Puccioni said the changes were necessary after water and sewer charges were erroneously put in the general tax bills.
  
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• Barrett: All things green, healthful prior to local vegetable season

  16-04-2024 14:00 via timesunion.com
  Caroline Barrett's kids, while grown, still have eating styles all their own, which include pepita pesto, Thai-style beef salad, a salad with pickled things
  
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• Knicks' alleged 2010 pitch to LeBron James featured ‘The Sopranos,' Donald Trump and more

  16-04-2024 12:05 via nbcnewyork.com
  
  Tony Soprano? Donald Trump?! Video of the New York Knicks' recruiting pitch to LeBron James has finally surfaced, and you have to see it to believe it.
  
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