Turkey Dinner@

The Reformed Dutch Church of Schodack at Muitzeskill will be holding a TAKE-OUT ONLY version of its ANNUAL TURKEY DINNER .

The dinner will be held on Saturday, October 24th, with three pick up times being offered, starting at 4 pm, 4:45pm and 5:30pm. The cost is $14 for adults and $7 for children, ages 6 - 12. The dinner will include turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes,  gravy, squash, green beans, cranberry sauce, a roll and a piece of pie, for dessert. Gluten-free is available upon request.

Reservations are required. Please call 518-732-7345, to reserve your dinner. If no answer, please leave a message.

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Autumn is here!

More group hikes are currently being planned- stay tuned! Please email mevans@stride.org to enroll in the group hikes Click Here for Pleasant Valley Information Click Here for Mt. Greylock Information Click Here for 5 Rivers Information Click Here for Independent Hike Suggestions/ Information  ‌  ‌  ‌

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal leader of the Supreme Court and a trailblazing champion of women’s rights, died Friday. 

She was 87 years old.

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became the ‘Notorious RBG’
Rolling Stone

By LAUREN KELLEY 
In their new book, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik capitalize on what is (perhaps) an unlikely recent obsession in our culture: an octogenarian Supreme Court justice.
Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik discuss their new book and Justice Ginsburg’s trailblazing career 

At the tail end of her career, the octogenarian Ginsburg became a pop culture sensation. She captivated millennials, who affectionately dubbed her the “Notorious R.B.G,” a nickname inspired loosely by the late rapper Notorious B.I.G.

Amazon opens in Schodack

Massive Amazon fulfillment center opens in Schodack
The company's first so-called fulfillment center in upstate will eventually employee 1,000, company says

SCHODACK — Amazon opened its new fulfillment center in this Rensselaer County town on Friday, marking the end of a years-long - and at times contentious - process to build the first such facility for the company in upstate New York.

The facility will eventually employ more than 1,000 full-time workers who will stack, pack and ship items to customers across the region, including bulk paper goods, sports equipment, pet food and supplies, electronics, and household goods.

Pay at the fulfillment center starts at $15 an hour and full-time employees will get health, vision and dental coverage along with a 50 percent match in 401K plans. Minimum wage in upstate New York currently stands at $11.80 with an increase to $12.50 scheduled to go into effect on Dec. 31.

The company will also pre-pay 95 percent of tuition for courses in high-demand fields such as game design, visual communications, nursing, radiology and IT programming.

This is the company’s first fulfillment center in upstate New York, and second in the state. Amazon launched its first fulfillment center in Staten Island in 2018.

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In case you missed Schodack CSD's Tweet

In case you missed Schodack CSD's Tweet

Things are going to be different when school starts in September. Check out this video with @MapleHill_HS Principal Jacqueline Hill to see how classrooms will look at the high school. https://pic.twitter.com/GcAj9otaQ4

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Modern Love comes to Albany

Amazon's 'Modern Love' shooting scene in Albany's Washington Park
Production crew expected to spend several days shooting exterior shots around park and Center Square

"Modern Love" is expected to shoot at six or seven Albany locations through Friday, said Debby Goedeke, Albany's film commissioner. 

She declined to give specific locations, saying only that no major public buildings would be used, but a city advisory about parking restrictions and street closures suggested shooting would be mainly in Washington Park and on Dove Street in the adjacent Center Square neighborhood.

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Albany police announce road closures, parking restrictions
ALBANY Police will be prohibiting parking and closing roads in portions of Albany this week due to film production.

Albany police say Washington Park Road will be closed between Robin Street and Sprague Place from 6 a.m. until midnight Wednesday. Central Avenue will be closed between Robin Street and North Lake Avenue starting at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

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Help from above?

Albany man rescued from Lake George by priests on a floating tiki bar

Mark Mulholland

LAKE GEORGE - It was a choppy afternoon on the lake and Jimmy MacDonald from Albany was paddling in a kayak.
As Jimmy tells it, he drifted away from his wife and stepkids because he was taking pictures with his new smartphone "and not really paying attention."
As he tried to make his way back, the water got choppier and he paddled harder before he tipped over and lost his paddle.

MacDonald laiughed about it, "How funny is it that I've been sober for seven years and I get saved by a tiki bar?"

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Albany-Hudson Electric Trail

AHET Trail will be a shared-use bicycling and pedestrian trail along the 35 mile Albany-Hudson Electric Trolley corridor from Hudson, NY to Rensselaer, NY – running through Rensselaer and Columbia Counties. This website will be periodically updated with plans, reports, meeting dates, project status reports, and other information.

The AHET Trail is an important part of the Empire State Trail, providing a key link between the Capital Region and the Mid-Hudson Valley. The Empire State Trail, when completed in 2020, will create a 750-mile biking and walking trail from New York City to Canada and from Albany to Buffalo.

Historically, the Albany-Hudson Electric Trolley operated along the proposed trail corridor. The trolley was an interurban third rail system that operated along 35 miles from the City of Albany to the City of Hudson from 1899 to 1929. The trolley was powered by electricity supplied by the Stuyvesant Falls hydro-electric power plant. The 12,000 volt output of the dam was converted to 600 volts at three substations located in the City of Hudson, North Chatham, and East Greenbush.

The trolley line transported millions of passengers over its three decades of service. In the late 1920’s, railroads saw a decline in ridership due to the growing popularity of personal automobile travel. This, coupled with the beginning of the Great Depression, led to the closure of the trolley line in 1929.

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