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Fin, in the Star Plaza shopping center in Guilderland, sells fish by the pound, or prepared and ready to heat and eat.

By Jeff Wilkin
Gazette Reporter

“I think God called me to help poor people,” said Maldonado, pastor of the Spanish-speaking congregation that meets at State Street Presbyterian Church in Schenectady.

There was a time not so long ago when school districts dropped their arts programs to balance their budgets. But at two local high schools, music is thriving.

By Daniel Fitzsimmons
Gazette Reporter

Thousands of people lined State Street Saturday evening for the annual Gazette Holiday Parade, a longtime Schenectady tradition that signals the start of the holiday season in the Electric City.

The victim suffered what police described as “very minor” injuries.

The man faces one count of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and driving while intoxicated, both felonies.

The Cutler Street resident faces one count each of possession and promoting a sexual performance by a child, both felonies.

By John Cropley
Gazette Reporter

Visitors to Schenectady area will no longer have to stay outside the Electric City or fight for one of few rooms downtown.

By Zachary Matson
Gazette Reporter

Niskayuna Superintendent Cosimo Tangorra Jr. will make a presentation about the potential partnership with the Beijing-based Montessori school next month.

By Steven Cook
Gazette Reporter

The program is aimed at reaching out to prostitutes in Schenectady with the eventual hope of getting them off the streets.