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A lot of people were disappointed, and some downright depressed, about the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election.

In a bitterly divided nation, where Tuesday’s vote once again showed a country almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, one party now dominates almost everything in American governance.

By Jim Schiltz
Gazette Reporter

Shenendehowa’s field hockey team is a pushy bunch, and the number of goals the Plainsmen have scored and the few they’ve allowed say they’re awfully good at it.

Fell behind 3-0 early.

By Michael Kelly
Gazette Reporter

The joke’s been made a few times already about Ahsante Shivers, a freshman wing for the Siena College men’s basketball team.

By Mike MacAdam
Gazette Reporter

The MVP Health Care Stockade-athon 15k is taking steps to become more of a downtown event for the community, not just runners.

By Mike MacAdam
Gazette Reporter

A week after Daylight Saving Time ended, Point Saving Time began for the Union hockey team.

So Will Brown’s concern that his University at Albany team was not ready for the season opener may have been overblown.

A wartime atmosphere existed in the Mohawk Valley starting in 1916, according to historian Hugh Donlon, when Amsterdam’s Company H of the National Guard left for service along the southern border during the Mexican revolution.

Free breakfasts and public thank-yous are wonderful for veterans on Veterans Day, but if you’re unemployed, they’re not a job.