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Caffé Lena, the city’s legendary music venue, will reopen on Friday, Dec. 30, with The Suitcase Junket, a roots rock one-man band who performed last year to launch a renovation campaign for the venue. During the six-month modernization effort, Caffé Lena took its programming on the road, with performances at The Grove at Neumann and some 12 other locations in Saratoga Springs.

By Jeff Wilkin
Gazette Reporter

Pizza has become a hot dish — a really hot dish — at Schenectady County Community College.

By Ned Campbell
Gazette Reporter

The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to override the state tax cap — after critics said the county was not being honest about the numbers.

By Brett Samuels
Gazette Reporter

A clinic will take place Thursday in Schenectady for those interested in purchasing vacant homes.

By Jeff Wilkin
Gazette Reporter

Marv Cermak — the generally cordial, sometimes cranky but always active newspaperman — died Tuesday at Albany Medical Center Hospital.

By Brett Samuels
Gazette Reporter

Ben Runnels founded the band Introflirt, a play on the word introvert, though that adjective didn’t quite capture his personality.

By Steven Cook
Gazette Reporter

The restaurant shut in April after the iconic Nicholaus Building downtown became unstable is set to finally reopen Wednesday at its new location in Niskayuna.

A Congress Street woman intentionally drove a vehicle into a man, authorities said.

Another burglary charge has been filed against the man accused of breaking into Schenectady High School last month, authorities said.

An Avenue B woman is facing charges that accuse her of setting fire to two Dumpsters in September, authorities said.