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ALBANY — The Bishop, a self-described “bourbon and beef bar” that opened in August 2019 on North Pearl Street as the collective dream of a partnership of four longtime bartenders, announced Tuesday that it is permanently closed. The farewell note, posted on Facebook, says in part, “(T)he time spent sharing food, drinks and laughter will always…

The Epson Tour returns to Pinehaven for the Twin Bridges Championship July 21-23.  Lilia Vu, who won at Pinehaven in 2021, earned medalist honors at the 2023 Chevron Championship earlier this season, one of the tour’s major tournaments. She now has more than $2 million in career earnings after claiming her second LPGA title of the season…

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Caring for Thoroughbred racehorses is an almost 24 hour per day job that leaves those who do it little time for personal care. And, since English is foreign to a great number of the caregivers, many of them ignore medical annoyances until they become catastrophic illnesses. A cooperative venture to provide primary…

INDIAN LAKE — State forest rangers this week recovered the body of an apparent drowned canoeist. At noon July 9, rangers responded to the Cedar River Flow in the Adirondacks for a report of a possible drowning. At 12:28 p.m., ranger Jason Scott located the body of a 78-year-old from Indian Lake. The body was turned…

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ALBANY — Menlo Microsystems, a California company that makes electronic switches, or chips, for 5G cellphone networks, electronic cars and “smart home” devices, has decided to establish a $50 million chip factory outside Ithaca. The company has its headquarters in Irvine, Calif., but has been doing its research and development at Albany Nanotech. The announcement was made…

Five months after the 91-year-old Sperry’s Restaurant in Saratoga Springs was announced as being sold, only to have the deal collapse within weeks and Sperry’s close, is again on the verge of being sold, according to Scott Johnson, a former Saratoga mayor and one of the six partners who’ve owned Sperry’s since 2010. The group…

This article is an excerpt from Kristi Gustafson Barlette’s weekly newsletter, Just Kristi. To get it sent to your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. ALBANY — Anya Tucker is leaving NEWS10ABC, and the rest of the news industry. The journalist made the announcement Tuesday in a post that went up on WTEN’s website. “I’ll be…

Police are at the park on the Hudson River News staff July 11, 2023Updated: July 11, 2023 1:52 p.m. Will Waldron/Times Union BETHLEHEM – A body was found floating in the Hudson River late Tuesday morning, town police said. The victim is female but police have not said if she appears to be an adult or…

Two counties in the Adirondack Mountains have been added to New York’s state of emergency and officials in those communities are confronting flooding that closed roads, sent raw sewage spilling into a river and threatened to breach a dam in Long Lake. Severe storms in New York have closed roads and knocked out power across…