Janel Clough, left, and Donna Rembert, right, gaze at handmade magnets Saturday during the Third Annual Spring Fling in downtown Amsterdam. The street fair brought down hundreds to Main Street throughout the day as vendors of all kinds lined the streets selling homemade goods, offering foods of all kinds, and creating games for kids of all ages.

Hundreds attend Spring Fling in downtown

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Updated: 3:08 AM

By REBECCA WEBSTER Recorder News Staff Hundreds gathered on Main Street in the city of Amsterdam Saturday for the Third Annual Spring Fling, and with vendors of all kinds, there was surely something for everyone. Vendors sold hand-painted glassware, antiques, baked goods, and jewelry, among many other pieces, while others offered reptiles to gaze at, hula-hooping games to try, and even puppies to adopt. And an entire section of food, from empanadas and pu ...

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Bike blessing draws motorcyclists to shrine

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Updated: 3:08 AM

By REBECCA WEBSTER Recorder News Staff FONDA — About 30 motorcyclists made a short stop at the National Shrine of Kateri Tekakwitha Saturday to start themselves off on the right foot for biking season. The group rode from the Bad Pig in Rotterdam Junction to the Fonda shrine to get their bikes blessed by Shrine Director Friar Mark Steed. Before blessing the bikes, Steed gave the motorcyclists a short biography of who Kateri was and why the property ...

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Woodcarvers share their craft

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Updated: 3:08 AM

By REBECCA WEBSTER Recorder News Staff Wooden spoons with intricately crafted handles lined a table in the Horace J. Inman Senior Center Saturday. Towering above them was a hand-crafted lantern, hanging from a tall piece of sanded wood. "It shows my life history," said carver Fred Jenzer, of Schenectady, pointing to each panel of the lantern as he described the part of his life it pertained to. This piece is his favorite. Jenzer has been woodcarving for a ...

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Hardies helps lift Rams to team title at Eddy Meet

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Updated: 4:09 AM

By MICHAEL KELLY Recorder Sports Staff SCHENECTADY — As teammates rushed to congratulate Amsterdam High School’s Izaiah Brown after he anchored the Rams’ winning 4x400-meter relay team to close Saturday’s William F. Eddy Jr. Track and Field Meet, senior John Hardies stood motionless, too tired to make the walk to Brown just yet. While the AHS boys were lifted to their first-ever team victory at the Eddy Meet largely on the streng ...

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PWHF inducts Class of 2013

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Updated: 6:44 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff JOHNSTOWN -- All six living members the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame's Class of 2013 were on hand for Saturday night's induction ceremonies at the Johnstown Holiday Inn, sharing stories both poignant and humorous about careers which spanned the globe over decades. Tito Santana, J.J. Dillon, Joyce Grable, Baron von Raschke, Bill Watts and Jody Hamilton -- inducted as part of The Assassins tag team with his late partner, T ...

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Rams' season ends with 6-5 loss to Troy

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Updated: 3:08 AM

By ADAM SHINDER Recorder Sports Staff A loose ball that rolled just out of the crease and a clearing pass into traffic that took a bounce in the wrong direction. Two slip-ups that ultimately spelled the end of the season for the Amsterdam High School lacrosse team. Tied with visiting Troy High midway through the fourth quarter of Saturday's opening-round Section II Class B playoff game, the Rams fell behind for the first time when Troy's Joel Braun pounced ...

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