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Schenectady Hardware & Electric marks 100 years in business

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Schenectady Hardware & Electric (SHE) is celebrating its 100th Anniversary of being in business this year. Before it was the electrical contracting company it is today, it was a hardware store founded in 1923 by Benjamin Spraragen.Benjamin Spraragen was one of the first graduates of Union College’s electrical engineering program. Wiring hundreds of houses by day and running the hardware store by night, Benjamin labored uninterrupted during the Great Depression. His son, Donald served as President/CEO from 1982-93. He grew the residential business and expanded into light commercial industry. Grandson Larry stepped in to lead from 1993 to 2008, and under his leadership the company grew to become the largest electrical contracting firm in the area. This is Boss Lift After Larry passed away, his son Chris Spraragen, took over as president. To honor his father's legacy, he created the Lawrence Spraragen Memorial Scholarship, to help support young people...

Ulster County deputy honored for saving a man's life

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

ULSTER COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- An Ulster County Sheriff's Office deputy and several other first responders were honored on Saturday for saving a man's life. Deputy Gabriella LaLima and first responders performed CPR after a car accident on February 4, which left a man unconscious and unresponsive. Get all of the latest news, weather, sports, and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Image via Ulster County Sheriff's OfficeDeputy LaLima, along with other first responders, initiated CPR on the man who had suffered a medical emergency. The man was later taken to a hospital for further treatment and was able to make a full recovery. The man was in attendance on Saturday for LaLima's honoring at the Marbletown Rescue Squad Building in High Falls.

Denver weather: Freezing temperatures and light snow expected, sticking on roads in the mountains

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

Metro Denver residents can expect freezing temperatures with up to two inches of snow Thursday, leading to slush around cities and snow-covered roads at higher elevations in the mountains where winter weather advisories remained in effect.National Weather Service forecasters said most of the snow would fall before noon. Winter weather advisories covered the mountains until then. Light snow was expected along Colorado’s Front Range and on the eastern high plains.Winter Weather Advisories are in effect across the mountains until 12 PM Today. Snow covered roads may cause hazardous travel for areas above 10k ft. #COwx pic.twitter.com/j5hzRfFHRd— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) March 16, 2023Temperatures below freezing Thursday morning will reach a high of around 38 degrees, forecasters said. Partly sunny skies were expected on Friday.

Kafer: Is there even room left in Colorado’s GOP for sane Republicans?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

After the Colorado GOP chose former state Rep. Dave Williams as party chair, many sane Republicans wonder if there is a place for them within the Colorado Republican Party. By sane, I mean rational, evidence-based thinkers who get, at a minimum, that Trump lost the 2020 election, vaccines save lives, and Trump’s repellent, mendacious style has hurt Republicans’ standing in a once purple state.Williams, an election denier and conspiracy theorist, believes Trump won in 2020 sans evidence. He alleged without proof that 5,600 dead people voted in the 2020 Colorado election. Despite 300 years of vaccine science and millions of saved lives, Williams is a proud anti-vaxxer. Upon beating out six contenders for chair (all but one of the conspiracy theorists or tinfoil hat-lite variety), Williams stated, “Our party doesn’t have a brand problem. Our party has a problem with feckless leaders who are ashamed of you,” implying that GOP leaders lost because they were insufficiently Trumpist, an as...

Pat Schroeder, in her own words, “take off the blinders”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

Editor’s note: Pat Schroeder inspired a generation of Colorado women to serve in politics, breaking glass ceilings and fighting for reproductive freedom, equal rights, and maternity leave. From 1972 to 1996, she represented Colorado’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She contributed to The Denver Post with guest commentaries for more than 20 years. Here are some favorite excerpts from her writings and her conversations:“Getting the Granny Vote”On concern for future generations, from Sept. 9, 2004 commentaryMy generation were the activists in the ’60s who are now in their 60s. We are tackling grandparenthood with the same vigor we tackled other conventional wisdom. Twenty-first-century grandparents are focusing on the future instead of dwelling on the past. Watch out, because there are lots of us — and we vote, big-time.Yes, we are concerned about our health care, but also about our grandchildren’s health care....

Opinion: Medicare’s drug prices put my MS medication out of reach

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, or MS, back in 1988, there were no treatments on the market. The only prescription I received then was a recommendation to go home and rest. It wasn’t until years later that the first treatment was released. Since then, a lot has changed, but unfortunately, what hasn’t changed is the exorbitant health care costs people like me face.That’s why I’m glad that Colorado’s leaders continue working to lower costs. Gov. Jared Polis, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, and countless dedicated legislators are doing everything possible to save people money on their health care. The legislative package introduced by Democratic lawmakers will do exactly that.Sky-high costs are forcing many Coloradans to choose between the care they need to live healthy, happy lives and making ends meet.This is a choice I know all too well.About seven years ago, I began taking an oral drug for my MS, Gelenya, which cost $63,444 per year. Luckily, my copays were $200 per month....

Opinion: Pat Schroeder was a tad short of trainable

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

Editor’s note: Sue O’Brien, The Denver Post editorial page editor from 1995 until her death from cancer in August 2003, wrote this column on Dec. 3, 1995, on the occasion of Rep. Pat Schroeder’s announcement that she was not seeking a 13th term in the U.S. House.I cringed when Pat Schroeder handed out Easter eggs in that bunny suit on the Great Wall of China.I wanted to wash out her mouth with soap the first time she confided to a waiting world that she had private parts. (Q. “How, Mrs. Schroeder, do you manage being both a mother and a congresswoman?” A: “I have a brain and a uterus, and I use them both.”)I loved it when her first Christmas card from Washington said, “Both Jim and I need a wife.” But I worried when the one-liner got her in trouble with more orthodox feminists.That’s it. Orthodox.Through all those early years I kept wishing that Pat Schroeder would be just a little more orthodox.Not because I needed a role ...

Happy birthday, Colfax! Plus MCA Denver’s Cinema Azteca and more things to do this week in Denver

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

Happy birthday, Schulyer Colfax!Thursday. Denver’s Colfax Avenue has been keeping it real for decades, and its namesake will get an appropriately historical celebration this weekend as History Colorado Center celebrates the 200th birthday of Schulyer Colfax.The former speaker of the U.S. House, who had a prominent role in ratifying the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, will get his due with stories from The Colfax Avenue Museum founder Jonny Barber (his collection’s still intact, and looking for a home) as well as the “40 Years on the ‘Fax” exhibit, birthday cake and more.Free, but RSVP to  [email protected]. 3-5 p.m. Thursday, March 23, at History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway in Denver. historycolorado.org or colfaxavenue.orgDanceAspen’s latest dazzlersFriday-Saturday. One of the region’s freshest dance outfits has a world premiere this weekend featuring six choreographers — three with profile, and three locals — a...

“Boston Strangler” is a compelling look at infamous murder spree through the lens of female reporter

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

For its producers, “Boston Strangler” arrives at what arguably is an opportune time, when content based on true crime is hot.Although the Boston Strangler murders occurred about 50 years ago, the murky story of who exactly killed several unmarried women in and around the Massachusetts city — and why — remains a fascinating if also gruesome subject.One of the stronger 20th Century Studios films going straight to Hulu, where it debuts this week, “Boston Strangler” revisits the saga from the point of view of one of two women who covered the killings for the city’s Record-American newspaper. And so while it is, in fact, another serving of true-crime-based fare, it also very much is a journalism movie — one highly interested in exploring the sexism faced by women journalists of the era. (Expect to hear derisive phrases such as “girl reporters” tossed around by male characters.)Written and directed by Matt Ruskin, “Boston Strangler” begins with a murder in 1965 in Ann Arbor, M...

Colorado has taken steps to improve maternal care, but more work needed to advance health equity

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:38:51 GMT

Colorado passed laws two years ago to try to reduce the problem of women being ignored or mistreated during their pregnancy care, but advocates say more needs to be done — particularly for mothers of color.In 2021, Colorado adopted a law requiring the state’s Civil Rights Division to accept complaints about mistreatment in medical settings during pregnancy and the postpartum period, though the division is not required to investigate all claims. The Civil Rights Division declined to release any information about the number or type of complaints it has received.Senate Bill 21-193, which mandated that the division accept complaints, also required hospitals and other facilities where patients give birth to have policies that mothers be allowed to bring a support person or doula, in addition to their romantic partner.Another law passed that year required the state’s maternal mortality review committee to recommend ways to collect more data about marginalized groups of p...