
Spencer Conlin
Reporter at Spectrum News Capital Region
Reporter at Spectrum News Albany
Reporting @SPECNewsAlbany | Upstate NY native | @ABCFOXMT ➡️ @WVNYWFFF | Proud @SUNYPlattsburgh alum | Walter’s dad 🐱
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3 weeks ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Spencer Conlin
Two teenagers have since been charged with arson. Demolition is now underway. It comes a month after a similar fire broke out at the vacant Fownes factory in Fulton County, where a 17-year-old has been charged in connection to that blaze. But what makes spaces like these a target, and what dangers are first responders faced in fighting these fires? “It’s devastating because it was such a pillar to this community," Victory Mills Mayor Corey Helwig said.
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1 month ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Spencer Conlin
In New York, there are nearly 8,000 recreational bodies of water, along with more than 7,000 miles of rivers and streams. And there are hundreds of thousands of boats.
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1 month ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Spencer Conlin
The race to succeed Mayor Kathy Sheehan in Albany heated up Wednesday when two Democrats announced competing endorsements.
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1 month ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Spencer Conlin
New York state is no stranger to Hollywood magic. “We make it very easy to film here,” Albany County Film Commissioner Debby Goedeke said. A robust $700 million tax credit program is attracting production of television and film to the Empire State. “Last year, I want to say we probably did a little over $2 million in economic impact,” Goedeke said.
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1 month ago |
spectrumnews1.com | Spencer Conlin
New York state is no stranger to Hollywood magic. “We make it very easy to film here,” Albany County Film Commissioner Debby Goedeke said. A robust $700 million tax credit program is attracting production of television and film to the Empire State. “Last year, I want to say we probably did a little over $2 million in economic impact,” Goedeke said.
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Two people are dead after an overnight fire in the Village of Colonie. 76-year-old Carroll Debrocky and her son 56-year-old James Debrocky. Their deaths are fourth and fifth fire-related deaths in the small community in just 59 days. The toll it’s taking on fire personnel and https://t.co/gNqVXBfY6L

Albany @MayorSheehan is joined by other elected officials and veterans below the Henry Johnson Monument in Washington Park after the U.S. military temporarily removed a website honoring the renaming Fort Polk after the black World War I hero. According to the website is part of https://t.co/OYv1GkpC9I

Assets include 33 five-person hand crews, five engines, four water tankers and six helicopters and 230 field personnel. A teenage NYS Parks employee died battling the fire after a tree had fallen on him. Dariel Vasquez was 18-years-old. Officials say the loss is weighing heavily https://t.co/naR41hJ8eN