GLOVERSVILLE – Erica Gauer was a reading and classroom teacher in the City of Albany School District for 24 years. She’s seen what books can do for young children, particularly those from low-income families. On Tuesday morning, after two years of waiting, a project to create more opportunities for early engagement with reading came to fruition at Gloversville Public Library. During the early months of 2020, now an assistant professor in Fulton-Montgomery Community College’s Early Childhood Education program, Gauer saw the initiatives her local library was pursuing locally and was inspired to create a similar project in one of her…

GLOVERSVILLE -  Wednesday's public meeting of Gloversville's 15-member Local Planning Committee for the $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant was converted into a virtual meeting instead of held publicly at the Glove Theatre after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a guidance that 37 counties in upstate New York should resume mask wearing for indoor gatherings due to a high rate of transfer of COVID-19. "Out of an abundance of caution, the City of Gloversville announces the third Local Planning Committee Meeting for the Downtown Revitalization Initiative slated for this Wednesday, which was announced last week to be held…