🌱 Wrong-way DWI that killed a new Watervliet worker ends in plea

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• Wrong-way DWI that killed a new Watervliet worker ends in plea

Also on today's calendar: Next Albany Job Fair: April 22, 2026 and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Cool with sun and some clouds, with a high of 53 and low of 41 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny and breezy, temps: high: 66, low: 36.
• Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 58 and low of 31 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• DWI Driver With 0.16 BAC Admits Deadly Wrong-Way Wreck On I-787: Authorities (dailyvoice.com) — A newly hired Watervliet city employee was killed in a wrong-way crash on I-787 in Albany, and the other driver has now pleaded guilty to manslaughter and DWI. Prosecutors say the Coxsackie man was driving south in the northbound lanes with a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit. He faces a potential prison term of five to 15 years at sentencing in July.
   

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📸 Around Watervliet

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Watervliet

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday April 29

• In Stitches Knitting Group
  Robert A. Fahr Watervliet Public Library, 1501 Broadway # 1, Watervliet
  6:00 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday April 22

• Next Albany Job Fair: April 22, 2026
  Holiday Inn Express GPS Address: 400 Old Loudon Road, Latham NY 12110
  9:00 am

Friday April 24

• WJSHS Lip Sync Battle
  Watervliet City SD Watervliet, NY 12189
  6:00 pm

Wednesday April 29

• Tay Fisher- Anti Bullying
  Heatly School Troy, NY 12183
  8:30 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday April 22

• lax: G/Modified
  Mechanicville High School
  4:30 pm
• trck: B/Modified
  Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Senior High School
  4:30 pm
• trck: G/Modified
  Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Senior High School
  4:30 pm
• Jazz Cabaret
  Howard L Goff Middle School , 35 Gilligan Rd , East Greenbush
  7:00 pm

Thursday April 23

• bsbl: Modified
  Schalmont High School
  4:30 pm
• sfbl: Modified
  Schalmont High School
  4:30 pm
• Game Day & Crafts
  Menands Public Library , 4 N Lyons Ave , Menands
  5:00 pm
• District-wide String Festival #1 (BT/GM)
  Columbia High School , 962 Luther Rd , East Greenbush
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Stewart's Shops posted a job opening for Shop Care/Janitorial in Watervliet. Apply here.
• Molly Maid posted a job opening for House Cleaner in Watervliet. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Watervliet here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Menands

• FedEx lays off over a third of workers at Menands facility (timesunion.com)
• Man allegedly steals more than $50k from Coeymans dispensary (wnyt.com)
• New York sends out robots to combat isolation among older adults (timesunion.com)

Cohoes

• CBS6 Investigates: Video, records spotlight concerns about abuse at Cohoes nursing home (cbs6albany.com)
• SCOTUS refuses to hear case on pandemic nursing home deaths in New York (cbs6albany.com)
• Comic book stores around the Capital Region (news10.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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