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Amtrak has announced that they will suspend service in a section of Northern New York that will affect travel from Upstate to Canada.

A a restaurant in Copenhagen has added some new members to their staff and they don't even have to take a lunch break. Source: YouTube  

A new Netflix documentary, "Father Soldier Son", was recently released, following a Purple Heart Veteran living in central New York. I missed this somehow on the release date (July 17th), but caught a post about the Netflix feature on newyorkupstate...

In one Northern New York area, there is a campsite available for free to any veteran, wounded warrier, and their families. I saw this on newyorkupstate.com and couldn’t help but write about it.  The headline sucked me in because you don’t often see something so positive in the news...

This Spring you will be able to fly south on the cheap from Albany International Airport to Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina.

Talk about doing good!  A Capital Region man has given away $50,000 over the course of a year to strangers for the sake of doing good. According to newyorkupstate.com, a Troy real estate developer spent a year giving away $100 a day to random people just to do some good...

Unfortunately, it was just announced that Amtrak won't be having the Toys for Tots train this year. News Channel 13 reported that organizers of the Marine Toys for Tots organization announced that Amtrak will not be having the annual Toys for Tots train this year...

You won't be able to visit is gravestone during track season but it appears as though the family has plans to make the Saratoga Race Course David Cassidy's final resting place.

Albany is doing some good for men and women who have served our country.  The Times Union has reported that Albany is waiving the fee for the civil service exam for veterans who were honorably discharged.  It looks like this only pertains to jobs applied for within the city of Albany, but it's a step in the right direction...

This seems like a win- win idea, offer free sex or one night stands to stressed out female students and it could help improve their grades with an active sex life.   Three students in Germany are offering this free Call boy service at the University of Mannheim.   My roommates and I had this idea when I was in college but it just didn't seem to take off.  Would you try this service? Vote now Read

Severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado threats are what most of us in the capital region are waking up to.