Paul Grondahl
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Guilderland, NY, United States
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At 100, WWII vet Bill Scharoun sets a USS Slater record
Bill Scharoun, who turned 100 on Feb. 3, was the last active World War II veteran who... → Read More
Grondahl: Mario Cuomo’s speechwriter has final word in memoir
In his new memoir, Peter Quinn describes Mario Cuomo's complexities, details Andrew Cuomo's bullying, and explains how his key contributions improved the elder Cuomo's famed “A Tale of Two Cities" speech → Read More
Grondahl: In praise of moms, especially mine
A trip back home as Bonnie Grondahl faces serious medical problems and reunites with a sisterhood of aging friends she's counted on at her senior living complex → Read More
Grondahl: Hilary Swank stars as Times Union reporter in noir thriller, ‘Mother’s Milk’
A two-time Academy Award winner stars in director and Albany native Miles... → Read More
Grondahl: Chris Burke, Troy’s Unity House CEO, retiring after 41 years
Chris Burke, who is now 71, will retire as CEO of Unity House after 41 years devoted to... → Read More
Remembering the patriarch of Albany's McVeigh Funeral Home
The patriarch of the family-run McVeigh Funeral Home, who died at 87 on May 30, assisted thousands of families in their time of grief. He laid to rest the dearly departed with decorum, a quiet grace and a freshly pressed funereal pinstripe suit. For 60 years, he practiced the undertaker’s alchemy, being at once indispensable and invisible during a funeral service. McVeigh grew up in the North… → Read More
Grondahl: After 40 years at Lark & Madison, Mr. Mobil cashes out
George Dunbrook, for years a wisecracking mechanic with a deadpan delivery popular on... → Read More
Grondahl: Poet Therese Broderick's evolution and her keen sense of sensory detail
Therese Broderick feels poetry at its best embodies in words an almost mystical... → Read More
Grondahl: A mother, her daughters and a basement in Kyiv
Nikitchuk’s message to the outside world was simple. “Please don’t forget about... → Read More
Grondahl: Bob Wygant, orphan who spent a lifetime unearthing family secrets, dies at 92
Bob Wygant, orphaned as an infant and reared until age 18 at the Albany Home for... → Read More
Grondahl: Valatie man's golden touch has bedazzled fire trucks since Eisenhower administration
Robert Francis Whelan lifted a tarp covering a 1937 International fire truck at the... → Read More
Grondahl: How a Onewheel saved a Guilderland man's life
Kamil Zieba, a 31-year-old from Guilderland, faced a nearly paralyzing bout of... → Read More
Guilderland neighbors honors beloved letter carrier with 'Ray Day'
Homemade signs sprouted alongside mailboxes from roadside snowbanks for blocks.... → Read More
Grondahl: After 43 years, a haven for politicos and celebrities is closed
ALBANY — For decades, a black-and-white photograph hung behind the bar at La Serre, a... → Read More
Grondahl: Quarantined on a tiny tropical island off Thailand is Shaker grad's fate
Travel writer Alex Baackes, a 2007 Shaker High School graduate, is spending her... → Read More
Grondahl: Research offers hope for Albany man paralyzed in police shooting
RENSSELAER — Ellazar Williams leaned forward in his wheelchair and peered at a glass... → Read More
Grondahl: Judge Leonard Weiss still practicing law 72 years later
ALBANY - I told a friend of mine, who is a lawyer, that I was going to meet Judge... → Read More
Grondahl: Constitutional scholar outlines impeachable offenses
Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law School professor and a leading constitutional law scholar, has written one of the most compelling books on impeachment. Just don't ask him if President Donald Trump should be impeached. "Of course he should be," Sunstein writes in the preface to a newly reprinted edition of his book, "Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide." He adds, "He obstructed justice not once but ten… → Read More
Grondahl: Ted Bundy still haunts Tacoma
TACOMA, Wash. - I went back to Tacoma last week to visit my family and ran headlong into Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious and savage serial killers in modern history, who grew up in Tacoma as I did. I never met Bundy, who was 13 years older than me, but our houses were only a few blocks apart in the city's North End. Our mothers knew each other because they both worked at the University of… → Read More
Grondahl: High school journalists restore faith in free speech
I had been feeling despair about the fate of free speech, its existence under unprecedented assault from President Donald Trump who demeaned the nation's news media as "the enemy of the American people." But let the record show that I experienced a jolt of optimism after spending time last week at the state Capitol with a group of earnest and committed high school journalists fighting for free… → Read More