Notes from around town

 WROW AM (Magic 100.5 FM/AM 590) is having issues with Albany Street again.

The long running Sunday public affairs show has run the same episode with Amsterdam, NY Mayor Mike Cinquanti for the 6th consecutive week. Despite this, host Brian Cady is still doing his Sunday morning drive show, now reduced to 2 hours (7-9 am ET), with Madison Wealth Managers' Saturday show getting a Sunday berth at 9 am a few weeks back. You'll recall that the Jon Reilly experiment in the summer of 2022 went nowhere, and his lone episode ran for 2 months straight before Cady was brought in as the new host, and Reilly was let go.

Cady, also the PA voice of the Amsterdam Mohawks of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, does not have an e-mail address at WROW, so we have no way of knowing what the issue is. Stay tuned.

Update, 2:45 pm (ET): It appears Cady could very well be gone, as John Gabriel manned the 7-9 am shift this morning following the Albany Street rerun. He didn't say he was filling in for Cady, and we' re trying to obtain some information.

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Saturday afternoon's sudden snowstorm caused some issues for commuters in Troy & Albany.

On a personal note, my brother & I were visiting his erstwhile roommate at a rehab center in South Troy. It rained when we got there, and when we left at 4:30 pm, it was snowing. It took a while to realize that CDTA called an audible, and took the #85 line on one single route. In other words, as often happens during winter storms, the secondary route through the Cottage Street Apartments complex was detoured to the main route. My brother & I hiked from the CSA complex, and nearly reached the bus shelter in front of Hudson Valley Community College before flagging down the #85.

Once aboard, we could not help but overhear a conversation between the bus driver and a very loud, obnoxious young man, presumably a HVCC student, who was spewing out conspiracy theories, one right after the other. Of course, amongst ourselves, we questioned the young man's sanity, or lack thereof.

Tree branches had already fallen along our trail to HVCC, by the way, but that was tame compared to what my bro encountered when he returned to Albany. Traffic was snarled along State Street as one of the new UAlbany-centric express buses was stuck in a snowbank.

Suffice to say, Mother Nature caught everyone off-guard.

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For those that wonder, La Victoria on Congress Street in Troy is still open, but they've been notified by the city that some work needs to be done on the space. No, not cleaning up the graffiti on the outside, but some work has to be done inside. Stay tuned.