Chris Carola

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Sale of Rogers’ Rangers New York site is completed

Chris Carola · September 17, 2014 5:16 pm

Plattsburgh marks War of 1812 battle bicentennial

Chris Carola · September 10, 2014 12:48 pm

Historian: Location of 1614 Dutch fort pinpointed

Chris Carola · August 20, 2014 3:59 pm

2 New Yorkers headed to France for WWII event

Chris Carola · August 12, 2014 2:02 pm

Saratoga tips hat to Irishman who started it all

Chris Carola · August 5, 2014 1:43 pm

In this May 27, 2013 photo provided by the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association, Darren Johnstone, the son of Trooper Stephen Johnstone, Troop F, places flags on the grave of Richard A. Van Alstyne at Laurel Hills Cemetery in White Sulphur Springs, N.Y., on Memorial Day. Van Alstyne, who died in 1977, served as a New York State Trooper for 20 years and was one of the last members assigned to the motorcycle patrol in Sullivan County, N.Y. Johnstone was participating in a program to honor and mark the graves of every state trooper. (AP Photo/New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association)

Original NY state troopers’ graves get new markers

Chris Carola · July 21, 2014 3:57 pm

NY state eyes study’s high-speed rail proposals

Chris Carola · February 17, 2014 3:06 pm

This Jan. 31, 2014 photo shows a Gen. George Patton G.I. Joe action figure, right, and other G.I. Joes in a display at the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A half-century after the 12-inch doll was introduced at a New York City toy fair, the iconic action figure is being celebrated by collectors with a display at the military museum, while the toy's maker plans other anniversary events to be announced later this month. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

GI Joe, the world’s first action figure, turns 50

Chris Carola · February 6, 2014 12:20 pm

A sign at the Saratoga Springs City Center advertises an upcoming arms fair on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Some gun shows canceling after Connecticut mass shooting

Michael Hill, Chris Carola · January 6, 2013 5:00 am

A sign is posted for an upcoming gun show, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, in Leesport, Pa. Gun advocates aren?t backing down from their insistence on the right to keep and bear arms. But heightened sensitivities and raw nerves since the Newtown, Conn. shooting are softening displays at gun shows and even leading officials and sponsors to cancel the popular exhibitions altogether. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Some gun shows canceling after Newtown mass shooting

Michael Hill, Chris Carola · January 5, 2013 5:00 am

War of 1812 naval relic still stored in NY shed

Chris Carola · December 30, 2012 4:27 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2007 file photo, Carrol Walsh talks to a history class at Hudson Falls High School in Hudson Falls, N.Y. The World War II combat veteran from New York, whose account of liberating Holocaust victims from a Nazi train led to reunions with the survivors 60 years later, has died. He was 91. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

NY WWII vet who liberated Nazi train dies in Fla.

Chris Carola · December 19, 2012 5:12 pm