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Replacing School's Torched Sports Gear Pegged At $500K+

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas
Published October 25, 2016 at 11:21 PM EDT

Administrators at an upstate New York school that lost its football equipment in a suspected arson fire say it could cost more than $500,000 to replace the gear and the building where it was stored.

Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons' principal tells WTEN-TV in Albany that the Schenectady school's baseball and track and field teams also lost equipment in Friday's fire. Replacing the sports equipment is estimated at about $100,000, plus as much as $500,000 to rebuild the field house.

Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons and two other small Catholic schools that field the combined Holy Trinity team were able to play in last Saturday's playoff game thanks to equipment donated by local colleges, high schools and businesses.

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Dave Lucas
Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.
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