ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's taxpayer rights advocate is advising property owners to review their assessments during municipal grievance periods, which end Tuesday in many communities.
    
Advocate Camille Enders says homeowners and businesses can check their assessments on their town's website to see if they are paying more than their fair tax share.
    
Local assessment rolls, required to be publicly available, list the property's estimated market value and tax exemptions.
    
If the market value is much higher than a likely sales price, she says the owner should consider talking with the assessor and then deciding whether to file an assessment grievance.
    
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The annual Memorial Day parade will be held tonight in Cohoes.

The City of Cohoes and the Cohoes American Legion will hold the annual Memorial Day Parade on Thursday, May 23.  The parade will begin formulating at 6:30 p.m. at West End Park, with step off scheduled for 7:00 p.m. The parade route will move east along Columbia Street and then north along Remsen Street toCanal Square and finish at the review stand.

CAPITAL REGION - The jobless rate in the Capital Region is dropping.

New statistics out Tuesday from the state show the unemployment level in the Albany Schenectady Troy area has dropped from 7.2 in April of 2012 to 6.5 last month.

Glens Falls dropped from 8.3 to 7.8.

The State's jobless rate is also 7.8 percent.