• State Police arrive at a home in Rotterdam to investigate the discovery of a possible bomb scare at a home on Spry Lane on Tuesday.  Photo: Paul Nelson / Times Union
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State Police arrive at a home in Rotterdam to investigate the discovery of a possible bomb scare at a home on Spry Lane on Tuesday. 

State Police arrive at a home in Rotterdam to investigate the discovery of a possible bomb scare at a home on Spry Lane on Tuesday. 

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A Rotterdam police car is stationed outside a Spry Lane home where a possibly live grenade was found Tuesday morning.

A Rotterdam police car is stationed outside a Spry Lane home where a possibly live grenade was found Tuesday morning.

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ROTTERDAM - Police say a World War II style grenade that a woman discovered  Tuesday morning while cleaning out her father-in-law's home turned out to be harmless.

Shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, she had called Rotterdam police who contacted the State Police Bomb Squad.

State Police  later removed the ordnance from the home at 1065 Spry Lane in Rotterdam's Coldbrook neighborhood.

A town police spokesman said in a news release that the grenade was likely a souvenir or keepsake but that the woman's father-in-law, who is still alive, refused to talk about it.