Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.
Chet and Toni Romanowski figured that the loud crack that echoed through their Vischer Avenue home was thunder....
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