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.
When he was a kid, town of Colonie historian Kevin Franklin could head out the front door of his home in Latham and walk two or three miles to the Mohawk River without dodging a lot of traffic....
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