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SHARON SPRINGS
New iPads to lighten Sharon Springs' kids’ loads
Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012
When the students of Sharon Springs Central School return from summer vacation, they won’t be hefting the usual spine-wrecking backpacks.
SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Online farmers market offers fresh alternative in Schoharie County
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Tender green zucchini, yellow summer squash and vine-ripened, freshly picked tomatoes are just a few of the items from Schoharie Valley farms available for people to pick up in Cobleskill on Friday.
FULTON & MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
New $20 million FMCC budget up 4.2%
Monday, July 30, 2012
Fulton-Montgomery Community College will see a 4.2 percent budget increase for the 2012-13 academic year despite slight projected declines in enrollment.
NORTHAMPTON
Child, 4, drowns in lake
Monday, July 23, 2012
A 4-year-old Amsterdam boy drowned Sunday afternoon at the Northampton Beach Campground on the Great Sacandaga Lake.
SACANDAGA LAKE
UPDATE: Amsterdam boy, 4, drowns at Sacandaga Lake
Monday, July 23, 2012
Authorities are investigating a drowning on Sunday of a 4-year-old Amsterdam boy at the Northampton Beach Campground on the Great Sacandaga Lake.
FORT PLAIN
Fort Plain mourns ‘death’ of elm
Thursday, July 12, 2012
A land dispute in Fort Plain led to a very unconventional memorial service Sunday evening.
FONDA
White House honors Fonda-Fultonville graduate
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
In 1994, when Jenny M. Buccos graduated from Fonda-Fultonville High School, she wasn’t dreaming of the Champion of Change title recently bestowed on her by the White House.
FONDA
Strawberry Fest brings visitors to Mohawk farm
Monday, July 2, 2012
Raeanne Oakes stood in front of Jennifer Lee’s wigwam, a single black braid resting on her left shoulder. She smiled as she watched two of her boys learn to make bark baskets at the Kanatsiohareke Strawberry Festival on Sunday.
FORT PLAIN
Fourth comes on the Third for Fort Plain
Monday, July 2, 2012
Twenty-five years ago, Dawn Hanifin said Fort Plain’s Independence Day celebration should be held on the third so she could get a better deal on the fireworks.
DOLGEVILLE
Police say incoherent Oppenheim man with rifle took ‘bath salts’
Friday, June 29, 2012
An Oppenheim man was apparently under the influence of the hallucinogenic designer drug called “bath salts” earlier this week when he walked around a Dolgeville neighborhood with a loaded rifle and yelled incoherently, according to police.
MAYFIELD
Dogs in Mayfield neglect case will remain with abuse suspect
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Dozens of purebred dogs whose owner faces animal neglect charges will remain at an animal rescue facility in Mayfield — whose owner also faces animal abuse charges — for the time being, Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said.
RICHMONDVILLE
Reinventing the wheel
Monday, June 25, 2012
They came from local farms in horse-drawn wagons and later trucks loaded with field crops such as corn, oats and buckwheat to be ground into livestock feed at Bunn’s Mill in Richmondville.
FORT PLAIN
Fort Plain man arrested after backing over mother's leg with truck
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
A Fort Plain man was arrested on unrelated charges after backing over his mother’s leg with a truck.
ALBANY
State notes sites of historic value in Jefferson, Fort Plain
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Locations in Montgomery and Schoharie counties have been recommended by the state for addition to the New York and National registers of historic places.
GILBOA
Boy, girl die when ATV hit by truck in Gilboa
Thursday, June 14, 2012
A 16-year-old North Blenheim boy and 12-year-old Gilboa girl were killed when their ATV was struck Wednesday afternoon by a commercial dump truck on Route 30.
