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.
The bucket of a Schenectady Fire Department ladder truck hovers over Scott Modest, who climbed to the top of a tree in the westbound lane of Interstate 890 on March 11 and remained there for nearly 11 hours.
