Regional

Dogs that few want to adopt — most of them are pit bulls — get training from county jail inmates, which helps the inmates as well as the dogs.

ALTAMONT — Jonathan P. Francis, originally from Knox, who is well known to law enforcement, was arrested in October on a felony charge of witness tampering.

Francis was arrested on Oct. 27, 2014, according to the Altamont Police Department report, for an incident that had occurred a month prior, on Sept. 27, 2014.

We are shaped by people, often by family we know intimately, but also sometimes by authors or leaders or artists or athletes who are distant but present in our lives. Mario Cuomo was like that for me.