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Photo: Farm history comes to life

Ev Rau spoke on June 23 about the history of his Pleasant View Farm, on Lainhart Road.

Photos: Looking for buried treasure

Curious visitors watched demonstrations of effective techniques and proper etiquette for using metal detectors to uncover buried artifacts at the The Knox Historical Society's museum.

Photos: Truck turnover on Route 20

A large truck with a diesel fuel tank turned on its side, spilling its contents, around 1 a.m. on June 20, on Route 20, just east of the intersection with Route 146.

Utility companies can re-submit plans

by Lisa Nicole Viers

Utility companies have been given the chance to resubmit plans for the "energy superhighway" project, aimed at bringing power from the North to New York City, so they stay within the existing right-of-way.

Police say: Feura Bush man steals lawn mower from neighbor, drives it home

by Lisa Nicole Viers

Last month, a Feura Bush resident allegedly stole a lawn mower from his former landlord's shed and drove it back to his home on Lower Flatrock Road.

Camp carves a notch in Caruso’s heart

by Jo E. Prout

A local family’s love of nature is bringing new life to an historic camp in the Adirondacks.

Photos: Solstice on track

Summer sun shone on Sunday as people flocked to the Helderberg Hudson Rail Trail Solstice Celebration, which extended for the first time to Voorheesville, along with the trail.

First call for rabies: Department of Health

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

A deadly disease caused by a virus that attacks the brain and spinal cord, rabies came to America in the 1700s when European settlers brought their dogs.

A bat: 'What good is it?'

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

A common saw on the worth of bats is human-centric: They eat bugs.

A bat, in a single night, will eat half of its weight in insects — not just the mosquitoes that plague us but all manner of night flyers, like moths and beetles.

Andrea Fortuin maligned, Ken Fortuin applauded in court

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

The sentence in Kenneth Fortuin's plea deal for arson was no surprise — his lawyer said he'll be out in a year — but the courtroom drama was: His lawyer alleged he was the victim, not his ex-wife, when he burned their house.

Pulsifer sentenced to 1.5 to 4.5 years for DWI

KNOX — Wesley Pulsifer was sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison for aggravated driving while intoxicated, a felony, on June 23, according to a release from Albany County District Attorney’s Office.

Judge Peter A. Lynch of Albany County Court was presiding.

A day to give back to a giving person

by Marcello Iaia

Jean Forti Day in the Knox Town Park on Saturday will raise funds for Forti's medical expenses. She was diagnosed with liver cancer in May and will undergo surgery on July 2.

Gardineer found guilty of lesser DWI

by Marcello Iaia

The verdict in a DWI trial this week —a first for the Berne judge — turned on whether the drunk driver of a go-cart was driving on a public road or thrown there.

In Knox DWI trial, doubt raised by gum

by Marcello Iaia

Judge James Corigliano allowed jurors to infer that, since the prosecution did not maintain the video footage requested by the defense, the missing evidence would have harmed the prosecution's case.

All female “supergroup” from Boston making Old Songs Festival debut in Altamont

by Jordan J. Michael

Long Time Courting, a Boston-based neo-traditional band comprised of all female players, will bring its high-energy show to the Old Songs Festival in Altamont this weekend.

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