The Hollowed Harvest event runs Thursday through Sunday until Nov. 1. Seven-thousand pumpkins line the infield of the Altamont fairgrounds, which takes 35 to 40 minutes to walk.
Kits of hand sanitizer,KN-95 masks, and hand soap are donated to Altamont Elementary School Tuesday morning by Jonathan Phillips, fifth-generation owner of Phillips Hardware.
The annual luncheon to honor Community Caregivers’ volunteers was postponed because of the pandemic but reborn as a drive-through picnic on Wednesday on Altamont Fairground.
Altamont’s firehouse siren blasted at 8:46 a.m., marking the time Flight 11, hijacked by terrorists, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
In just the last month, the American Red Cross has helped tens of thousands of people whose lives were uprooted by massive back-to-back disasters — the Midwest derecho, the continuing and relentless wildfires in the west, Hurricane Laura — and now the not-for-profit organization is mobilizing supplies and volunteers to help again as Hu
In a Friday ceremony, Altamont’s firehouse siren blasted at 8:46 a.m., marking the time Flight 11, hijacked by terrorists, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
