By Zach Simeone

KNOX — A year after he was talked down from a cliff’s edge at Thacher Park, Christopher David burned down his family’s home on Suto Road in Knox yesterday, police say.

By Zach Simeone

ALTAMONT— One of the last two parcels of undeveloped land left in Altamont is slated for building.

The Altamont Police Department 11 make traffic stops, check homes, answer complaints

ALTAMONT — Two years of police dispatch data sketches a patchwork of activity for the Altamont Police department, which Commissioner Anthony Salerno summarizes as “community policing.”

ALTAMONT— At the entrance of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, off Route 85A, there is a 250-square-foot garden that looks to horticulturalist Sue Pezzolla’s boss, like a “puddle with dead plants in it.”

VOORHEESVILLE—Voorheesville will be one of the first communities to receive federal disaster aid in the amount of $18,500 for damages from the monster ice storm in December 2008.

Altamont adopts $1.1M budget

ALTAMONT — Although Altamont’s budget is $54,000 less than last year, property taxes will increase by 17 percent in 2009 to balance conservative estimates on revenues from county sales taxes.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — On May 19, Berne-Knox-Westerlo residents will vote on a $19.8-million budget that will not raise the tax levy.