Despite success for fairgrounds
Villagers want to unplug Countryfest

VOORHEESVILLE — Russell Hempel will be riding in style this Saturday.

From the alps to Altamont
Visions of the Virgin celebrated

ALTAMONT — Buckwheat kept the sweeping fields of Pleasant View Farms above the Great Depression and Everett Rau still plows those fields with the tractor and plow that his brother bought in 1929.

ALBANY COUNTY — Seven people were arrested for welfare fraud last week; the Albany County Sheriff’s Department says they fraudulently received nearly $125,000 in benefits.

Francis cries for help;
Four dozen cops answer



KNOX — A call from a modest, cream colored house at 107 Lewis Road drew four dozen police officers on Saturday morning.

ALTAMONT — Years ago, a swaggering kitten, dark as a blackberry in the ripest part of summer, got the name Tuffy, short for Tough Guy, from a man who says he was good luck.

ALTAMONT — Marc Dorsey, a former Altamont police officer who was removed from the force in 2003, will not get a hearing after all.

VOORHEESVILLE — Charging patients for ambulance rides, which was recently voted down by volunteer members of the ambulance squad, is under consideration again.

The common writer
Memories of the Mary Month of May

By Diane Cameron