After state park police constructed a firing range for training at the former Camp Cass facility, neighbors have said their animals are skittish, the noises are bothersome, and that they are worried about lead pollution.

A county plow truck lost control in a snowstorm on Dec. 9 and crashed into a Rensselaerville home in an area where vehicles before have failed to navigate the nearby turn and crashed.

After stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck and stomach, a Westerlo man made a trail of gunpowder, which he used to light his home on fire, police say.

Leaving a family without a home on Christmas, a fire on Villeneuve Drive was caused by an electrical problem in the walls of the kitchen, state investigators say. A fund drive is underway.

KNOX — Emma Daisy Bunzey Stevens was one of 10 children who raised 10 children of her own.

“She was the grand lady of Knox,” living independently at the age of 105, said her daughter Dawn Coffey.

The prospective buyer of a Knox property in foreclosure called the outcry over the land sale a “political hit job.”

A school-district appointment, according to a board member, was not advertised, and there were no interviews conducted.

The town supervisor said Rensselaerville is left with three options now: choose its own judge, have the state select a replacement, or wait until November.

At Knox’s upcoming meeting on Jan. 1, the town board — with newly elected members that ran with the Republican-backed supervisor — will be selecting a new town attorney, a new zoning board chair, and possibly several other positions. The supervisor has said he has received over 20 applications so far.