ALTAMONT — Jonathan P. Francis, originally from Knox, who is well known to law enforcement, was arrested in October on a felony charge of witness tampering.

Francis was arrested on Oct. 27, 2014, according to the Altamont Police Department report, for an incident that had occurred a month prior, on Sept. 27, 2014.

We are shaped by people, often by family we know intimately, but also sometimes by authors or leaders or artists or athletes who are distant but present in our lives. Mario Cuomo was like that for me.

Some basketball leagues of Section 2 will be restructured for next year following the fall out of the Big 10; Guilderland, Voorheesville, and Berne-Knox-Westerlo will have new opponents. 

These local students are among the 391 from the State University of New York at Potsdam recently named to the fall President’s List:

— Jacqueline Cunningham of Voorheesville, whose major is childhood/early childhood education;

We are shaped by people, often by family we know intimately, but also sometimes by authors or leaders or artists or athletes who are distant but present in our lives. Mario Cuomo was like that for me.

Murder can make us pay attention — to things we should have been paying attention to all along.