When he was working on the application, Councilman Adam Greenberg, who spearheaded the initiative for New Scotland, had been told receiving the funding might be a long shot because Hudson River Estuary Program grants are highly sought after. “So this was really great news,” he said.

ALTAMONT — Two creative men from Altamont have gathered ghost stories from village residents and surrounding areas into a book. Neither is a stranger to imagination and yet they have labeled these stories as true.

Dan Barker, Village archivist Altamont

Each of the people at the rededication ceremony had a singular reason for being there.

Voorheesville and New Scotland were just awarded a $10,000 grant from the Preservation League of New York State to fund a cultural resource survey for the village and the hamlets of New Salem and New Scotland.

The Frederick Crounse House is set to be demolished next month. 

A whole-building condemnation would ease the regulations, somewhat, related to the demolition of Crounse House. 

THOMPSON’S LAKE. 

VOORHEESVILLE.