You can’t say that education is up to the states while simultaneously demanding that states do your bidding. And yet, here we ...

A majority of the 43 operators, laborers, and mechanics in the potential bargaining unit have signed cards choosing the Civil ...

Altamont’s tax rate for 2025-26 is set to increase 2.25 percent, from about $2.20 per $1,000 of assessed value to $2.25 per $1,000. The corresponding tax levy will increase from $329,271 to $338,976.

To help achieve Governor Kathy Hochul’s initiative to plant 25 million trees by 2033, up to 2,500 tree seedlings from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Colonel William F. Fox Memorial ...

Let’s clarify what this is and what this isn’t," Chief Executive Officer Donald Csaposs said, opening a conversation on the topic during the IDA’s March meeting. “We’re not here to pass any policy ...

John J. Pieniazek, a jack of all trades who loved fishing with his children, died peacefully on Friday, April 11, 2025 at his Altamont home surrounded by his family. He was 93. “John was a jack of all ...

Joe Giebelhaus, 55, was appointed to the Berne Town Board as its fourth member, and will run for the supervisor position in ...

At the public hearings on May 31, 2023, the IDA was to decide whether or not to allow the taking of the public roads by eminent domain and selling the property to the developer so this project could ...

My first whale watch did not go well. At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for ...

After a great 70-degree day on Monday when many of the OMOTM got outside and got to work in the warm fresh air doing stuff that our bodies were complaining about on Tuesday morning, April 1, we woke u ...

The oval at the Altamont fairgrounds has seen a lot of uses and a lot of thrills. From its first harness horse race in 1893 to the beginning of its automobile racing in 1910, the competition has ...