Leader Herald

State explains Route 30 changes

Fri, 9 May 2008 10:52:28 EDT

MAYFIELD - Supervisor Herb McLain said he likes the safety improvements the state Department of Transportation is planning for Route 30.

He's just not crazy about the sidewalks that will come with the project.

Paying Homage

Fri, 9 May 2008 10:58:28 EDT

MAYFIELD - The day before his mother's wake in March, Progress Road resident Richard J. "Rick" Mancini found a children's birthday card from his sailor father tucked away in his mom's old cedar chest.

Rick's mother, Rosemarie, had apparently once opened the card, which was dated Sept. 5, 1967, and celebrated the boy's first birthday.

Message calls on people to get active

Fri, 9 May 2008 11:01:54 EDT

FONDA - Forty people ran up and down stairs and between aisles. They jumped up and down and jogged in place, all in an effort to increase their health.

They laughed and giggled and raised their heart rates. They did all this as music played and a fitness instructor encouraged them.

City district to weigh use of $200K

Fri, 9 May 2008 11:02:41 EDT

GLOVERSVILLE - Gloversville Enlarged School District Superintendent Robert DeLilli was on his way to a school conference in South Carolina when he received the good news from state Sen. Hugh T. Farley, R-Niskayuna.

The school district will receive $200,000 in "bullet aid" that Farley secured from the state.

The school district's tentative $50.

Residents target drug problem

Fri, 9 May 2008 11:07:27 EDT

NORTHVILLE - Carrying bright yellow signs and wearing pins proclaiming, "Who cares? I care!" about 40 Northville and Northampton residents gathered for a parade and marched down Bridge and South Main streets Thursday.

The issue walkers cared about, they said, is the problem of drug and alcohol use in their community.