Dannemora News

Assessment-reform advocate Barry O'Brien says the way the state wants properties to be assessed distorts the real value of a home.

There's no doubt when you picked up your copy of this week's Clinton County Free Trader Today that you took a second glance at the front page.

Vance Rowe Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, born Salvatore Lucania, was probably the most well known mob boss in the history of the American Mafia.

The Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project report, at 120 pages, plus the towns and villages profile CD, is available by request for $20. A form to order the Assessment Project is online at: www.aatvny.org. It can also be obtained by sending the request via regular mail to: Association of Towns & Villages, P.O. Box 777, Mayfield, NY 12117.

Ralph "Bucky" Phillips was so enraged after authorities arrested his daughter and took away her children in August 2006 that he planned to start firing two high-powered rifles at state troopers as they gathered for their evening briefing at the Fredonia barracks.

Ralph "Bucky" Phillips was so close to troopers conducting a massive manhunt for him in 2006, he could hear them talking about the Buffalo Bills football team, the convicted cop killer later told investigators.

A few years ago, I wrote about a documentary made by a local man, Mike Raab, about The Church of the Good Thief, a church built in the high security prison in Dannemora, NY.

New York Corrections officials are blaming the staff at the state prison in Dannemora for an inmate's death.

The Press-Republican gave readers plenty of opportunity over the past month to comment in Speakout about the tenure issues at Plattsburgh High School and Beekmantown Central School.

Camp McGregor has been on and off the state budget chopping block for at least a decade, but this time it looks like the minimum security facility in Wilton has finally reached the end of the line.

Local newspapers called it a crisis. Three decades ago dozens of correctional officers lined Cook Street in Dannemora, Saturday there were about twenty people at any given time.

Despite the slumping economy, some homeowners in Clinton County will see an increase in their assessments this year.

State Police are continuing to investigate separate accidents that reportedly claimed the lives of at least two people in Clinton County Tuesday night.

Gov. David Paterson is ordering 8,900 state workers be laid off after unions refused concessions amid a staggering economic downturn.

It's a light year, as far as contested races, but seven villages will be holding elections today.

Seven villages in New York held elections Wednesday, three of them mayoral contests.

Sadie is a lively young beagle with big, brown eyes and long, floppy ears. She came to the Elmore SPCA in Peru almost three weeks ago, barely alive and pregnant with four dead puppies.

As medical services expanded and improved over the last 70 years, Clinton Correctional Facility's hospital changed with the times.

The college student from Bethlehem who was convicted in 2006 for killing his father and attempting to kill his mother in a bloody axe attack has filed an appeal to overturn the conviction.

Highway crews were at the Saranac Town Garage midday Friday when a fire broke out above the building's waste-oil furnace.