Fort Plain News

Musician and composer Skip West will kick off the Fort Plain Free Library's 2009 summer reading program Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Fort Plain High School gymnasium.

Rusty Capece, the Fort Plain Central School District Board of Education's newly elected member, said about 500 district residents signed a petition in about 10 days asking the board to reconsider building a new bus garage next to Harry Hoag Elementary School.

A two-month drug investigation led to three arrests Wednesday by Montgomery County Sheriff's Office investigators.

Montgomery County police have arrested three people on drug charges after a two-month drug investigation, the county sheriff's office announced today.

Fireworks displays are planned throughout the area for the upcoming Fourth of July weekend:? Friday Pine Lake Park, 135 Timberline Lane in Caroga Lake.

About 70 volunteers from this area and out of the state are expected to converge on the Frog Hollow area of the city Sunday in the last scheduled public search for missing city resident Kellisue M. Ackernecht.

The New York State Department of Transportation announced Thursday that the westbound ramp from Route 167 in the city of Little Falls will be closed for an indefinite period as workers address a sink hole that has developed under both lanes of the ramp.

Fort Plain Junior-Senior High School Principal Deborah Larrabee has announced the names of the top ten students of the school's Class of 2009 as follows.

The New York State Department of Transportation has recognized the Fort Plain Central School District's Transportation Department for having exceeded the DOT's goal of having at least 90 percent of its vehicles pass semi-annual bus safety inspections during the 2008-09 fiscal year.

The Village of Canajoharie lost another round Thursday in its court fight to keep Beech-Nut Corp.

Prosecutors once said John Hinckley was sane. Now they say he is crazy. John Hinckley is a political prisoner.

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department has arrested a 19-year-old Canajoharie man accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl and videotaping it.

HERKIMER, N.Y. - A Herkimer County Corrections Officer is facing charges stemming from a domestic dispute.

The Little Falls Police Department will institute its parking ticket recovery program on August 1, and with the start of the program officers will begin applying the Denver boot to vehicles that have accumulated three or more unpaid parking tickets.

Fonda-Fultonville's Josh Nethaway and Canajoharie's Dane O'Neil are the most valuable players of their respective divisions in the Western Athletic Conference.

A 25-year-old St. Johnsville man was arrested Tuesday for growing cannabis in his second floor apartment.

A 38-year-old Herkimer man faces several charges after Ilion police said he fought with officers and damaged the police station.

Daniella Sapienza was fussing April 17, 2008, and didn't want to take the bottle her mother held in her hand, says her paternal grandmother, Eileen Sapienza.

The St. Johnsville Police Department has received several complaints from residents regarding attempted larcenies via the Internet and telephone scams.

Two personal records for two second-place finishes. Fonda-Fultonville's Shane Smith placed second in the shot put and discus at Friday's New York State Public High School Athletic Association Championships, while Fort Plain's Chris Gattman joined him on the discus podium in fifth place.