Hoosick News

Hoosick Republican Stan Brownell was elected earlier this week to a four-year term as vice chairman of the Rensselaer County Legislature.

History, art and farmland preservation came together last week when the landscape that inspired Grandma Moses' paintings of rural life was permanently protected from development.

Minor injuries were reported in a two-vehicle crash Friday afternoon at the junction of Routes 7 and 9. Eric Valcour, 38, of Chittenden, Vt., said he was headed east on Route 7 in a white Mitsubishi truck when a blue Subaru Forester pulled out in front of him.

Authorities in Rensselaer County say a Hoosick couple used 10-year-old girl to help break into homes, sending her squeezing through windows and a doggie door to open up their targets.

Youth will not be served. Authorities have declined to charge an 11-year-old girl who helped a Hoosick, New York couple break into homes by squeezing through windows and crawling through doggie doors in order to unlock the houses they robbed.

An unexpected twist has occurred in the case of a brutal horse killing in Rensselaer County.

The Capital Region is scheduled to receive an additional $23.6 million through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for five transportation projects.

After more than three years of stops, starts and delays, construction of a replacement bridge on Route 7 above the Hoosic River is finally set to begin on Thursday, June 11.

Area police agencies are citing the swift exchange of information for a major drug bust in Hoosick Falls and Bennington, Vt., after police responded to a 911 call early Wednesday morning about a drug overdose.