Moriah News

Steven Blais of Moriah waits for the ferry across Lake Champlain in Ticonderoga on Tuesday, Nov.

Michael Relyea has an adviser at his college alma mater to thank for his law degree.

Christmas will arrive in Port Henry Thursday, Dec. 3. That's when the Town of Moriah Chamber of Commerce will host its 20th annual Moriah Midnight Madness.

Working in concert with other state agencies, the Adirondack Park Agency approved temporary ferry service beside the closed Champlain Bridge.

Essex County officials are finding it hard to keep tax rates down as they review anticipated spending for the next two years.

Inside the John Brown Farm historic site is the wood stove and rope-bed typical of rural life in the mid-1800s. The rooms are much the same as the Brown family kept them in 1859, when his body was brought back from Harper's Ferry.

Being an emergency medical technician is easy for Dave Hobbs. "It's something I love doing immensely," he said.

The town of Moriah has declared an old police car surplus and donated it to the school for use as a driver education vehicle.

Officials in Essex County are threatening New York State with a lawsuit for what they say has been poor stewardship of the Lake Champlain Bridge in Crown Point.

Essex County lawmakers revealed Monday that the state plans to start a 24-hour, free ferry next to the boarded-up Champlain Bridge in Crown Point.

The Lake Champlain Bridge in Crown Point will not re-open until late spring or early summer of 2010.

State Department of Transportation Acting Commissioner Stan Gee stood before hundreds of angry and upset people Wednesday night to say that repairs to the Champlain Bridge won't start for two weeks and the bridge won't reopen before spring or summer.

Mayor Bloomberg speaks at Mount Moriah AME church in St. Albans, Queens. A weekA after an appearance with Rudy Giuliani sparked a racial flap, Mayor Bloomberg visited three black churches Sunday with Cory Booker , Newark 's African-American mayor.

Essex County Transportation Department, with the help of Westport Central School, will provide a park-and-ride service at Essex County Fairgrounds, Westport.

Bill Buell has been crossing the Crown Point Bridge for 13 years, commuting from his home in New York to his job at IBM in Essex Junction.

The Moriah town board has decided against adoption of a noise law. A committee investigating a possible law to deal with noise complaints in the community has determined no additional legislation is necessary.

Essex County has taken in a little over $1 million for boarding inmates from elsewhere so far this year, the large majority from the federal system.

State officials are promising to open the Lake Champlain Bridge as soon as possible, but local commuters are demanding to know when that will happen.

People once took their brush and small branches to the local trash-transfer station.

The Moriah youth sports program held a 50/50 raffle for the benefit of the town of Moriah food pantry.