Otisville News

The protracted battle between Otisville, Mount Hope and local firefighters ended Monday night with the town board choosing to contract with the newly formed Mount Hope Fire Company, ending its 87-year-relationship with the Otisville Fire Company.

In what used to be a dairy farm region, more and more farmers are raising beef cattle, either to keep their farms operational or try to turn a profit amid sour milk prices.

With the deadline for when the Town of Mount Hope will have to choose to provide fire protection looming in June, argument and confusion continued to be the themes at a meeting Monday night.

An Otisville man and two teenagers were arraigned Friday in a gun case that started when one of the teenagers took a wrong turn in a car, according to police.

The US war on drugs has cost one trillion dollars and resulted in 45m arrests. And yet nothing has changed, argues film-maker Eugene Jarecki, a polemical campaigner to reform America's drugs laws.