Poestenkill News

A public hearing on a $19,705,000 plan to renovate and expand the 73-year-old Berlin Elementary School and repair the middle/high school will be conducted Tuesday.

A head-on crash in Poestenkill sent two people to the hospital Friday evening. An uninjured driver told CBS6 crews that he was transporting construction material in his car when a woman pulled in his lane and hit another car head-on at approximately 4 p.m. at Vosburgh Road and Route 66.

Bill Sparkman, a Census Bureau worker in Kentucky, was found recently near a cemetery with a rope around his neck and the letters FED on his chest.

Every so often, I like to profile local Etsy artists who use recycled materials.

The owner of a pet boarding facility in Poestenkill said Wednesday that two dogs seized by New York State Police last week from a home in Pittstown, in which police said they had been abandoned, are well on their way to recovery.

Pacing a floor strewn with rotting garbage, tattered clothing and her own waste, a young pit bull searched in vain for food and water.

A 63-year-old woman survived a 150-foot-fall into the Poestenkill Gorge and spent 30 chilling hours on a ledge where two dogs kept her warm, firefighters said Thursday.

Jay Nish closes most of his deals before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. It's a strategy that has carried over from Nish's days in politics, when he was supervisor for the small town of Poestenkill in Rensselaer County.

While running in my neighborhood this morning, I came to realize a serious safety hazard we have in rural and suburban areas around here.

While running in my neighborhood this morning, I came to realize a serious safety hazard we have in rural and suburban areas around here.

Authorities say a Hoosick couple used an unusual technique to break into homes during a burglary spree: They sent an 11-year-old girl squeezing through windows and a doggie door at the places they hit.

A Hoosick couple who forced an 11-year-old girl to squeeze through windows and doggie doors to help them break into homes is being looked at for similar crimes in other counties.