Valley Falls News

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Joe Messina, who in 1980 founded the specialty purveyor that is now known as Adventure in Food Trading , has become a winemaker and will be the guest at Friday's wine tasting at Harmony House Marketplace in Cohoes.

It had the look and feel of an image Americans associate with terror: a grainy photo, a young man, blindfolded and bound, a sheet of paper taped to his chest detailing his offense.

Even in the era of Hopey Change, justice sometimes prevails - as when a drunken punk was duct-taped to a flag pole for six hours for setting fire to Old Glory outside a VFW hall in Valley Falls, New York.

Is there a fire bug on the loose? That's what many in a rural part of Rensselaer County are wondering following another suspicious fire.

Is there a fire bug on the loose? That's what many in a rural part of Rensselaer County are wondering following another suspicious fire.

Firefighters are still at the scene of a large mill fire in Rensselaer County. The fire broke out around 5 a.m. at the old James Thomas Mill in Valley Falls.

ABOUT 20 FIRE DEPARTMENTS REMAIN ON THE SCENE OF A MASSIVE MILL FIRE IN VALLEY FALLS IN RENSSELAER COUNTY.

Route 67 in the Rensselaer County town of Valley Falls was still closed as of twelve o'clock noon Wednesday as crews worked to put out hot spots following an intense fire at the James Thompson Mill, a former textile plant.