Essex County News

Essex County Democrats say they'll celebrate a year of big victories with a fundraising dinner at Boni's Bistro in Port Henry.

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

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

Two longtime town supervisors in Essex County lost by narrow margins in Tuesday's general election.

A Keeseville man has been charged with sexually abusing a 5-year-old child. State Police based in Keeseville arrested Warren Brant, 27, at about noon Wednesday and charged him with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

An absent election commissioner has county officials worried during the busiest time of year for the Essex County Board of Elections.

The Champlain Valley String Orchestra, under direction of Laurel Rule, will perform Crown Point Suite Saturday, Sept 19, on the main stage at the Lake Champlain quadricentennial event at the Crown Point State Historic Site.

A girls' basketball coach in Essex County, N.Y., has been indicted on charges she had sex with an underage boy.

Essex County's $8 million public-safety radio system replacement project is spending its first $1.5 million.

Three southern Essex County towns that need new courthouses are considering building one and sharing it.

The Essex County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of borrowing $650,000 at their regular meeting Sept 8. The money will be used towards repairs to County Route 12 between Lewis and Willsboro, also known as Stowersville Road.

JEERS to New York State Police for faking quotes in news releases. We recently received a release that included this and other quotes attributed to Troop B Commander Maj.

On September 5, 2009, New York State Police in Lewis investigated the accidental death of a 29 year-old Salem, New York resident at Split Rock Falls in the Town of Elizabethtown, Essex County.

Essex County, New York wants to crack down on distracted drivers. The Board of Supervisors is set to vote tomorrow on a county-wide ban on texting while driving.

New York Inspector General Joseph Fisch criticized the state Liquor Authority Wednesday for allowing employees to commute up to 600 miles round-trip in state vehicles, costing taxpayers at least $20,000 a year in gas.

One person was killed and two others critically hurt in a minivan crash Friday on the Adirondack Northway in Westport.

New York State Inspector General Joseph Fisch today criticized two state agencies for sanctioning personal use of official vehicles at a cost to the state of thousands of dollars a year.

Essex County, Town of North Elba On Friday, August 21, 2009, at approximately 6:28 PM, DEC Dispatch received a call from the Canoe Club in Lake Placid, reporting a group of three overdue canoeists on Lake Placid.

Congratulations and thanks to the New York State Department of Transportation for making immediate plans to repair a road in the Town of Willsboro that has badly needed it for too long.

Following a tour of Ray Brook Prison in Essex County, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said the facility is "seriously understaffed," falling 10.6 percent short of the number recommended by the federal Bureau of Prisons and at the same time over capacity, with 64.2 percent more inmates than the facility was designed to hold safely.