Based on the recommendation of its consulting engineer, the Public Safety/Emergency Management Committee decided to continue investigations into the P&C site as a location for a county jail.

A June 22 burglary at American Legion Post 31 in Little Falls may lead to the post’s baseball team’s cutting its season short, according to Scott Blumberg, team manager.

In order to offset shortfalls in revenues, Frankfort Town Board members are being forced to look at discretionary budget items in a more frugal light, according to Supervisor Joseph Kinney.

Public Safety/Emergency Management committee members said Monday they expect to receive findings very soon of a study on preliminary feasibility of locating a new county jail at the P&C site on Route 28 in the village of Herkimer.   

Eight students arrived this weekend from Spain to begin their month long stay in the Mohawk Valley through the Global Friendships, Inc. program. They gathered together with their host families and program coordinators Barbara and Joseph Guiffre at That’s Amore Restaurant on West German Street in Herkimer.

It was a bittersweet Saturday afternoon for the folks involved with the Funtrak Model Train Society. They spent the day at Skinner Auto Group, with several of their tracks up and running, members scurrying about, getting the scenery in order. You could hear the laughter and the close camaraderie among the Funtrak members. But there was also a touch of sadness.

On Friday at 2:46 p.m. Ilion police responded to a serious personal injury accident involving a car and a bicycle, on Old East Main Street just west of the intersection with East Main Street, near Swan Pools.

Area school districts celebrated graduations over the weekend, honoring the students in the class of 2009.

The “Heroes for the American Red Cross” campaign is winding down this week, and people from around the Mohawk Valley have stepped up during these difficult economic times to prove that heroes come in all guises.

More than 35 municipalities across the state, including three local villages, that maintain their own power sources have received word that they will have to collect more money from their residents to help fund the state budget.

A major fire collapsed a two-story duplex at 4356 Acme Road in the town of Frankfort on August 27 of last year.

Herkimer County Community College officials on Wednesday presented the county Finance Committee with a request for $194,000 in additional funds to meet the college’s goal of maintaining its current workforce.

Fighting back tears, Gregory P. Huxley, Sr., father of Pfc. Gregory P. Huxley Jr. of  Forestport, who died at 19-years-old in 2003 while serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq, tried to describe the Reese Road Elementary School flag raising and garden dedication Wednesday.

Boaters who pull up to a recently installed gas pump at the Ilion Marina are in for a surprise.
This Texaco gas pump is from the 1940s and while it is not hooked up to pump gas it is attracting quite a bit of attention.

TARBORO, NC — Olive Caroline Brown Gibbs, age 85, of Tarboro, formerly of Herkimer, passed away peacefully on Thursday June 18, 2009, in North Carolina.