Minerva News

Essex County lawmakers recently decided to go against the recommendations of their county attorney, county manager and purchasing agent so a local firm could keep a contract.

A convicted sex offender has been charged with not correctly reporting his address.

Moriah lost to AuSable Valley, 10-0, in Champlain Valley Athletic Conference softball play May 11.

Minerva-Newcomb's Chris Kellogg slides safely into second base as Crown Point's Jonathan Spaulding attempts to make a tag.

With low population density and only 11 voting districts, Hamilton County needs only 11 voting machines.

With the score tied heading into the seventh inning something had to give as MVAC baseball power-house the Indian Lake-Long Lake Orange and the Minerva-Newcomb Mountaineers clashed with league supremacy on the line April 29.

Runs were easy to come by on April 30 as the Johnsburg Lady Jaguars and the Minerva-Newcomb Lady Mountaineers swapped leads throughout the MVAC game.

Three unoccupied seasonal camps were destroyed and two others damaged when a fire broke out in one and spread to the others.

The Johnsburg Lady Jaguars recovered nicely this week, as they out-slugged the Minerva Newcomb Lady Mountaineers, 29-16, on Wednesday.

A fire destroyed the home at 882 14 Road in Minerva this week. Local residents have sprung into action providing food and a place to sleep for the homeowner as he combs through the ashes.

A suspicious fire fought by a dozen fire departments destroyed a summer home on 14th Road here Wednesday morning.

They are a year older - and with that comes even more experience. The 2009 Minerva/Newcomb Mountaineers baseball team is a legitimate defensive force.

Essex County Manager Daniel Palmer is advocating a new county radio system, more Internet-based government services and use of full Geographic Information Systems mapping.

The Essex County Enhanced 911 center answered more than 67,000 calls in its first year of operation.

The Fire Wardens Association of New York recently had its annual meeting and election of officers for the upcoming year.

Police arrested two Warren County men for possession of roughly seven grams of heroin concealed in a vehicle.

Harvey Milk , the first openly gay man to be elected to major public office, often said that he believed the path to acceptance for gay men and lesbians lay in each one coming out of the closet and living ...

Names: Lauren and Mitchell Bloom Ages: Lauren, 27; Mitchell, 30. Hometown: Morris Plains Occupations: Lauren: Registered dietitian at St.

This conversation took place in a New School classroom an hour or so before Jonathan Franzen was scheduled to help act out his own New York-centric State By State essay in an auditorium somewhere downstairs.