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Photo Caption: Gravestones at the Gross/Bosshart Cemetery on Route 67 in Johnstown in July. ERICA MILLER/THE LEADER-HERALD JOHNSTOWN -- Town Board member Walt Lane delivered a report to the board Monday that detailed the progress being made in the town's $10,000 program to improve the state of it
TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN -- The Town Board voted unanimously Monday night to set Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. as the time for the public hearing for the town's 2022 budget, which Supervisor Jack Wilson said will include a 5 cents per thousand dollars of assessed value tax rate reduction. Johnstown's Town budget and t
Johnstown Town Board member fights for abandoned cemetery’s restoration | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN – When Town Board member Tim Rizzo walks through the abandoned rural cemetery near the intersection of Route 67 and Route 334 he said he experiences feelings of frustration and confusion. “We have no idea what’s even here,” Rizzo said with the sound of bitterness in his voice. Known as the “Gross Cemetery” or sometimes as the “Boshart Cemetery,” the piece of land was used as a grave yard by a now long gone Lutheran Church in the 18th and 19th cent...
Two speak against ‘unnecessarily punitive’ proposal targeting ATV, dirt bike riders | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SCHENECTADY – Two city residents spoke in opposition of a proposal that would target off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles used on city streets and parks. Monday night’s public hearing by the City Council took up the urban phenomenon of riding unregistered ATVs and dirt bikes in public, a proposal that would mirror a local law recently put in place in Albany. Schenectady’s existing law states that ATVs can’t be driven on any public street, park or land...