By Andrew Waite The Leader-Herald TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN A building belonging to Colonial Overhead Doors, a garage door supplier on Route 67 in town, is no longer standing after a fire early Sunday morning. The Sammonsville Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched after a passerby reported t
By Andrew Waite/The Leader-Herald A house fire in the village of Broadalbin this week could have been a lot worse if three volunteer fire companies hadn’t been at their stations to perform regular Monday night drills, according to Steven Santa Maria, director of the Fulton County Emergency Manage
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The city Common Council voted 6-0 Tuesday night to authorize the borrowing of up to $2 million for emergency repairs to restore electric power to the Gloversville-Johnstown Joint Wastewater Treatment Facility.
Mayor Vince DeSantis described the accident at the sewer plant as “a disaster” that needs to be addressed “immediately, right now they’re operating much of the facility with generators.”
Sixth Ward Councilman Wrandy Siarkowski, a seven-year veteran member of the joint sewer board in charge of the wastewater facility, Tuesday night said the sewer plant started experiencing “rolling blackouts” sometime on Thursday. He said sewer plant officials brought in a consultant familiar with the plant’s early 1970s vintage power lines, which run through old Orangeburg pipes made from layers of ground wood pulp fibers, a type of piping in use before PVC pipes.