Town of Hartford, New York
Washington County Tourism has a new website www.washingtonnycounty.com . This site is still under construction until it is sufficiently populated with events and links to businesses. A link to this site is provided via our Town of Hartford website under “Pages”. If you have a Hartford event or tourism related business please go to this [...]
Governor Paterson recently signed into law a new initiative enabling you to receive alerts when a moderate or high level sex offender moves into an area of interest to you. It is called NY-ALERT. It will also notify you of weather alerts, highway emergencies, Amber alerts, etc. It can be fine tuned to alert you [...]
Normally, during Americade week some bikers just roar through town on their way to somewhere else. Americade is getting so large that the organization needs to offer activities away from Lake George that the bikers can participate in.
So, they are planning a Scavenger Hunt, much like a Poker Run and asked me if Hartford would like [...]
Did you know that there is a local food pantry located in the Baptist Church on Main Street? Local volunteers served over 1600 people in 2009. From 2002 to 2008 the number of families who used the pantry increased by a factor of 10 and the number from 2008 to 2009 increased by 30%.
The Hartford Central [...]
Please click the following link to the Place Sense website. The most up to date Comprehensive Plan can be found there.
Updated Comprehensive Plan
The Hartford Volunteer Fire Co. like most rural Volunteer Fire Companies faces a declining membership, plus the existing members are not getting any younger. However, in the last couple months, Hartford has recruited 4 new members, 3 of which are experienced interior firefighters and 1 of those is even an EMT. HVFC President Kevin McCarthy [...]
On Feb 18th, I sent a letter to Congressional Rep. Scott Murphy requesting aid in the tune of $60,000 for the enlistment center. The masonry foundation under the center is failing and an engineering study estimated that would be what it would take to repair it. If the foundation goes the building itself will soon follow. [...]
The Editor of the Eagle newspaper sent me this reply in my response to my Letter to the Editor. If there is an official Northern Washington County Newspaper and another official Southern Washington County Newspaper as Mr Wilkins suggests, then what are the “central” citizens supposed to read? The Post Star and Chronicle? Dana.
Mr. Haff,
Thank [...]
I sent the below letter to the Editor of the Eagle Newspaper.
Editor,
After I recently became Hartford’s Supervisor, I began getting your newspaper in the mail. I am sorry to say that I had never heard of your paper before then. I was even more surprised to read on the inside cover that your newspaper is [...]