H. Rose Schneider reports in the Altamont Enterprise that two of the three fired Knox transfer-station workers have been reinstated after being ousted in strange circumstances earlier this year. Joseph Adriance and Richard Dexter were rehired last week with fewer hours than before after negotiations between the workers’ lawyer and the interim town attorney who is the son-in-law of one of the replacement workers. On Jan. 1, Republicans on the town board voted against Democrats three to two to hire Glenn Walsh, Jeremy Springer, and Lee Harnett, replacing Mark Young, Adriance, and Dexter. The three fired workers said they were given no reason for their forced departures. But New York State law protects laborers employed for five years or more from dismissal or disciplinary action without undergoing the proper procedures, so Adriance and Dexter, were reinstated after the Albany County Department of Civil Service ruled that Adriance and Dexter were wrongfully terminated in violation of the state’s Civil Service Law. Knox Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis said that he does not believe his fellow Republicans did anything illegal, but he said the legal costs would not have been popular with his constituents. Read the full story in the Altamont Enterprise.