Oswego County village may be dissolved

       Despite renewed interest in government consolidation at the state level and elsewhere, Altmar would be only the 38 village to be dissolved in New York since 1920, according to the New York State Conference of Mayors. The last one dissolved in Central New York was in 1979.

       Several residents quoted in the Post Standard complained there were no village services, including water or sewer or street maintenance, in return for the taxes they paid. One said that village residents tried to dissolve it 25 years ago, but the petition was allowed to lapse at the time. Altmar was first incorporated in 1876, and a fire in 1885 destroyed most of the village existing at that time, according to village historian Florence Gardner, who was quoted in the article.