This display of workers taking a break from fall chores (above) on the grounds there adorns the flower bed at the Essex County Government Center in Elizabethtown. Bruno Freeman, 10, of Bloomingdale (right), gets a lick of approval from his Shetland sheep dog, who wears an Old West sheriff's outfit. Trick-or-treating in the Village of Saranac Lake on Halloween, Bruno wears a half-century-old Native American costume handmade by his great-great aunt.

(Staff Photo/Alvin Reiner)

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