Anger leads to answers

Hoosick Falls residents rally at the Capitol on Wednesday to call for state hearings on PFOA contamination of their water supplies. Cuomo aide meets Hoosick Falls protesters By Casey Seiler meeting with a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Wednesday ’s hour-long sitdown with state Operations Director Jim Malatras was impromptu, coming just after an emotional news conference that included Bussey ’s read

Ten-year-old Hoosick Falls resident Hailey Bussey wore a mocking jay necklace — a warrior’s symbol from the “Hunger Games” books — into a Capitol ing of her scathing letter to the governor. “If we die of this or if the young ones deal with future disability, you will come down with us with guilt and dishonor,” it read in part.

Bussey and her mother, Maryann Jacobs, joined roughly two dozen residents of the Rensselaer County community to voice their outrage over what they describe as a too-slow response from public officials to the perf luorooctanoic acid or PFOA contamination of the Rensselaer County community ’s water supply, and the state Legislature’s continued unwillingness to hold hearings