Still hunting for missing councilman

Authorities want people to know that they’re still looking for information on the whereabouts of a Saratoga Town councilman who vanished four years ago on Thanksgiving morning. The Saratoga County sheriff’s office urged people this week to report anything that could be related to Fred Drumm’s disappearance. Drumm, who went by “Fritz,” was last seen on Nov. 24, 2015. His wife came home from a breakfast and realized he was gone.

He was 68 and had been a town board member for 16 years. The Republican’s tenure was ending in 2015 after he declined to seek reelection. Sheriff ’s deputies said his vehicles were all at his Schuylerville they have no indicating he home, and information left the area.

Drumm’s family is offering a $10,000 cash reward for information that leads to finding him.

It’s not known what the 5-foot-5 Drumm was wearing when he disappeared but he was frequently seen in a camouflage cowboy hat and size-10 sneakers.

An avid hunter, Drumm’s property sits on 170 acres of hilly land covered in trees and dense underbrush. The nearby Fish Creek also runs across the property.

Drumm’s disappearance came nine days after another upstate New York man went missing.

Thomas Messick, 82, of Troy, was last seen Nov. 15, 2015, when he went hunting with a group of friends.

Messick and his group entered the woods at 10 a.m. around Horicon in Warren County, and separated there.

The hunters set a time and place to meet up again later that afternoon.

But Messick failed to return and hasn’t been seen since.