TRUCE BRIEF IN TOWER DEBATE.(Capital Region)

Byline: FRED LeBRUN

As a last resort, there's a plan to use cows to save stranded motorists along the bleak upper regions of the Northway this winter.

No, these are not specially trained St. Holsteins with little barrels of 2 percent milk hanging around their necks.

Cows stands for Cells on Wheels, portable cell towers to be placed at three rest areas along parts of the Northway now considered dead or difficult for cell reception.

Since the Northway opened, emergency telephone service along the highway from north of Lake George to south of Plattsburgh - about 100 miles - has been haphazard at best and often non-existent. There are countless …