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The AlTAmonT
Enterprise
& Albany County Post
No. 38 Thursday, aPrIL 11, 2013
For 127 years Albany County’s independent newspaper
GCSD joins the pact, calls for end to ‘mis-use of tests’
By Melissa Hale-Spencer
GUILDERLAND — Tuesday
night, the school board here
swiftly and unanimously adopted a resolution to cut back
on testing.
“We need right-sized tests,”
Maceo Dubose, the president of
the Guilderland teachers’ union,
told the board, noting that sixthgraders alone take
upwards of 20 tests
a year.
“We’re calling for
an end to our overreliance and misuse
of tests,” said the
middle-school counselor.
Dubose read a resolution drafted by New York State United
Teachers calling on the education commissioner and Board of
Regents, which governs public
education in New York, to “stop
the over-reliance on standardized tests as a measure of student performance and principal/
teacher effectiveness.”
The unions had agreed to allow
student performance to be part of
with Assemblywoman Patricia
Fahy, airing their concerns with
the state requirement, new this
school year, to evaluate teachers
and principals in part by using
student test scores. They also
said the new testing doesn’t work
well with the recently adopted
Common Core standards.
They stressed, too, that the
new requirements
are not based on
research, and asserted that the
“They realize all the costs and
educ at i on c om how it’s affecting teachers.”
missioner and his
department are
not only out of
touch with what
mously agreed to set aside its is going on in classrooms in New
usual protocol of waiting until its York State but are working in
next meeting to take action on a the opposite direction of world
resolution and eagerly embraced leaders in education.
The State Education Departthis one on Tuesday night.
“I think it’s great they want ment responded to some of those
to support it,” said Dubose after concerns yesterday, by e-mail,
the meeting. “They realize all having been contacted with a
the costs and how it’s affecting long list on April 3; the department’s responses included online
teachers.”
On March 26, the board and links to newsletters and memos
top administrators had met on its EngageNY website as
an evaluation system for teachers and principals in order for the
state to qualify for federal Race
to the Top funds. At the same
time, the state is implementing
tests as part of its adoption of
Common Core —a new set of
standards and curricula meant
to enrich student learning.
The Guilderland board unani-
The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer
“We call upon the United States Congress and the administration to reduce federal testing mandates,” says Maceo Dubose, the
president of the teachers’ union at Guilderland. Tuesday night,
Dubose read a resolution to the school board, which it unanimously
adopted, to also call upon the state’s education commissioner
and Board of Regents “to reduce the use of and over-reliance on
standardized testing.”
“What can I take back? I want to be a voice,” Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, left, asked the Guilderland School Board. She listened to a variety of concerns, many of them centering on new testing
requirements that board members and administrators believe are reducing the quality of education at
Guilderland. Next to Fahy is Guilderland’s assistant superintendent for human resources, Lin Severance, center, and, at right, the school board president, Colleen O’Connell.
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well as statements previously
made by education department
officials.
Carl Korn, spokesman for
NYSUT, told The Enterprise
yesterday that the union drafted
the resolution two weeks ago as
part of a campaign that includes
advertising (a full-page NYSUT
ad ran in The Enterprise two
weeks ago), and an online petition as “an outlet for parents,
teachers, and school boards to
speak out.”
Korn said that NYSUT had
testified in October before the
Governor’s Educational Reform
Commission, stating that a kindergartner, by the time he graduates from high school, will have
spent 4,000 minutes or 74 hours
taking tests. “The pendulum has
swung too far,” said Korn.
Guilderland has already spent
about 10 times as much on meeting Race to the Top testing requirements as it will receive over
four years in federal funds.
Guilderland is getting $30,771
from the $4 billion federal program meant to spur innovation
and reform. Half of the nearly
$700 million New York received
went to the State Education Department and the other half was
distributed to school districts
statewide based on the Title I
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formula, meaning poor districts
received the most money.
New York’s first attempt to
win the federal funds was unsuccessful. After the teachers’
unions agreed to have student
performance figure in teacher
evaluation, the state was successful in securing its Race to
the Top grant.
Asked if NYSUT hadn’t agreed
to the testing it now finds objectionable, Korn said, “We’ve
always supported a comprehensive and fair evaluation system
that measures improvement. The
idea is to help teachers grow as
professionals, and not have a
gotcha system.”
Asked how, besides tests, student performance as it reflects
teachers’ work could best be
evaluated, Korn said, “It’s got
to be multiple measures. No
one measure can give you the
information you need.” Pressed
for specifics, he named portfolios
and “good observations.”
Common Core
The NYSUT resolution focuses
on the common core which, it
says “will ultimately help students, teachers and teaching and
learning” but asserts, “the growing reliance on and misalignment
of standardized testing is erod(Continued on Page 12)
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The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, April 11, 2013
New York Press Association awards
Among independent weeklies, The Altamont Enterprise is fourth in the state
Last Oct. 29, Patricia Adams stood on the front steps
of her Queens home and watched a wave wash down her
street and up her steps. She made it to the office of her
newspaper, The Forum, but couldn’t open the door.
She shoved — hard. The door opened a crack and the
publisher could see it was held back by her desk, which
the night before had been 40 feet away on the other
side of the room.
“It was two days to press day,” she said to the crowd
of over 500 journalists who gathered last weekend in
Saratoga Springs for the annual convention of the New
York Press Association.
Many of them, too, had faced the wrath and seen the
destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy, which killed
at least 285 people and caused damages assessed at
$75 billion. They nodded knowingly.
“In my head, I knew I could not publish. In my
heart, I knew I had to,” said Adams.
She got support and encouragement from her leading competitor and from the press association. When
the director of the association, Michelle Rea, offered
help, Adams responded that she wasn’t a member.
She recalled Rea told her, “It doesn’t really matter
whether or not you’re a member. What matters is
you’re a newspaper.”
Adams reported to warm applause that, on Nov.
2, the paper was brought to every delivery stop
still standing.
Adams read a letter to the editor from Queens
resident Robert Marino Jr., describing how, on
returning home, after having had to evacuate,
he was “filled with emotion to find The Forum on
what’s left of my lawn…giving me the hope things
are and will return to normal soon.”
Most of the top prizes in this year’s awards contest, judged by members of the North Carolina
Press Association, went to papers that heroically
covered the news — from spot to in-depth — of
the hurricane and its aftermath.
And stories abounded throughout the conference of acts of journalism that made a difference, whether they won prizes or not. One
young reporter, for example, told of going street
by street well after midnight to report online
the condition of a neighborhood he covered
so residents forced from their homes could
learn of their fates.
The Enterprise staff was proud to be in such
company and well understood the challenges,
having won the top prize for community leadership last year for our coverage of Tropical
Storm Irene and its aftermath here.
This year, 150 newspapers — weeklies
and small dailies — submitted 2,351 entries
to the annual contest for work done in 2012,
and The Altamont Enterprise & Albany
County Post came in fourth statewide for
single-flag newspapers, that is, papers
that are independently owned and not
part of a chain. The Enterprise is owned
by James E. and Wanda Gardner.
Local government
The Enterprise took first place for
coverage of local government based on
the work in two issues, April 5 and May
31. Those editions were emblematic of
the work the Enterprise staff does week
in and week out, covering local governments in the Hilltowns, Guilderland,
and New Scotland as well as neighboring areas and countywide issues — on
everything from the budgets that drive
public works to zoning and planning issues that shape a community.
“This paper not only covers a lot of meetings, it also digs
into important issues such as the controversy over a trash
incinerator,” the judges wrote. “Thorough coverage that goes
beneath the surface made the entry a winner.”
“Will Albany county travel a rough road to share services?”
asked the banner headline on April 5.
of the University at Albany, with a major in theater and a minor
The page was dominated by a picture taken by staff phoin journalism, covered the Hilltowns from 2008 to 2012. He lives
tographer Michael Koff of roadwork on Irish Hill in Berne.
now in New York City, where he is pursuing a career in acting.
Koff had his lens on level with the rocky road and shot up to
The April 5 front page also featured a story by Hayden on
blue sky through the naked
the county executive launching a
limbs of trees — the scene
listening tour.
punctuated by the bold yellow
Inside, Jo E. Prout, village
of heavy machinery.
reporter, wrote about Altamont
Koff, with degrees from
passing a million-dollar budget.
Siena College in psychology
Prout, who majored in anthroand the University at Albany
pology at Notre Dame, is the
“Thorough coverage that goes beneath
in arts, has worked for The
Enterprise’s most senior reporter,
Enterprise since 2007.
having won many awards in her
the surface made the entry a winner.”
The banner story was writ17-year career at the paper.
ten by Guilderland reporter
The edition also featured two
Anne Hayden and Hilltown
stories by New Scotland reporter
reporter Zach Simeone, exTyler Murphy — one on an adploring a plan for the 19 muvisory committee tasked with
nicipalities in Albany County
finding future zoning regulations
to share highway services.
for the town, and the other on the
The in-depth analysis was illustrated with a chart delineatdismissal of a planning board member for her lack of attendance
ing the roads miles and populations of each municipality in
at meetings.
the county.
Murphy joined the Enterprise staff last year after five years
Hayden, a Siena College English major, has covered Guilof covering the police, court, and emergency beat in Chenango
derland for The Enterprise since 2009. Simeone, a graduate
County for his hometown daily, The Evening Sun.
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The judge said
‘This paper not only goes to a lot of meetings, it digs into important issues’
The AlTA
Ads, of course, support the
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reporters’ work and the April
6 edition featured a centerpiece of summer-camp ads
delightfully designed around
a breezy tree by Christine
Ekstrom. Ekstrom majored in
graphic design at the State
No. 2 Thur
University of New York Colsday, augu
sT 2, 2012
lege at Oswego and began
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Inside, Murphy
covered in depth, illustrated with his
photographs, a public
symposium on the
future of John Boyd
Thacher and Thompson’s Lake parks as
the state set out to
develop the parks’
first master plan.
A d d i t i o n a l l y,
the paper’s longtime editor, Melissa Hale-Spencer,
wrote an edito2
rial about sewage problems that
A proud Ne
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have plagued a
Philby-Zetz
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been writing about sewage problems in a trailer park in
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now called Knoxville, was named Bri-Mar then.
park,
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state’s departge 28 Spor
effluent have persisted.
ts managed
with improperly
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ments for health
Oversight is faulty for the problems to have persisted for so long.
The current worry is that the sewage has seeped out of the park.
“These types of things don’t get better; this has gotten progressively
and environmental conservation, the
worse,” Thomas Brady of the New York State Health Department,
told our Hilltown reporter, Zach Simeone, last week. On April
problems have continued and gotten worse. The edito3, Brady sent a letter to the park’s current owners, Stanley and
Karin Busch, calling the failure of the disposal systems “a major
rial called for the state to use its powers to protect the
health issue.”
The park has two sewage systems — one from the 1980s; the
other from the 1990s — and replacing them could cost between
health of its citizens.
$150,000 and $200,000, Brady said.
Until recently, he said, the septic problems were contained. “It
Editorial cartoon
was horrible, aesthetically,” he said of the effluent, “but it was really no danger to human health, unless a kid went out there and
That editorial — “Raise a stink to fix trailer-park
played in the water.” The wells, Brady said, were far enough from
the sewage that drinking water wouldn’t be affected.
sewage” — was emphatically illustrated with a cartoon
“But, it’s been starting to break out more and more, and it’s
going down the street. So now, it’s impacting the entire neighborhood,” he said.
by Forest Byrd.
The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is concerned because the effluent could reach a nearby body of water.
A tiny, nearly invisible girl, stands with a beach
“The improperly treated waste could cause reduction in the amount
of oxygen available in a water body,” said DEC spokesman Rick
ball near a polluted stream. The picture is dominated
Georgeson, “which, in turn, could negatively impact aquatic organisms, such as insects and fish.”
by a toilet with a trailer resting on its seat. Behind
Certainly, the larger environmental concerns are important, but
what about the people who live in the trailer park?
The residents of the park deserve and are entitled to a healthy
the toilet’s tank sits a man with his finger poised to
place to live. They may have fewer options than others to
find a new place to live, and why should they have to?
flush the toilet.
Since the untreated sewage has now seeped out
of the park boundaries, more attention is being
“Nicely done artwork to accompany the main editopaid to the problem. We hope this will bring
the added pressure needed to see that it is
rial,” wrote the judges who gave the drawing second
fixed.
We wrote two years ago about Rebecca
Michael who was evicted from the trailer
place in the editorial cartoon competition.
park. Her son, Dartanyen, was 8 at the
time. He had a bacterial growth in his
Byrd, who grew up in California, was an art major
abdomen caused by an infection, and
doctors feared he would need to have
at California State University, Long Beach. He now
parts of his intestine and colon removed.
Michael’s family blamed the effluent
on the property for the infection. The
uses his artistic talents in three dimensions, working
Michaels’ trailer was located near a
faulty septic system.
as a carpenter.
No one should have to live with such
fears. The state’s health department set
This is the sixth year in a row Byrd has been recoga deadline of last Friday for the park’s
current owners to submit plans to fix the
nized by the association for his artwork.
problem. That deadline was extended till
this past Tuesday. The Busches did not
meet the deadline.
Carol Coogan has now joined the staff as illustrator
Yesterday, Georgeson told us, “The
matter has been submitted to our leand creates detailed art each week.
gal department for enforcement.” The
penalty, he said, typically consists of
News and spot news
fines and the requirement to submit a
schedule of compliance.
Zach Simeone’s coverage of an August murder in
It is not infrequent for trailer parks to
have septic problems since, Georgeson
said, “A lot of them don’t have adequate
Westerlo, where a mother was accused of killing her
funds.”
All the more reason for the state
disabled 22-year-old son, garnered two prizes.
agencies to be vigilant in their watchdog
roles. “We are trying to keep on top of
“What a sad story,” wrote the judges who awarded
it,” Georgeson told us yesterday. “We’ll
stay with it to see if it’s fixed.”
We at The Enterprise will stay with
Simone third place for spot news, “and what a thorit, too.
This problem can no longer be aloughly reported story. Kudos to the writer for managing
lowed to languish. The state must use
the powers it has to protect the health
to report such a gruesome crime without leanings.
of its citizens — all of them. The time
to act is long past due.
“Because of the thoroughness — talking to people
who knew them and talking to experts about this type
of crime — you leave the reader with the complete
story — sad as it is, that’s what objective reporting
can do.”
In addition to relating the facts of the crime and the
charge against the mother, Tracey Zetzsche, Simeone’s
story accomplished two other things very well.
First, the story shone a light on a little-focusedon underbelly to American life: the struggling poor.
Through interviews with Zetzsche’s employers — she
worked at local motels as a chambermaid — and with
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be to evaluat
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important. of us kids; we all ha
in 2004.
e the potentia ld
ing out for
nu
accident
l enpublic
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meetings.
tor at the
down to all marriages.”
impacts.
scene of an
d
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called to the le of the night, “ha
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he said. Crum
about death stayed at her ho y
in ration
g is to make
believes, as peo t,
raising the eptionally
sur
you have eno
learned more
Dr. Smith
ple
e until Ma
came to
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about what the
m in Bern
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make sure you
cility actually
to
faon the far she moved to At
he said, “Th ting us fail witho
mak
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s they became
decision.”
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of Environmen e’s Department
process taking operate and the
her sister
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wasn’t any nois place and there
n
to a nursi
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y lead such a
to
the
stud
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s central
Garry.
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tak e mor e tha y,
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seem
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to me,” he said
g any current
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her
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Harry
law wou
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m
, we
and Dr. Sm
require a boa
Crum could not .
said Judg
ng home
rd vote and pub ld
to school home. “It was a tea
recall hearing
the nursi call her ‘Doc
hearing.
m
any recent com
lic
days in
bring the
plaints from
staff to
s
said.
zens about the
citi“Th e ide a is
advised theat is who she was.”
effort,” he said, “My mom wa
plan
som
t
eth
but
ing at
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added,
its initial stag
“Until its full
all times,
Marge.’ Th e has a worthwh t
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will
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don’t know
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pub
wha
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lic
t
som
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,”
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tim
thro ugh out
d;
will be.”
be
life, it’s a
celebration .
the
mostly on ply we were secon .
time for
ek
Lynch, “The proj pro cess,” said
Mr
Laws must
it’s also a rry said last we
want to im ual thing,” said
be cha
a thorough env ect will under go
Ga
eq
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to permit RST nged
ght me, you
Charles
iron
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plant
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and dad tau sad or you
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contacted tow
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children. ays knew what to e
apbook she pellate Division.
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officials prior
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n
operational, we
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her
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l be.”
and her wi o survived by
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Garry. “Sh iable.” And, althoug
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r
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er children and Johanna, a ma
daughter,
entirely rel ciplined, Dr. Sm
businesses wou
form atio n mee informal inl
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dis
rry
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children,
ld build, run,
ting to sta rt
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a
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people,” said responses from
ent. sou
strial develop
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,
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on the far
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the arrangemen
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ments.
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her landlord — she lived over a small-town deli with her
son — Simeone painted the portrait of a single mother
struggling alone to get by financially. She was new in
town and one motel owner, when she didn’t show up for
work, surmised she had moved on — “the people we get
up here are transient,” he said.
The deli owner who rented Zetzsche her apartment
noted the checks he gave her “didn’t go through.”
Those who knew her even tangentially, though, said
she appeared to be devoted to her son, who suffered
from cerebral palsy.
Simeone tackled the “why” of the murder by talking
to the nation’s primary expert on filicide — the murder
of a child by a parent — about the five categories, based
on perceived motives, he had established, which have
shaped studies in the field for decades.
Simeone further looked at recent research on filicide
of children with disabilities and used a report from the
FBI, with nationwide figures on the crime, to set it in
a larger context.
The judges who awarded Simeone second place in
the category for news stories wrote, “It was extremely
nuanced, and thoughtfully considered the relationship
that the murder victim shared with the suspect, his
mother. It has a thoughtful tone often absent from
stories of this kind, especially ones written in such a
short time frame.
“The pacing was nice and the reporter obviously
reached out to numerous individuals familiar with the
victim and his mother. The inclusion of extensive information about filicide from a psychiatry professor was
an unusual decision but ultimately provided fascinating
reading.”
Obituaries
Following a longstanding tradition, The Enterprise
was again recognized for its obituaries, winning second
place this year in a competition that included papers
of all sizes.
“Great stories told about people,” wrote the judges.
“Good work.”
All writers at The Enterprise take turns creating
portraits of those who have died. Even our sportswriter,
Jordan J. Michael, a New England College graduate
who has been with the paper for five years, pitches in.
And Marcello Iaia, a music major from Florida State
University who has recently joined our staff to cover
the Hilltowns, has crafted thoughtful and insightful
obituaries.
We at The Enterprise consider it essential, for the
mourners now and for recording the first take of history richly and accurately for the future, to write real
stories for obituaries, not the paid advertising that so
many papers have adopted.
Our obituaries like other news stories are meticulously
copy read by Barbara Degaetano, who has long assisted
office manager Wanda Gardner.
This year’s award was based on the obituaries in two
editions, Feb. 2 and Aug. 16.
The Feb. 2 front-page obituary on Rudy Stempel of
Berne, written by Zach Simeone, began, “Rudolph ‘Rudy’
Valentino Stempel was an honest man, a straight talker,
and a loyal friend. A former town supervisor, he was
known for his ‘salt of the earth’ personality, and for his
family sawmill.”
Inside were four more obituaries. “Spunky and resilient, Gloria Rosenblum always managed to maintain a
positive attitude despite numerous health problems and
personal losses,” wrote Melissa Hale-Spencer.
“Elizabeth Stevens, an active member of her community, died on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. She was 97,” wrote
Anne Hayden. “Her friends were like family to her.”
“Kennard Frierson Stephenson Jr. was a scientific
man, who married into a family with deep roots in the
Hilltowns, and developed a great interest in genealogy,”
wrote Simeone.
“James E. Craft, a hard-working man devoted to his
family…worked at the county’s department of public
works, a job he liked largely because of the camaraderie,” wrote Saranac Hale-Spencer, a philosophy major
from Cornell, who worked at The Enterprise for five
years before leaving early last year for a job covering
the federal district court at The Legal Intelligencer in
Philadelphia.
The Aug. 31 edition had a front-page obituary, “Country
doctor answers her last call,” by Melissa Hale-Spencer,
which began, “Margery W. Smith was the quintessential country doctor. ‘She was all about family…’ said
Charles Garry, her eldest child, at her memorial service
on Sunday. “She considered everyone in this community
her family.”
The Enterprise obituary pages are most often designed
r
by George Plante who joined the staff last year in the
midst of a long and varied newspaper career; he takes
great care to see that the pages have balance, the pictures are cropped and displayed to look their best, and
the highlighted quotations are appropriate.
The newspapers are distributed with the guidance of
the circulation manager, Ellen Schreibstein, through the
efforts of a hard-working Thursday-morning crew that
includes James Gardner Jr., who works in the Enterprise
print shop and runs a photography business as well.
“Make a point”
“It’s OK to brag about your success,” Ken Paulson told
the crowd at the Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Springs
last weekend. Paulson, the former editor of USA Today
and now the president of the First Amendment Center
at Vanderbilt University, was referring to a story in 2006
where USA Today was gaining circulation, when other
papers had taken a hit.
So we took him at his word, and did some bragging
here. It’s fun to get applause but we, in turn, applaud
our community for seeing the value in local news.
Paulsen told the journalists in a speech that was part
pep talk, part exhortation, “You have cared more about
your community than anyone else…politicians come and
go, residents move in and out…Newspapers do the right
thing regardless of profit….America needs newspapers
to do well.”
Noting that George Washington cancelled his newspaper subscriptions before he took office, Paulsen said,
“Since the founding of the nation, a free press has been
there to make people in power uncomfortable.”
He also said, “In 1791, you started a newspaper not
to make a buck…but to make a point.”
The point of newspapers was, he said, “to raise hell
not revenue.”
Our own newspaper was founded in that tradition as,
in 1884, our first editor, D.H. Crowe, asked in the paper’s
inaugural edition if readers would “support and sustain
a journal which is ready for a square knockdown with
wrong each week.”
We believe they have and will continue to. For that,
we are grateful.
— Melissa Hale-Spencer, editor
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To the editor
“We all got along”
Preserve the history and heritage
of Rapp Road neighborhood for the future
To the Editor:
When I received the Thursday, March 14, edition of The
Enterprise and saw the front
page, it was like opening a history book that I was a part of
in my boyhood. I can’t thank
Ms. Beverly Bardequez and her
helpers enough for all they are
doing to save some of Guilderland’s fast disappearing history
due to progress, also known as
development.
Now, let me introduce myself a
little. About 1943 or ’44 my dad,
mom, sister, and myself moved
into 7 Oxford Place in Westmere.
My dad, Bill Heffner, worked for
General Electric in Schenectady.
Our mom, Marie, was a homemaker and took care of my sister
and occasionally some of the
neighbor kids when their moms
went shopping.
My sister, Eleanor, lived all her
life in the homestead and passed
away last Oct. 10, 2012. She was
a school nurse teacher.
And I myself lived there into
my mid-20s when I got married.
After working 37 years for the
state of New York, I retired in
April 1995 and moved to Arizona
55 miles northwest of Phoenix.
After moving here, I found my
wife, Karen, who is ailing and I
do the best I can to take care of
her and myself.
Now, when I was 5 years old
or older, a number of us kids in
the neighborhood got acquainted
with some of the black kids on
Rapp Road and became friends.
We would regularly go to each
other’s houses to play.
We all got along and there was
no animosity that there is in
today’s world. Oh, to go back to
those days. Whenever my folks
took a ride to Colonie, we would
go through the little town and we
all waved to each other.
Coming through there last
October after leaving the funeral
home, I couldn’t help but wonder
about what all the kids are doing
with their lives now. The only
name I could remember was
Johnny Johnson. I could still pick
his house out and a few others,
even a preacher’s house. Everybody was always so friendly and
nice. I say, Ms. Bardequez and
your crew, I am all for what you
are doing and I wish Godspeed
to you on your success doing it.
It is not easy working with Big
Brother.
I also commend report Ms.
Anne Hayden and The Enterprise staff for printing this as
front-page news. Indeed, it is.
Once history is gone, it is gone
forever!
Dan Heffner
Wickenburg, Ariz.
Angry, unfounded accusations won’t lead to
positive outcomes, we need tempered dialogues
To the Editor:
I’m a retired university professor. Over the years, I have read
hundreds — perhaps thousands
— of student papers, a score of
master’s theses, and directed
over 50 Ph.D. dissertations. Mr.
[Jack] Milner’s letter is among
the worst writing I have ever
encountered.
Probably most of us have
heard that statistics never lie
but statisticians and users of
statistics may be prone to lying,
that is, in a false way to make
a particular point. Mr. Milner’s
letter is a classical example of
this use of data.
His major thesis rests upon
the square-mile difference of Red
States (conservative) and Blue
States (liberal). I didn’t check
his numbers (that conservatives
inhabit states that represent 90
percent of land acreages) but
these large states also tend to
be sparsely populated — e. g.,
Alaska (with its polar bears),
Wyoming and Montana (where
it’s often noted they have more
cattle and horses than people),
and Texas is a mixed bag.
Mr. Milner also mistakenly
states that “. . . 90 percent of
landowners . . . are our nation’s
backbone.” In this statement,
he has confounded the number
or percent of landowners (i.e.,
individuals or companies) with
acreage!
He also accuses the Blue States
of high crime rates, murders
(has he ever heard of Texas?),
dirty cities, fatherless families,
and violent videos. He says “. . .
liberal city areas, I feel, are
responsible for over 90 percent
of all murders.” But to “feel” is
in no way evidence that would
be permissible under any set of
circumstances.
What he failed to mention was
that in 2012 Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes to Mitt
Romney’s 202 and won an overwhelming majority of the popular
vote. He also could have noted
that, with respect to divorce
rates, seven of the top nine states
in this category are Red States
(Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas,
Idaho, Wyoming, Kentucky, and
West Virginia). This is about as
salient as land acreage.
In closing: Making angry, unfounded accusations about people because they hold contrasting
positions on various social and
political issues is not likely to
lead to positive outcomes. What
is needed are well reasoned and
tempered dialogues.
John Rosenbach
Professor Emeritus
Department of
Educational Psychology
State University of
New York at Albany
Guilderland
NYS says: “Expect less of poorer children”
Editor’s note: This is the sixth
in a series of six commentaries
written by Dr. Alan Fiero, a science teacher at Guilderland’s
Farnsworth Middle School, on
the new state requirements for
evaluating teachers and principals, known as the Annual Professional Performance Review.
By Alan Fiero
Once the bubble on the child’s
answer sheet marked “Economic
Disadvantage” is filled in, New
York State segregates that child’s
growth scores from those of other
students, seemingly expecting
less of that child.
Let me explain how this works.
For all children in the general
population, students with a similar pretest score are grouped together and their growth on a post
test is compared. The students
who are labeled as economically
disadvantaged are separated
out. Their post-test scores are
compared only to other students
with the same label who had
similar pretest scores.
The absurdity is that the
state places students in any of
the following situations in this
group: receiving free or reducedpriced lunches, Social Security
insurance, food stamps, foster
care, refugee assistance, earned
income tax credit, Home Energy
Assistance Program, safety-net
assistance, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and temporary assistance
for needy families.
Does the state seriously believe that these varied classifications all represent the same
educational challenges for the
children?
The bad news is that this
means New York State is saying,
expect less or at minimum different growth for these children.
A complicated formula is used
so that a teacher’s effectiveness
rating is not supposed to be affected by having children labeled
as economically disadvantaged.
However, looking at the scores
being received by inner-city
teachers, it is obvious that the
problem is more complex than
blaming teachers.
As a child, I was labeled economically disadvantaged. I am
glad that my teachers were not
informed by the state that they
should have different or lower expectations of me because of how
much money my parents earned.
If they had, I might have lived
up to the state’s expectations,
and not have gone on to earn my
doctorate.
Separating out these students
only highlights the fact that
there are a myriad of factors that
affect a child’s growth. The new
teacher rating system pays no
attention to educational research
and the many other factors that
influence a child’s learning. They
have tried for the quick fit, the
political blame game, instead
of looking for ways to address
the specific issues related to
poverty.
The new APPR teacher evaluation system is deeply flawed. It
is also costly. It is harming all
of the children, teachers, and
taxpayers in New York State. It
attempts to reduce all a teacher
does to one number, a task too
complicated even for the states
“big computer.”
Teacher evaluation may need
reform, but, just as a teacher
should not punish an entire class
for the misdeeds of a few, so New
York State should not punish all
of its students and teachers.
Please, please help. Contact:
— Education Commissioner
John King at NYS Education
Dept., 89 Washington Ave.,
Albany, NY 12234; phone: 4745844;
— Board of Regents Chancellor
Merryl Tisch at RegentTisch@
mail.nysed.gov; and
— Governor Andrew Cuomo at
[email protected]/
phone: 474-8390.
And tell them that we must put
aside political agendas and do
what is best for our children.
Back In Time. . .
1913
100 Years Ago
2013
Altamont Enterprise April 11, 1913
Two Narrow Escapes: Not since a baby fell out of a New
York city elevated car window and landed in an astonished
citizen’s arms has a more curious accident happened than
one that occurred recently on a Ninth avenue elevated train.
A violent lurch at a curve pitched a trainman from the car
to the street below, but he alighted on an upholstered couch
that happen to be on the sidewalk. The man’s life was saved
by remarkable coincidence.
****
Put Petitions in Golf Holes: The amir of Afghanistan has
taken up golf keenly and has had good links laid out in the
neighborhood of Kabul. The natives were much puzzled by
the well-kept greens; but, recognized the game as a royal
one, they put the holes to a practical purpose. They got into
the habit of placing petitions in the holes at night in the
hope that they would reach the amir when he was putting
the next day. But his majesty’s temper apparently was not
improved by the royal game. He resented this attempt to
take advantage of his recreations and ordered that all such
petitions be burned unread. — London Mail
****
Paris Pawnshop For Autos: The Mont de Piete, the great
pawnshop of Paris, is taking thought for those of its patrons,
who may be automobilists or aviators. Its authorities are
now negotiating for the acquisition of an immense garage,
capable of holding 2,000 cars, so that people who pawn
automobiles may be able to leave them there and thus
avoid the present expense of at least 6 francs a day, which
pawning an automobile has hitherto meant. Space will also
be provided for aeroplanes. — New York Sun.
****
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Mrs. B. was talking to her husband.
“I notice in the Daily Hoodoo that Mr. Biffkins died on
Sunday.”
“It’s a mistake, my dear,” replied the husband. “He died
on Monday.”
“But the paper said Sunday.”
“I know it, but it was an error in the print.”
“I thought so, too, at first, but I got a half dozen copies of
the paper, and it was the same in all of them. They certainly
couldn’t have made the mistake over and over again.”
The husband tried to convince her, but it was no use,
and he gave it up.
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The Old Men of the Mountain
Technology is shrinking the world
politan Museum of Art but not
By John R. Williams
Tuesday, April 2, the Old Men required; an 1893 law mandates
of the Mountain met at the that the public be admitted free
Country Café in Schoharie. When of charge at least five days and
sitting in the café, one is able to two evenings per week.]
Another OF said that to go
look out the café windows and
see across the street. It is still through the tunnels in the city
sad to see the county buildings, it will cost you $12.50, except if
and the old courthouse, and now you have an EZ-Pass. Then it is
the centerpiece of the village, the only $9.75 to go through.
“Only $9.75 — give me a
Parrott House, boarded up on the
lower floors. This is quite a bit of break,” the OF said.
The OFs
real estate
remembered
still showing
how they used
the ravages
to take the
of Tropical
Florida is loaded
family to New
Storm Irene
with OFs and OFesses.
York City to go
from 2011.
to the museThe villagums, and then
es that share
they were free,
the experibut did accept
ence of this
event are not bouncing back like donations. They also went to the
a well-inflated basketball, but Bronx Zoo and Radio City Music
rather like a basketball that has Hall, and now they wouldn’t even
been deflated to about half. It consider it.
“Who can afford it?” an OF
will bounce back but not as fast
mused.
as one would hope.
All for one
Travel in a high-tech world
The “well duh” applies once
The OFs who travel (and there
are many OFs who do) were talk- more. The OMOTM had another
ing about how the technology of milestone birthday again on the
today has caught up with even second of April. Another cake
this experience. One bit of tech- was shared by all the OFs who
nology is the interstate EZ-Pass. came.
Boy! We really are getting to
One OF said that he can use this
pass all over the country, except be Old-OFs.
The cool part of this group is
in Florida.
This OF said that he was in that it is not noticeable. It’s like
Florida and went to get on the when we were young, the OFs
interstate and saw a lane for E- were all poor, but no one noticed
Pass, so he got in line and zoomed because we were all poor.
“Now,” one OF said, “we are in
right on through. The next thing
that happened were flashing a group of OFs and no one notices
lights behind him and the OF because we are all old.”
Same difference.
was pulled over. The trooper told
Eager for real spring
him he ran the tollbooth he just
Then the gossip started — who
passed through. The OF said he
had EZ-Pass and went through was married to who back when,
who had two wives, with two
using the EZ-Pass lane.
The trooper told the OF that families, who had arguments
Florida does not have EZ-Pass; that could be heard roaring
it has E-Pass and they are not across the hilltops. Just gossip
the same. The trooper also told and of no real interest except to
him to stop at the next tollbooth those who knew of the people.
Oh, and the OFs want spring.
and pay his toll. The OF did not
understand this, because, of all On April 2, the roads on the hill
the states, Florida is loaded with were a tad slippery with blowing
OFs and OFesses. You would snow. The plows and sanders
think they would get with the were out and about when most
of the OFs were on their way to
rest of the country.
“What, and lose all that mon- the Country Café.
By the time the OFs left the
ey?” one OF said.
The OFs mentioned how it is Country Café, (thank goodness)
the same with credit cards, debit the roads were basically fine.
cards, cell phones, and the whole As this scribe sits at the white
ball of wax. One mentioned that, screen, there is now quite a little
if his wife purchases something snow shower, with the snow comin Wal-Mart here, and it is not ing down almost horizontally
right when they get to where they because of the high winds.
This is not how April third
are going, they can take it to a
Wal-Mart there and exchange it, should be, i.e., having to wear the
or get their money back or what- mad bomber hat from LL Bean
ever, and it doesn’t even have to this time of year is ridiculous.
Those attending the breakfast
be in this country.
Technology is not just shrink- at the Country Café in Schohaing our country but the whole rie (and getting their cake and
eating it too) were: Frank Pauli,
world as well.
John Rossmann, Roger ChapPricey Big Apple
The travel experience expand- man, (last week it was supposed
ed to what it costs now to visit to be Roger Chapman also, and
some places and how expensive not Roger Shafer ─ Roger Shafer
they are. One OF mentioned wasn’t there) Miner Stevens,
that, in New York City, the Met- Jim Heiser, Glenn Patterson,
ropolitan Museum of Art now Mark Traver, Harold Guest,
charges $25 for adults, and $17 Otis Lawyer, Steve Kelly, Robie
for seniors, and kids are $12 a Osterman, George Washburn,
person. A family of four would Lou Schenck, Jack Norray, Mace
have to shell out around $75 Porter, Gary Porter, Don Woods,
bucks, if the kids were young Mike Willsey, Ted Willsey, Gerry
enough just to go to this museum. Chartier, Jim Rissacher, Harold
[Editor’s note: The entrance fees Grippen, guests Dick Brumley,
are recommended by the Metro- and Bob Griffith, then me.
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Opinion
Learn about the local soldiers who died in the Civil War
To the Editor:
“The Civil War Dead of Schoharie County” will be the topic
at the next meeting of the Gilboa
Historical Society. I will discuss
my upcoming book, A Crooked
Gun, which details the men of
Schoharie County who died in the
Civil War. The presentation will
take place on Wednesday, April
17, at 7 p.m. at the Gilboa Historical Society, Gilboa Town Hall,
373 State Route 990V, Gilboa.
Each of the 395 men in my
book has a story. Most are bare
bones, but a few are fleshed out,
with news clippings, letters, and
even photographs. Lt. Charles
T. Hunter has all of these. His
is a story of a handsome fastrising officer, a capsized boat, a
tragic drowning, allegations of
intoxication, and a young widowed bride.
Hunter was born in Conesville,
Schoharie County in August
of 1841, the son of Mary and
Thomas, an Irishman. Charles
and his older brother, Alexander,
worked on the family farm and
later as schoolteachers. Alexander would go on to become a doctor. Charles joined the service,
mustering-in as a private in the
134th New York Volunteer Infantry on Sept. 12, 1862. He was 21
years old; 5 feet, 11 inches tall;
with blue eyes, brown hair, and
dark complexion.
Hunter was promoted to sergeant on Sept. 23, 1862 and
by July 1, 1863, he was a first
lieutenant. Furloughed home,
he married 21-year-old Zilpha
A. Couchman of Livingstonville
on Nov. 4, 1863 in Broome. Returning to duty, he was chosen
as one of the officers of the general Court Martial of New York
and was chief commander of
the steamer United States used
in the transfer of volunteers
south.
On March 11, 1864, while in a
rowboat crossing the East River
from Morris Island to Riker’s
Island with several women and
children, the boat capsized and
Hunter and six other passengers
drowned. The next day, the New
York Herald Tribune blamed the
lieutenant for the accident, reporting that he “was intoxicated,
and that his conduct while in the
boat tended greatly to produce
the catastrophe.”
On March 13, the New York
Herald countered that the “statement in regard to the condition
of the Lieutenant is entirely
unfounded, and seems to have
emanated from the boatmen in
order to screen themselves from
censure. He was an esteemed officer, and one of the jurors of the
general court martial of the city. He is a brother of the well known
Dr. A. S. Hunter, of this city.”
The Herald further explained,
“The boat, being heavily laden
and encountering strong gales,
lurched when near the Island of
North Brothers, was at once filled
with water. Lieutenant Hunter
commenced to bail it out, when it
encountered another gale, which
so startled the already terrified
women that they sprang to the
opposite side, and immediately
all were precipitated into the
water.” The March 24 Schoharie
Republican added the heroic
postscript that Hunter “swam
nearly to the shore, as if to try
his strength, then returned to
the assistance of the others,
where he twice appeared on the
surface, and then sank to rise
no more.”
Lt. Charles T. Hunter, shown in a photograph by A. Harco,
Photographer, 120 Bowery, N.Y., now in possession of the New
York State Military Museum, will be one of the local Civil War
soldiers discussed by Peter Lindemann in his April 17 talk at 7
p.m. at the Gilboa Town Hall.
On March 26 The New York he took the small boat which
Times — “the newspaper of was the only one crossing at
record” — finally quashed the the time.
“My knowledge of the above
allegation of Hunter’s intoxication, stating that Hunter “was facts is obtained from the folnot only not intoxicated then, but lowing source: I being at Rikers
at no time had those on Riker’s Island N.Y. at the time know that
Island known him to be. His he was sent to Washington and
friends naturally feel grieved had not returned, therefore know
at the unwarranted imputation, that he was returning. And that
and in justice to the unfortunate only row boats crossed the river
officer and to them, the correction at time of day.”
McMaster’s second deposition
should be made.”
Two-and-a-half months after concerned the cause of the accihis drowning, Hunter’s body was dent, stating, “that at the time of
crossing the river
recovered. “On the
by Lieut. Hunter
31 inst.,” reported
“His conduct while as stated in said
the Schoharie Rereport, that the
publican on June
in the boat tended
wind was blowing
23, “the body of
greatly to produce a gale, the river in
the late Lieutenant
consequence was
Charles T. Hunter,
the catastrophe.”
very rough and
drowned in the
a squall capsized
East river March
11th 1864, was found six miles the boat & Lieut . Hunter and
from the place of the accident, others were drowned, which
in the middle of the river, by a said capsizing and drowning as
fisherman. As the body had been I verily believe was unavoidable
so long immersed in salt water, it on the part of Lieut . Hunter and
was but slightly discolored. An occurred without any fault on
inquest was held, after which the his part.”
Zilpha Hunter’s application
deceased was taken in charge by
his brother, Dr. A. S. Hunter, of was approved, providing her a
New York city, and interred in pension of $17 per month, continuing until her re-marriage to
Greenwood Cemetery.”
Hunter’s widow Zilpha applied Madison Richtmyer on Nov. 18,
for a pension on April 28, 1864. 1867. Richtmyer died in 1901,
In support of the application, and the widow resumed her $17
Captain Perry E. McMaster, pension. On Oct. 6, 1917, her
Hunter’s commanding officer, pension increased to $25. Zilpha
provided two depositions. The Hunter died Dec. 7, 1917, and
first affirmed that Hunter was is buried in the Gilboa Rural
indeed in the line of duty when Cemetery.
The 1891 Schoharie County
he drowned: “I, Perry E. McMaster Capt. 134th Regt. N.Y.V.I, Veterans of Four Wars by Corpoon honor, certify that Chas. T. ral George Warner is considered
Hunter 1st Lieut., 134th N.Y.V.I, the standard reference on county
was in the line of his duty at veterans. Looking no further
the time of his death (March 11, than that book, one would get
1864). For after he had left the only a murky glimpse of the
volunteers at Washington and above story. The author, himAlexandria he returned to New self in the 134th, states that Lt.
York on the cars, and was on his Charles T. Hunter “drowned in
way to Rikers Island, N.Y. St. to New York Harbor, by overturning
report when he met his death by of skiff while taking a pleasure
drowning. It was also necessary sail, March 11, 1864.”
that he should cross in a small
boat, his orders being to ‘report Peter Lindemann
without delay’ to the rendezvous Cobleskill
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Voting down budgets would send a message
To the Editor:
Only Andrew Cuomo and his
public relations team believe
that the highly touted 2-percent
tax cap is effective. The rest of
us know that it has not limited
tax increases to 2 percent.
And the special budget areas
exempt from the cap ensure that
overall budget increases are over
2 percent.
Perhaps the only way to
convince the governor and the
legislature to fully fund the
schools and to radically reduce
the reliance on property tax is to
vote down any municipal, school,
or library budget that increases
more than 2 percent.
On April 23, residents of the
Middleburgh School District can
take a stand by voting down an
approximately 6-percent increase
for the Middleburgh Library. On
top of the fact that the town of
Rensselaerville funds its own
library, the equalization rate
could even make that 6 percent
a double-digit tax increase for us
in Albany County.
Additionally, by not holding this vote on the uniform
statewide school referendum
day in May, it mocks any effort
to make the administration of
the Middleburgh Library more
transparent.
Ernest W. Kuehl Jr.
Rensselaerville
GOP committed to open nominating process,
members of any party will be considered
To the Editor:
We are coming up on another
local election cycle, and I write
today to let residents know that
the Guilderland Republican
Committee is committed to an
open nominating process, and
will consider all potential candidates for office who share our
view that lower taxes, reducing
needless red tape, and improving
transparency at Town Hall are
the keys to our success.
The offices of town supervisor,
town clerk, and receiver of taxes,
along with two seats on the town
board and two town justices all
will be decided in this cycle. We
are committed to running the
strongest candidates that the
town has to offer, and we invite
any interested party to contact
us in order to participate in our
candidate selection process.
Every candidate will be given
full consideration, and members
of any party will be considered
provided that they share our
values and commitment to improving town government.
Remember, town government
is the closest to all of us, and, al-
though it may get less attention
than national or state politics,
electing the right candidates
is even more important since
it has the most direct impact
on our everyday lives including
our property taxes and town
services.
If you are interested in being
considered, please call me at
522-9060 or e-mail me at [email protected].
Matt Nelligan
Chairman
Guilderland
Republican Committee
Phone: 518-528-3811
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To the Editor:
The Habitat for Humanity
Five local entities have been dollar. Cornell Cooperative Exworking to bring to the commu- tension will host activities for the ReStore will be accepting worknity one terrific event. Go Green kids, while some 4-H enthusiasts ing household appliances and
Day 2013 will be held on Satur- will be exhibiting their goats, kitchen cabinetry for resale at
day, April 27, from 8 a.m. until chickens, and cows. The Bottle its warehouse, and the Albany
2 p.m. at Farnsworth Middle Cap Guess will give students a County Soil and Water ConserSchool on State Farm Road in chance to win an iPod, and radio vation District will collect empty
station B95.5, media sponsor for beauty-product containers, tubes,
Guilderland.
The event is a collaborative the event, will provide music and bottles.
The middle-school students
effort between The Capital Re- throughout the day.
T h e G u i l d e r l a n d C e n t r a l will also be holding a huge gagional Recycling Partnership and
the Guilderland Central School School District Green Task rage sale to benefit the Butterfly
District’s Green Task Force Force is a grassroots initiative House and Organic Garden.
To keep everyone from getting
with participation by Cornell promoting environmental stewCooperative Extension of Albany ardship, re-use, and conserva- too hungry from all the activities,
County, Albany County Soil and tion. In every way possible, the the Chefs Consortium will be on
Water Conservation District and Green Task Force is committed hand preparing delicious food
Chefs Consortium. It will be an to assisting in facilitation and for attendees. Chefs Consortium
is a group of New Yorkeducational, informational
based chefs committed to
and drop-off recycling oppromoting locally grown
portunity.
The
event
will
host
approximately
farm-fresh food. With
The Capital Region Re40 exhibitors and vendors involved
hot plates in hand and
cycling Partnership is a
committee of The Capiwith going green in a variety of ways. smiles of determination,
they bring farm products
tal Region Solid Waste
to audiences throughout
Management Partnerthe Hudson
ship, formerly known as
River Valley and Capital DisANSWERS. The partnership is planning of recycling initiatives
comprised of 13 municipalities and programs throughout all trict area of Albany. A $7 bracelet
that work together to foster bet- segments of the Guilderland will get you entrance into the
ter recycling practices in their Central School District that Food Tent and will be valid for
communities through knowledge help protect our environment. the entire event, with a differsharing, education, and enforce- A Recycling Extravaganza is a ent menu being offered for the
ment. Go Green Day 2013 is an semi-annual event that provides breakfast and afternoon hours.
outreach effort to engage the the opportunity for the drop-off Families of four or more will be
offered a discount.
community to join with us in of recyclable goods.
Go Green Day is being sponOn April 27, the collection
these efforts.
The event will host approxi- site will be located in the rear sored by radio station B95.5,
mately 40 exhibitors and vendors parking lot of the school; met- County Waste and Recycling,
involved with going green in a als, plastics, paper, electron- Hannaford, TA Predel Company,
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local foods, home care services, cartridges, and bicycles will be and Recovery, Price Chopper,
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local farms, and gardening. Pre- will be accepting usable clothing, Top Tent Rental, US GreenFisentations and demonstrations, toiletry items, and usable linens ber LLC, Honest Weight Food
scheduled throughout the day, and kitchenware. These items Cooperative, Capital District
will include Backyard Compost- help stock the Community Store, Junk King, Coeymans Recycling,
ing Basic, Building a Bucket which provides individuals and the New York State Energy and
Planter, Plastic Bag Recycling families living in poverty or in a Research Development Authorand Alternate Uses, Native shelter the opportunity to shop ity, Organica: Garden Supply
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The Albany Book Project will Sawmill, Capital Scrap, and
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Let town boards do town business
To the Editor:
The townspeople of Knox pay
the Knox Town Board to make,
modify, and enforce local rules
and regulations that benefit
Knox residents. I expect town
board meetings to be open forums
where residents can present their
opinions to the board concerning
problems that the board has the
power and authority to fix.
A recent board meeting was
devoted almost entirely to discussing an issue the board has
no control over — the New York
Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act
of 2013.
Issues like gay marriage,
immigration, and gun control
are emotionally charged topics
where all sides deserve to be
heard, but at appropriate places.
Frustrations and suggested fixes
for state and federal laws should
be aimed at those who have the
power to change the laws, not
local town board members.
The Knox Town Board supported the group that attended
its board meeting by passing a
resolution asking the governor
to open up more discussions
about the SAFE Act so the attendees might have a more effective venue for expressing their
concerns.
Any more time spent discussing the SAFE Act at town board
meetings would be a waste of
the board’s time, energy, and
taxpayer money. Let the board
spend its time solving the local
problems it has the authority to
handle. This is what we elected
the board members to do, and
what my taxes are paying them
to do.
John Elberfeld
Knox
Editor’s note: See related story
on page 16.
Cemetery seeks donations
To the Editor:
The Hannacroix Rural Cemetery, which is located on Route
411 in the hamlet of Dormansville in the town of Westerlo,
is seeking donations for the
2013 mowing expense for the
cemetery. Whether you have a loved one
buried there or would just like
to give a donation, it would be
greatly appreciated. Contributions may be sent to: Hannacroix
Rural Cemetery, care of Linda
Smith, 115 State Route 143,
Westerlo, NY 12193.
Linda Smith
Westerlo
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To the editor
From the historian’s desk
Guilderland garage gives a glimpse of bygone days
By Alice Begley
Most people (women usually)
dislike it when they have to
take their car to the garage for
an oil change, new tires, or to
fix “something.” This historian
actually enjoys that task.
At Bruce Mance’s station on
the corner of Route 20 and Route
146 (Carman Road) in Guilderland, the waiting room there
is a short retreat from today’s
frenzy.
There are two tall, slim ancient
gas pumps, astutely refinished to
their original splendid red color,
holding fort in the waiting room.
“Mobil” shouts the name though
today it is a Sunoco station.
Pictures of many years gone
by adorn the walls, and recall
the history of the western end
of town and the station itself. In
a glass-enclosed case, models of
automobiles of every type draw
the oohs and ahs of present car
owners awaiting repair of their
modern car.
And then, nicely stacked magazines are shelved above, the kind
you don’t find in the beauty salon.
Preservation, American Hunter,
Golf, HGTV Makeover, LaCucina
Italiana, and Conservation keep
you informed of the important
things in life. All of this makes
getting the oil changed an informative respite.
On the other end of the room,
if you are lucky enough to be
there in early spring, large
wooden shelves against a sunny
glass window hold the beginning
sprouts of a garden salad. Lettuce, peppers, parsley, rosemary,
basil, and even tomatoes begin
their life in that bright, warm
spot.
Bruce Mance Sr. leased the
Mobil station in 1976 and pur-
chased it in 1984. There was a
Wil Roy Drive-In for ice cream
also on the property at that time.
He later demolished those buildings and built new ones in 1994.
The front “store” is well stocked
where all sorts of necessaries are
available.
Mance and his son, Bruce Jr.,
station manager, are life-time
residents of the town of Guilderland. Bruce Mance Sr. spent his
childhood on Schoolhouse Road.
Both Mances were students in
the Guilderland Central School
district.
“It was a great place to grow
up in,” said Bruce Mance Sr.
when questioned about running
a local gas station, “I like to give
back.”
This historian feels that the
Mances are doing just that.
Editor’s note: Linda Smith is
the treasurer for the Hannacroix
Rural Cemetery board.
Help make Altamont
green and clean on April 27
To the Editor:
With spring desperately trying
to break out its beauty, it is time
again to lend a hand at Altamont
Community Tradition’s 11th Annual Green and Clean! This yearly event will be on
Saturday, April 27, and the public
is encouraged to participate.
We will meet in Orsini Park at
10 a.m., with rakes in hand, ready
to weed, rake, and mulch both
Orsini and Schilling parks. ACT members are seeking
volunteers to join us in this
endeavor, bringing gloves, wheelbarrows, rakes, etc., according
to each person’s ability. If you
are a novice gardener, we will
supply you with tools and tips
from our helpers and our Village
Gardeners.
This is a great opportunity for
youth groups to participate in
community activity, and all ages
are welcome.
We hope to see many of you
come out to help us transform the
village greens from their winter
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Sentry for all time: Bruce Mance Jr. is guarded by a giant ficus
plant that has been in the waiting room of his family’s service
station sine the station began.
Bright as new: A renovated
gas pump graces the waiting
room at the Mances’ service
station in western Guilderland.
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9
Coffee in Altamont
Fahy and Tkaczyk talk about
budget frustrations, tax rebates,
school funding, ethics, and reform
By Jo E. Prout
ALTAMONT – Altamont residents and other local neighbors
met with two of their state representatives Saturday morning at
a “community coffee” here.
New York State Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, who represents
the 109th District in Albany
County, and New York State
Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, who
represents the 46th District that
stretches from Poughkeepsie to
Little Falls, spoke to a small
Fragile But Durable
budget had carried previously.
She said that the budget process
was frustrating.
“We have seen multiple cutbacks [for years],” she said.
Tkaczyk and Fahy said that
they offer the community coffees
to meet with their constituents
because of the difficulty people
find trying to get into the legislative building. Fahy’s own
daughter, who attends public
school in Albany, was unable to
get in with her class recently
“We cut funds for the most disabled,
the most vulnerable.”
group of constituents Saturday
about their work as freshmen
representatives; both women
were elected in November 2012.
Nearly 50 people attended the
forum, including about 10 town
and village officials and their
spouses.
Tkaczyk and Fahy discussed
the recently adopted $135 billion
state budget and how, and when,
they voted.
Noting that much of the budget
work was done in the middle of
the night, Tkaczyk said that she
was unhappy with cuts for the
Department of Developmental
Disabilities. The department
does not have “a lot of extra” to
cut from its budget, she said.
“We’re cutting services and
cutting staff,” she said.
Fahy called the budget cuts for
the Department for Developmental Disabilities “disheartening.”
“We cut funds for the most
disabled, the most vulnerable,”
she said.
Both Tkaczyk and Fahy were
unhappy about a measure included in the budget that allowed
because of delays with security
screening, she said.
Both Tkaczyk and Fahy have
experience as school board members, and they spoke about difficulties faced by city and rural
schools.
“It’s a top issue for us,” Fahy
said. Students at “failing” schools
continue to receive budget and
aid cuts, she said.
“That’s a way you continue to
fail,” Fahy said. The cuts result
in reduced staff, she said. “In
the end, that is where the cuts
end up, in larger class sizes,”
she said.
Tkaczyk noted that the five
counties she serves are in rural
areas that are “really struggling.”
Tkaczyk said that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s educational funding needs to be changed.
“We are dismantling our educational program,” Tkaczyk
said.
Both women also discussed
political and campaign finance
ethics, including recent arrests
of State Assembly members and
senators on bribery charges.
Holding history in her hands, Marilyn Smiley of Gardner Road in Guilderland poses with
a pillbox she recently came across in her historic home. The box, stamped 1822 to 1972, was
produced to celebrate Knox’s sesquicentennial more than 40 years ago. The Helderberg Hilltown
was once called the world’s pillbox capital.
“We are dismantling our educational program.”
$350 rebate checks to be mailed
to state residents in October
2014. The rebates are only for
families with incomes between
$40,000 and $300,000 who have
young children. Those making
less money, and seniors, will not
receive checks. Both lawmakers
expressed concern about including a delayed rebate in a tight
budget.
“It was so ill-timed and so
blatantly politicized,” Fahy said,
adding that the measure was
rushed through with one day to
vote on it.
Fahy said that the rebate
was tied to an extension of the
so-called millionaire tax, which
would raise $1.9 billion for the
state and pay for other programs
she supported.
“Do I have to eat the good with
the bad? Yes,” she said. “It was a
very sobering budget process to
go through.”
Speaking of the budget, Tkaczyk said, “I’m OK with tax credits
to small businesses. I’m not OK
with tax credits to places like
Wal-Mart” that do not hire older
workers, she said.
Fahy described the deficit in
the state budget as “just a couple
of billion,” and said that the
still-large deficit is much lower
than the $10 billion deficit the
“It’s disturbing,” Fahy said.
She said that she asks her staff
to be aware of “any hint of impropriety.”
“Speak up. Let me know,” she
said about her instructions to her
staff. “Ethics mean the world to
me. I will support any efforts at
additional reform.”
Tkaczyk said that too much
money is involved in state politics.
“I have to raise $1 million to
run again. This is absurd. It only
pays $79,000,” she said of her
annual salary. “There’s clearly a
lot of money moving and pushing issues.”
Tkaczyk said that she wants to
see public financing of campaigns
so that she — not only the rich
like New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg — can talk to
the public.
On the legislative floor, the
new legislators face different
challenges, they said.
“We are freshmen, and we are
reminded everyday that we are
freshmen. The one thing we have
is a voice,” Fahy said.
Fahy and Tkaczyk will hold
another community coffee forum
at Emma Cleary’s Café in New
Scotland on Friday, April 12, at
8 a.m.
“Made in Knox” says this basswood box, created to celebrate the Hilltown’s bygone industry, founded in 1806 by Nathan Crary which flourished for a century, shipping the tiny boxes
worldwide. Women and children helped assemble them and received from 3 cents to 7 cents per
hundred. The finished boxes, made of basswood shavings, were packed in tierces of 10,000 boxes,
taken by wagon to Rensselaer and then shipped down the Hudson River.
10
‘We kept it to the basics’
Guilderland library proposes $3.49M budget, estimates 2-cent tax hike
GUILDERLAND — Mindful of
a resounding bond-issue defeat
last June, the trustees for the
Guilderland Public Library are
proposing a $3.49 million budget
for next year that stays under the
state’s 2-percent tax-levy cap.
“We’ve kept it to the basics,”
said the library’s director, Barbara Nichols Randall.
The current tax rate for Guilderland residents is $1.11 per
$1,000 of assessed value. Nichols Randal “guess-timates” that
the rate would go up two cents
to $1.13 if the proposed budget
passed.
“We’re trying to take care of
what we can in the building and
keep the materials for people
and keep the programs going,”
she said.
She noted that the current
budget stayed under the levy
limit, too. The state law, new last
year, allows the budget to exceed
the cap with 60 percent of the
popular vote.
Although Guilderland library
budgets had always passed
easily, unlike occasional school
budgets, a $13 million expansion
project that would have nearly
doubled the size of the library
was defeated last June, 3 to 1, by
about a quarter of Guilderland’s
22,245 registered voters. Guilderland residents would have
paid 28 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, meaning a resident
with a home valued at $100,000
would pay $28 annually for the
life of the bond.
Referencing a couple of other
local libraries that suffered bond
defeats since Guilderland’s,
Nichols Randall noted library
and school budgets and projects
are the only ones citizens get to
vote on, and said, “We’re getting
the anger people feel as our world
is changing.”
She also said of library trustees, “People aren’t doing this for
personal gain. We have volunteer
trustees in public libraries; when
people get nasty, some of them
leave.”
The public will vote on the
library budget on May 21 and
will also vote to fill three openings on the 11-member board of
trustees — two of them for five
years, and one for one year.
The posts are unpaid and, in
the last decade, only one election
—in 2006, when four candidates
ran for three seats — has been
contested. Write-in candidates
have been frequent. Candidates’
petitions are due on April 22.
“It takes a long time to feel
you’re back on even keel,” Nichols Randall said, after a bond
defeat. “All we’re trying to do is
give people information and let
them read.”
Circulation at the Guilderland
library is down. It dropped from
640,000 last year to 590,000 this
pressing projects, said Nichols
Randall. “We’ll replace the boiler,
which has gone well beyond its
lifespan,” she said, “and we’ll
re-configure the front door.” This
will save heat in the winter and
air-conditioning in the summer.
Finally, the parking lot will
be re-paved and reconfigured to
solve drainage problems.
“When it rains, we call it Lake
“We’re trying to take care of what we can
in the building and keep the materials for people
and keep the programs going.”
year, said Nichols Randall.
“We’re in a time of flux where
people’s habits are changing,” she
said, noting the library circulates
eBooks “and can’t buy enough of
what people want.”
Also, she said, libraries across
the country saw use peak at
the height of the recession in
2008 and 2009 and now use is
“plateau-ing.”
The Guilderland library had
326,000 visits last year and
288,000 visits this year, she
said. The town of Guilderland,
which makes up the lion’s share
of the district, has about 34,000
residents.
“It sounds like a drop,” she said
of library use, unless you take
a longer look back. “If you look
at historical data,” said Nichols
Randall, “we went way up in 2008
and 2009 as did libraries across
the country. We hoped it was the
new norm.” It turns out, instead,
it was a temporary spike.
Immediate fixes
and long-range plans
The library’s defeated bond
project would have upgraded
aging systems in the 20-year-old
facility, replacing its outdated
heating system and fixing its
leaky roof. “We do have some upcoming physical plant issues that
will require an influx of money
from somewhere,” said Nichols
Randall this week.
The Guilderland library has
received permission from the
State Library to “re-purpose”
about $125,000 it had received
in state grants in anticipation
of the bond passing that would
have moved the sewer line, she
said. The library had set aside a
matching amount.
That quarter-of-a-million dollars will now be used for three
GPL,” said Nichols Randall. “It
wasn’t graded correctly,” she said
of the lot.
“I don’t yet have permission
to go out for bids,” she said, noting approval is needed from the
State Education Department’s
Facilities Planning Office, which
is short on staff.
“We have to have this done by
July 31 or the money expires,”
she said.
The library’s 10-year longrange plan ends this year. A
meeting was held Monday to
start the process for developing
a five-year plan, which Nichols
Randall expects will be completed by the fall.
Expenses
The lion’s share of the proposed
budget — $2,624,835 for next
year — goes to pay for salaries
and benefits. This is a decrease
from $2,647,710 this year.
Nichols Randall explained
that, due to retirement or resignation, two-and-a-half posts
will not be filled. Altogether the
library has 46-and-a-half posts,
or full-time equivalents, which
accounts for both full-time and
part-time workers.
The library has consolidated
the Adult Services and Youth
Services departments into one
department, called Programming and Public Services. Also,
when younger, less-experienced
staffers are hired, they are paid
less, she said.
The next largest budget expenditure — $387,450 — is
for library materials including
books, eBooks, databases, and
audio and video materials. This
represents a 2-percent increase
over this year’s expenses for
library materials.
“We always look at the infla-
tion rate of the previous year,”
said Nichols Randall, explaining how the materials’ line is
calculated.
The cost for human resources
— for staff recruitment and
training, employee assistance,
and board development — will
stay the same at $13,300, as will
equipment costs for leases, repairs and service, and purchases,
at $22,000.
“We used to have to buy shelving,” said Nichols Randall. But,
since the library no longer has
space for added materials, no
new shelves are needed.
Also, none of the equipment
is more than five years old, so
repairs are kept to a minimum.
The cost for business operations, which covers supplies,
printing, marketing, postage,
and insurance, has declined from
$108,495 this year to a proposed
$99,000 for next year.
“We’re not mailing as many
things,” said Nichols Randall.
“Most of our business is online,”
she said, noting this saves paper,
printing, and postage costs.
The library does continue to
mail a newsletter to residents.
The cost for professional services has increased slightly from
$77,150 to $79,900 because, said
Nichols Randall, the auditor’s
fees have gone up, as have the
fees for membership in the Upper
Hudson Library System.
Physical-plant costs have
decreased from $168,000 to
$151,500 largely because utility
costs have gone down; Nichols
Randall credited, in part, the
library’s system of solar panels
on its roof.
“If we could replace all of the
lights with energy-efficient ones,”
she said, “we could really bring
down costs.”
Properties expenses have deceased from $32,000 this year
to $28,000 next year because,
since it has been a while since
Guilderland conducted a townwide reassessment of properties,
there have been fewer challenges.
“If somebody challenges their
assessment and wins, we get
less tax money,” said Nichols
Randall.
Revenues
The vast majority of funding
for the library, as for public libraries across the state, comes
from local property taxes. Guilderland expects next year to get
$117,000 from other sources, up
from $114,800 this year.
The trustees’ budget predicts
$8,000 in state aid. “We never
know exactly how much money
we’ll get until we get the check,”
said Nichols Randall.
Last year, the library anticipated $7,800 and got $8,000 from
the state.
The state budget this year
added $4 million for libraries
across New York, Nichols Randall said, which will be distributed based on a “complicated
formula” and she is not hopeful
that Guilderland will get much
extra, if any.
Fines and fees are calculated at
$55,000 for next year, up $5,000
from this year. Even though patrons are e-mailed a reminder
three days before their books are
due, Nichols Randall said, “As
the economy gets a little better,
people don’t worry as much about
paying fines and getting their
books back on time.”
Copier profits are calculated at
$8,000 for next year, $1,000 less
than this year. Nichols Randall
said this is because many people
now send materials digitally.
Contributions from the Book
Nook are calculated at $20,000
for next year, down $5,000 from
this year. “We don’t have the
space to store the number of
books we had been storing,”
said Nichols Randall. “We had
an online presence to sell rare
books but have no space to keep
them.”
The books for the Book Nook
are donated and the room where
they had been kept is now storing
furniture. The furniture had been
stored in a pod. “We don’t want
to pay for the pod anymore,” said
Nichols Randall.
Non-resident fees are calculated at $6,000, the same as this
year. The fees are paid by library
patrons who live outside the
district, and therefore don’t pay
taxes to support the Guilderland
library.
Finally, gifts and grants are
figured at $15,000, up $3,000
from this year.
Subtracting the $117,000 that
those revenues total from the
$3,492,135 for expenses leaves
$3,375,135 to be raised by local
property taxes, which is 1.9 percent more than this year’s levy.
The $3.5 million budget will be
presented to the public tonight,
April 11, at 7 p.m. in the library’s
Tawasentha Room. The library is
located at 2228 Western Ave. in
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VCSD to cut $316,000, hears protests about loss of freshman basketball
By Tyler Murphy
VOORHESSVILLE — The
Voorheesville School District
is proposing $316,102 worth of
cuts to staff and programming
in the next school year after the
board of education told administrators to keep any tax levy
increase at 3.2 percent, below
the district’s permitted tax cap
of 3.9 percent.
At Monday night’s board meeting, as the board considered a 22
million budget proposal for next
year, a number of residents and
students asked members not
to eliminate at least one of the
programs on the chopping block,
freshman boys’ basketball, which
cost $4,562.
Looking out across the largerthan-usual crowd of about 45
people, board President Timothy
Blow said, “I know there are a
lot of people here just for this
issue.” He then asked the public
to comment.
One eighth-grade basketball
player, Matthew Bernhard, took
to the podium to tell the board
he had played the sport with the
Catholic Youth Organization for
the last five years and the he
wanted “to play for the school
now,” when he enters high school
next year.
Joining Bernhard in support at
the meeting was his entire team,
its coaches and some parents.
“Learning happens in more
places than a classroom,” said
the assistant eighth grade coach,
John Nolan.
Nolan said the freshman team
offered a chance for athletes to
socialize with peers and learn
from one another at an important step between middle and
high school.
The team’s head coach, Kevin
Daly, noted that eliminating the
freshman team would increase
the competition on the juniorvarsity and varsity basketball
teams, and leave many without
a chance to play.
“You could have 25 or 30 kids
wanting to play but only 12 or
15 roster spots,” he said.
Like a number of other speakers, Daly asked the board to
find a way to fund the program
suggesting members meet with
coaches and discuss options,
such as the team raising its own
funds.
However, even if Voorheesville
did decide to fund the program,
it would be in a shrinking pool
of area schools offering freshman
basketball.
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Soon-to-be freshman pleads: This week, Voorheesville eighthgrade basketball player Matthew Bernhard, along with his team,
coaches, and parents, asked the board of education to fund freshman basketball in the coming school year after administrators
proposed eliminating it as officials make $316,000 in staff and
program cuts due to a shortage of state aid.
“Primarily, this is back on the
table because of a lack of competition. Not many schools can
afford to have freshman teams
any longer,” said Blow. Coaches
told the board the team could still
play against non-school leagues
and privately affiliated teams.
“But, I don’t envy your position
on the board,” conceded Nolan.
Larger cuts
Apart from freshman basketball, the board is looking at a
number of other cuts.
The proposals would reduce
spending on substitutes by
$30,000. The budget calls for the
elimination of a bus route and a
new mechanics helper and cuts
field-trip expenses in half, saving
about $41,000 altogether.
The reductions would remove
$7,900 from some student clubs,
effectively disbanding them,
such as the high school and
middle school Art Club, Future
Business Leaders of America,
Masterminds and Environthon.
Summer curriculum and mentoring would also be cut, saving
about $37,000. The district would
reduce a custodial and teacher’s
position to part-time, saving
about $24,000. Officials plan on
halving equipment costs to save
about $60,000, cutting spending
on professional development conference by $7,000, and lowering
stipends to humanity classes for
speakers and supplies by about
$19,000. By reducing other workloads and clerical duties across
the board the district is aiming
to save another $40,000 in employee costs.
With the approval of board
members, administrators elected
not to cut elementary science lab
classes, a proposal which was be- $1,102,708, an increase in total
spending of about 5 percent.
ing considered last month.
Through Snyder recommended
In March, Voorheesville Superintendent Teresa Thayer Snyder the board adopt a proposed
said a 3.2 percent increase in 3.5-percent increase in the tax
the levy meant the school would levy, members instead endorsed
need to trim a total of $547,396 a tentative plan to increase the
in expenses from the 2013-14 levy by 3.2.
Snyder also told the board that
budget.
she hopes the school will qualiShifting aid
fy to join a larger
Before the final
healtlh consortium,
state budget was
which could save
adopted the district
the district about
qualified to have
$110,000.
$100,000 restored
“Learning
Vo o r h e e s v i l l e
from the Gap Elimihappens in more i s c o n s i d e r e d a
nation Adjustment.
wealthy district,
Assistant Superplaces than
said Snyder, and,
intendent for Busia classroom.”
as a result, it often
ness Gregory Diereceives less aid,
fenbach also said
about 25 percent
the state delayed
of its total $22.4
updating the buildmillion budget. The
ing aid interest rate
for a second year, allowing district is looking at losing
the district to recoup $80,000. about $874,932 in aid to the Gap
Another $54,000 in aid was re- Elimination Adjustment. The
stored for programs relating to tax reduction was first taken by
transportation, the Board of Co- then-Governor David Paterson
operative Educational Services, to help quell the state’s fiscal
and special-education services, turmoil. The funds continue to
be taken by the state.
he told the board.
State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk
“Where we’ve heard schools
across the state were getting aid attended the meeting, saying
restored at some levels, we in she supported getting rid of the
Voorheesville are bucking that GEA. “We really need to focus
on getting rid of the GEA,” said
trend,” said Snyder.
G o v e r n o r A n d r e w C u o m o the freshman senator from the
proposed an executive budget 46th District. Tkaczyk said she
in January with a statewide was visiting school boards in her
bump in education spending of constituency during the state’s
4.4 percent but Voorheesville budget process to get feedback.
“”Ill do everything I can to be
instead saw its aid decrease by
certain because you were the only
5.9 percent.
A large portion of the drop was school in my senate district, and
due to a one-time, $248,776 grant there are reasons why, but you
received for the current year to were the only on in my district
convert half-day kindergarten that got less,” she said referring
classes to full-day classes. While to state aid.
“I’m personal frustrated that
Snyder said officials knew the
non-recurring aid would depress we at Voorheesville have tried to
Voorheesville’s budget figures do the right thing from budgetin the coming school year, she ing to planning,” said Blow. “ It
voiced concern that state aid seems like we get punished for
in the district overall remained our results, unlike other school
stagnant, even after many districts that do not have spectacular results.”
schools had some aid restored.
Snyder said the district would
Voorheesville stayed under the
state-set levy cap this year, to ex- do better it if could escape paying
ceed it requires 60 percent of the for so many mandated programs,
popular vote. The levy cap for the which often demand time from
2013-14 year is about 3.8 percent. administrators and clerks that
Even if voters approved a budget aren’t factored into to their costs,
with the maximum 3.8 percent she said.
“Its been a tough year, a biincrease Snyder said the district
zarre year where we’ve been
would need to make cuts.
To fund the exact same level of getting mixed messages all the
staff and programs offered under time, and calculations are always
this year’s budget in a rollover changing,” she said, “One minute,
budget for next year, Snyder it’s not-so-bad news and then in
said it would cost an additional the next, it’s bad news.”
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Seeking The Right Fold
— Photo by Maureen Abbott
Curing diseases with computers: Berne-Knox-Westerlo
student Alex Gardineer stands behind a monitor displaying
a three-dimensional folded protein, also called a “nanomachine” because its shape is adapted to its job for breaking
down food, regulating body functions, and fighting diseases.
Improperly folded proteins, however, have been linked to
Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington diseases, as well
as many cancers. The Fold@Home project described in Gardineer’s presentation at the BKW Science and Art Fair on
March 28 was started by Stanford University to distribute
computer power needed to study folded proteins. It allows
computer users around the world to run calculations through
its software during unused computing time.
Fearing The Worst
— Photo by Maureen Abbott
Sullen old man: Earl Barcomb’s drawing, above, was on
display with other students’ at the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Science and Art Fair on March 28. The event was sponsored by
the BKW Parent-Teacher Association for students in grades
seven through 12.
...GCSD super says NY reforms implemented
(Continued from Page 1)
ing student learning time, and
narrowing the curriculum and
jeopardizing the rich, meaningful education our students need
and deserve.”
Korn said that 45 states and
the District of Columbia have
adopted the Common Core standards, and all of them but New
York are starting Common Core
testing next year, in the spring
of 2014.
“New York, we believe, is the
only one testing this year, rushing the Common Core before
students and teachers are ready,”
he said.
Korn also pointed to the State
Education Department website,
EngageNY, and noted that sufficient “modules,” or lessons,
are not available for each grade
level. “The state has not provided
teachers with the curriculum
required to teach Common
Core,” Korn said. “The state is
projecting scores will drop by 30
points. It’s like trying to fly an
airplane before the wings are on.
It will crash. Students will pay
the price.”
Antonia Valentine, from the
State Education Department,
e-mailed this information detailing the steps the department has
taken over the past three years
to prepare for the transition to
the Common Core this year: “The
New York State Board of Regents
committed to the Common Core
State Standards in January 2010
and formally adopted the CCSS
for English Language Arts and
Literacy and Mathematics in
July 2010. In December 2010,
the Board of Regents announced
that student progress on these
standards will be measured in
Grades 3-8 through State assessments beginning in the 2012-13
school year (student progress
on the CCSS in high school will
be measured by State tests that
will be phased in beginning in
June 2014).
“At the same time, the Board
of Regents required NYSED to
ensure that newly certified New
York State teachers will be ready
to deliver instruction aligned
to the Common Core (including
implementation of new certification assessment requirements in
Spring 2014). In January 2011,
NYSED began offering explicit
guidance regarding the changes
that should occur in each district,
school, and classroom in order
to ensure that teachers and
students are prepared for these
changes. “The Network Teams Institutes, a statewide professional
development initiative for New
York State educators, began in
summer 2011 along with the
launch of the EngageNY.org professional development website.
Through the institutes, educators and professional developers
are consistently exposed to the
latest resources, supports, and
guidance from NYSED on Common Core implementation. In
summer and fall 2012, NYSED
released Grades 3-8 Common
Core sample questions and test
guides to help teachers adjust
their practice in ways that support the Common Core. Statewide ELA and Math Common
Core assessment rubric and
scoring training sessions began
in winter 2013.”
The Enterprise asked Korn
what NYSUT’s goal is in drafting
the resolution and creating the
online petition. “The Common
Core has the potential to enrich
student learning if it’s done
right,” he said. “Unfortunately,
the state is not doing it right….
They are rushing the Common
Core before students and teachers are ready. No teacher wants
to test students on material they
have not been taught….This year
should not be high stakes,” Korn
said of the testing. “It should be
used for program evaluation.”
Valentine e-mailed two statements from education department spokesmen in response to
the call to slow down implementation of Common Core and not
count the tests this year.
“We are now three years into
a statewide effort to provide
teachers with the professional
development and other supports
they need to make the transition to the Common Core,” said
Dennis Tompkins. “ It’s hard to
understand how some can claim
that they are being caught unprepared for the change. It’s equally
difficult to understand why
anyone would suggest that the
change is happening too quickly
for teachers and students, when
the exact opposite is true. If we
want our children to be ready for
college and meaningful careers,
we need higher standards — and
thinking.’ Has he ever been in a
classroom?” she asked, indicating that critical-thinking skills
have long been fostered.
“Testing,” said board member
Catherine Barber, “should be a
tool for teachers to see if students understand the material.
It’s morphed into something
different…I can’t imagine how
the current scheme would make
it better…The dollars are going
for preparing kids for tests…
Now teachers’ jobs depend on
how the kids do on these tests…
It leads to…a narrowing of the
curriculum and a narrowing of
opportunities.”
Assistant Superintendent
Demian Singleton said that the
Northwest Educational Assessment tests being administered
at Guilderland and elsewhere are
“being force fit into this model”
which he called “flawed on so
many levels.”
“The state is projecting scores will drop by 30 points.
It’s like trying to fly an airplane before the wings
are on. It will crash. Students will pay the price.”
a way to measure whether those
standards are being met — and
we need them now.”
Jonathan Burman provided
statistics: “Each year, approximately 65 percent of the cohort
finish their fourth year of high
school unprepared for college
and careers. That’s over 100,000
students. Every year we delay
Common Core implementation, we have delayed the real
world success of 100,000 more
students. Every year we delay
Common Core assessments, we
have less information about
whether these 100,000 students
have made the progress they
need to make.”
The view from GCSD
Assemblywoman Fahy, who
represents the city of Albany as
well as the suburban towns of
Bethlehem and Guilderland, told
the Guilderland board members
and administrators that she
represents some of the highestperforming districts in the
state and sees morale suffering.
“Everyone’s so distracted,” she
said. Fahy had originally looked
at lack of school funding as an
urban issue but sees it is now a
suburban and rural issue, too.
“I do feel like morale is really,
really suffering,” she said. “I’ve
noticed it here and in Bethlehem
more than Albany.”
Fahy said she understood the
problem of schools having to give
so many tests that there is no
time to teach but said she had
heard some on the “flip side,” too.
“Some administrators say, once
we settle down, it’s more objective,” to point out if a particular
teacher or curriculum isn’t doing
well. “It levels the playing field,”
she said.
“I was a classroom teacher
for 37 years in Guilderland,”
responded the board’s vice president, Gloria Towle-Hilt. She said
the current frustration comes
from the state’s perception that
“one size fits everyone.”
“At Guilderland, this sets us
back, takes us off a track of excellence,” she said. “Needs are
different.”
Towle-Hilt, who had taught
social studies at Farnsworth
Middle School, said the current
approach is destroying social
studies in New York State. “It’s
being wiped out, little by little,”
she said.
She went on about John King,
“I’ve heard the commissioner
say, ‘We need to teach critical
The standardized tests, which
were designed to evaluate students’ understanding of various
subjects, are instead being used
to grade teachers’ proficiency,
he said. Preliminary baseline
tests are given at the start of the
school year so that a teacher’s
worth can be evaluated by the
comparative scores at the end of
the school year.
The Common Core Standards
are being adopted in New York
schools at the same time the new
APPR (Annual Professional Performance Review) system is being required. The Common Core
Standards, which encourage
students to think critically and
more deeply, “don’t work well”
with APPR, said Singleton.
True priorities, he said, have
nothing to do with testing.
Not a shred of research says
these summative tests impact
learning, said Singleton, and
teachers can’t teach as well as
they should because they’re so
distracted.
Singleton cited a memorandum
he had received from the State
Education Department the week
before. “It says these kids will
bomb out,” he reported. “It shows
how poorly it was done.”
While Singleton asserted,
“There was need for reform,” he
stressed, “You can’t wrap them
into one package.”
The end result of the new evaluation system for teachers and
principals, he concluded, “will be
a convergence to a new mean.”
It will bring high-performing
schools down, he said.
School Board President Colleen O’Connell said that, when
baseline tests were given, elementary-school teachers, to calm
their students who were upset to
be tested on material they didn’t
know, said not to worry; the test
was to measure the teacher.
“The kids started crying,” said
O’Connell, because they worried
their teacher would be fired if
they didn’t do well.
“They know,” agreed Singleton.
“In the high school, it’s almost
the opposite,” he said of student
reaction to baseline tests. “They
don’t care.”
O’Connell gave Fahy copies of
the columns Guilderland science
teacher Al Fiero has written
for The Enterprise in which he
examines problems with various aspects of APPR. The same
columns were recommended to
State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk
13
...‘with an air of dispassion that is stunning’
when she visited the Guilderland
School Board for its Tuesday
meeting. (See page 5.)
Some of the concerns Fiero
has highlighted are named in
the NYSUT resolution, which
states that “testing policies fail
to appropriately accommodate
the unique needs of students
with disabilities and English
language learners.”
“There’s no research behind
any of this,” said Towle-Hilt at
the March 26 meeting. “That is
a crime.”
“In fact,” chimed in Superintendent Marie Wiles, “The
research says the opposite.”
Referring to Finland as “the
gold standard,” Wiles said that
innovative learning as opposed
to regimented testing, is the
norm there.
Even China, Wiles said, which
is known for its regimented
learning, “is looking to us for
project-based learning and creativity.” Wiles and other Guilderland administrators visited
a sister school in China earlier
this school year.
Wiles said of New York State,
“Every five years, we have something new.” She recommended
to Fahy a reform agenda with
pathways in it so high-performing districts could be exempted
from parts.
“We need models of outstanding practice,” said Wiles. “That’s
what Guilderland is…That’s why
people are sad. This is the end
of greatness.”
“The resources can then go to
urban areas that need it,” said
Towle-Hilt.
“We’re fixing what doesn’t need
fixing,” said Barber. Guilderland,
she said, since 2006, has had 95
percent of its students graduate
with Regents diplomas, and most
of them go on to either two-year
or four-year colleges.
“Everything at Guilderland
has been about teams working
together,” said Towle-Hilt, bringing up another problem with
the new approach to teacher
evaluation. “Now, you’ve created
this fear, this competition. Now,
teachers, kids, everyone is under
this stress.”
Singleton noted another problem is teachers are now unwilling
to take on student teachers in
their classrooms. “They won’t
give up instructional time to
someone who won’t be accountable,” he said.
“We want these kids to be
excited,” said board member
Jennifer Charron.
“The governor has reduced
teachers to a special-interest
group,” said O’Connell. “That’s
despicable…We could use some
help getting rid of bad eggs,” she
conceded.
A year ago, said Fahy, when
she decided to run for the Assembly, “Teachers were being
scapegoated…This was bait and
switch. That has stopped a little
but we’re still pointing fingers.”
Singleton said that, the week
before, he had listened to a
panel made up of representatives
from states that had adopted
the Common Core Standards,
including Kentucky, Ohio, and
Massachusetts.
“I was literally embarrassed to
be from New York when I heard
what other states had invested,
financially and programmatically,” he said. “They thought about
how to do it in a way that would
be effective in the long run.”
He added that the level of
chaos in New York “will damage
the potential good of Common
Core.”
Wiles said that the State Education Department has brought
in a group of outsiders who are
“running the show.”
With previous reform agendas,
she said, the department had
reached out to school districts,
“I was literally embarrassed to be from New York when I
heard what other states had invested, financially and programmatically,” says Demian Singleton, Guilderland’s assistant
superintendent for instruction, referring to a panel on Common
Core Standards. “They thought about how to do it in a way that
would be effective in the long run.” He told Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy that the level of chaos in New York “will damage the
potential good of Common Core.” He also said that the end result
of the new evaluation system for teachers and principals “will
be a convergence to a new mean.” It will bring high-performing
schools down, he said.
“one by one by one.” She went
on, “People pulled together to
understand the standards and
assessments.”
Now, Wiles said, reforms are
being implemented “with an air
of dispassion that is stunning.”
“So there’s no collaboration
on the tests?” asked Fahy. “This
could be a fiasco.”
“It is a fiasco,” came a chorus of
voices from the school board.
Fahy said she worried about
how the new testing require-
Final thoughts
In response to a list of these
concerns, Valentine wrote in an
e-mail, “Local educational agencies (i.e., local school districts)
have clear decision-making
authority over the adoption of
curriculum materials and instructional practices. “NYSED has used its federal
Race to the Top funds to support
these local efforts by providing
tools, maps, modules, scaffolds,
and aligned professional devel-
“If we want our children to be ready for college
and meaningful careers, we need higher standards
— and a way to measure whether those standards
are being met — and we need them now.”
ments are affecting students’
self-esteem. In discussing the
baseline tests, her daughter and
her friends, “all high-performing
kids,” said, “They just make you
feel stupid,” Fahy reported.
Singleton read from an article
calling for a national dialogue on
priorities for schools, and cited
the statistic that 13 percent of
9- to 17-year-olds already suffers
from anxiety.
Towle-Hilt noted some states
are dropping PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness
for College and Careers) when
New York hasn’t yet implemented the program geared for college
and career preparation.
“Other nations are going down
a different road,” said Wiles.
“You can have a goal,” said
Towle-Hilt, “but allow us to get
there.
opment. We update EngageNY.
org with new materials regularly. Overall, local schools and
districts, on their own and in
collaboration with their BOCES
and other regional partners,
have worked hard to implement
the changes required by the Common Core.”
Korn’s final thoughts yesterday were these: “Parents, teachers, and school boards have a
common agenda,” he said, “and
that is the state’s obsession with
standardized tests is narrowing
the curriculum and increasing
pressures on students. Students
are more than data points. They
are young people who deserve
respect and a top-quality education, enriched by art, music,
and field trips. These are being
sacrificed for tests.”
Onesquethaw Fire Company
to unveil Feura Bush station
compressions rather than
By Tyler Murphy
NEW SCOTLAND — This on breathing techniques.
month, the Onesquethaw She said many people might
Volunteer Fire Company will hesitate to put their mouth
welcome residents to its newly on another person’s, even
constructed Feura Bush sta- to try and save a life, and,
tion on the same weekend in recent years, emergency
the Firemen’s Association of CPR training has emphasized
the State of New York holds chest compressions, which
its annual recruitment and keeps the blood circulating
to the brain.
retention drive.
“This is a short session for
Firehouses across the state
will be opening their doors to the layperson,” Lobdell said of
coincide with the association’s the class being offered.
Besides free refreshments
“Recruit NY 2013” event on
the fire company will sponsor
April 27 and 28.
That week of the event also a series of games; provide door
happens to be National Volun- prizes; offer face paintings
teer Week, a time when many and will hold a fire-prevention
departments will be seeking poster contest for different
new volunteers to join the age groups, ranging from 6-to
fire fighting and emergency 18-year-olds.
To celebrate the new stamedical responder ranks.
From noon to 4 p.m. on April tion’s opening, the Ones28, the new Feura Bush sta- quethaw Fire Company will
tion will be opening its doors focus exclusively on the Feura
to the public, offering refresh- Bush location with most of its
ments, information, and a 65 active members attending
the event,
variety of
said Lobdemonstradell.
tions by its
The fire
members.
company opThe new
erates a tos t a t i o n
tal of three
building at
volunteer
6 Union“We invite people
firehouses
ville Feura
in New ScotBush Road
to join the company.
land, includwill replace
ing its main
the current
They can do
station in
firehouse,
as much or as
the hamlet
which is
of Clarksmore than
little as they wish.
ville, which
four decades
They don’t have to
also has an
old, locatambulance
ed about a
do active firefighting
squad, and
mile away
the Unionat 1373 Inor EMT services.
ville station
dian Fields
There are many
along the
Road in the
Delaware
hamlet.
other things that
Tu r n p i k e ,
O n e s can be done.”
near Delquethaw
m a r. T h e
officials
company is
said the
also supolder buildported by a
ing
was
ladies’ auxaging and
iliary. Lobtoo small
dell said the
to house
Feura Bush
newer fire
engines and tankers, which station currently had just over
require more overheard space a dozen active volunteers.
Lobdell said the fire comfor mechanics to open them
up and access their parts for pany had purchased the land
where the new station is locatmaintenance.
Onesquethaw Fire Com- ed several years ago. The fire
pany President Debra Lobdell company originally pitched a
said the purpose of the open $1 million plan, paid for by
house was to show off the new state taxpayers and govern$750,000 station to local resi- ment loan but cut back on the
dents and attract prospective project to save costs.
Following public feedback,
volunteers.
“We invite people to join Lobdell said, the fire company
the company. They can do as reduced the project’s cost by
much or as little as they wish. 25 percent by eliminating
They don’t have to do active one of two bathrooms and
firefighting or EMT services. a meeting area at the new
There are many other things building.
She said the main concern
that can be done,” said Lobdell. “Such as people who for the new station was that
might be good with computers it had bays large enough to
or people who might want to support work on new fire
help with other kinds of ad- trucks, something the old one
lacked. Currently, two of the
ministration.”
The fire company also ac- Onesquethaw fire company’s
cepts youth volunteers who most used and newest trucks
are 16 and 17 years old, with can’t be serviced, or stationed,
certain restrictions on the in Feura Bush. She said this
duties they are allowed to also made buying new trucks
for the old Feura Bush station
perform, she said.
During the new station’s more challenging.
“We were looking at getting
open house, a dedication
ceremony will take place at a larger vehicle but couldn’t
accommodate it,” she said.
1 p.m.
Lobdell said firemen are “Now, that’s not a problem.”
****
still determining which demFor more information on the
onstrations to have at the
event but said a brief course Onesquethaw Volunteer Fire
will teach beginners how to Company, visit its website at
perform cardiopulmonary www.onesquethaw.com. For
resuscitation, with help from more general information on
the Albany County Sheriff ’s recruitment, visit the website
for the Firemen’s Association
Office.
Lobdell said the training of the State of New York at
focuses on performing chest www.fasny.com.
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Stays under state-set levy cap by $80K
GCSD board approves $91M budget proposal that would increase taxes 3.39 percent
GUILDERLAND — Four Farnsworth Middle School students
came to see Senator Cecelia
Tkaczyk and “demanded they
be challenged,” Tkaczyk told the
school board here Tuesday night,
commending the district on its
lobbying efforts.
“I said, ‘Look, we’re doing all
we can,’” Tkaczyk went on.
When she was told Tuesday
that the board would likely restore the middle-school enrichment job that an earlier budget
proposal had cut, Tkaczyk said
she was pleased.
“I don’t want them coming
back,” she said of the determined
students; gales of laughter followed.
Third, responding to safety
concerns raised by sports boosters and athletes, all the assistant coaching posts would
be restored along with the one
team that was still slated to be
cut, junior-varsity golf, for a cost
of $26,650.
Enrichment imbroglio
Board member Catherine Barber reiterated her concerns about
the elimination of the enrichment
program at the elementary level.
Originally, each of the district’s
five elementary schools had a
half-time enrichment teacher,
but the program was cut back to
one post this year so the single
teacher spent just one day a week
at each school.
Barber said she fully sup-
“We’re cheating our best and brightest.
They are so far ahead of everything and
they have this desire to learn…
The classroom teachers just don’t have time…”
Tkaczyk, a Democrat who had
served on the Duanesburg School
Board and is now making the
rounds to board meetings in her
46th District, said one of the
reasons she ran last November
was, “I was a frustrated school
board member.”
After about two hours of
sometimes heated discussion on
Tuesday, the board unanimously
adopted a $91,023,200 budget
proposal for next year, which
is a 1.98-percent increase over
this year ’s spending plan. It
would hike the tax rate by 3.39
percent.
The tax rate for Guilderland
residents next year is estimated
at $21.89 per $1,000 of assessed
value, Assistant Superintendent
for Business Neil Sanders told
The Enterprise yesterday. Parts
of the Guilderland school district
fall in three other towns as well.
If the $91 million budget passes,
Bethlehem residents would pay
$19.60; New Scotland residents
would pay $19.20; and residents
of Knox, which hasn’t recently
done a townwide property revaluation, would pay $32.01 Per
$1,000 of assessed value.
School district residents will
vote on May 21. A simple majority is required to pass the budget
since it stays under the state-set
levy cap by about $80,000.
An increase of about $374,000
in state aid, over what the governor had proposed, allowed
Guilderland to restore several
items that had been cut in the
superintendent’s February proposal, which was just $43 under
the state-set levy cap and would
have increased the tax rate by
3.52 percent. Guilderland’s state
aid next year will total just over
$21 million.
The adopted budget proposal
cuts 27 jobs, restoring four that
were cut in the original plan.
Based on recommendations
the board had made two weeks
ago, Superintendent Marie Wiles
recommended restoring one-anda-half unassigned teaching posts
for $108,000. This would allow
the district to add staff where
needed, with a half-time post targeted for teaching instrumental
music lessons at the high school.
Board members had been concerned that large group lessons
would be ineffective.
Second, the long-time enrichment teacher at Farnsworth
would keep her job, rescinding
the three stipends for other
teachers to take on some of
her duties, for a net cost of
$66,460.
ported the addition of a middleschool enrichment teacher but
noted that was for three years,
while students for six years at
the elementary level would get
no enrichment at all.
“I don’t like totally eliminating a program, especially one
of longstanding that has been
successful over the years,” she
said.
“How are we going to pay for
it?” asked board member Allan
Simpson.
Barber replied that the $72,000
cost would have to come from the
remaining $80,000 to stay below
the levy cap. She conceded it
would raise the tax rate but said
she did not see the “magic” of
keeping it below 3.4 percent.
“I’m more concerned about
keeping as many options for students as we can,” she said.
“It’s too shallow and superficial a program,” said the board’s
president, Colleen O’Connell,
noting she’d support the program in its original form with
2.5 teachers. She was adamant
about keeping the tax-rate hike
under 3.4 percent.
“If we’re going to do something,
we should do it right,” said Wiles,
leading Barber to ask why the cut
was made in the first place.
“We were in the midst of closing a $2.1 million gap so we
weren’t in the mode of increasing
anything…What was the least
bad of the possible bad things we
had to do,” Wiles said, describing
the challenge the district faced.
The board’s vice president,
Gloria Towle-Hilt, said that
classroom teachers enriched
students as part of the regular
program. “To say enrichment
isn’t happening is a slap in the
face,” she said.
“I wasn’t trying to denigrate
any classroom program,” replied
Barber. “I thought it was worth
keeping.”
The times have changed, said
Towle-Hilt.
“It’s like throwing a cup of
water on a blazing fire,” said
Simpson.
Board member Barbara Fraterrigo addressed Tkaczyk who
sat in the gallery with a score of
others. “We’re cheating our best
and brightest,” she said, referencing letters students in the
enrichment program had written
“crying out” for the opportunities
the program offers.
“They are so far ahead of
everything and they have this
desire to learn…The classroom
teachers just don’t have time…,”
said Fraterrigo.
“I don’t envy you your choices,” Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk tells
the Guilderland School Board members Tuesday night as she
thanks them for their service. As a new representative for District
46 and a former Duanesburg School Board member herself, she
is making the rounds to schools in her district and has been an
advocate for more state funding for public education.
For the last few years, as the
district has cut over 100 jobs, the
enrichment post has been slated
for elimination but dozens of students and parents have spoken in
favor of it. Earlier in Tuesday’s
meeting, it was announced that
a dozen Guilderland projects had
garnered first or second prizes in
the regional History Day competition, qualifying the students for
state competition.
in the elementary school as well,”
said Fraterrigo.
Board member Rose Levy
recalled that the plan hatched
during budget talks last year
was to get community members
involved in bringing enrichment
programs to the elementary
schools.
O’Connell agreed that the
elementary post was meant to
be an enrichment coordinator
made up of elementary-level administrators and teachers would
have to look at perhaps a dozen
different items on a rubric.
The board agreed that the process should be undertaken for the
following year and Wiles looked
to Tkaczyk to see if aid might be
available for such a post.
“You could send me a letter…I
don’t know if it would be successful,” said Tkaczyk.
Nurse stays
The other major thread in the
board’s discussion Tuesday night
centered on keeping a nurse
at the high school during the
hours that summer school is in
session. Several board members
stressed the importance of safety,
and ultimately the board agreed
unanimously to restore the post
for a cost of $7,100 and to require
the nurse to keep a log of his or
her activities so the board next
year can better evaluate the need
for the post.
A number of board members
were concerned, though, about
not letting the tax-rate hike go
over 3.39 percent.
At one point in the long discussion, Barber suggested getting
funds by cutting the juniorvarsity golf team as initially
proposed. “If we didn’t need JV
golf before, do we need it now?”
she asked.
“It sends the message, the
squeaky wheel gets the budget
line,” said O’Connell, alluding
to the fact that the gymnastics
team, which had been slated for
elimination, turned out in force
with parents and coaches to
speak to the board, and the team
was restored to the budget.
“I don’t think it’s fair to target
one team,” said O’Connell.
She also said, “We need to find
something to keep the tax rate
below 3.4.”
Simpson took up an idea
proposed by Christine Hayes at
the last meeting, to reduce the
rate for substitute teachers but
O’Connell countered that Guilderland was not able to attract
enough needed substitutes at the
current rate.
So, in order to keep the nurse
without topping 3.4-percent tax
hike, the board ultimately agreed
to two things.
The session had opened with
comments from parent Meg Eckhardt asking the board, “Have
any of you been to a concert…
and not inspired?”
The music teachers at Guilderland, she said, naming several,
had taught her three children
to connect to the world around
them for the rest of their lives.
“The diversity of our community
becomes a strength rather than
a chasm,” she said, urging the
“We were in the midst of closing a $2.1 million gap
so we weren’t in the mode of increasing anything…
What was the least bad of the possible
bad things we had to do.”
The long-time enrichment
teacher, Deb Escobar, who is
retiring in January, has offered
to teach her successor.
“If we lose enrichment at the
middle school next year,” said
Fraterrigo, the district may have
to consider tracking students,
that is, grouping them according to ability, which she said
is “against the core philosophy
of this district.” Currently,
only high school students are
tracked.
“We may have to consider that
rather than a teacher.
Towle-Hilt said she thought
so, too, adding, “The classroom
teacher doesn’t have time.”
The board mulled Levy’s idea of
creating a post with a stipend.
“I couldn’t fathom how much time
or effort someone would have to
put in,” said Sanders, adding
that such information is necessary to calculate compensation.
Assistant Superintendent for
Human Resources Lin Severance called it “quite a process,”
describing how a committee
board, “Restore the music program in its entirety.”
Lori Herschenhart, the district’s instructional administrator for music, told the board that
she could manage with .45 rather
than half a post, and the board
took her up on that.
Second, the board agreed to
take $3,500 from the district’s
fund balance of about $2.6 million.
“If this is the only money we
take from the fund balance,” said
board member Judy Slack, “I can
do that.”
16
Berne and Knox see
limits in town powers...
By Marcello Iaia
HILLTOWNS — While Westerlo last month demanded the
repeal of the state’s gun-control
law with a resolution that won
applause and handshakes from
citizens, town boards in Knox
and Berne this week took more
mild positions focused on public
input.
Town boards in the Hilltowns
have looked at similar language
in recent weeks for a resolution
criticizing the quick process of
passing the New York Secure
Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act in January
and urging the state legislature
to hold public hearings on the
law.
The Message of Necessity used
by Governor Andrew Cuomo
waived a three-day review period
of the bill, which involves stricter
penalties for gun-related crimes
and more stringent regulation
of guns and ammunition in the
state. The SAFE Act was passed
in January in the wake of the
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The Knox Town Board passed
its resolution on April 9 and had
a discussion involving the town’s
attorney, John Dorfman, with
people in the gallery who wanted
the law repealed and a public
hearing held on the resolution.
In Berne, the board heard at
its April 10 meeting that the
resolution did not go far enough.
The board tabled its resolution
in order to consider a change
suggested by resident James
Cooke that would recognize the
sentiment of some in Berne that
the SAFE Act infringes on their
Second Amendment rights.
“I don’t necessarily agree with
you,” Robert Altieri, a Knox resident, told the Berne Town Board
on Wednesday. “At this point,
you’ve done more than the town
of Knox has done.”
Knox
Discussion of a town resolution on the SAFE Act began with
applause at the Tuesday board
meeting and ended with Councilman Nicholas Viscio shouting
into the audience.
The 40 seats in the town-hall
meeting room were filled, most
of them by opponents to the
SAFE Act who wanted stronger
language in the town’s resolution. Towards the beginning of
the meeting, Altieri submitted
a copy of a resolution passed by
the Westerlo Town Board last
month that demanded a repeal of
the SAFE Act and opposed “any
legislation that would infringe
upon the right of the people to
keep and bear arms.”
Dorfman was at the center of
the discussion in Knox and said
that calling the SAFE Act unconstitutional was not within the
powers of the town board.
“Let’s assume everybody came
to a public hearing and had the
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
The purview of the town board: Knox Town Attorney John Dorfman responds during the April 9
board meeting to citizens disagreeing with a town resolution because it did not call for a repeal of the
New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act. Audience members asked that
the town hold a public hearing on the resolution. “It’s my opinion that the town board of the town of
Knox, and that’s the only one I can speak to, does not have the authority to set-up a public hearing just
to get comments on things that they should consider to send off a resolution that has no binding effect
in law or in fact,” said Dorfman.
Statement on motive: Councilman Nicholas Viscio makes a long and passionate statement during
the April 9 board meeting on the motives behind the state’s new gun control law after a man in the
gallery suggested that board members not listening to voters in the town hall might not be re-elected.
The room fell silent during moments of Viscio’s speech, though at times he spoke over the crowd to finish his statement. Viscio said, as a hunter, he understands the right to own guns, but the discussion in
the town hall had not mentioned the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. or ways to “logically discuss
the situation to problem resolve.”
same position as you do, that
doesn’t alter what the law is,”
said Dorfman, addressing Altieri and others’ request that the
board hear from more people.
Dorfman said he cannot tell the
board that every provision in the
SAFE Act should be repealed.
“If you want an advisor to only
tell you what you want to hear,
then you’re not, in my opinion,
getting good advice,” said Dorfman. He said the discussion at
hand was expected last month,
when a public hearing was held
at the Albany County Legislature.
The entire discussion on the
SAFE Act Tuesday night in Knox
was held while a public hearing on an ordinance imposing a
weight limit on Dutch Settlement
Road was open.
“I, as a town board member
here, would support exactly what
all you people are seated here
for,” Supervisor Michael Hammond told the audience, saying
public comment at the state
level was cut short in January.
The audience applauded. “One
of the reasons why we sit here
is to listen to people that we
have responsibilities for, that
we would take due diligence and
exercise our responsibilities for
the people.”
Of the resolution proposed by
Altieri, he said, “I haven’t read
this sample resolution, but I
came to this meeting prepared
to do exactly this,” Hammond
said of voting on the town’s
resolution.
After Hammond offered the
town’s resolution, Altieri asked
that the board hold a public
hearing on it. “I want to get this
done now,” Hammond said, followed by soft laughter from the
audience.
Lori Mithen, counsel to the
Association of Towns, told The
Enterprise that she has received
dozens of resolutions enacted by
towns supporting or opposing the
SAFE Act, some on only parts of
the law.
“I’m not personally aware of
any case law or agency opinion
that prohibits a public hearing
or an informational discussion on
a matter that’s not otherwise required to hold a public hearing,”
Mithen said, speaking generally
of towns in New York.
Following the unanimous vote
on the resolution, comparisons
were made to the other Hilltowns
and numerous towns and counties statewide that have opposed
the SAFE Act in various ways.
The latest Siena poll reported
on March 11 that 56 percent of
New Yorkers oppose repealing
the SAFE Act and 40 percent support repeal; 38 percent of upstate
respondents opposed repealing
the act and 59 percent favored
repeal. A repeal would require
the governor’s signature.
Tom Cavanagh of Berne who
has been at a number of Hilltown
meetings, pushing for repeal of
the SAFE Act, told the Knox
board that a public hearing
would allow the board to form
a resolution that represents the
opinion of its residents.
“I just want to say that not
everybody in town agrees with
this,” responded John Elberfeld,
a Knox resident. (His letter to the
editor is printed in this week’s
Enterprise.)
Hammond said of the state
legislature, “We’re urging them.
What else can we do to them?”
Westerlo held a special meeting at the urging of audience
members who attended its March
board meeting, and passed a
resolution. The resolution shared
language with the proclamation
signed by 13 Albany County legislators demanding a repeal of
the SAFE Act and opposing any
legislation that would infringe
upon the right to bear arms. In
Berne, the town board listened to
comments during a public hearing on a local law and at a town
board meeting. Rensselaerville
held an informational meeting on
a possible resolution to be voted
on during its April 11 meeting.
Deborah Busch, a Republican
county legislator, circulated the
proclamation and has encouraged all town boards in the Hilltowns to pass similar resolutions.
Her 39th District is in all four
Hilltowns.
“I don’t believe that this resolution that you’ve read — I believe
it’s very similar to what’s going
on in Berne — it doesn’t address
the unconstitutional elements
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As citizens push boards for resolutions to repeal the state’s SAFE Act
that people are here to speak
about,” Busch told the Knox
board, following the vote, noting
the Knox resolution did not call
for a repeal.
Republican Travis Stevens,
who represents the 31st county
legislative district in Knox,
East Berne, Guilderland and
Altamont, attended the Knox
meeting and had signed the
county proclamation circulated
by Busch.
Busch said she is part of a
movement to have every town
and county in the state support
the repeal of the SAFE Act and
that a group of supporters has
been active in organizing and
attending local meetings. With
the message coming from enough
towns and counties, she believes
a repeal is likely.
“We are all residents of the
Hilltowns and, I have to be
honest with you, that was my
campaign crew, so we have all
stuck together, and my campaign
crew is the Tea Party. They’re Tea
Party individuals,” said Busch of
a group of about eight people.
Busch told The Enterprise
she has given her proclamation
to State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, and to state executive and
legislative offices. Tkaczyk is a
Democrat as are all the members of the Knox Town Board,
all the members of the Westerlo
Town Board, and all but one of
the members of the Berne Town
Board. The Rensselaerville Town
Board has one Republican, one
Democrat, two Conservatives,
and one independent.
Knox Councilwoman Amy
Pokorny, when asked her opinion, said she was in favor of gun
control, but on the board would
listen to all views. Viscio said
his opinion was not relevant and
that he voted for the resolution
based on the town attorney’s
advice.
When a man in the gallery suggested that passing the town’s
less aggressive resolution could
keep board members from being
re-elected, Viscio responded, at
times shouting, saying no one
had brought up the elementaryschool shooting that sparked a
national debate on gun control
in December.
“This debate is much bigger
than all of this,” said Viscio. “And
for this board to go dancing off
to the state with an opinion that
matters squat, and you want to
bring up discussions about all
these state issues here. I understand your compassion for your
rights.” For political motivation
to be involved in how people
respond to the shooting and
deal with gun control, he said,
is “disgusting.”
Hammond said he was not in
favor of a repeal, pointing to a
part in the law he agrees with
that heightens criminal penalties for shooting law-enforcement
agents. Many in the gallery got
up and left, ending the talk.
Berne
With almost 40 people in the
town hall on April 10, some had
to stand as citizens began the
meeting by calling the draft
resolution weak.
Berne resident Nicholas Minute said the resolution “lacks
backbone.” He said, “The board
has not put forth any sort of
formal position.”
Cavanagh, who submitted his
own version of a resolution to
the board at its March meeting,
told Supervisor Kevin Crosier
that Crosier had said then there
would be a public hearing.
“This is not the way it should
be done. You are elected by the
people of the town of Berne,” said
Cavanagh.
Councilman Joseph Golden
noted there was a recording of
the meeting and said he would
be willing to listen to it.
“A public hearing would be no
different than what just happened here,” said Town Clerk
Patricia Favreau.
Berne resident Richard Ronconi said he is not in favor of
repeal and that the recommendation for more public hearings is
reasonable.
Cooke, who has served as
chairman of the Berne Comprehensive Plan Committee, read
from an e-mail he had sent to
the town, asking for the board
to consider acknowledging that
there are Berne residents who
view the SAFE Act as an infringement on their Second
Amendment rights.
As the board prepared to
vote on the resolution, Crosier
spoke.
“I’m with you on this, guys. I
get it,” he said.
Wi l l i a m R a p o l i , w h o s a t
against the wall, had spoken
earlier of how the resolution was
missing mention of the Second
Amendment.
“Will, you and I shot trap together as kids,” said Crosier. He
later spoke of the “horrific carnage” from gun violence he had
seen as an Albany firefighter.
Crosier noted the 2,800 Berne
residents represented by the
board. He said he had spoken to
state legislators who said they
would be willing to come to a public meeting on the SAFE Act.
Golden said he agreed with
what Cooke suggested, later calling it “the Cooke Amendment.”
“I just think we missed a step,
and he pointed it out,” Golden
said.
The board tabled the resolution so that Cooke can provide
a paragraph to insert into the
resolution, with his assertion that
“a majority” of Berne residents
view the SAFE Act as an infringe-
ment of their Second Amendment
rights changed to something
that cannot be counted, like “a
number.”
The board will consider the
change during its April 24 work
meeting.
Councilwoman Bonnie Conklin, the board’s sole Republican,
said she was surprised during
the work meeting when the
resolution she submitted weeks
before was not discussed, though
she voted for the one chosen.
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County calling for the repeal of the SAFE Act and opposing any legislation that infringes on the right
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Community Calendar
Friday, April 12
Clearwater Chapter of
Trout Unlimited will hold its
April meeting at 7:30 p.m. at
its new location, the Albany
Ramada Plaza Hotel, 3 Watervliet Avenue Extension, Albany.
The guest speaker will be Evan
Botcher from the Hungry Trout
Fly Shop, with a presentation on
fishing the Ausable River and
surrounding area. A guest fly
tier will also start at 6:30 p.m.
For more details, directions, and
information on coming events,
please visit www.clearwatertu.
org. Admission to our meetings
is free and the public is always
invited.
The Portrayal of Slavery
in the Art of Faith Ringgold:
Michelle Wallace, scholar, feminist, and author of Black Macho
and the Myth of the Superwoman,
will speak about The Portrayal of
Slavery in the Art of Faith Ringgold at the opening of the 12th annual Underground Railroad Public
History Conference. Wallace’s
opening address is scheduled for
7 p.m. at Opalka Gallery, as part
of the conference organized by the
Underground Railroad History
Project of the Capital Region, in
collaboration with Sage Colleges.
12th Annual Underground
Railroad History Conference:
Registration is now online for
the conference, to be held April
12 13, and 14, at The Sage Colleges in Albany and Troy, and
The Meyers Residence in Albany,
and can be accessed at www.undergroundrailroadhistory.org. An
incredible schedule has been assembled focusing on “Milestones
to Freedom: The Emancipation
Proclamation, Harriet Tubman,
and the March on Washington
— a Legacy and a Future.” The
weekend’s powerful lineup includes an Educator’s Workshop,
exhibitors, vendors, cultural
performances, keynote speakers, drawings, and an evening
reception. Call 432-4432 for more
information.
Dudley Observatory Star
Party and Program at 8 p.m.
in the Octagon Barn; star gazing
to follow, weather permitting.
Meet at 588 Middle Road, in
Knox. All are welcome. Amateur
astronomers and families are
encouraged to bring binoculars
or telescopes. Free refreshments.
Call 872-1879 for more information.
Berne Chili Dinner, from 5 to
7 p.m. at the Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School cafeteria, to
benefit the BKW meal program.
Reservations appreciated. Call
872-5131 and ask for Deb Rosko.
The cost for adult dinners is $7
and the cost for children is $5.
Saturday, April 13
Chicken and Biscuit Supper
at the Gallupville Fire House,
from 5 to 7 p.m., sponsored by
the Auxiliary. The cost is $10
for adults and $5 for children, or
$10.50 for take-out. All proceeds
go to the Old Fire House (School
House.)
Hike to High Point at Thacher Park: Enjoy beautiful
views from the cliff and early
spring wildflowers on an easy
to moderate hike to High Point.
We will hike the 3-mile Fred
Schroeder Memorial Trail. Be
prepared for muddy feet and cool
mountain morning air. Please
call 872-0800 to register.
Five Rivers Sets Family
Program on Wildlife: An indoor/outdoor family program exploring common misconceptions
about wildlife will be conducted
at 10 a.m. at 56 Game Farm
Road, Delmar. Some animals
have a bad reputation. During
this fact-or-fiction study, Five
Rivers naturalists will present
an indoor overview of common
attitudes, beliefs, and misunderstandings to compare perception
with reality. This program is free
of charge, but space is limited;
call 475-0291 to register.
Tuesday, April 16
Ninety Miles, a Cuban American musical collaboration tour featuring Albany’s Stefon Harris as well
as Nicholas Payton and David Sanchez will be making a stop at The College of Saint Rose on April 18
at 7:30 p.m., playing at the Kathleen McManus Picotte Recital Hall, Massry Center for the Arts, 1002
Madison Ave., Albany. Concert tickets are $30 and available for purchase at www.massrycenter.org. For
concert and ticket information, contact Sal Prizio at 337-4871 or [email protected].
All-You-Can-Eat Pancake
Breakfast at the Onesquethaw
Reformed Church, 11 Groesbeck
Road, Feura Bush. The menu includes pancakes, sausage, homemade sausage gravy, biscuits,
eggs, applesauce, and beverages. The cost is a donation. The
proceeds will benefit the senior
youth group mission trip to Blue
Knob, PA, and the Camp Fowler
Scholarship Fund.
Ham Dinner at the Helderberg Reformed Church, by
reservation only. Seatings at
3:30, 5:30, and 6:30 p.m. The
menu includes baked ham,
mashed potatoes, homemade
gravy, vegetables, applesauce,
rolls, drinks, and dessert. The
cost is $10 for adults and $5 for
children. Call 698-9911 to make
a reservation.
Concert for Cooper: Cooper
is a 17-month-old boy battling
cancer. He has a long road to recovery ahead of him, with months
of chemotherapy and radiation.
Join us for a celebration in support of this little boy and his
journey to recovery. The concert
will be held at the Guilderland
Fire Department, from 6 p.m. to
midnight. Parking will be at the
Guilderland Elementary School,
2225 Western Ave., Guilderland. Shuttles will be running
throughout the night. The cost
is $20 at the door for food and
beverages, or $5 for kids 12 and
under.
Nature Journaling: Join us
as we pause to observe life in the
Pine Bush and reflect in nature
journals. We will combine drawing, scientific observation, poetry,
and more as we each record a
visit to the Pine Bush in our
own creative way. Journals will
be provided to program participants. Meet at the Albany Pine
Bush Discovery Center, 195 New
Karner Road, at 10 a.m. The fee
is $3 per person or $5 per family
and registration is required; call
456-0655.
Chicken and Biscuit Dinner at 4:30 p.m. at the Ravena
Grange, Route 143 in Coeyman’s
Hollow. Take-outs are available.
The cost is $10 for adults and $5
for children.
Five Rivers Sets Family
Program on Ants: A family
program on the natural history of
ants will be conducted at 2 p.m.
at 56 Game Farm Road, Delmar.
An ant can carry 10 to 50 times
its own weight. At this indoor/
outdoor study, Five Rivers staff
will provide an indoor overview
of the fascinating lifestyle of
these family-oriented creatures
using games and crafts. Afterwards, staff naturalists will lead
an outdoor investigation of ant
mounds along Five Rivers’ gentle
trails to see how ants make a
living. This program is free of
charge, but space is limited. Call
475-0291 to register.
Roast Beef Dinner at the
Clarksville Community Church,
1997 Delaware Turnpike, with
settings at 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30
p.m. The menu includes mashed
potatoes, a vegetable, coleslaw,
rolls, beverages, and homemade
pies. The cost is $11 for adults
and $5.50 for children. Walk-ins
are welcome; call 768-3007 to
make reservations.
The Southern Civil Rights
Struggle and the Legacy of
the Underground Railroad:
Colia Clark, continuing activist,
former SNCC member, founder
of the NAACP Youth League, and
leader of the youthful, militant
wing of the 1960s Civil Rights
Movement in Mississippi and
Alabama, will be the keynote
speaker at Russell Sage College
in Troy. She will speak midday
at the 12th annual public history
conference. Call 432-4432 for
more information.
Schnitzelfest: Get your German on at the German-American
Club, 32 Cherry Street, Albany.
This month we feature music
from Paul Slusar. Doors open
at 5 p.m. and dinner is served
at 6 p.m. Dinner choices are
pork or chicken schnitzel with
oven roasted potatoes and red
cabbage. The cost is $20 per
person. Salad and dessert are
included. Walk-ins are welcome
for music and dancing at $6 per
person. Call 439-5932 to make
reservations.
Sunday, April 14
Jubilate Concert: The Jubilate Singers and Orchestra will
present a concert of sacred music,
titled “Alleluia,” at 7 p.m. at the
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 85
Elm Ave., Delmar. The “Alleluia”
concert features Conductor Ralph
C. Schultz, soprano soloists Holly
McCormack and Diane Mineau,
and tenor soloist Brian Bailey.
Ticket costs are $15 for adults,
$10 for students and seniors, and
children who are 12 and under
get in free. Tickets are available
by calling 478-9476.
Museum Opens New Exhibit: The New Scotland Historical
Association will have a grand
opening of its new exhibit, “Entertainment Before 1950 and TV,”
to be held at the Wyman Osterhout Community Center, in New
Salem, from 1 to 4 p.m. Along
with viewing the new exhibit,
come enjoy a community dance
from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m., with caller
Paul Rosenberg, and the band
Fire Flies. This event is free and
open to the public; refreshments
will be served. Call 765-4212 for
more information.
Turtle Reading Time: Join
us for a story on this spring afternoon and visit with our education
turtles. Meet at the Albany Pine
Bush Discovery Center, 195 New
Karner Road, at 1 p.m. The fee
is $3 per person or $5 per family
and registration is required; call
456-0655.
Guilderland Pop Warner
Registration and Breakfast:
The cost for the pancake breakfast is $7. Come register for the
2013 season, at the Guilderland
Elks Club on Carman Road, from
8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Monday, April 15
Monday Meals: The very
popular menu item is chicken
parmesan, with pasta and a
homemade dessert. The cost is
$8, and the pick-up times are
from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Voorheesville Methodist Church, 38
Maple Ave. Don’t miss this easy
way to serve a complete meal. To
reserve a meal, call 765-2895 or
765-4206.
Early Morning Spring
Training Hike: Get down and
give me 20! No, we won’t be doing calisthenics, but we will be
doing a 3-mile cardiovascular
hike over rolling terrain, whether
rain or shine. What a great way
to exercise while enjoying beautiful scenery and fresh air! Please
wear long pants, a long-sleeved
shirt, sturdy walking shoes, and
bring a drink. Meet at the Albany
Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195
New Karner Road, at 7:30 a.m.
The fee is $3 per person or $5
per family and registration is
required; call 456-0655.
Wednesday, April 17
Choices 301, Inc. Open
House: Ed Frank, Choices 30
Inc., and Albany County Stop
DWI Administrator Lieutenant Kerry B. Thompson invite
you to the Beacon of Hope. The
Choices 301, Inc. program focuses
on the dangers of driving while
intoxicated, aggressive/extreme
driving, and the crashes, injuries, and deaths, which can and
do result from one poor choice
or bad decision. The program
takes a multi-faceted approach
aimed at educating the public
about the realities and dangers
of DWI, aggressive and extreme
driving behavior, and the failure
to utilize the proper passenger
restraint devices in motor vehicles. The open house will run
from 9 to 11 a.m. Choices 301,
Inc. is located at 6378 Gun Club
Road, Altamont.
Thursday, April 18
Bethlehem Historical Association Meeting: The presentation will be “Captain Stewart
Dean, an Albany Hero,” by Matthew J. Kirk. Meet at 7:30 p.m.
at the Cedar Hill Schoolhouse,
1003 River Road, Selkirk.
“Maintaining Your Perennial Garden”: Sponsored by the
Cornell Cooperative Extension,
Master Gardener Carol Mastromarchi will tell you what to do,
when to do it, and how it will help
you have beautiful blossoms all
season. The program starts at 7
p.m. and is held at the Extension Education Center, 61 State
Street, Troy. The program fee is
$6 per person and registration is
required. Call 272-4210.
Take Back the Night: Albany
County Crime Victim and Sexual
Violence Center brings you the
32 nd annual rally and march
against sexual violence. Hosted
by the Sage College of Albany,
140 New Scotland Ave.; 4:30
p.m. pre-rally, 6 p.m. welcoming
remarks, 6:30 p.m. rally and
march, 7:30 p.m. speak out, and
8:30 p.m. candlelight vigil.
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Thursday, April 18
Baseball During the Civil
War: Matt George will give a
presentation on this topic at the
Guilderland Historical Society’s
meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the
Mynderse-Frederick House, 451
Route 146, Guilderland Center.
Refreshments and a social hour
follow the program and all are
invited to come to the meeting.
Call 861-8582 for more information.
Science Lecture Series
— Buck Moths: The Inland
Barrens Buckmoth is a giant silk
month that feeds exclusively on
the leaves of scrub oaks in the
larval stage. This relationship
restricts their distribution in
the northeastern United States
to pitch pine-scrub oak barrens
like those found in the Albany
Pine Bush Preserve. Buckmoth
populations here have been
monitored since 1991 and have
recently received attention from
researchers at the SUNY College
of Environmental Science and
Forestry. Dr. Dylan Perry will
speak on this research, including
results from recent work studying the ecology and biology of
both the larval and adult stages
of this Pine Bush endemic. Meet
at the Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195 New Karner
Road, at 7 p.m. The program is
free, but registration is required;
call 456-0655.
Free Concert by the Youth
Jazz Ensemble and Saint Rose
Jazz Ensemble at the Massry
Center for the Arts, The College
of Saint Rose, at 7:30 p.m.
No Impact Man, a thoughtful
and engaging award-winning
movie, will be screened at 7:30
p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, 405
Washington Avenue. No Impact
Man is a documentary about a
family that forgoes any activity
which will affect the environment.
They even give up electricity. This
movie is a playful, engaging look at
their challenges and relationships
during the year in which they
experimented with this lifestyle.
A thoughtful and entertaining way
to start your Earth Day weekend.
Free will donation.
Saturday, April 20
Join Tri-City Rentals for
3 rd Annual E-Waste Collection Event: Celebrate Earth
Day with us and recycle your
unwanted electronic items. We
are offering five convenient
drop-off locations at our apartment communities throughout
the Capital Region. Even though
eLot will be shredding all hard
drives and similar data storage
devices, please feel free to erase
any data prior to the event. For
a list of locations and accepted
items, visit www.tcrgreenliving.
com.
Thinking spring: Fourth-grader Xanming Zhang of Westmere
Elementary School captured the beauty of a single blossom —
with bold blue petals and bright yellow stamens — as a student
in Susan Feller’s art class. Her work will be on display along with
artists from other Guilderland elementary schools until April 13
at the Guilderland Public Library.
Friday, April 19
Mainstream Level Western
Square Dance: The Schoharie
Valley Hayshakers will hold a
square dance at the Middleburgh
Elementary School cafeteria beginning at 7:30 p.m. The dance
theme is ice cream social. The
caller is Ray Taylor and the cuer
is Dolores Randall. Please wear
soft sole shoes.
The Upper Hudson Chapter
of Sisters in Crime — The
Mavens of Mayhem — will meet
at 10:30 a.m., at the Bethlehem
Public Library, 451 Delaware
Ave., Delmar. Author K. A. Laity
will present a program on Twitter
for writers. A prolific writer and
Tweeter, Laity has used social
media to connect with readers,
writers, and others in the publishing community. Come and
learn how you can get it on the
global conversation.
“Save Energy, Save Dollars”: Cornell Cooperative Extension presents a free energy
workshop, at 11 a.m. at the
Rensselaerville Public Library,
1459 County Road 351, Rensselaerville. The workshop provides
low-cost and no-cost ways t save
energy and reduce energy bills. It
links consumers with programs
that provide energy-efficiency
improvements with subsidies,
low-interest loans, or free services to qualifying households.
Advanced registration is required by calling 765-3559.
Health and Services Fair
for Adults and Seniors: The
Congregation Beth EmethSidney Albert Albany Jewish
Community Center will hold this
free event at the Albany JCC,
340 Whitehall Road, from 10:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The event will
provide health screenings, information booths staffed by area
businesses, refreshments, drawing prizes, therapeutic massage,
and quick adult haircuts. Snacks
will be given out from 10:30 a.m.
until noon, while supplies last.
Call 438-6651 ext. 112 for more
information.
Spring Supper: The Presbyterian Church in New Scotland
will hold its annual spring supper from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in
the church’s Fellowship Hall,
at 2010 New Scotland Road,
Slingerlands. The menu consists
of roast pork, mashed potatoes,
gravy, sauerkraut, cooked carrots, green bean salad, rolls
and butter, and homemade pies
for dessert. The cost is $10 for
adults, $5 for children, and seating is first-come-first-served. No
reservations are taken. Takeouts are available. Call 439-6454
for more information.
Earth Day in the Pine Bush:
Come celebrate Earth Day in the
Pine Bush by volunteering on a
conservation project. A variety
of activities suitable for all ages
will be taking place. Lunch will
be provided for all volunteers.
Meet at the Albany Pine Bush
Discovery Center, 195 New
Karner Road, at 9 a.m. Please
sign up by calling 456-0655.
Pork Dinner: The Dormansville United Methodist Church
will hold a dinner in the church
hall from 4 to 7 p.m. The menu
includes pork, mashed potatoes,
dressing, gravy, coleslaw, green
beans, applesauce, rolls, and
cake and ice cream. There will
also be a bake sale. Take-outs
will be available. The cost is a
donation.
State of the County Meeting: Albany County Executive
Daniel P. McCoy will hold a meeting for Hilltown residents at 10
a.m. at the Berne Senior Center,
1360 Route 443, Berne.
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Library Notes
Out & About
George to speak on Civil War baseball
By Mary Ellen Johnson
GUILDERLAND — Matt
George will be presenting the
program “Baseball During the
Civil War” at the Thursday,
April 18, meeting of the Guilderland Historical Society. Few
people connect our national game
with Civil War armies, yet both
Union and Confederate soldiers
frequently played baseball when
they were in winter quarters or
in camp between campaigns or
battles.
Baseball had become popular
in the years just before the out-
break of the war, especially in
the northeastern states, and ball
players who had become soldiers
saw no reason to stop playing
when they had the opportunity.
While it is recognized today
that Abner Doubleday wasn’t
baseball’s inventor, as a Union
general he actively encouraged
men under his command to play
the game, part of the reason his
name was linked with the game’s
origin for decades.
Matt George is both a long-time
baseball coach as well as an extremely knowledgeable Civil War
buff. A retired educator, he has
made numerous living-history
presentations as a member of the
134th New York Volunteers.
All are welcome to attend the
Guilderland Historical Society’s
meeting on April 18 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Mynderse-Frederick House
at 451 Route 146 in Guilderland
Center. Parking is available next
door at the church.
Refreshments and a social
hour with the opportunity to chat
with our speaker will follow the
program. For more information,
call 861-8582.
Albany Pro Musica completes
season despite conductor’s illness
Albany Pro Musica will complete its 2012-2013 season as
originally scheduled with one
program change, according to
Jennifer Amstutz, president
of the choral group’s board of
directors.
Although Albany Pro Musica
will be performing without David
Griggs-Janower, the groups’s
artistic director, conductor, and
founder, who suffered a stroke
while recovering from surgery in
March, the group is committed to
fulfilling his plans and vision for
the season.
“Distinguished guest conduc-
tors will help to ensure that our
audiences experience the kind
of professionalism and musical
excellence they have come to
expect from this premier choral
ensemble,” said Executive Director Matthew Kopans in a release
from Albany Pro Musica.
APM is also continuing its
arts-in-education programs for
students, and is moving forward
with plans for its 2013-14 season,
according to Kopans.
The concert scheduled for May
11 at Troy Savings Bank Music
Hall will feature Haydn’s majestic “Lord Nelson Mass” in place of
Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.”
On May 17, Pro Musica will
perform in “Albany Sings!” in
concert with Albany High School,
at the College of Saint Rose’s
Massry Center for the Arts.
The final two concerts — “Pops
Goes the Chorus!” — will be
held June 7 and 8 at the Shaker
Meeting House near the Albany
airport.
All four of the concerts start
at 7:30 p.m.
Information about the remaining concerts is available at www.
albanypromusica.org or by calling 346-6204.
25 Guilderland students
selected for Suburban Council Music Festival
GUILDERLAND — Twentyfive Guilderland students are
among over 300 selected from
the 13 Suburban Council schools
to perform in this year’s Suburban Scholastic Council Music
Festival, which will be held at
Ballston Spa High School on
Saturday, April 13.
The Guilderland groups performing this year include a
Farnsworth Middle School band,
chorus, and orchestra as well
as the Guilderland High School
Jazz Band.
Performing in the middle
school symphony orchestra will
be: Chloe Stevens and Allegra
Wu on flute, Angelo Amore and
William Wang on clarinet, Albert
Zhong on bassoon, Adrian Zajac
on trumpet, Joel Anthony on
trombone, Katherine Wallace
on cello, and Ryan Dempsey on
bass.
The middle school concert
band includes: Kelly Wuthrich
on flute, Treasa Powathil on
oboe, Amelia Dunn, and Isabella
Wu on clarinet, Avery Heaney
on alto saxaphone, Mary Kate
Sweeney on trumpet, Dan Bemis
on horn,
Angus Cropley, Hugh Smith,
and Jason Sindoni on tuba, and
Belen Marriaga playing percussion.
Vocalists selected to sing with
the middle school concert choir,
under the direction of Diane War-
ner, include: Meg Fitzpatrick,
Natalie Russo, Abby Ryan, and
Marissa Scotti.
High School student Leonard
Bopp was selected to play the
lead trumpet part in the high
school jazz ensemble, led by Mike
Titlebaum, jazz educator and
performer from Ithaca College.
The Guilderland students are
taught by Jenn Austin, Nancy
Casellini, Susan Curro, Shannon
deFrancqueville,
Kathleen Ehlinger, Lee Russo,
and Jason Utter.
The concert on April 13 at
Ballston Spa High School begins
at 2 p.m. and is free and open to
the public.
Voorheesville
By Jeff Keller
Two new trustees will be elected
to the Voorheesville Public Library’s board of trustees this year.
The election will be held on Tuesday, May 21, to fill the vacancies
caused by the expiration of the
term of Rebecca Pahl and the resignation of Rita Stein. The elected
trustees will serve a five-year and
two-year term respectively, beginning July 1, 2013.
Prospective candidates may
pick up their nominating petitions
at the library. The petitions must
be returned by 5 p.m. on Monday,
April 22, with a minimum of 25
signatures. Let’s sing and dance
On Saturday, April 13 at 10:15
a.m., the musical story time
returns with new songs, stories
and activities for toddlers through
kindergarteners with an adult. No
registration is necessary.
Let’s Go Fly a Kite
with Miss Amy
Join us on Tuesday, April 23, at
6:30 p.m. for a lively thematic evening of story, song, craft-making,
and, with an April breeze, kiteflying. This program is for children
in preschool through grade 2 and
their families.
Ongoing
children’s programs
Babygarten is on Thursday,
April 18, preschool story time is
on Tuesdays, April 16, 23, and 30
and Toddler Town is on Thursday,
April 25. All programs start at
10:15 a.m. Kid’s book discussion
On Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m.,
the kid’s book discussion for children in grades 2 and 3 will be on
Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil
Record.
On Friday, April 19, at 7p.m.
Runt will be the topic for kids in
grades 4 and 5. Both groups will
meet at the library.
Friends meet
Friends of the Library will meet
on Monday, April 22, at 7 p.m.
Poet’s night
Every Other Thursday Night
Poets will meet on April 25 at
6:30 p.m.
New at the library
Bomb: The Race to Build-and
Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous
Weapon by Steve Sheinkin was
the winner of three major awards,
including a Newbery Honor. Bomb
is a thriller told in three parallel stories: the race against time
to build the world’s first atomic
bomb; the effort to stop the Nazis
from developing it first; and the
schemes of Soviet spies to steal
the American plans. You’ll find this
book on our young adult nonfiction
shelf and in our nonfiction and
young adult nooks.
Rensselaerville
By Kimberly Graff
Tonight at 7 p.m., the Rensselaerville Library’s writing group,
a small, informal and supportive
writers’ group meets. Writers of
all interests, backgrounds, and
abilities are welcome. We currently have a mix of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers. You
will always have time to write
during our 2-hour session, and
you will never be forced to share
anything. If you have works-inprogress or would just like to put
pen to paper, the library’s writing
group will give you the time and
support you need. Felting workshop
On Saturday, April 13, the
library presents Felting with
Sharon Costello, from 9 a.m. to
noon. Spring is on its way. Get
into the spirit by making your
own felted flowers. Join felt artist
Sharon Costello for a 3-hour class
that will teach you how to create
beautiful flowers using ancient
wet felting techniques. Wool fibers, soapy water, and controlled
agitation is all that is needed to
transform fluffy sheep’s wool into
a three-dimensional felt flower. All
materials are provided. Great fun
for everyone 10 to 100 years old.
Registration is required
Also on Saturday, April 13,
from 1 to 4 p.m., we will do
felted bunnies. Learn to sculpt
animals with nothing more than
a specially designed felting needle
and loose-carded wool fibers. Felt
artist Sharon Costello will lead a
three-hour workshop to introduce
needle felting to the novice. No
special skills are needed to create
a charming 6-inch bunny and,
unlike wet felting, no soap and
water is required. All materials
are provided. This is great fun
for ages 10 and up. Registration
is required.
Weekend at the movie
Join us for Looper on Saturday,
April 13, at 7 p.m., at Conkling
Hall. This movie is rated R.
Board meets
On Monday, April 15, the library’s board of trustees will meet
at 7 p.m. All meetings are open to
the public.
Poem project
On Sunday, April 21, the Favorite Poem Project will be at
Conkling Hall from 3 to 5 p.m.
This is Rensselaerville’s 8th Annual Favorite Poem Project. Dig
through your books or memories
and bring a poem to read aloud or
just come to listen. This event is
part of a national endeavor, during
which communities come together
when residents read and share
favorite poems.
Most bring poems selected
from books or journals or memo-
Listen to classic recordings of pianist,
composer, and bandleader Carla Bley
Bethlehem
For the best in local news coverage, read The Enterprise.
By Louise Grieco
On Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m.,
come to the Bethlehem Public
Library’s Listening Parties: Reflection on Jazz. Listen to classic
recordings of pianist, composer,
and bandleader Carla Bley. Share
observations with like-minded
jazz aficionados.
Monday night at the movies
On Monday, April 22, at 6:30
p.m. enjoy a movie at the library.
Call 439-9314 for details.
Lego Club
On Thursday, April 25, at 7 p.m.
join us to build things and build
friendships. This program is for
kids and their families.
Teen time
On Friday, April 26, from 3 to
4:30 p.m., the library will have
gaming, crafts, food and friends for
kids in grades 6 through 12.
ries. Some choose favorites from
childhood or school, or read an
original poem. Others select
from classic or contemporary well
known and less-known poets. This year’s readers will include:
Katherine Dieckmann, Joanna
Bull, Charlie Burgess, Jan Bishop,
and Maryann Ronconi, and hopefully many of you. Our popular
emcee from previous events is
actor, author, and reverend Claire
North from Manchester, Vt. Refreshments will be served. A free
will donation is appreciated.
Computer help
The library is offering one on
one computer and Internet help.
Kim is offering individual sessions at the library to help get you
started with almost any common
everyday computer or Internet
questions. Appointments are recommended, please visit or call the
library at 797-3949.
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Library Notes
Guilderland
By Mark Curiale
The Second Sunday Concert Series continues as the Guilderland
Public Library will host, on April
14, at 2 p.m., sitarist and composer
Veena Chandra, and tabla master
Devesh Chandra, in a performance
of India and Western music.
This event is part of the library’s
Second Sunday Concert Series;
future engagements include The
Broad Street Chamber Players on
Sunday, May 12, and The Brian
Patneaude Quartet on Sunday,
June 9. These concerts are free
and open to the public.
Budget comment session
and board meeting
The public comment session
on the library’s proposed 2013-14
budget will be held tonight, April
11, at 7 p.m. The library’s board of trustees
will hold its monthly business
meeting at 7:30 p.m., tonight,
April 11. These meetings will
be in the Tawasentha Room. As
always, the public is encouraged
to attend.
Library info
For more information about
the library, call the library at
456-2400, or e-mail us at info@
guilpl.org. The library is located
at 2228 Western Ave., Guilderland. Visit the library’s website
at www.guilpl.org. Check out the
“unofficial” library stuff at facebook.com/Guilderland.Library,
follow the library on Twitter @
GuilderlandLib, and get music
information and free downloads
on the library’s Freegal page. It
all starts at guilpl.org.
Middleburgh
By Anne LaMont
On April 16, at 10:45 a.m., join
us at the Middleburgh Library for
drop-in story time. Get ready to
move in this interactive story time
designed especially for children up
to age 5 and their caregivers. We’ll
read books, sing songs, recite fingerplays, dance and watch a short
movie based on a weekly theme.
No registration is required.
Read with Indy
On April 16, at 3:30 p.m., Indy is
at the library as a reading buddy
to your child. Registered therapy
dogs are excellent listeners. Bring
your reader to the library to read
to our therapy dog, Indy and his
person, Karen VanDyke. Indy
is non-judgmental and will give
kids confidence while reading. No
registration is necessary.
Concert
On April 16, at 7 p.m., join us
at the library for a concert with
Chuck Brodsky. This storyteller,
knows that the best stories are
the little things in the lives of
everyday people trying to muddle
through with some grace. Tickets
are available at the door. A $10
donation is suggested.
Wednesday matinee
On April 17, at 1 p.m., the
Wednesday Matinee will be Life
of Pi rated PG.
Kundalini Yoga
On April 17, at 5 p.m., you can
learn a new skill here or share
your own special talents with others or just craft in the company
of friends. Drop in anytime. No
registration is required.
Knitting Circle
On April 18, at 7 p.m., come to
the library where you can learn
a new skill or share your own
special talents with others or just
craft in the company of friends.
Drop in anytime. No registration
is required.
Budget vote
On April 23, residents of the
Middleburgh School District will
be able to vote on the proposed
library budget from noon to 8 p.m.,
in the community room.
For more information, see our
website at www.middleburghlibrary.info.
Berne
By Judy Petrosillo
According to the PGA official
website, the Masters Tournament
in Augusta, Georgia is this weekend. Fifty years ago the purse was
$112,500 and Jack Nicklaus won
the first of his six green jackets.
This year the purse is eight million
dollars and Bubba Watson returns
to defend his 2012 championship
title.
Comic workshop
Illustrating a comic book may
not be as profitable as being a progolfer, but it should be less stressful. There is still time to register
for the JAM Comic Workshop on
Sunday, April 14. Ira Marcks is
coming to Berne from 1 to 4 p.m.,
to help tweens and teens explore
creativity using the medium of
comics. The workshop is free but
you must register by calling the
library at 872-1246 by 1 p.m. on
Saturday.
Book talk
Ten years after the first Masters
Tournament in 1934, Samuel Hopkins Adams wrote Canal Town.
The novel is about a doctor helping
the workers of the Erie Canal. A
Good Job!
book talk on this story is being
held Sunday, April 14, at 7 p.m.
in the town of Berne meeting
room. All interested adults are
welcome to participate in the
discussion even if you have not
read the book. Many doctors enjoy a game of
golf, which is generally perceived
as a low-risk sport. The most
common complaints are injuries
to the lower back and elbows. Of
course there is always the chance
of being hit by a golf club flung by
a frustrated player.
Story time
Boo boos will be the focus of
story time on Tuesday, April
16. Preschool children and their
caregivers are invited to join
Kathy at 11 a.m. to hear the story,
Oopsie! Ouchie! by Adair Lara. A
kiss will definitely make an injury
better. Songs, activities, and a
craft will also be part of this early
literacy program.
Fund-raiser
If you need to improve your golf
game, the Friends of the Berne
Library have a fund-raising event
for you. A nine hole, miniature
golf course is being set up in the
Berne Senior Center with the help
of community groups. Try your
hand at playing indoor mini-golf
on Saturday, April 27. Families
are invited to play from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. and adults from 6 to
9 p.m. Suggested donations are
$5 per child and $10 per adult
with a $25 maximum per family.
Refreshments will be available
for purchase during the day and
a chili dinner will be available in
the evening. There will also be
drawings with many goodies. All
proceeds will be used to purchase
equipment and book cases for
the new library. Support the
library while having fun putting
around.
Happy Cat Rescue
now a not-for-profit
GUILDERLAND — Happy Cat
Rescue has been designated by
the Internal Revenue Service as
a not-for-profit organization under
Section 501-c(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code, according to the
organization’s founder, Marcia
Scott.
“This means that donations to
Happy Cat qualify as charitable
contributions under the code,”
Scott stated.
Happy Cat Rescue is a no-kill
program that operates to benefit
abused, abandoned, and stray cats
throughout the Capital District.
—Photo by Judy Petrosillo
Helping hands: This tyke took the theme of the Berne
Library story time to heart — spring cleaning
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Open HOuse
Wednesday, April 17, 9-11am
Ed Frank, Choices 301 lnc., and
Albany County STOP-DWI
Administrator Lieutenant Kerry B. Thompson
invite you to the Beacon of Hope.
The Choices 301, Inc. program focuses on the dangers
of Driving While lntoxicated (DWI), Aggressive/Extreme
Driving and the crashes, injuries and deaths which can
and do result from one poor choice or bad decision.
The program takes a multi-faceted approach
aimed at educating the public about the realities
and dangers of DWI, aggressive and extreme
driving behavior and the failure to utilize the proper
passenger restraint devices in motor vehicles.
North Indian classical music will be performed by Devesh Chandra, left, and Veena Chandra in a
free concert at the Guilderland Public Library on Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m.
Choices 301, Inc. is located at:
Beacon of Hope
6378 Gun Club Road
Altamont, NY 12009
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Engagement
Samantha Moak and Mark Bryan
Moak, Bryan to marry
Annette Moak of Voorheesville and David Moak of Westerlo, are
announcing the engagement of their daughter, Samantha Moak,
to Mark Bryan, the son of Larry and Kathe Bryan of Westerlo.
An Aug. 24, 2013 wedding in Cooperstown is planned.
They are both graduates of Berne-Knox-Westero High School
and the State University of New York College at Oneonta. Ms.
Moak graduated in May 2012, with a bachelor of science degree
in professional accounting. Mr. Bryan graduated in May 2011,
with a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice.
Engagement
Michele St. Louis and Matthew Dillon
St. Louis, Dillon to wed
GUILDERLAND — Barbara and Daniel St. Louis of Guilderland
announce the engagement of their daughter, Michele St. Louis, to
Matthew Dillon, son of Rita and James Dillon of Guilderland.
The future bride, a graduate of LeMoyne College, received her
master’s degree in literacy from the University at Albany, and
is a special-education teacher in the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk
Central School District.
The future groom, a graduate of Stonehill College, received his
Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School, and is an associate attorney at Carter Conboy.
An August 2013 wedding is planned.
Correspondents
We were also talking about how
nice it is to speak to other people
in their other or native language.
But as we weave through countries and their languages, we also
get into so many other topics. In
By
this case we have talked about
Rosemary
history and the assimilation
Caruso
of Native Americans as U. S.
citizens.
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European-American populations have been established
throughout our country from
farmers moving west for free
land or from people looking for
more religious freedom. And
When I was in high school we
don’t forget those who moved
were required to take at least
west because of the Gold Rush.
two years of a foreign language.
We have had treaties with the
They were called the Romance
Spanish, Russian, and Native
Languages and we could choose
Americans to allow people to
German, French, Spanish, Italsettle land and raise crops or
ian, or Latin.
conduct a business.
As I was in the college course, I
All of the different influences
had to take Latin. I was told that
have also influenced our lanstudents who were interested in
guage. We have groups of people
majoring in English or interested
throughout the United States
in writing were urged to take
who can claim just about every
Latin in order to know and undercountry as home and speak the
stand English derivatives.
language. Hopefully, they will
After graduating from
pass that language on to
high school, those who went
their children. Perhaps one
on to college found that
day we will have a common
Much of the problem came from
many schools required at
language that will allow
least four years of foreign
their inability to speak English.
everyone to speak with
languages. Some of my
every other person.
classmates took two adAES banking
ditional years of the same
Parents are reminded that
country as well as other countries.
language. Others decided to try
While vacationing in Florida, we students have the opportunity to
something different and selected
heard advertisements announc- do their banking at the Altamont
another language. The language
ing their 500th anniversary. Elementary School on Friday,
that was most interesting to me
That was particularly interesting April 12.
and the one I took was French
NYS testing
since we had just gone through
but, unfortunately, I was not
It is required that all students
the 400th anniversary of Henry
required to take any additional
Hudson sailing the Halfmoon up in grades 3 through 8, to take
language classes in college.
the Hudson River to what is now math and English language arts
For me, studying a language for
the city of Albany. Florida was tests every year. Altamont Elonly two years did not prepare
claimed by the Spanish and at ementary School students in
me for conversation or to be
one time the Spanish Empire in grades 3 through 5 will be taking
able to read anything printed in
the New World was ruled for the the English language arts test
that language such as, reading a
King of Spain by a Viceroy who from April 16 to 18. The math
menu in a French restaurant or
controlled Mexico, the islands exams will be given April 24
even understand a conversation
of the West Indies, and North through 26. Testing will begin
in French.
America. The king’s laws were at 8:30 a.m. Parents are asked
To make it even more confusfollowed and taxes were collected. to make an effort to have their
ing for me was that we lived
Conquistadors were soldiers and child in attendance on the testclose enough to Québec and had
leaders who helped take over the ing dates.
French Canadians travel through
Garage sale
land from the Indians.
our area . Because I had not had
The Altamont PTA reminds
Missionaries in that area
not mastered the language, I
were Catholic priests who built area residents that the annual
could not understand anything
missions throughout the Span- Altamont garage sale will be held
they said. Oh yes, I still rememish territory. The missions were on Saturday, May 4. The event
ber many words, but would not
built like forts because the Indi- will be held rain or shine.
like to be put to the test.
Contracts can be found at Stewans often attacked them. Many
My husband, Jim, sighs when
Indians lived on large farms, arts, Home Front Café or some
we talk about languages. His
called haciendas owned by the other businesses in the village. grandparents were born in Italy
Spanish. The Spanish brought The fee to participate in this PTA
and immigrated to the United
the new crops of sugar cane, cof- event is $20 per home, business
States before the depression.
fee, and cereal grains to the New or church. Checks should be made
They experienced some difficulWorld. The Indians introduced payable to the Altamont PTA.
ties getting jobs and raising four
Participants in support of the
the Spanish to tobacco, potatoes,
children in their early years in
corn, squash, and chocolate from PTA will have a number sign
this country. Much of the problem
on their lawn. Programs will be
cacao beans.
came from their inability to speak
One responsibility of the available describing all of the
English. However, their story is
missionaries was to convert the local participants.
similar to many immigrants from
Anniversaries
heathen natives to Catholicism.
Italy and other countries. They
Happy-anniversary wishes are
During this process many Indiworked hard, saved their money,
extended to:
ans were treated like slaves.
learned the language and settled
— Ruth and Francis Wey who
Native Americans in the Unitinto a nice modest home in a
ed States are the indigenous will celebrate their special day
quiet neighborhood. Jim’s aunts
peoples in North America within on April 17; and
worked in the factories during
— Nancy and Paul Krauss
the boundaries of the presentWorld War II and his father and
day continental United States, whose anniversary is on April
his uncles fought in the Army
Alaska, and the island state of 18.
and Navy.
Birthdays
Hawaii. They are composed of nuOne of the big differences
Happy-birthday wishes are exmerous, distinct Native American
from some other immigrants is
tribes and ethnic groups, many of tended to:
the notoriety received from one
— Teresa Golden, Burleigh Mcwhich survive as intact political
then well-known Italian in the
communities. The terms used to Cutcheon, Mary Ramo, StephaChicago area. He was Al Capone
refer to Native Americans have nie Alexis Spiak and Bill Trendell
and he was a noted gangster. His
been controversial. According on April 12;
underworld activities involved
— Casey Farley, Linda Hoogto a 1995 U.S. Census Bureau
only a few of the Italians but
through a set of home interviews, kamp, Addison Karen Lare, Amy
caused a great mistrust for all
most of the respondents with an Nowak, Diane Schager, Kerry
of his honest compatriots. The
expressed preference refer to Strnad and Andrew Teal on
unsavory stigma caused Jim’s
themselves as American Indi- April 13;
grandparents to forbid Italian to
— Laurie Rose on April 14;
ans or simply Indians, and this
be spoken when he and his sister
—Kaylee Munroe, Kendra
term has been adopted by major
were around. They demanded the
newspapers and some academic Makepeace Sands on April 15; next generation be brought up
— Ginny Becker, Jon Jacklet,
groups; however, this term does
speaking English with no tell-tale
not typically include native Carol McHugh, Linda Miller,
accent to let people know of their
Hawaiians or certain Alaskan Larry Serrell and Carol Snyder
Italian heritage.
natives, such as Aleut, Yupik, or on April 16; and
Today Jim is sad they felt that
— Darlene Adams, Jim McHugh
Inuit peoples.
way because we have many ItalWhen we started this column and Joey Sells on April 18. ian friends who speak both lanwe were talking about languages.
Altamont
guages fluently, and he wishes he
could speak with them in Italian
as well as in English.
People who speak more than
one language are very fortunate.
Our world is becoming smaller
and smaller. We have so many
opportunities to travel. It would
be even more pleasant if we could
converse with people in their own
language instead of expecting
them to always speak English.
We have often spoken about
Babs, the American field student
who came from Germany to live
with us for a year. Her studies in Germany included nine
years of English which allowed
her to discuss almost anything
with her American family and
classmates.
When in Germany, they would
vacation in Italy and Spain and
that allowed her to pick up some
of those languages. As a student
in Guilderland High School she
added some Chinese and Russian
to her dossier.
Travel opens opportunities to
learn about other parts of our
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Correspondents
Thompsons Lake
By
Lora
Ricketts
872-1691
Every week is filled with exciting events. On Tuesday evening,
April 2, I attended a program
at the New Scotland Historical Association titled “Thacher
Park — a Gift to the People for
99 Years.” Timothy J. Albright
was the speaker and started his
presentation with the lives of
Emma Treadwell and John Boyd
Thacher.
Albright showed pictures of
their home in the Helderbergs
and a slide presentation of pictures going back to the 1950s
when Thacher Park was just a
wilderness.
He also had pictures of the pool
and bathhouse and that brought
back many happy memories.
Albright had a book published
about John Boyd Thacher State
Park and Indian Ladder region.
He became interested in Thacher
Park when he was about 10 years
old. He continues to explore all of
it and notes any changes, such as
rock formations that have fallen
or crumbled.
Late Easter celebration
Brandon and I picked up
Samson and Nichole on Friday
evening, April 5, and headed for
Jenn Smith and Iain’s house.
We had Kyra Swan, my granddaughter with us because there
had been no school and she spent
the day with me. We enjoyed a
taco dinner and spent the evening visiting and the children
playing.
On Saturday evening the children colored hard boiled eggs and
after church on Sunday, we had
an East egg hunt. This was our
Easter with Samson, Nichole,
and Iain as they were with their
other parents on Easter.
Church sermon
Matthew Richardson was our
guest preacher on Sunday, April
7, as Rev. Timothy Van Heest is
on vacation. We are thankful to
Matthew for his sermon about
how Jesus loves us. It touched
all our hearts.
Camp Fowler
The actual cost for camp is usually $500 per camper, but Camp
Fowler only charges $375, so that
more children can attend. There
is scholarship money available.
You can contact Rev. Tim Van
Heest for more information about
the Albany grants.
If you would like a four minute video introduction to Camp
Fowler, this is the link http://
www.campflowler.org.
Camp Fowler reports that the
average American child spends
7.5 hours a day on electronic
media and only 4 minutes a day
playing outside. At Fowler, each
child gets 10,080 minutes away
from that normal experience to
decompress and dream with new
friends, caring adult role models,
in the beauty of God’s creation!
Elliott House Thrift Shop
open for season in Norton Hill
The Elliott House Thrift Shop
on Route 81 in Norton Hill is now
open for the 2013 season.
The shop, in the former Powell
Store next to the United Methodist Church, will close if the
weather is inclement.
The hours at the thrift shop are
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday,
Friday, and Saturday, and 10
a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday.
Donations to the shop will
be accepted in the back of the
Engagement
store on Route 81. Items should
be clean and in working condition. The shop cannot accept
large items, as it does not have
space.
The thrift store offers clothing
and small decorative household
items at very reasonable prices.
Volunteers run the shop and all
proceeds benefit the programs of
the United Methodist Church of
Greenville and Norton Hill.
Eric Alexander Milne and Nicole Marie DiBella
DiBella, Milne to wed
VOORHEESVILLE — Karen and Stephen DiBella of Voorheesville are pleased to announcement the engagement of their
daughter Nicole Marie to Eric Alexander Milne, son of Cathy
and Jerry Milne of Plymouth, Conn.
Ms. DiBella is a graduate of Northeastern University in
Boston and is employed in New York City.
Mr. Milne is also a graduate of Northeastern University in
Boston and is employed in New York City.
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Obituaries
John P. Armstrong
John Paul Armstrong, a World War II veteran who worked in special
education for the state, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at
the Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albany. He was 90.
Known to his friends and family
as “Jack,” Dr. Armstrong spent
time in Albany, Thompson’s Lake
in the Helderberg Hilltowns, and
Cocoa in Florida.
Dr. Armstrong was born and
raised in Buffalo, N.Y. He was the
son of the late Mildred and Louis
Morton Armstrong. He served in
the United States Marine Corps
4th Division during World War II
where he saw action in the battles
of Saipan, Tinian, Roi Namur, and
Iwo Jima.
After honorable discharge, he
graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
education. He then attended the
University of Illinois (ChampagneUrbana) to continue his studies in
Dr. John Paul Armstrong
advanced research in education.
Dr. Armstrong earned his Ph.D. in
research and administration at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
In 1955, Dr. Armstrong joined the New York State Education Department as an associate in the Special Education Department in Albany,
and worked there until his retirement in 1981.
He is survived by his wife, Clara, and his two children, John C. Armstrong, and his wife, Ann, of Mims, Fla., and Dr. Kathleen ArmstrongBernhard and her husband, John, of Glen Lake, N.Y.
Dr. Armstrong was remembered at a memorial Mass on Monday,
April 8, at the chapel in the Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center
in Albany.
Interment with full military honors was held in Buffalo at the St.
Stanislaus Roman Catholic Cemetery on Saturday, April 6.
Arrangements are by the Hans Funeral Home of Albany. To leave a
message of condolence for the family or to send a sympathy card, go
online to www.HansFuneralHome.com.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice at the Stratton
Veteran Affairs Medical Center, 113 Holland Ave., Albany, NY 12208.
The family extends its sincere appreciation to the Military Order of
the Purple Heart, the medical/support staff at the Stratton Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, and Reverend Joseph Grasso.
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Anna J. Willsey
BERNE — Even with her smile, Anna Willsey was uplifting. With
her woodstove, she was hardworking.
A homemaker on a dairy farm
with a historic round barn, Mrs.
Willsey was overjoyed as a mother
of seven, her children said, and
lived in a tangible world of immaculate needlework and being
outdoors with her family.
“She loved her kids, that was
her whole world, us kids were
her whole world,” said her daughter, Priscilla Schaap, who, with
sisters Rachel Haley and Karen
Murrell, said Mrs. Willsey had
a powerful ability to share her
warm humor.
Anna Julia Willsey died at
Good Samaritan Nursing Home
on Saturday, March 30, 2013.
She was 85.
She was born in Horicon, N.Y.
Anna Willsey
on Nov. 18, 1927, and settled in
Berne as an adult with Morris
Willsey, who was born and raised in the rural Hilltown. They were
married in the early 1960s, having met when Mr. Willsey, working
for a moving company, helped her mother relocate from Florida to
New York.
The children and Mrs. Willsey helped on the farm, the site of the
second largest round barn in the state until, in 1976, it burned to the
ground. The barn was built in 1912 using trees from the property.
On Sundays, Mrs. Willsey, with a supply of wood chopped year-round
by hand, cooked meals for the family. A common favorite was her spaghetti with meatballs made from scratch. Strawberry shortcake was
another Sunday classic in the Willsey home, for which the children
would pick the berries.
Any hot water was heated on the woodstove, along with stones heated
all day to warm beds at night. Early in the morning, the stove warmed
pots of oatmeal, Wheatena, or cream of wheat.
Breakfast and homework were regimented and required, but Mrs.
Willsey’s daughters said she would often make sure they got out to a
swimming hole or to take a trip.
“She always made sure us girls had good times,” said Ms. Schaap.
Mrs. Willsey herself enjoyed soap operas, but never became accustomed to using a remote control, instead preferring to stay on one
channel or turn the dial on the television. Using gas-heated water or
a microwave, her daughters said, was not her familiar way.
They guessed that Mrs. Willsey’s habit of saving souvenirs or “knickknacks” was a consequence of growing up during the rationed period
of World War II.
“A napkin, a pen, it didn’t matter, she’d just save, save and save,”
Ms. Schaap said of her mother. Ms. Murrell recalled the family would
eat from canned foods, of vegetables and applesauce made by Mrs.
Willsey.
After making a “seven-minute frosting,” with several egg whites,
Mrs. Willsey would cook the left-over yolks in their shells, set on the
stove for the children to eat.
“If you’d had a bad day,
she’d bring it back up for you.”
She liked to go outdoors, visit restaurants, or meet others at gasups with Mr. Willsey, where enthusiasts gather to show machines and
engines from years past. They were members of the Hudson-Mohawk
chapter of the Pioneer Gas Engine Association.
When Mr. Willsey fell ill, Mrs. Willsey took care of him and laid out
his pills for each meal. In 2006, he died on her birthday. Ms. Haley
said this and the time of her mother’s death, near Easter, sticks in
her mind.
“I think they do it so we will remember…like, ‘Don’t forget me,’” said
Ms. Haley of her parents’ deaths.
In recent years, the daughters continued their father’s tradition of
providing their mother with needlework supplies. Her hands would
shake, they said, but were stilled when threading or working with a
needle.
“We just kept buying her stuff to keep her going because that was
her therapy for her hands,” said Ms. Murrell, saying she now has a
hope chest full of her mother’s creations, which Mrs. Willsey gave as
gifts for holidays and birthdays.
She was happy being a mother, her daughters said.
“If you’d had a bad day,” said Ms. Murrell. “She’d bring it back up
for you.”
****
Anna Julia Willsey is survived by her children, Mary Ann O’Neill,
Dan Gunville, William Willsey, Rachel Haley, Priscilla Schaap, David
Willsey, and Karen Murrell; her sister, Geniva Broughall; as well as
many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Her husband, Morris Willsey, died before her.
As she wished, there will not be any open services. The family will
hold a private service at a later date.
Arrangements are by the Fredendall Funeral Home of Altamont.
Mourners may go online to www.fredendallfuneralhome.com
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Reformed Church
of Berne at 1664 Helderberg Trail, Berne, 12023 or the Helderberg
Ambulance, 321 Street Road, Altamont, NY 12009.
— Marcello Iaia
Mary C.
Schaible
A graveside service will be held
for Mary C. Schaible on Friday,
April 19, 2013, at 10 a.m. at Prospect Hill Cemetery on Western
Avenue in Guilderland.
A long-time Altamont resident
and selfless member of the community, she died on Sunday, Sept.
26, 2010, at the age of 89.
Ms. Schaible served the Altamont Reformed Church as an
ordained deacon, the coordinator
of the clothing exchange, and the
overseer of the church library.
She worked extensively on the
behalf of the Altamont Free Library, and had a lasting interest
in the history of Altamont and its
environs. Ms. Schaible donated
her body to Albany Medical College for the purpose of medical
research.
The Rev. Robert Luidens will
conduct the service. All family
members and friends are welcome to attend.
Student
News
Binghamton
Dean’s List
The following local students
received academic honors from
Binghamton University by making the university’s dean’s list for
the Fall 2012 semester:
— Zachary Adam Elkind of
Slingerlands, at the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences;
— Ryan S. Ference of Slingerlands, at the Harpur College of
Arts and Sciences;
— Sara E. Nelson of
Schenectady, at the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences;
— Benjamin Michael Laraway of Altamont, at the Harpur
College of Arts and Sciences;
— Rachel H. Bluth of Slingerlands, at the Harpur College of
Arts and Sciences;
— Joshua R. Kraushaar of
— Katherine A. Hutson of
— Mercedes Jade Domian of
Schenectady, at the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences;
— Tara Marie Jackson of
Altamont, at the Harpur College
of Arts and Sciences;
— Monica Reddy Chappidi
of Schenectady, at the Harpur
College of Arts and Sciences;
— Sean Patrick Duffy of Altamont, at the Harpur College of
Arts and Sciences;
— Drew Christopher Hardt
of Schenectady, at the School of
Management;
— Arianna Dianne Sokaris of
Slingerlands, at the Decker School
of Nursing;
— Michael John Costello of
Slingerlands, at the Thomas J.
Watson School of Engineering and
Applied Science;
— Erin Catherine Barnes
of Schenectady, at the Thomas J.
Watson School of Engineering and
Applied Science;
— Matthew E. Reiss of
Schenectady, at the Thomas J.
Watson School of Engineering and.
Applied Science; and
— Kevin D. Quinn of Berne,
at the Thomas J. Watson School
of Engineering and Applied Science.
25
Senior News
Guilderland
The Enterprise — James E. Gardner
Art Shultes, proudly holding his pin and certificate, was recognized by the Berne Volunteer Fire Company for his 60 years of
active service. He was honored at the company’s annual dinner
on March 23 at Crossgates Banquet House. Fred Bassler was
acknowledged for 50 years of service.
The Guilderland Senior Services is offering the following
activities the week of April 15.
Call the senior office at 356-1980,
ext. 1048 for any questions or
information.
Monday: Scheduled shopping,
aerobics at 9 a.m., senior fitness
at 10:30 a.m., OsteoBusters at
10:30 a.m., and OsteoBusters
at 1:30 p.m.;
Tuesday: OsteoBusters at 9
a.m., luncheon of roast chicken
or cold plate at 11:30 a.m., and
bingo, games, and billiards at
12:30 p.m.;
Wednesday: Scheduled shopping, cardio circuit at 9 a.m., OsteoBusters at 10:30 a.m., senior
fitness at 10:30 a.m., needlecraft
at 1 p.m., and OsteoBusters at
1:30 p.m.
Thursday: Scheduled shopping, OsteoBusters at 9 a.m.,
blood pressure and scheduled
Medicaid and legal appointments
from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., scheduled food stamp appointments
from 10 a.m. to noon, Mahjongg
at 12:30 p.m., and Pinochle at 1
p.m.; and
Friday: Scheduled shopping,
painting at 10 a.m., Bridge at
10 a.m., quilting at 1 p.m., and
balance class at 1:30 p.m.
Movie of the month
On April 25, at 10:30 a.m., the
movie The Descendants will be
shown in the courtroom.
The movie is rated R. Please
sign up by April 18.
Duanesburg
By Barbara Page
The Duanesburg Seniors are
planning a trip to Blackhead
Mountain Lodge and Country
Club in Round Top, N.Y. The
trip is scheduled for Tuesday,
June 18, to attend a German Fest
featuring lunch, German music,
and food demonstrations.
Diners will have a choice of
sauerbraten, roast loin of pork, or
Wiener schnitzel for lunch. After
an afternoon of fun, we board the
bus for a countryside ride and
stop at the Catskill Mountain
Country store, a unique market,
café, and gift shop all in one.
Price for the trip is $63 for
nonmembers. Payment is due
by May 10. If you’re interested,
please contact me at 356-3230
after April 5.
Are you considering dentures?
Call 452-2579 to speak directly
to a dentist who, at no charge,
can tell you your options.
Geoffrey B. Edmunds, DDS
2010 Western Ave. Guilderland
452-2579
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Notice of Qualification of BRAYMAN PRECAST, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 03/08/13. Office location: Albany County. LLC formed
in Pennsylvania (PA) on 08/30/11.
SSNY designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process against it may
be served. SSNY shall mail process
to Michael K. Bechtold, 1000 John
Roebling Way, Saxonburg, PA
16056. PA address of LLC: 2900
South Noah Drive, Saxonburg, PA
16056. Art. of Org. filed with the PA
Dept. of State, 401 North Street,
Room 206, Harrisburg, PA 17120.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
(24-37-42)
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Notice of qualification of Innovative Surgical Solutions, LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with Secretary
of State of New York (SSNY) on
02/01/13. Office location: Albany
County, SSNY has been designated
as agent upon whom process may
be served, SSNY shall mail service
of process (SOP) to Corporation
Service Company, 80 State Street,
Albany, New York 12207-2543,
Corporation Service Company is
designated as agent for SOP at
80 State Street, Albany, New York
12207-2543, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(25-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 5-19
Borden 4A LLC. Arts of Org. filed
with New York Secy of State (SSNY)
on 3/25/13. Office location: Albany
County. SSNY is designated as
agent of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: 40 Waterside
Plaza, 25A, New York, NY 10010.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
(1-38-43)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of
Pearl Rising LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary
of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/8/2013.
Office location: Albany County.
SSNY is designated agent of LLC
for service of process. SSNY shall
mail process to: the LLC, 1971
Western Ave. #227, Albany, NY
12203. Purpose: For any lawful
purpose.
(2-38-43)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of a Limited
Liability Company (LLC): Name:
ICC 4 WEST MAIN, LLC, Articles
of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY)
on 03/07/2013. Office location:
Albany County. SSNY has been
designated as agent of the LLC
upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail
a copy of process to: C/O ICC 4
WEST MAIN, LLC, 915 Broadway,
Suite 2, Albany, 12207. Purpose:
Any lawful Purpose. Latest date
upon which LLC is to dissolve: No
specific date.
(3-38-43)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Evatix LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 3/11/2013,
office location: Albany County, NS
is designated as agent upon whom
process may be served, NS shall
mail service of process (SOP) to NW
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40, Albany, NY
12207, NW Registered Agent LLC
is designated as agent for SOP
at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40,
Albany, NY 12207, purpose is any
lawful purpose.
(4-38-43)
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Notice of qualification [foreign] of
Better Mattress Bureau LLC.
mail service of process (SOP) to
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW
Registered Agent LLC is designated
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(5-38-43)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Jubilee
Restaurant Group LLC. Arts of
Org. filed with New York Secy of
State (SSNY) on 2/14/13. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY is
designated as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail process to:
948 1st Ave, New York, NY 10022.
(6-38-43)
LEGAL NOTICE
Public Hearing
Please take notice that the Voorheesville Village Board will hold a
Public Hearing on Tuesday, April
23, 2013 at 6:30pm. at Village Hall,
29 Voorheesville Ave, Voorheesville,
NY. The purpose is to amend the
sewer use law and rates.
Linda M. Pasquali
Clerk Treasurer
(7-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that
the Zoning Board of Appeals has
changed their regularly scheduled
meetings from the second Tuesday
of the month at 7PM to the third
Tuesday of the month at 7PM at
the Rensselaerville Town Hall, 87
Barger Road, Medusa, NY.
April 11, 2013
BY ORDER OF THE
TOWN BOARD
Kathleen A. Hallenbeck
Town Clerk
(8-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE OF HEARING
BEFORE THE ZONING BOARD
OF APPEALS
Notice is hereby given that the
Zoning Board of Appeals of the
Town of Guilderland, New York, will
resume a public hearing pursuant to
Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on
the following proposition:
Special Use Permit Request
No. 4375
Request of Stuyvesant Plaza
for a Special Use Permit under the
Zoning Law to permit: the development of a paved parking area on
an easement at the south side of
the plaza. This parking area will
include spaces for 26 vehicles, a
retaining wall to protect existing
trees and an area for dumpsters/
trash compactors. In addition, a
gravel pedestrian walkway will be
constructed to provide access to a
town park from the plaza.
Per Articles III & V Sections
280-20& 280-52 respectively
For property owned by Stuyvesant Plaza
Situated as follows: 1475 Western Avenue Albany, NY 12203
Tax Map # 52.04-2-4 & 52.042-8
Zoned: LB
Plans open for public inspection
at the Building Department during
normal business hours. Said hearing will take place on the 17th of
April, 2013 at the Guilderland Town
Hall beginning at 7:30pm.
Dated: April 9, 2013
Jacqueline M. Siudy
Acting Zoning Administrator
(9-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
OF APPEALS
Town of Guilderland, New York,
will hold a public hearing pursuant
to Articles IV & V of the Zoning Law
on the following proposition:
Variance Request No. 4380
Request of Michael Russo for a
Variance of the regulations under
the Zoning Law to permit: the installation of +/- 100lf of 8ft high fencing
in a rear yard.
Per Articles IV & V Sections 28027 & 280-51 respectively
For property owned by Michael
Russo
Situated as follows: 1473 Siver
Road Guilderland, NY 12084
Tax Map #28.13-2-8
Zoned: R15
Jacqueline M. Siudy
(10-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
OF APPEALS
Town of Guilderland, New York,
will hold a public hearing pursuant
to Articles IV & V of the Zoning Law
on the following proposition:
Variance Request No. 4381
Request of Cathleen Saladis
for a Variance of the regulations
under the Zoning Law to permit: the
replacement of +/- 220lf of existing
fencing with 5ft high privacy fencing
in a front yard.
Per Articles IV & V Sections 28027 & 280-51 respectively
For property owned by Cathleen
Saladis
Situated as follows: 23 Ruth
Terrace Albany, NY 12203
Tax Map #52.18-1-12 Zoned:
R15
Jacqueline M. Siudy
(11-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, pursuant to Article 7 of the Public Officers
Law of the State of New York, that
the regular meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Village of Altamont
will be held at 7:00 p.m. on the
first Tuesday of each month in the
Village Hall, 115 Main Street, Altamont, NY, in the event this date falls
on a holiday, the regular meeting will
be held on the third Tuesday of that
month. July 2013 Board meeting to
be held on Tuesday, July 16, 2013,
September 2013 Board meeting to
be held on Thursday, September 5,
2013 and November 2013 Board
meeting to be held on Wednesday,
November 6, 2013.
The Board of Trustees will also
meet on the third Tuesday of each
month, as needed. In the event of
a cancellation of any meeting, a
notice to that effect will be posted
in the Village Hall.
DATED: April 10, 2013
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Patty Blackwood
Village Clerk
(12-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Law of the State of New York, notice
is given that the Zoning Board of
Appeals of the Village of Altamont
will meet and convene, as needed,
on the second Tuesday of each
month at 7:00 p.m. at the Village
Hall, 115 Main Street, Altamont,
New York. If such meeting is not to
be held, a notice of cancellation will
be posted in the Village Hall.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Patty Blackwood
Village Clerk
(13-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that any disabled or physically
challenged individual in need of
assistance in order to participate
at public meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Village of Altamont,
Zoning Board of Appeals, or Planning Board should contact the
Village Clerk, Patty Blackwood, at
least two weeks before scheduled
meeting at 861-8554. A reasonable
attempt will be made to meet your
needs.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Patty Blackwood
Village Clerk
(14-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Law of the State of New York, notice
is given that the Planning Board of
the Village of Altamont will meet and
convene, as needed, on the fourth
Monday of each month at 7:00
p.m. at the Village Hall, 115 Main
Street, Altamont, New York. If such
meeting is not to be held, a notice of
cancellation will be posted in the Village Hall. May 2013 Planning Board
meeting to be held on Monday, May
20, 2013 and December 2013 Planning Board meeting to be held on
Monday, December 16, 2013.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Patty Blackwood
Village Clerk
(15-38)
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14 Brighton 10th LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 3/7/13. Office in Albany
County. SSNY designated agent of
LLC upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall mail
process to PO Box 10873, Albany,
NY 12201. Purpose: General.
(28-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice Of Qualification of Argonaut Funding, LLC, dba Argonaut
Credit Services, LLC. Arts of Org.
filed with New York Secy of State
(SSNY) on 03/05/13. Office location: Albany County. SSNY is
served. SSNY shall mail process
to: NW Registered Agent LLC,
90 State St, Suite 700 Office 40,
Albany, New York 12207. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
(7-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Optideals LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
3/15/13. Office in Albany County.
SSNY designated agent of LLC
(13-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Nostrand Avenue Realty LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 2/28/13.
Office in Albany County. SSNY
designated agent of LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail process to
PO Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(14-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Blue Apex II LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with Secy. of State of NY
process to c/o Usacorp Inc, PO Box
10873, Albany, NY 12201. Purpose:
General.
(15-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Signature Livings LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 3/12/13. Office in
Albany County. SSNY designated
shall mail process to Usacorp Inc,
Purpose: General.
(16-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 418 East
9th LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
New York Secy of State (SSNY)
shall mail process to: 1919 Post
Oak Park Dr., #3101, Houston,
TX 77027. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
(17-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 94 Evergreen Residence LLC. Arts of Org.
(SSNY) on 3/18/13. Office location:
Albany County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to: 199
Lee Ave, #323, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
(18-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qualification of A List
Concierge Services LLC. Authority
filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY)
County. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 1/29/13. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom
Park Ave, 18th Fl., New York, NY
10022. DE address of LLC: 1811
Silverside Rd, Wilmington, DE
19810. Cert. of Formation filed with
DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St.,
Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
(19-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of BK 2300
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York
Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/6/12. Office location: Albany County. SSNY
is designated as agent of LLC upon
417 13th St, Lakewood, NJ 08701.
(20-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Brick 140
Capital LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
New York Secy of State (SSNY) on
shall mail process to: 381 Park Ave
S., Ste 1001, New York, NY 10016.
(21-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of C.I.A.
Holland LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 412 8th Ave,
7th Fl., New York, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.
(22-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Common
Wealth Catering LLC. Arts of Org.
W. 10th St, New York, NY 10004.
(23-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Joe F.
Zalta LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 2162 Ocean
Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Purpose: any lawful activity.
(24-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Kornblum & Kornblum LLP. Cert. of
Registration filed with New York
Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/28/12.
SSNY is designated as agent of
LLP upon whom process against
process to: 385 Donmoor Rd,
Lawrence, NY 11559. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(25-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of M133D
process to: 57 W. 38th St, 2nd Fl.,
New York, NY 10018. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(26-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Opal
Equities LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 295 Madison
Ave, Ste 1700, New York, NY 10017.
(27-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of T5134
process to: 405 Lexington Ave,
Ste 2640, New York, NY 10174.
(28-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Union
USA LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 1554 Union
St, Brooklyn, NY 11213. Purpose:
(29-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Watershore Views, LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 360 Lexington
Ave, 12th Fl., New York, NY 10017.
(30-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Westvine9 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 787 7th Ave,
lawful activity.
(31-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Saavi Group LLC. Arts. of Org.
General.
(32-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Connected
Experiential Marketing LLC. Articles
of Org. filed with NY Secretary of
State (NS) on March 11th, 2013,
Street Suite 700 Office 40, Albany,
NY 12207, NW Registered Agent
LLC is designated as agent for SOP
at 90 State Street Suite 700 Office
40, Albany, NY 12207, purpose is
any lawful purpose.
(33-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Limited
Liability Company. Name: L Wright
Co, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary
02/05/2013. Store location: Albany
County. SSNY has been designated
as an agent of the LLC upon whom
SSNY shall mail a copy of process
to the LLC, c/o Lavera Wright, 2264
Grand Avenue, Bronx, NY 10453.
Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
(43-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 2427
Webster Realty LLC. Arts of Org.
SSNY shall mail process to: POB
191024, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose: any lawful activity.
(13-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Decatur
Group LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 57 W. 38th
St, 2nd Fl., New York, NY 10018.
(14-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of HFIV LLC.
Arts of Org. filed with New York
process to: 1945 7th Ave, Ste 4S,
lawful activity.
(15-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Kerrisdale
Bushwick One, L.P. Cert. of Limited
Partnership filed with NY Secy of
designated as agent of LP upon
1212 Ave of the Americas, 3rd Fl.,
lawful activity. Last date to dissolve
is 12/31/2100.
(16-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Silvershore Properties 39 LLC. Arts of
to: 1220 Broadway, Suite 707, New
York, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity.
(17-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Margaret Itzkowitz & Group
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
served. SSNY shall mail process to
Purpose: General.
(29-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Zipdig LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 3/5/13. Office in Albany County.
process to c/o Usacorp Inc., PO
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(30-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Brauner Law Firm, PLLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with Secy. of State of
shall mail process to 445 Park Ave.
9th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose:
Profession of Law.
(31-35-40)
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
NAME: THE WROUGHT IRON
COMPANY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary
County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, 11 Lee Avenue,
Schenectady, New York 12303.
Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
(32-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Hire Design Architects PLLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with the Sect’y of State of NY
(SSNY) on 2/6/13. Office location,
designated as agent of the PLLC
be served. SSNY shall mail process
served to: The PLLC, 670 Warren
St. Brooklyn NY 11217. Purpose:
any lawful act.
(33-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of County
Scrap Metal Recycling, LLC. Arts
N.Y. (SSNY) on 12/20/12. Office
Location: Albany County. SSNY
to LLC at 48 High Street, Green
Island, NY 12183. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(35-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Cove Bay
Company, LLC, Articles of Org.
filed with NY Secretary of State
(NS) on 02-28-13, office location:
Albany County, NS is designated as
agent upon whom process may be
served, NS shall mail service of process (SOP) to Veil Corporate, LLC
@911 Central Ave # 188 Albany,
purpose is any lawful purpose.
(38-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: RHI GROUP LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with Secretary
County. SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process against
copy of process to the LLC c/o
Northwest Registered Agent, LLC
at 90 State St, STE 700 Office 40,
Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: for any
lawful purpose.
(1-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLICATION NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The name of the
LLC is BUILDING EFFICIENCY
AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES LLC.
The Art. of Org. were filed with
New York’s Secretary of State
(“NYSS”) on 12/10/2012. The office
is to be located in Albany County.
The principal business location is
1376 Route 9, Wappingers Falls,
NY 12590. The NYSS is designated
be served. The NYSS shall mail a
copy of any process to the registered agent: INCORP SERVICES
INC., One Commerce Plaza, 99
Washington Ave. Ste. 805-A, Albany NY 12207. The purpose of
the business of the Company is any
lawful activity.
(3-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLICATION NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The name of the LLC
is NEW DAWN PROPERTIES LLC.
The Art. of Org. were filed with New
York’s Secretary of State (“NYSS”)
on 12/27/2012. The office is to
be located in Albany County. The
principal business location is 2403
S. Atlantic Ave., Ste. 509, Daytona
Beach Shores, FL 32118. The NYSS
process may be served. The NYSS
shall mail a copy of any process to
the registered agent: INCORP SERVICES INC., One Commerce Plaza,
99 Washington Ave. Ste. 805-A,
Albany NY 12207. The purpose of
the business of the Company is any
lawful activity.
(4-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLICATION NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The name of the
LLC is SEAMLESS CRP LLC. The
Art. of Org. were filed with New
York’s Secretary of State (“NYSS”)
on 12/10/2012. The office is to be
located in Albany County. The principal business location is 230 Park
Ave., Ste. 1000, NY, NY 10169. The
NYSS is designated as agent upon
whom process may be served.
The NYSS shall mail a copy of any
process to the registered agent:
INCORP SERVICES INC., One
Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington
Ave. Ste. 805-A, Albany NY 12207.
The purpose of the business of the
Company is any lawful activity.
(5-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of INTELLIGENT GORILLA HOLDINGS LLC.
Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of
State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/13.
Office in Albany County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of the
process to the LLC, 4 Stott Drive
Ravena, NY 12143. Purpose: Any
lawful purpose
(6-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Ameizen
LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY
Secretary of State (NS) on November 20, 2012, office location:
Albany County, NS is designated
be served, NS shall mail service of
process (SOP) to NW Registered
Agent LLC @ 90 State St STE 700
Office 40, NW Registered Agent
(8-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Crave
N’ Chase LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on
to: 3012 acorn Ct., Schenectady,
NY 12303. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
(9-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of domestic formation of
Rockin the Seams, LLC
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 8/16/2012
purpose.
(10-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of COCOMA
BABY LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on May 31st,
2012, office location: Albany County, NS is designated as agent upon
whom process may be served, NS
shall mail service of process (SOP)
to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90
purpose.
(11-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Danco Bros LLC. Arts. of Org.
(12-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Torque
Industries LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on 1/10/13,
purpose.
(36-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Jade
Lighthouse, LLC, Articles of Org.
(NS) on 02-13-13, office location:
Albany County, NS is designated as
served, NS shall mail service of process (SOP) to Veil Corporate, LLC
@911 Central Ave # 188 Albany,
(39-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of a Limited
Liability Company: Pleasant Valley
Kitchen Company, LLC, Articles of
Org. filed w/ Sec. of State of New
York (SSNY) on 1/8/2008. Office in
Albany County.
SSNY designated Agent of
LLC upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy of
process to Pleasant Valley Kitchen
Company, LLC, 398 Pleasant Valley
Rd., Altamont, NY 12009.
Purpose: any lawful activity. No
specific dissolve date.
(2-36-41)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of qualification of Broad
Street Wealth Management, LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on February 28th, 2013, office location:
(5-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Rabadi,
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY)
on 1/28/2013. Office Location:
against it may be served. Purpose:
General.
(9-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: Genius Creations LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with
the Secretary of State of New York
(SSNY) on 03/18/2013. Office location: Schenectady County. SSNY
has been designated as agent
of the LLC upon whom process
shall mail a copy of process to the
LLC, 54 Balboa Drive, Latham, New
York 12110. Purpose: For any lawful
purpose. TU 6t (3662451)
(6-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Sutter Holdings LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of
Purpose: General.
(7-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Global Business Solutions &
Consulting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
(8-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
to: 1220 Broadway, Ste 707, New
(18-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ZRCF
Properties, LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 1451 E. 13th
St, Brooklyn, NY 11230. Purpose:
(19-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Hudson
Mohawk Press LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with Sect’y of State of NY
(SSNY) on 3/21/2013. Office location: Albany County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process
shall mail process served to: William
F. Shannon, 595 New Loudon Road
#138, Latham, NY 12110. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
(20-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
to: 1220 Broadway, Ste 707, New
(10-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation Matt’s Mowing & Property Maintenance, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of
State (SSNY) 3/15/2013. Office in
Albany Co. SSNY desig. Agent of
LLC upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy of
process to 13 Wilkins Ave., Albany,
NY 12205. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
(21-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Webster Avenue Estates LLC. Arts of
POB 191024, Brooklyn, NY 11219.
(11-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
CRM WRECKER AND EQUIPMENT SALES, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed
Sec. of State of NY 12/19/2012.
Off. Loc.:Albany Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process
against it may be served. SSNY to
mail copy of process to The LLC,
809 Broadway, Watervliet, NY
12189. Purpose: Any lawful act
or activity.
(22-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Five Star
Premium LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
St, New York, NY 10001. Purpose:
(12-37-42)
LEGAL NOTICE
FIFTY TWO SEVEN LLC Art.
Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY
02/15/2013. Off. Loc.:Albany Co.
SSNY designated as agent upon
served. SSNY to mail copy of
process to The LLC C/O, Lusthaus
& Lusthaus PLLC, 330 Seventh
Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.
(23-37-42)
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GR Thrift LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
(4-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
1258 Jefferson YMJ LLC. Arts. of
General.
(3-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of B Loft
process to: 45 N. Station Plaza,
Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose:
(12-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of BA Tech
Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 425 Northern
Blvd, Ste 37, Great Neck, NY 11021.
(13-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Bitu JBC
process to: 1811 Silverside Rd,
Wilmington, DE 19810. Purpose:
(14-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CAREERSBLVD LLC
Secretary of State of New York
(SSNY) on 11/06/12, office location:
Albany County, New York State is
designated as agent upon whom
process may be served, SSNY shall
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St
STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered
Agent LLC is designated as agent
for SOP at 90 State St STE 700
Office 40, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(15-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Calais
Entertainment, LLC. Articles of
Org. filed with NY Secretary of
State (NS) on February 22, 2013,
purpose.
(16-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Max
Ostrow, LLC. Articles of Org. filed
with Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY)
on 12/4/12, office location: Albany
County, SSNY is designated as
served, SSNY shall mail service of
purpose is any lawful purpose
(17-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
LMR USA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
(7-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Avalanche Design LLC. Arts. of
process to Usacorp Inc., PO Box
General.
(8-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
B+Z Events LLC. Arts. of Org.
process to c/o Usacorp Inc., PO
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(9-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of domestic
formation Meta Real Estate Holdings II, LLC.
purpose.
(11-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
244 WEST 54TH REHEARSAL
STUDIOS LLC. Arts. of Org. was
filed with SSNY on 2/22/13. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC whom
process against may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to: Robert
S. Bennett, 1404 3rd Avenue, Suite
3S, New York, NY 10075. Purpose:
all lawful activities.
(12-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of KMV
Digital, LLC. Articles of Org. filed
with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on 1/18/2013, office location:
(13-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION: 2342
RYER AVENUE PARTNERS LLC.
Arts of Org. were filed with the
Secretary of State of New York
designated as agent of the LLC
be served. SSNY shall mail a copy
of process to the LLC, PO Box 25
Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Purpose:
(14-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation domestic
of PCC Development LLC Articles
of Org. filed with NY Secretary of
State (NS) on February 27, 2013,
lawful purpose.
(15-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: Dadah Home Improvements
LLC. Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on 02/05/13.
SSNY has been designated as
agent of the LLC upon whom
to the LLC, 18 Hembold Drive,
Schenectady, NY 12303. Purpose:
For any lawful purpose.
(16-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Limited
Liability Company. Name: About
Homes, LLC.
Street Suite 700 Office 40, Albany,
NY 12207, NW Registered Agent
at 90 State Street Suite 700 Office
40, Albany, NY 12207, purpose is
any lawful purpose.
(17-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Pawfection Pawtisserie LLC .
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 02/21/2013
lawful purpose.
(18-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of
Henry Leo Group, LLC. Articles of
Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 02/15/2013. Office in
Albany Co. SSNY is designated as
served; SSNY shall mail process
State Street Suite 700 Office 40,
Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(19-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Creatique
Productions LLC. Articles of Org.
(NS) on 3/11/13, office location:
(6-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Spikey
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with SSNY
served, SSNY shall mail process to:
The LLC, 90 State St STE 700 Office
40, Albany, NY 11207. Purpose: all
lawful activity.
(7-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of DIAMOND
DELI MILL, LLC.
Articles of organization filed
with the Secretary of State of
N.Y. (SSNY) on 3/8/13. Office
location: Albany County. Gene M.
Fyvie, 1540 Central Avenue, Albany,
NY 12205, has been designated
as agent of the LLC upon whom
SSNY shall mail process to the
LLC, 1540 Central Avenue, Albany,
NY 12205.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
(8-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: DRAFT SPACE LLC. Application for Authority was filed
with the Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 02/21/13. Office
Location: Albany County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of the
a copy of process to the LLC, 528
West 114th Street Apt. 4a, New
York, NY 10025. Purpose: For any
lawful activity.
(12-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 1107D
Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/6/13. Office location: Albany County. SSNY
is designated as agent of LLC upon
to: 45 N. Station Plaza, Ste 315,
Great Neck, NY 11021. Purpose:
(14-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 54 St
Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
Broadway, Ste 1808, New York,
activity.
(15-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 22 Arlington Place LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 146 Spencer
St, Ste 2003, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
(16-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 22 Arlington Place II LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 146 Spencer
St, Ste 2003, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
(17-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 753 Bergen St. LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
(18-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 755 Bergen St. LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
(19-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 78 Irving
Pl LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to: 196-01
McLaughlin Ave, Hollis, NY 11423.
(20-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ACI 517
process to: 412 8th Ave, 7th Fl.,
lawful activity.
(21-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
VOORHEESVILLE CENTRAL
SCHOOL DISTRICT
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING,
BUDGET VOTE, AND ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT a public hearing of the qualified voters of Voorheesville Central
School District, County of Albany,
State of New York will be held on
May 13, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Large Group Instruction Room of
the Voorheesville Middle School/
Clayton A. Bouton High School in
said district for the presentation
of a budget for the school year
2013-2014.
AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN
that the Annual District Meeting will
be held on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
in the Voorheesville Middle School
Foyer. The polls will open at 2:00
p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time
and voting will proceed until 9:00
p.m. on the following:
1. To elect two members of the
Board of Education for a 4-year
term terminating June 30, 2016,
to fill the vacancy created by the
expiration of the terms of C. James
Coffin and Cheryl L. Dozier.
2. To vote on the Annual School
Budget and the appropriation of
the necessary funds to meet the
estimate of expenditures, and to
authorize the levy of taxes for this
purpose.
that at said Annual District Election
and Budget Vote to be held on May
21, 2013, the following propositions
will be submitted:
PROPOSITION #1: PURCHASE
OF BUSES:
RESOLVED, that the Board of
Education of the Voorheesville
Central School District is hereby
authorized to pay the cost of the
purchase of school buses, including
incidental expenses, at a maximum
estimated cost of $214,000, and
that said amount, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, shall
be raised by the levy of a tax upon
the taxable property of said School
District and collected in annual
installments as provided by Section
416 of the Education Law; and, in
anticipation of such tax, obligations of said School District shall
be issued.
PROPOSITION #2: REPAIR
RESERVE FUND:
Shall the Board of Education
be authorized to transfer up to
$250,000 from the unallocated fund
balance to the Repair Reserve at
the conclusion of the 2012-2013
school year?
that a copy of the statement of
the amount of money which will
be required for the ensuing year
for school purposes, exclusive of
public money, may be obtained by
any taxpayer in the district during
the fourteen days immediately preceding the Annual Meeting, except
Saturday, Sunday or holiday, at the
following schoolhouses in which
school is maintained during the
hours designated:
Schoolhouses
Hours
Vo o r h e e s v i l l e E l e m e n t a r y
School
8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Clayton A. Bouton High School
8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of
the Board of Education must be
filed with the Clerk of the district
not later than the close of business
on April 22, 2013. Each petition
must be directed to the Clerk of the
district, must be signed by at least
twenty-five (25) qualified voters of
the district, must state the name
and residence of the candidate
and must describe the specific
vacancy for which the candidate
is nominated including at least the
length of the term of office and the
name of the last incumbent.
that a public hearing of the qualified voters of Voorheesville Central
School District, County of Albany,
State of New York will be held on
May 20, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Voorheesville Public Library for the
presentation of the Public Library
budget for the year 2013-2014.
that, as part of and contemporaneous with the Annual District
Meeting, a vote will be held for the
Voorheesville Public Library on the
following:
1.To elect one member of the of
the Library Board of Trustees for a
term of five years ending on June
30, 2018 to fill the vacancy created
by the expiration of the term of
Rebecca S. Pahl, and one member
of the Library Board of Trustees for
the unexpired balance of a term
ending on June 30, 2015, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of the term of Rita Stein.
2.To vote on the annual Public
Library budget and the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet
the estimate of expenditures, and
to authorize the levy of taxes for
this purpose.
that the petitions nominating candidates for the office Member of
the Library Board of Trustees must
be filed with the Clerk of the district
not later than the close of business
on April 22, 2013. Each petition
must be directed to the Clerk of the
district, must be signed by at least
twenty-five (25) qualified voters
of the district, and must state the
name and residence of the candidate. The candidate receiving the
highest number of votes shall fill the
full five year term ending June 30,
2018 and the candidate receiving
the second highest number of votes
shall fill the unexpired balance of
the term ending June 30, 2015.
that letters requesting application for absentee ballots may be
received by the District Clerk not
earlier than the thirtieth (30th) day
nor later than the seventh (7th)
day before the election. Requests
should addressed to:
Clerk, Board of Education
Voorheesville Central School
District
P.O. Box 498
Voorheesville, NY 12186
Dorothea Pfleiderer
District Clerk
(3-37-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Dangerworks LLC. Arts. of Org.
process to c/o Northwest Registered Agent LLC, 90 State St. Ste
700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207.
Purpose: General.
(1-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Reb Mier Per, LLC. Arts. of Org.
process to 45 Taaffe Pl. Apt #1A,
Brooklyn, NY 11205. Purpose:
General.
(2-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Bedford Roth Holding LLC. Arts.
Purpose: General.
(5-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation [domestic]/
qualification of Cohousing Community Workshop LLC Articles of Org.
filed with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on May 10, 2011, office location:
(6-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: ANNMARIE’S JAMBOREE,
LLC. Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on 02/12/13.
SSNY has been designated as
agent of the LLC upon whom
to the LLC, 8 Kelly Avenue, Albany,
NY 12203. Purpose: For any lawful
purpose.
(7-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Sum to
Infinity Consulting LLC.
purpose.
(8-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of LDE
Group 52 LLC. Articles Of Org. filed
with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY)
County, SSNY is designated as
served, SSNY shall mail service of
LLC is designated as agent for SOP.
Purpose is for any lawful activity.
(9-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 2011
Newkirk Equities LLC. Arts of
266 Broadway, Ste 604, Brooklyn,
activity.
(10-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 605 Vanderbilt LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
St, Apt 25B, New York, NY 10025.
(11-33-38)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Theres
That Films LLC. Articles of Org.
filed with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on Feb 28, 2013, office location:
(3-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Plus Add
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY
Sec. of State (NS) on 1/28/13. Office location: Albany County. NS is
designated as agent upon whom
purpose.
(4-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Byron Parr
Studio LLC
Secretary of State (NS) on Nov 19
2012 office location: Albany County,
NS is designated as agent upon
whom process may be served, NS
shall mail service of process (SOP)
purpose.
(5-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Eli Scharf LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
(6-34-39)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Omnia
Management LLC. Arts of Org.
Broadway, Ste 1808, New York,
activity.
(22-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of PR 188190 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
St, New York, NY 10011. Purpose:
(23-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Wasserman Willoughby LLC. Arts of Org.
SSNY shall mail process to: 352 7th
Ave, 11th Fl., New York, NY 10001.
(24-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Advantage Healthcare of Latham, LLC.
Articles of Organization filed with
Secretary of State (SSNY) on
County. SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process against
process to: c/o LLC, 7A Avis Drive,
Latham, NY 12110. Purpose: All
legal purposes.
(25-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
Brooklyn Home Buyers Club
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy.
to Incorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave.
Ste 805-A, Albany, NY 12210-2822.
Purpose: General.
(26-35-40)
LEGAL NOTICE
172 Schenectady Ave LLC. Arts.
Purpose: General.
(27-35-40)
28
for rent
1 bedroom, cozy with new kitchen apt. on 2nd floor, no pets, Voorheesville, $650 month, call Craig
at 669-1166.
38-3t
building
& remodeling
Remodeling and Renovations you can afford. Windows,
doors, kitchens and baths; ALL
FLOORING, tile, lino, laminate
and wood installs and floor
refinishing. Drywall, finishing,
paint. Call Ed w/ C&C at (518)
872-0288.
8-tf
misCellaneous
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from home. *Medical, *Business,
*Criminal Justice, *Hospitality,
Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial Aid if
qualified. SCHEC certified. Call
888-201-8657 www.CenturaOnline.com
(NYSCAN)
SAWMILLS from only $3997.00
MAKE & SAVE MONEY with
your own bandmill. Cut lumber
any dimension. In stock ready
to ship. FREE Info/DVD: www.
NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800578-1363 Ext.300N (NYSCAN)
Countryman
home
improvement
vinyl and Wood
replacement
Windows
Vinyl Siding,
Entry & Storm Doors,
Storm Windows,
Bathroom Remodeling
872-0610
real estate
LAND 3+ acre building lots,
Town of New Scotland, Voorheesville School District, private drive,
country setting, great views. (518)
475-0987
38-2t
For sale by owner: 3BR, 1 BTH,
LVRM with FP, Dining Rm..
Hardwood floors, 3 season room,
finished basement, 2 car detached
garage, separate shed. 861-5653,
$195,000
35-4t
Will buy income property –
look at all/any condition, call Jim
518-279-6111.
34-tf
Sebastian, Florida Affordable
custom factory constructed homes
$45,900+, Friendly community,
No Real Estate or State Income
Taxes ,minutes to Atlantic Ocean.
772-581-0080, www.beach-cove.
com.Limited seasonal rentals
(NYSCAN)
OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND.
Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/ partial weeks. Call
for FREE brochure. Open daily.
Holiday Real Estate. 1-800-6382102. Online reservations: www.
holidayoc.com
(NYSCAN)
NY LAND BARGAINS - Herkimer County 59.9 acres, woods
$68,000. Montgomery County
33.4 acres, fields $69,000. Otsego
County 2.7 acres $29,000. Owner
financing www.helderbergrealty.
com CALL HENRY: 518-861-6541
(NYSCAN)
Faucet Repair Special
$99.50 + parts
MC • VISA Accepted
Joe Marks
excavating
Driveways, Septics
Trucking
Stone and Sand
Snowplowing and more.
FULLY INSURED
FREE ESTIMATES
Shale Delivery
376-5765
872-0645
127 Maple Avenue, Altamont
1 bedroom, heat, hot water, trash
removal, laundry on premises, 2nd
floor. $685 plus security 281-3774.
38-tf
SPACIOUS 2 BEDROOM Duplex
apartment, Westerlo. Basement,
garage, large yard. Off Route 32.
$800/month, plus utilities. References required. (518)797-3520
37-2t
2 bedroom upstairs apt. West
Berne, no pets, no smoking, $575
plus utilities, security required.
Contact Amanda at 518-6694844
37-2t
$625 Village of Altamont – One
Bdr. 1st floor, plus utilities, W&D
hookup, Security and lease. No
pets. (518) 765-4052
37-2t
1 bedroom apt. Altamont, nonsmoker, heat/hot water incl., no
pets, month to month rent, deposit
& references required, very quiet,
$700/month. 872-1259.
37-2t
Apartment – Village of Altamont – one bdr., furnished or
unfurnished, heat, parking, 2nd fl,
private entrance, quiet. $700/mo.
Call 330-2855 or 330-2844
7-tf
R E A L E S TAT E
Housekeeping, 25-30 hrs a
week; mature, responsible, eye
for detail, non-smoker. Call
861-0200.
38-1t
Landscape construction - looking for dependable person for
execution of landscape designs some travel may be required. Call
for appointment, phone 469-8030.
36-3t
PT/FT waitstaff, P/T line cook,
exp. a must, apply in person
Tues-Sat 1:30-4:30, Township
Tavern 1412 Township Rd.
Knox
37-2t
Driver- Two raises in first year.
Qualify for any portion of $.03/
mile quarterly bonus: $.01 Safety,
$.01 Production, $.01 MPG. 3
months OTR experience. 800-4149569 www.driveknight.com
(NYSCAN)
AIRLINES ARE HIRING
–Train for hands on Aviation
Career. FAA approved program.
Financial aid if qualified. Job
placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance
866-296-7093
(NYSCAN)
Drivers- HIRING EXPERIENCED/ INEXPERIENCED
TANKER DRIVERS! Earn up
to $.51/mile! New Fleet Volvo
Tractors! 1 Year OTR Exp. Req.Tanker Training Available. Call
Today: 877-882-6537 www.OakleyTransport.com
(NYSCAN)
firewood
All Hardwood, cut, split, delivered. HEAP accepted. 872-1702
or 355-4331
7-tf
wanted
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE.
Used riding mowers, snow blowers, rototillers. Cash re ward.
872-0393.
32-tf
WANTED: buying all kinds
of toys - Cap Guns, Marbles, GI
Joes, Trucks, Cars, Airplanes,
and kid related items. ONE item
or an Attic Full. $Paying Top Dollar$ Dan 872-0107
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auCtion
AUCTION LEWIS COUNTY
REAL PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES- 50 Properties May
8 @ 11AM. Elk’s Lodge #1605
Lowville, NY. (800) 243-0061.
HAR & AAR Inc. FREE brochure:
www.NYSAuctions.com
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found
Cat, male, un-neutered, gray,
white chin and paws, bobtail, in
area of Bell Rd., Altamont. Call
861-0835.
38-1t
ANTHONY
THE WASHERMAN
Washer & Dryer Repair
Altamont • 356-1311
All Weather Construction
Complete Site Work
Excavating
872-9200
518-872-9136
Driveways - Foundations
Septic Systems - Ponds
Call Today
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General Contracting Company
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(NYSCAN)
THIS PLUMBER IS
EASY TO GET
Call Howard Brent – anytime
456-2560 Serving all areas
evenings & weekends same price
plumbing & gas heating repairs
gas & electric water heaters
Licensed - 54 years experience
HOUSE – 3 bedrooms, living
room, fireplace, dining room,
laundry room, 2 ½ baths, deck
overlooking pond, propane hot air
heat, Greenville schools, Westerlo
$800, plus utilities and security.
518-209-8688.
38-1t
help wanted
Your Home - Our Pride
Additions - Garages - Decks
Windows - Siding - Bathrooms
Kitchens - Concrete Work
Complete Interior Remodeling
Ted Loucks
2390 Western Avenue
Guilderland, NY 12084
518-861-7030
SUNDAY, APRIL 14TH
OPEN HOUSE 1 pm - 3 pm
2157 Berne Altamont Rd, Knox �� $279,900
Elegant Victorian on 5.1 Ac, 3,749 SF, 5 BR, 2 BA, WFP, FDR, 2 FmRms,
Striped BlWalnut+Pine HWFs, IG Lap Pool, Lg Outbldg, NEWER: Roofs,
Boilers (Wood opt), Pool Fencing
MLS# 201224441 • Mark Burlingame 424-5915
www.2157BerneAltamontRoad.com
Fully Insured
Locally owned and operated
Robert Lawyer Jr.
Farm Workers and Crop Laborers
Starksboro, Vermont Area.
4 temporary positions at Lewis Creek Farm.
Work in greenhouse. Workers needed to do field work, hand
weeding, hoeing, planting etc. for diversified crops. Will also
harvest crops. To start approx. 04/22/2013 to 12/20/2013. A great
deal of heavy lifting, standing, bending and kneeling for long
periods of time. Wage is $ 10.91 per hr.
Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of contract period. Tools are provided
without cost. Housing provided at no cost to workers who reside
outside of the normal commuting distance. Transportation cost
reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of contract period, whichever
comes first.
Please contact (877) 466-9757 for your nearest
State Workforce Agency office and refer to Job Order # 152018
Weichert, realtors® Northeast Group
Farm Workers and Crop Laborers
NeW! helDerBerG laKe FroNt. 11 circle Dr., east Berne. Sun Filled 1800 SQFT
4 Bed 3 Bath Chalet, Great views from patio & wrap-around deck, 62 FT Waterfront with dock,
enjoy year round living. V’ville Schools........................................................................ $274,900
6 Daisy lane, east Berne. Immaculate 3 BR, 3 BA Ranch with 3 car heated garage, 16 acres,
finished walk-out basement, BKW, for virtual tour visit www.6daisylane.com............... $309,000
rock road, Knox. 5 Ac buildable lot. Great view of Fox Creek valley. High, dry, slopes to SE,
perfect for solar. Agricultural area. BKW .......................................................................... $25,000
land on rt. 146, Wright. 22.5 ac with seasonal stream. Brushy, gentle slope. Good hunting,
outdoor recreation. 30 min to Sch’dy/Alb. Schoharie Schls ............................................... $48,000
reDUceD! 1396 helderberg trl., Berne. Spacious 1,738 SQFT 4-6 BR on 1 acre. New well &
pump. New Elect panel, Newer furnace & Water Htr, Det Gar, needs TLC. GREAT Buy! at .. $94,900
1747 helderberg trail, Berne Must see inside! 3BR, 1BA completely renovated: roof,
siding, well, windows, kitchen, bath, AG pool. Sunken LR,
3 walls of cabinets in kit. BKW .................................................................................... $164,900
6 Koko lane, Warner’s lake. Water/dock rights, 4-5 BR, 2 BA. Full walk-out basement.
Detached 2-car. Privacy on dead-end. BKW.................................................................... $169,900
Weybridge, Vermont Area.
1 temporary position at Roeloffs Dairy.
Independently owned and operated
haytham Bajouwa
518-491-2577
Delmar Office
518-439-1900
Debra Bajouwa
518-491-2212
Worker needed to do field work, hand weeding, hoeing and
planting etc. for diversified ground crops. Will also harvest crops.
To start approx. 4/25/2013 to 12/1/2013. A great deal of heavy
lifting, standing, bending and kneeling for long periods of time.
Guaranteed wage is $ 10.91 per hr.
Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of contract period. Tools are provided
without cost. Housing provided at no cost to workers who reside
outside of the normal commuting distance. Transportation cost
reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of contract period, whichever
comes first.
Please contact (877) 466-9757 for your nearest
State Workforce Agency office and refer to Job Order # 152605
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DRIVEWAY: New or old Crusher
run or shale. It’s time to repair and resurface. No paving. Call All Weather
Construction at 518-872-9136. 38-4t
Handyman-plus, no job too small,
fully insured, over 25 years experience, free estimates, senior discount,
calls returned promptly. 518-5224464.
35-4t
THE HANDY GUY, Haytham Bajouwa; home renovations, kitchens
& bathrooms, doors & windows,
drywall taping & painting, plumbing,
home maintenance & repair — Fully
insured. Phone: 518-872-0434 or 518491-2577
35-tf
Income taxes prepared 25+ years’
experience. E-File, specializing in
individual and Schedule C business.
Please call Wilma Warner EA @
872-0541.
27-4/11
J.C. LOCK SERVICE. Residential,
commercial, rekeying, handicap
automatic door openers, safe opening, locks, dead bolts. Ph: 366-2337.
(June 28)
THE MAINTENANCE DEPT.
expert lawn tractor and snowblower
repair. Over 35 years experience.
Full line of new and used parts. Call
Bill 872-0393.
14-tf
BusINess
OPPOrTuNITy
ADOPTION
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ESTIMATES. Call 861-8688. 19-tf
Ingleston Roofing and Construction: fully insured, reasonable prices. For free estimates
call Gabe @ (518) 817-9422 or
(518) 861-1089
37-2t
Lawn care, gardening, spring
and fall cleanups. Affordable
rates. 797-3681 or 852-5655
37-5/30
Stump grinding – low cost, no
minimum charge, free estimates,
Jeff 518-861-6575
37-5t
Brush hogging, spring cleanup, tree removal, stumps, topsoil/stone delivery, debris removal, mulch, chipping, odd
jobs, Pridemark Tree Services
253-1789
37-tf
Painting: Interior/exterior
quality work reasonable; coach
Tom McCarthy returns from
Florida May 10th, schedule your
work now 518-253-3036 or 941755-8143
37-7t
ADOPT: A childless couple seeks
to adopt. Loving home withtenderness, warmth, hapiness. Financial security. Expenses paid.
Regis & David (888)986-1520 or
text (347)406-1924; www.davidandregisadopt.com (NYSCAN)
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John Cannistraci - Owner
[email protected]
Voorheesville, NY (518) 858-0233
TAX SEASON HOURS:
9 am - 9 pm Mon. - Sat. , Sun. 10 am - 4 pm
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• lot Clearing/Brush Chipping
• Stump grinding/Brush Hogging
• lawn maintenance/landscaping
• Firewood
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of 500 sq/ft or more
Serving V’ville, G’land, Delmar and Hilltowns
VENDORS NEEDED: The
Westerlo Volunteer Fire Company will be hosting its 75th Anniversary celebration this summer on July 5th and 6th 2013.
We are looking for food vendors,
craftsmen, and more. If you are
interested please email Kelley
Keefe at [email protected].
36-3t
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Beautify Your Home Without The BIG Price!
28 years experience.
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...Smith looks to play in NFL
(Continued from Page 32)
Clearly, University at Albany
football isn’t Alabama or Michigan. It’s Division I, but a lower
level of competition.
“They look for reasons to eliminate a player,” Ford said. “They’ll
look for lack of hustle, a series
of injuries, failed tests, and stuff
like that.”
Over the past year, Smith has
stayed on the NFL radar. He may
be on the cusp, but at least he’s
in question.
“It would be great to be drafted, but I might not,” Smith said.
“At least, I expect a call from a
team for a tryout. We’ll see how
it goes.”
Rickert said it was great news.
“It matters a lot,” he said of
the 40-yard dash. “It shows on
film that you can play with the
competition, and indicates explosiveness.”
Smaller running backs can run
4.40-second 40s, but 4.53 is solid
for a player at 225 pounds.
“The NFL looks for players
with explosiveness,” said Rickert. “Drew is doing all he can
right now. There are very few
question marks.”
Pro Day
Also at Pro Day, Smith benchpressed 225 pounds 14 times; had
a vertical jump of 31.5 inches; a
broad jump of 9 feet, 5 inches;
“It would be great to be drafted, but I might not.”
Finding an agent
Local agent JR Rickert, who
lives in Niskayuna, signed Smith
last December. Rickert works
for big NFL names like Hakim
Nicks, Mike Patterson, Josh
Cribbs, and Jordan Norwood.
Smith’s godbrother, who played
football for Northeastern, mentioned Rickert when Smith was
shopping for agents.
“I didn’t have many agents
interested, but JR talked to
me,” Smith said. “He has great
connections.”
Throughout this past January
and February, Smith spent five
weeks training in Naples, Fla.
with other draft prospects. The
uncertainty surrounding Smith,
Rickert said, was his straightline speed. Rickert had Smith
work with speed trainer Derek
Touchette, who works with most
of Rickert’s 31 pro clients.
When Smith ran his 4.53-second 40 at Fordham University last month during Pro Day,
and completed a three-cone drill
in 7.18 seconds. NFL Draft Scout
has Smith ranked 120 out of 176
running backs.
“I thought I did pretty decent,”
Smith said. “Physically, I could
get stronger, but, in terms of
speed, I fit right in for my size.
The NFL is made up of big guys
that move well.”
Scouts from the New York
Jets, Buffalo Bills, New York
Giants, Jacksonville Jaguars,
New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay
Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks,
and Green Bay Packers watched
Smith during Pro Day. Since
then, the Saints have asked for
medical forms, and the Carolina
Panthers sent for a background
check.
“The most encouraging thing
was that he worked out after everyone else was done,” Banagan
said. “Exclusively.”
Smith said he felt nervous during Pro Day. Also, the weather
was a little wet.
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The handoff: The National Football League Draft is in a few weeks, and Drew Smith, a senior at the
University of Albany, and Guilderland native, is hoping to be one of the 255 players picked. If Smith
doesn’t get chosen over the two days of the draft, then he could be signed as a free agent. Smith finished
his Great Danes career as the school’s all-time leader in touchdowns (45) and co-leader for rushing
touchdowns (40).
Coach Penna compared Smith’s tor all of that for Smith. “One
was thrown to me, and I’m confident in my hands, so I caught “solid athleticism” to the New decision can make or break his
everything,” Smith said. “I ran England Patriot’s tight end career,” he said. “I’ve got to have
the routes well, too. I think some Aaron Hernandez. The Patriots’ the right information.”
Ford said that, if Smith doesn’t
scouts were impressed. I tried personnel system is very good,
to treat it like another practice, and the team signs a lot of free get drafted in the first six rounds,
then it might better for him not
but I knew it meant way more agents.
“He has flexibility, size, speed, to be picked at all. “If he gets
than that.”
There has always been a lim- and elusiveness,” Penna said of signed as a free agent, then four
ited amount of room in the NFL, Smith. “He’s intelligent, a true or five teams could call the next
but the new Collective Bargain- student of the game. I watch the morning and say they’re intering Agreement has cut practice draft anyways, but I’ll be paying ested,” he said. “Then, he can
look and decide
time down to once
what’s best.”
per day. “It’s awAs free agents
ful that I’m sayafter the draft,
ing this, but less
players don’t have
guys are getting
that much time
hurt, so less are
“He’s a super kid trying to
to choose a team,
being invited to
Rickert said. Only
camp,” Banagan
overcome those small-school odds.”
255 players get
said.
drafted.
Player versatil“I think we’re
ity is being marlooking for a team
keted more these
that has the read
days. Pro football
teams are looking for multidi- close attention this time. I’m option,” Rickert said. “If he
does go somewhere, he’ll have
hoping for the best.”
mensional talent.
to play special teams. Also, a
NFL Draft
“It always used to be high
The NFL Draft starts on practice squad is realistic for
school football copying college,
and college copying the pros, Thursday, April 25. Rounds 4 Drew. He’s got intangibles, high
but, now, the pros are starting to 7 will be held on Saturday, character, and he’s worth keeping around.”
to copy the college game,” Ford April 27.
Players are allowed three
“It’s hard to find an answer for
said of offensive formations like
the read option. “Colleges are Drew because the draft isn’t an years to develop on an NFL
coming up with more physically exact science,” Rickert said. “It practice squad. Smith has been
talented quarterbacks that can depends on the team, and it only looking closely at the New Orleans Saints.
do multiple things. Drew used to takes one to like you.”
What separates Smith from
The draft is similar to the stock
be a quarterback, and has that
versatility, so I think that helps market, changing day to day, pick all the other players on the draft
to pick. It’s Rickert’s job to moni- bubble?
his chances.”
“Honestly, my versatility and
my ability to be coached,” said
Smith. “I can learn plays really
easily. Physically, a lot of guys
are as fast or as strong, but, in
between the lines, I know how to
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V’ville slides in for the win
By Jordan J. Michael
NEW SCOTLAND –– Needing
one run to win in the bottom of
the seventh, Voorheesville got a
double from its slowest runner,
Alex Minnick. This prompted
Head Coach Kyle Turski to sub
out Minnick for Kyle Nichols,
the second slowest runner on
the team.
With one out, and Voorheesville
tied with Watervliet, 1 to 1, Tyler
McLeod’s pitch went wild, hitting
the backstop. Nichols huffed it to
third base, being called safe after
a belly slide.
The Blackbirds’ bench, rowdy
for the entire game, cheered at a
Voorheesville teammates, wore
his pride on his sleeve. That was
the fastest he had ever run.
“We wouldn’t have put him
out there if we didn’t think he’d
make it,” said Turski of Nichols.
“Anything to get the win.”
The Blackbirds hate to lose,
and may detest defeat more than
any other team. Voorheesville
is now 5-0 on the season after
making it to the Class C state
semifinals in 2012.
“It gives you an inspirational
boost,” said freshman Nick
Chiseri of the dramatic victory.
He pitched a complete game for
the Birds, striking out 15. “If
“If I didn’t go far side,
the catcher might have had me.”
deafening level. Mike Hennessy
was the next batter, and he hit a
McLeod pitch to right field.
The pop fly was deep enough
for Nichols to tag from third base.
After the right fielder made the
catch, Nichols barreled down
the third-base line while the
Voorheesville bench screamed
bloody murder.
The throw from right field and
Nichols arrived at home plate
simultaneously, but Nichols slid
wide, running his left hand over
home plate just before Taylor
Dockstader’s tag.
Voorheesville won the game,
2 to 1. The Blackbirds jumped
for joy, chaotically celebrating behind home plate as fans
cheered.
The Watervliet players swiftly
made their way to the bus.
“I barely got my hand in,”
Nichols said of the play at home
plate. “If I didn’t go far side, the
catcher might have had me.”
Nichols, like the rest of his
you try so hard and come out
with the win, it’s such a great
feeling. It’s better than winning
by 15 runs.”
Tuesday’s game at Swift Road
Park was the essence of a pitching duel. Voorheesville had
three hits and Watervliet had
two. There were a lot of wasted
swings.
“Two kids that threw strikes
and located,” Turski said.
The umpire’s strike zone
wasn’t too consistent. Voorheesville shortstop Mike Young was
called out in the bottom of the
sixth inning on a low fastball
that almost hit the dirt.
“You have to adapt to it,”
Chiseri said of the strike zone.
“You can’t lose your head about
it because, if you argue, it’s not
going to get any better.”
Chiseri, who got one pitching
start last season, was able to
establish his fastball on Tuesday
for strikes, and then moved it
around the zone. He mixed it up
The Enterprise –– Jordan J. Michael
Celebration at home plate: Ryan Clayton, middle, embraces Voorheesville teammate Kyle Nichols,
left, who just slid into home plate, beating the tag of the Watervliet catcher, to win Tuesday’s baseball
game in the bottom of the seventh inning in New Scotland. John Esposito, right, yells in elation as he
joins the party. The Blackbirds won, 2 to 1, and are 5-0.
“We wouldn’t have put him out there
if we didn’t think he’d make it.”
with some curveballs, too.
“If anybody came to this game
and knew nothing, they would
have thought Nick was a senior,
and that he’s been to the rodeo
before,” Turski said. “We had to
win this game for Nick, and get
a run in anyway possible.”
Nichols made it home just in
time.
Fence talk: Head Coach Kyle Turski gives some of his Blackbirds’
players direction during a game against Watervliet on Tuesday.
Voorheesville scored the winning run in the last inning to move to
5-0 on the season. The Birds made it to the Class C state semifinals
last year, and hope for a return in 2013.
Eyes on the ball: Voorheesville sophomore Zach Childs takes a pitch during Tuesday’s home game
against Watervliet at Swift Road Park in New Scotland. There weren’t many hits in the contest because
of excellent pitching, but the Birds won, 2 to 1, after a sacrifice fly ball by Mike Hennessy to right field
brought Kyle Nichols home.
32
SPORTS
Drew Smith: ‘I was put on Earth to play football’
By Jordan J. Michael
GUILDERLAND –– Every
year, thousands of football players hope to be drafted by the
National Football League, but
most of them get turned away.
With versatility, size, and speed,
Drew Smith might be legitimate
enough to end up in the pros,
even if it’s on a practice squad.
Smith doesn’t really care
where he lands or what role he
has, just as long as it’s somewhere in the NFL.
“I was put on this Earth to
play football,” the Guilderland
native said on Monday, sitting
at a conference table inside the
University of Albany football
headquarters. “I know it.”
Smith’s primary position is
running back, but his ability to fill other offensive roles
–– tailback, fullback, halfback,
wingback, receiver, and even
quarterback –– might make him
appealing in the draft. He ran
the 40-yard dash in 4.53 seconds,
which is pretty good for his 6 feet,
2-inch and 225-pound frame.
“If he had run a 5.1 in the 40,
it would have been the end, and
get a Big Mac on the way out,”
said University at Albany Head
Coach Bob Ford, who sat next
to Smith. “The fact that he ran
what he ran made the scouts
hang around.”
Smith played quarterback
for Guilderland High School,
graduating in 2008, and then
transitioned into being a running
back for the Great Danes. He’s
second all-time in career rushing
yards (3,196) and all-purpose
yards (4,721) at Albany.
The Great Danes had a greater
need for running backs when
Smith came to campus, and
Smith admitted that he was “really raw” at quarterback at the
time, not knowing all the read
and coverage packages that he
should, just being more athletic
than everyone else. Ford said
that one of his assistants, Ryan
McCarthy, did a good job at
convincing Smith to be a running back.
“He gradually got better and
better and better and better, and
then started to put up some real
good numbers,” said Ford. “At
one point, he led Division I in
touchdowns scored.”
Smith is Albany’s all-time
an NFL team. “He’s also down
to earth,” Penna said. “He comes
back to speak to my team, and
I’m always impressed with his
charisma, pride, and passion. He
has a strong work ethic.”
Smith’s football career is jampacked with impressive plays,
but Penna especially remembers
one that came during an upset
victory for Albany over Georgia
Southern in 2010. “They ran
a fake punt with Drew,” said
Penna. “He ran for 30 yards and
that play was one of the reasons
why they won the game. He’s
such an athlete.”
Football has been such a gi-
“The scouts are looking for guys who
can be at the pro level, and what they saw
from Drew was a body of work.”
Photo by Bill Ziskin
Bulldozer: At 6 feet, 2 inches, and 220 pounds, Drew Smith has great size for a running back at the
pro level. Here, Smith, of Guilderland, runs over a Colgate defender during a 2012 game with the
University of Albany, where he played for five seasons. Smith is hoping to be drafted by a National
Football League team. He has a career total of 3,196 rushing yards and 4,721 all-purpose yards, both
second all-time in Great Danes history.
Whispering
pines
golf school
leader in touchdowns scored (45)
and rushing touchdowns (40). He
averaged 128 all-purpose yards
per game in 2012, and ended his
Albany career with three touchdowns against Central Connecticut State on Nov. 17. Smith had
more rushing yards in 2011, but
also played two more games.
“Trying to make the pros from
here is hard,” Smith said. “It’s an
uphill battle, but you just have to
stay positive and not get down.
Realize the ultimate goal because
the mental aspect is what will
take you to the top.”
Guilderland roots
Smith may not have ended up
at Albany if it weren’t for his dear
hometown friend, Paul Booker,
who played with Smith at Guilderland and again at UAlbany.
Booker and Smith made a lot of
plays for the Dutchmen, and Ford
said that signing the two players
was a package deal. Smith and
Booker wanted to go to college
together.
“What Drew brought to the
plate was a great deal of athleticism,” Ford said, “along with
size that indicated he could have
played maybe five different positions.”
Guilderland Head Coach Dan
Penna said that Smith is an elite
player who could be valuable to
gantic part of Smith’s life, so
he wants to continue along that
same path. He put the NFL in his
sites in April 2012, taking some
examinations, like an IQ test.
Getting scouted
Some pro scouts started to
come to the Albany campus, but
Smith admits that they probably
showed up to see Jon Morgan, a
teammate who has chances of
being drafted as a linebacker.
However, Smith had some skills
to show off, too.
“I spilled over and got some
attention,” Smith said.
“The picture started to change,”
Ford added. “The scouts are looking for guys who can be at the pro
level, and what they saw from
Drew was a body of work.”
Bill Banagan, another one of
Ford’s assistants, deals with all
the pro scouts who come to town.
The word of scouts coming to Albany spreads pretty quickly.
“Scouts do a lot of things,”
said Ford. “They usually bring
doughnuts and bagels, but they
will come here and sit for four
or five hours in Billy’s office and
watch film, and then they’ll come
out to watch practice. Usually,
at this level, they’re looking for
reasons to get rid of people.”
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Decisions, decisions: University of Albany senior Drew Smith, left, of Guilderland, is hoping to be
drafted by a National Football League team at the end of the month after playing five seasons for
University at Albany Head Coach Bob Ford, right. Smith played quarterback for Guilderland before
becoming a running back for the Great Danes. His low time in the 40-yard dash is a respectable 4.53
seconds.

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