Dump clash over Partition Street refuse concerns Rensselaer
In Rensselaer Tom Carney fought to dump his customers’ trash at Partition Street as the city dump closed for weather and mud. Mayor Mink and officials discuss contract terms, alternative landfills, and a planned state fuel-from-trash plan to cut costs.
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Tom Carney
Carney
Partition Street
Michael Cristo
Cristo
Viggiano
Times Record
Harry Beaudin
Beaudin
Joseph Mink
Mink
City Corporation
Richard Reilly
Reilly
Albany
State General Services Administration
Clifton Country Mall opens with fanfare and jobs for locals
Clifton Park on Route 146 welcomed the Clifton Country Mall with a grand opening. Store managers wore flowers. shoppers enjoyed never before touched merchandise, sales, and promotions. About 2,000 applications were received for 6 local jobs.
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Clifton Park
Clifton Park Area
Grand opening of Clifton Country Mall draws huge crowds
Reported first day sales at Clifton Country Mall show strong turnout with 1000 people from 10 a m to noon. Mall manager John MacDonald calls the opening a fantastic success as 11 stores forecast April openings while many corridors remain empty and 300000 square feet wait for tenants.
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Capital District
Denby’s
Tom Jordan
John Recore
General Nutrition
John MacDonald
MacDonald
Yankee Doodle concert to be held in Rensselaer
The Fort Craile Yank ee Doodle band will perform at Rensselaer High School Sunday at 2 30 p m. Admission is free and the program has a bicentennial theme featuring Gershwin Rodgers Sousa and other American composers. The Cralo Choralaires and narrator Miss Debbie McIntire will share the program with Herman Harrington as host.
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Gershwin
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Cralo-Choralaires
Fort Crab
American Legion Post Auxiliary
Debbie McIntire
Herman Harrington
American Legion Department
Rensselaer Elks sponsor two essay contests
The Rensselaer Elks Lodge opens entries for two bicentennial essay contests themed What America Means to Me. Open to grades 5–8 and 9–12 with separate prizes of 100, 75, and 50 dollar savings bonds. Deadline April 30 with awards May 22 at Routes 9 and 20 lodge.
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Rensselaer Elks Lodge
America
Semifinalists named for Coinword contest 1086
Semifinalists announced for Coinword Puzzle No. 1086 with 33 players listed including Florence Baker Watervliet J Chiplock and R Cogswell Ballston Spa F A DeWolf Troy plus entrants from Troy Watervliet Cohoes Averill Park Mechanicville Latham Green Island and Waterford. Jackpot is $2,400 and a winner, if any, will be announced Saturday.
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John Kuzmich
Averill Park
Mike Lavigna
Cohoes
Dorothy Lory
Troy
Lou McGovern
Green Island
Tom McGinis
Wild chase ends in Albany crash after two county pursuit
Bethlehem police chased Peter Fissette 37 of Selkirk through Bethlehem Rensselaer Albany counties after he fled a speeding DWI stop. His car collided with a patrol car and crashed into a brick house at 330 South Pearl Street Albany. Officers McNeil and Arsenault were treated and released. Fissette was also treated and released. He faces multiple charges including resisting arrest DWI reckless driving and endangerment. The seven minute chase spanned Route 144 Route 9 20 and the Dunn Memorial Bridge.
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Peter Fissett
1St Street
Selkirk
Bethlehem Town Court
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Rensselaer
Thomas Delaney
Albany
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South
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Rodrick McNeil
Charles Arsenault
South End
St. Peter's Hospital
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Chuck Martin
Niagara Mohawk
Glenmont
Martin
Route 144
Glenmont Rd
Route 14
Retreat House Rd
S. Pearl St
Dunn Memorial Bridge
Joy Dept
Dunn Bridge
Bassett
S. Pearl Street
Fassette
Schodack man shot himself, police say
Schodack resident Robert J. Jewett, 32, was found with a 12 gauge shotgun wound at 5:53 am in Schodack Landing. Officials from the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department, led by Sheriff Eugene Eaton, say the gunfire was self inflicted. Jewett remains in critical condition at Albany Medical Center. Senior Investigator J. Johnson and Sgt. Michael Clunis lead the investigation. Family could not be reached for comment.
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Rensselaer County
Jewett
Fire Lane Rd
Schodack
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Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department
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J. Johnson
Michael Clunis
Nassau man gets probation for car theft
Nassau man John J. Butcher aged 17 pleaded guilty March 10 to third degree grand larceny and received five years probation in Rensselaer County Court. He admitted stealing a car in Schodack in April 1975 to satisfy two indictments and faced a second degree possession of stolen property charge from a May 1975 Nassau incident.
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Rensselaer County
Don G. Cholakis
John J. Butcher
RD 2
Schodack
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Louis A. Peluso
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Joe Quinn
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George Shoemaker
Esther Stanley
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