Shenendehowa approves austerity budget with options on ballot
Shenendehowa School Board adopted a 19 percent austerity budget calling for a tax rate increase while offering voters options to restore programs on the June 2 budget ballot. The $17.36 million plan trims staff and programs including art and music, but provides resolutions to reinstate music reading and intramural sports with small tax bumps. One board member opposed the measure.
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Glifton Park
Shenendehowa
Board of Education
Silicone strike at General Electric Waterford plant ends after 24 hours
Twenty five technicians at the Silicone Products Department walked off during a 24 hour stoppage over wages and job-removal claims. The picket line formed at the plant entrance while Teamster drivers refused to cross. By 4 p.m. Thursday all strikers returned to work and negotiations continued.
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Waterford
Silicone Products Department
General Electric
Waterford - Mechanicville Road
Teamster Union
CIO
Stay sought in Wendt extradition decision
The Appellate Division upheld a Rensselaer County ruling to return Florida prison escapee Guy Alten Wendt to the Florida Penal System. Wendt, 24, claims return would violate the Eighth Amendment after alleged rapes and beatings at Belle Glade Correctional Institute. His counsel John Hall of Warrensburg plans a stay to delay extradition.
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Salbany
Florida
Guy Alten Wendt
Wendt
State Supreme Court
Rensselaer
John Hall
Warrensburg
Belle Glade, Fla
Topics announced for Perspectives April programs on TV
Saratoga Springs announces April Perspectives topics on the Cooperative Extension show hosted by Rus ty Roland. Each Sunday at 11 a.m. on WAST Channel 13 the April 18 program covers consumer rights in credit and the April 25 program discusses the consumer and the school board. The Saratoga County Extension also provides weekly consumer education messages on WKAJ-FM 102.3 between 8 and 8:15 a.m. Sundays.
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Saratoga Springs
Cooperative Extension
Extension Television
Rusty Roland
WAST
Channel 13
Consumer
School Board
Saratoga County Cooperative Extension
Wkaj-Fm
Pilot seriously hurt in Castleton crash during FAA test
66 year old James Gilmore of Colonie is in serious condition at Albany Medical Center after his light homemade plane crashed at Castleton-on-Hudson Airport during an annual FAA competency check observed by an FAA official. The engine failed as the plane neared landing, investigators say. The airport sits on Donald Schwartz’s Muitzkill Road farm and Schwartz saw the crash, noting the nose-first impact.
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Castleton
Colonie
Albany Medical Center
Castleton - On - Hudson
James Gilmore
Lockrow Ave
Gilmore
Federal Aviation Administration
Donald Schwartz
Muitzkill Road
Schwartz
Addresses for celebrities and local notices mixed with crash report
The text lists addresses for Olivia Newton-John Elton John Michael Landon and others and notes missing Haley Mills and Marie Ormond. It also describes a film return problem from a closed W T Grant store and advises writing the bankrupt firm’s Customer Relations Manager with receipt copies. A sunrise Easter service is announced at Saratoga National Historic Park and a Malta garage project begins construction with no reuse plan for the old facility.
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Haley Mills
Olivia Newton-John
Eston John
Michael Landon
P.S
Marie Ormond
Abc-Tv
Avenue of the Americas
New York
N.Y
Elton John
CBS
West S2nd St
NBC
Rockefeller Plaza
Broadway
Mechanicville Debuts City Bus for Senior Transit
Mechanicville unveiled a bright red and cream 16 passenger Mercedes Benz bus for free citywide service. Mayor John Fascia and Amber Lynch joined the maiden run with tours from City Hall on a weekday schedule including 11:40 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. departures. The $32,000 vehicle was funded by the Capital District Transportation Authority for one dollar.
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Mechanicville
City of
North Main Street
Amber Lynch
Mechanicville Senior Citizens
John Fascia
Public Safety
Anne Messore
City Hall
Capital District Transportation Authority
Larry Roberts
Semifinalists named in Coinword contest No 1088
Semifinalists for Coinword contest No 1088 are announced with 80 names carried over from No 1068. Participants must identify five key words to reach a jackpot of 2450 dollars, with a winner to be announced Saturday if any. The list features dozens of Troy residents and entrants from Cohoes Waterford Schenectady and neighboring towns.
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Times Record
Troy
N.Y
Ellen Corcoran Wins Scholarships For College Doors
Ellen P Corcoran daughter of Mr and Mrs John D Corcoran Jr of 82 Woodin Road Colonial Green has won two college scholarships She earns 1600 Lamb Memorial Scholarship from New York State Council Knights of Columbus for academic excellence and top ranking across five counties plus a 3200 Siena College presidential scholarship She is a Shenendehowa Central High senior active in key club French club and yearbook staff The Stillwater Democrat Committee elected Paul Lilac chairman with James Moredock Roger Lesco and Maynard Clothier as officers
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Clifton Park
Ellen P. Corcoran
John D. Corcoran, Jr
Woodin Road
Colonial Green
Joseph F. Lamb
New York State Council Knights of Columbus
Albany
Rensselaer
Saratoga
Schenectady
Schoharie
Washington
United States
Scholarship drive seeks community aid in Stillwater
Letters go out to individuals and organizations this week to support the annual Stillwater Scholarship Drive. Mrs. Lloyd Brownell says donations from those not reached by mail are welcome to fund seniors pursuing further education.
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Stillwater
Family film series at Round Lake Library begins Saturday
The Round Lake Library hosts a family film series with Suspicion showing at 11 a.m. Saturday and The Yearling at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Registration for preschool story hours is available by phone and at the library for children aged three to five.
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Round Lake
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