Colonie Board Approves Water Bond for Mohawk River Plan
The Colonie Town Board unanimously approves borrowing up to 5 million dollars to fund an additional water source from the Mohawk River for the Latham district, adding 15 million gallons daily. A Sept 1 public hearing covers the plan and a Shaker Creek interceptor to the town treatment system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latham Water District
Mohawk
Town Hall
Sanford
Shaker Creek
Burns-Whitney Estates
C. T. Male Associates
Colonie Town Planning Board Approves Two Subdivision Plans
The Colonie Town Planning Board approved two subdivision plans with minor revisions pending. Colonie View Manor on Albany Shaker Road will create 78 building lots. Gnapp Estates Section 2 near Maxwell Road will have seven lots. The board noted the death of longtime chairman Arden A. Flint.
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Colonie Town Planning Board
Leo J. Byrnes
James Crighton
Colonie View Manor
Albany-Shaker Road
Maxwell Road
Albany-Shaker
Old Niskayuna Roads
Arden A. Flint
Police Probe Burglary of Rayco Store
Colonie police investigate the theft of a 300 pound safe from Rayco Auto Service Center at 1760 Central Ave. A pair of auto stereo players and tires were also taken. Loot valued about 900 dollars. Patrolman Healy began the inquiry, continued by Det. Sgt. Hugh Rogers. Entry was gained by forcing a west side window. safe taken via south overhead door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonie
Rayco Auto Service Center
Central Ave
Paul Healy
Hugh Rogers
North Colonie Board Sets Monday Textbook Filing Deadline
The North Colonie Central Schools Board of Education sets Monday as the deadline for persons to file for books under the state textbook law. The board has approved a new law mandating districts furnish textbooks for all grades 7 through 12 in public and non public schools starting next month. Requests are to be filed with the main office in the Administration Building at Newtonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Colonie
Scafidi 89, Albany Tomato Co. founder, dies in Valatie
Marino Scafidi, 89, of 244 Louwdonville Road Loudonville, founder of the Albany Tomato Co., died Tuesday at Barnwell Nursing Home Valatie. He began in Boston then moved to Albany area. Survived by daughter Mrs Rocco Nardone three sons Marino Jr Joseph and Victor six grandchildren five great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at Stance Funeral Home Albany and St Pius X Church with Solemn Requiem Mass. Interment St Agnes Cemetery Menands.
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Marino Scafidi
Louwdonville Road
Loudonville
Albany Tomato Co
Barnwell
Valatie
Scafidi
Italy
Boston
Mass
Albany
St Pius X Church of
Rocco Nardone
Marino Jr
Joseph
Victor Scafidi
Eugenia Lauricella
Gaetano
Stance Funeral Home
Madison Ave
St. Pius X Church
St. Agnes’ Cemetery
Menands
S Colonie Schools Open Sept 8
Glenn E. Bretsch announces South Colonie Central Schools reopen on Thursday Sept 8 with full day sessions and lunch. Registration for new pupils runs Aug 29 to Sept 2 from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Birth certificates and previous certificates required. kindergarten and first grade age rules set.
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Glenn E. Bretsch
South Colonie Central
Bretsch
Greater Colonie Chamber Golf Day Nears Next Thursday
The seventh annual Greater Colonie Chamber of Commerce golf day fills quickly at MacGregor Country Club in Saratoga Springs. Reservations run through Monday at Latham Corners shopping center chamber offices.
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Greater Colonie Chamber of Commerce
MacGregor Country Club
Saratoga Springs
Carmen Assini
Chamber
Latham Corners
Assini
Little Names Five To Colonie CC Posts
Charles F. Little Jr, newly elected Greater Colonie Chamber of Commerce president, announced five appointments to the board. Earl Davidson and Lionel Sacks named as executives, and Herbert Kuhn Patrick Ryan and Anthony Pape as directors for a one year term.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Lionel Sacks
Greater Colonie
Charles F. Little Jr
Earl S. Davidson
Balltown Rd
Niskayuna
Boston
Latham Corners
Sunset Blvd
Colonie Village
Tate & Tate
Herbert B. Kuhn
Tull Dr
Allegheny-Ludlum _ Steel Corp
Patrick J. Ryan
Nelson Ave
Latham
Fidelity Bank of Colonie
Anthony W. Pape
Wendell St
Ravena
Denver Trucking Co
Saratoga Springs
Congressional Report
Samuel S. Stratton
Sacks
Kuhn
William T. Allen
United States Chamber Institute For Organization Management
Syracuse University
J. Spencer Peckham
Latham Bank
Greater Colonie Job Development Corp
Little
Arden A. Flint
Chamber
Arden
Capitaland
Mrs Hillis Attends Delta Kappa Gamma Convention in Cleveland
Mrs R W Hillis of Consaul Road Colonie attends the Delta Kappa Gamma Society international convention in Cleveland Ohio. She is vice president of the Troy Area chapter, an international honor society for women educators.
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R. W. Hillis
Consaul Road
Colonie
Delta Kappa Gamma Society
Cleveland
Ohio
Troy Area
Obituary Hilding E. Petersen 62 Colonie Resident
Hilding E. Petersen 62 of 13 Rapple Dr Colonie a retired customs officer with the U S Customs Service in Albany died yesterday at Ellis Hospital Schenectady after a long illness He was born in Brooklyn and lived in Colonie 17 years An Army World War II veteran and member of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church survivors include his wife Margaret Reynolds two stepchildren Barbara Johnson of Colonie and Virginia Hahn of Rensselaer
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Hilding E. Petersen
Rapple Dr
Colonie
U.S. Customs Service
Albany
Ellis Hospital
Schenectady
Mr. Petersen
Brooklyn
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
Margaret Reynolds
Barbara Johnson
Virginia Hahn
Rensselaer
Stewardess to Address Kiwanis Club Meeting
The Colonie Kiwanis Club will meet Monday noon at the Howard Johnson Restaurant with Dr. Richard Crinigan presiding. A Mohawk Airlines stewardess will speak on Training. Also speaking were Miss Lynn Osborne and Miss Paula Storin from the Tulip Queen court. The Albany Tulip Festival began in 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonie Kiwanis Club
Howard Johnson
Richard Crinigan
Mohawk Airlines
Arthur Bramaghin
Albany
Rabbi Jacobs to Speak and Teach in Troy
Rabbi Herman Jacobs of Paterson New Jersey famed as lecturer and youth counselor will be at Beth Tephilah Synagogue in Troy tomorrow. He will preach at 9 30 a m and lead an adult class at 4 p m. The event invites the community to meet him.
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Herman Jacobs
Paterson
N.J
Beth Tephilah
Jacobs
Albanian To Construct Apartments
Karl J. Ferguson says Michael Hatkoff plans four three story apartment buildings on California Avenue behind the former Hoffman bowling lanes site. Each building will have 18 units, totaling 72. No cost estimate or permit yet. A separate plan calls for a one story modern fireproof office near the Hoffman Turkey Farm by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Syracuse firm drawing plans for a 69 by 73 foot plot. Town Planning Board has approved site plans. Construction activity increases across Colonie area.
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Karl J. Ferguson
Michael Hatkoff Ofny
California Avenue
California
Hoffman Bowling Lanes
Ferguson
Glennon Road
Latham
Hoffman Turkey Farm
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Begu
Syracuse
Town Planning Board
Colonie
Colonie Village
Church Appeals For Sunday School Teachers
Officials of the Newtonville Methodist Church appeal for volunteer Sunday School teachers for grades one and two to resume classes on Sept. 18. A meeting on Sept. 11 in the Christian Education Building chapel will place class assignments and distribute materials as Mrs. Robert Allery departs for Washington D C with her husband’s new position.
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Newtonville
Two Public Hearings Set in Colonie Aug 25
Colonie town clerk Harold R. McCabe announced two public hearings for August 25 after the town board meeting in Newtonville. The 9 15 p.m. hearing on local law No 2 addresses no parking on Fuller Road from Central Avenue toward the town line, followed by a 9 30 p.m. hearing on local law No 3 about no stopping standing or parking near Almart's Department Store on Central Avenue. Supervisor William K. Sanford will conduct both hearings.
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Colonie
Harold R. McCabe
Newtonville
Fuller Road
Central Avenue
Specifield
Almart’s Department Store
William K. Sanford
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Colonie Board UK
William R. Browne
Sup
Forts Ferry Road
Mohawk View
Sears-Macy
Board of Assessors
South Colonie
Wolf Road
New Town Park
Schermerhorn Road
Donald Constantine
Kilby Bros
Panzieri and Henderson
Board UK
Rayco
Mr. Scafidi
S. Colonie
Freezer
Congress
4Th ST
Troy
Jet Freeze
Little Names
Colonie CC
Kiwanis Club
Rabbi Jacobs
Vienna
Austria
Oberlyceum der Adas Ysrael
Berlin
Germany
University of Basle
Switzerland
Rabbinical Seminary
Barnatt Memorial Hospital
Washington, D.C
Martha’s Vineyard
Sats. & Sons
Intra Air Lines
Woolworth’s
Dacron
Corm
Woodlworth’s
Bermuda
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