01 Dec 1976
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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1976
Page
1
Lake Elizabeth property owners contest assessment fairness amid wide land value differences and a possible 100 percent reassessment. Officials including William H. Miller criticize practices while town leaders weigh a full revaluation with potential $30,000 outside help, amid pending lawsuits and jurisdictional questions.
State official Horace Z. Kramer proposes that tax districts publish full value 100 percent assessment rolls to show owners the complete value of their property. The plan converts current assessments by state equalization rate and is touted as improving comparability and grievance handling while not altering taxing or borrowing power.
A reader seeks help about unpaid Railroad Disability Benefits after surgery tied to job lifting. The Times Record staff investigates a breakdown in communications between the Railroad Retirement Board and Chicago records, finds the husband’s check mailed, and explains the delay flow.
The letter writer seeks small freestanding radiator covers for 17 to 50 inch lengths and 10 inch widths. A second reader asks for a small Irish imported brandy glass with a green shamrock and gold edge. A third requests dealer information for Sireno Signal Manufacturing roof warning lights blue lenses and current company status.
Cambridge Elementary Zoological Laboratory run by Anne Carelli and sixth graders at Cambridge Central Schools houses over 15 animals. Supported by an Education Department grant, the lab studies animal classification and behavior with daily experiments and student led projects. The habitat includes gerbils, guinea pigs, snakes, crabs, two tropical aquariums, and more. upcoming additions include lizards and an ant farm.
Cambridge Central School will lock doors until 8 a.m. beginning this morning, after the Cambridge Central Faculty Association informed the district teachers will not supervise students before 8:05 a.m. The board will slow rural bus routes causing delays for village runs, and parents are asked not to send walking students before 8:05 a.m.
Members of the Hoosick Township Historical Society will be in the lobbies of the National Commercial Bank and the Home Savings Bank in Hoosick Falls during busy hours on Thursday and Friday and Saturday mornings at the Home Savings Bank to sell copies of an 1889 map of Hoosick Falls. Mrs. Thomas Beaumont, project chairman, announced the sale starts this week.
Hoosick Falls announces Ann's Antique Shop on Church Street will open at noon Thursday with weekend hours 12 to 7, 12 to 8 Friday, 12 to 4 Saturday. The shop offers pictures mirrors chairs typewriters irons and rocking horses. Proceeds support the local historical society including map copies by H R Burleigh printed for AB Graphics Art Service.
Hunter Hunter Bruce Halse of Latham was lost in the Berlin Mountains area for more than 18 hours Sunday and Monday. Bloodhounds from Rensselaer County search and rescue and Taborton Fire Company found him near a swamp at 5 a.m. He was taken to a Troy hospital for a cut and bruises and was said to be recovering at his home.
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