Nassau Plans Wholesale Reassessment With Grafton and Others
Nassau Town Supervisor Floyd Hitchcock says Grafton is likely to reassess with Nassau, and East Steenbush may join. A final agreement is pending. Nassau seeks a two year extension beyond May 1 to comply with a court order. If more towns join, costs drop. otherwise Nassau faces about 60 dollars per property.
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Nassau
Floyd Hitchcock
Grafton
Hitchcock
East Steenbush
Rensselaer County
Stephen Cooper
State Supreme Court
Ellis J. Staley
Seiden appeal to be heard in Court of Appeals Albany
Kevan Seiden 22 seeks review of a 1973 youthful offender conviction in East Greenbush Town Court. His appeal contends trial delay and lack of a definite verdict date violated rights. Assistant DA Moss counters no fixed verdict deadline exists. Kehoe, later private counsel, prosecuted Seiden in town court.
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Albany
Rensselaer
East Greenbush
Court of Appeals
Kevan Seiden
Rensselaer County
Peter Kehoe
Kevin A. Moss
Leiden
Moss
Kehoe
Troy
Seiden
Saul
Kevan
Family hurt in blaze at Sheridan Avenue duplex
A woman and her four children were treated for smoke inhalation after a two alarm fire damaged 383 385 and 387 Sheridan Ave in Albany. Firemen battled the duplex and surrounding structures starting at 8 07 a.m. with details remaining unavailable.
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Sheridan Avenue
Albany
Sheridan
Larry Roberts
Sheridan Ave
Albany Fire Department
Arbor Hill
Joseph Fitzmaurice
Fitzmaurice
Transportation director charged in Albany County Opportunity case
William Lewis Williams of Albany faces two forgery counts two falsifying business records charges and two more falsifying records with intent to defraud plus one count of grand larceny. He is director of transportation for Albany County Opportunity Inc. and has been suspended. The agency is 75 percent federally funded and 25 percent locally funded.
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Albany
Albany County Opportunity Inc
Albany City
Williams
Albany County Opportunity, Inc
Colonie Society Elected Pitkin President and Officers
The Historical Society of Colonie elected Edgar S. Pitkin as president with Jacob Hotchkiss as vice president. Other officers include Dorothy Kratz as recording secretary Jill Bowers as corresponding secretary Dorothy Billings as treasurer and trustees Helen McPherson Elizabeth Shaver. Ex officio members and continuing trustees were named along with town historians and the town supervisor. Police report two window smashing vandalism incidents and a crate of theft involving a CB radio. A front door window was smashed at Papa Bear Lounge and a wine bottle thrown through a window on Lynwood Drive. A car radio antenna whip enabled theft of a $300 CB radio from a vehicle. In Albany a Mechanicville woman pleaded guilty to second degree grand larceny for about $6,000 staged via forged checks. sentencing set for Feb. 18.
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Dorothy Kratz
Jill Bowers
Dorothy Billings
Helen McPherson
Elizabeth Shaver
Lake Champlain ferry sets record late winter operation
In Grand Isle Vermont the Lake Champlain ferry between Grand Isle and Cumberland Head New York kept running despite cold temperatures. The Lake Champlain Transportation Co. reports a new latest date for winter operation aided by a bubbler system that prevents ice at the dock. Previously the latest run was February 7, 1974.
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Grand Isle
Lake Champlain
Cumberland Head
N.Y
Lake Champlain Transportation Co
Lake Champlain Transportation
Raymond Pecor
East Greenbush Board Examines Girls Sports and Staffing
The East Greenbush School Board received a mixed report on girls athletic programs noting fields improved and officials hired, but no women coaches. The panel rejected three expansion ideas as policy conflicts and discussed staffing challenges. The board authorized 1 million in bond anticipation notes to be funded by a National Commercial Bank while hearing updates on data processing, communications, and personnel matters.
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East Greenbush
Columbia High School
National Commercial Bank
East Greenbush board member questions Mohonasen ties
East Greenbush School Board member Greg Alvord demanded explanation for continuing relations with Mohonasen High School after a Jan 21 fight between Mohonasen and Columbia High School students. Six Mohonasen youths were suspended and security heightened at Columbia visits.
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East Greenbush
Greg Alvord
Mohonasen High School
Alvord
Rotterdam
Mohonasen
Columbia High School
Columbia
East Greenbush Cuts Elementary Lunch Price Five Cents
The East Greenbush School Board approved a five cent reduction in the 50 cent elementary school lunch price after receiving surplus federal food. The break even program will reinvest the savings, per Board President Rinaldo DeNozzo.
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East Greenbush
Rinaldo DeNozzo
Hemstreet teen hurt by home made cannon blast
A 17 year old Hemstreet Park youth Thomas J. Boucher sustained injuries to his right hand when a stainless steel cannon he built exploded at his home around 6:10 p.m. Tuesday. He is in good condition at Albany Medical Center.
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Mechanicville
Hemstreet Park
Thomas J. Boucher
North Hudson St
Albany Medical Center
Rensselaer County
Fire guts attic in Columbia County home
A Tuesday night blaze gutted the attic of a two story home on Route 398 in Stuyvesant Falls Columbia County. The house owned by George Allen housed the first floor and an upstairs apartment. Fire officials suspect a faulty Franklin stove on the second floor caused the fire. Crews from Stuyvesant Falls Kinderhook Stuyvesant and Stockport battled the blaze from about 10:45 p.m. to 2:46 a.m. local time.
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Stuyvesant
Columbia County
Stuyvesant Falls Fire Department
George Allen
Columbia County Sheriff's Department
Stuyvesant Falls
Kinderstook
Stockport
Colonie-A plans 180 homes on Boght Road site
Fred Zimmerman of Barlen Development Corp and engineers C T Male Associates propose a 70 acre Boght Road subdivision south of Leisureville Apartments. The 1064 square foot ranch homes with three bedrooms and attached garages would cost about 30000 dollars with 12000 square foot lots. A model home could be ready by end of April with site work starting this spring.
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Colonie
Boght Road
Leisureville
Colonie Town Planning Board
Fred Zimmerman
Barlen Development Corporation
Guilderland
C. T. Male Associates
Leisureville Apartments
Zimmerman
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