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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1976
Page
3
Public hearing drew more than 30 residents and band members urging a larger bandstand or band shell to boost youth programs and community enjoyment. Trustees split on funding and site. mayor and several members resisted a shell. concerns included cost and sound projection.
Republican Joseph A. Martino accused Edward W. Pattison of West Sand Lake of backing Wayne Hays as House Administration chair while telling constituents otherwise. Pattison disputed the claims, noting he opposed Hays in January 1975 and later supported reform votes.
This column offers advice in brief Q A form. It suggests exploring affordable divorce services from Divorce Yourself in Albany and warns about towel scam firms linked to Five Towels and Innovative Products Corp. It also answers readers seeking star addresses, directing mail to ABC Television Network in New York.
Hoosick Falls Central School will host the 108th commencement at 2 30 p m Sunday in the school auditorium. Senior class president William S Peckham will welcome graduates after an invocation by Rev N Gordon Luther. Maria G Flynn and Peter M Cottrell will deliver the salutatorian and valedictorian speeches. High school principal William C Waterhouse will present awards and George H Holbrook will award diplomas.
Hoosick Falls Central School seniors will hold a baccalaureate service Sunday at 10 a.m. in First United Church Presbyterian on Main Street. Choir from senior class, directed by Calvin Pedersen, will perform. Stewart Peckham, Peter Cottrell, and Marie Flynn assist. Rev. Walter J. Quinn, Immaculate Conception Church, is guest speaker for the Hoosick Area Church Association program.
Local members of the New York State Chamber Music Society present a Saturday concert at 1 p.m. in the Cheney Library Hoosick Falls. The program features Bach Fantasie Schubert Quartetto Banks of Tibet Palestrina Grave per Organo Sabadini and Six German Dances Demantius with Gunnar Schonbeck Nancy Elwell Arnold Tobler and Gail Schonbeck performing. Admission is free and a half hour carillon concert from First United Church precedes. The Music Society hopes to expand future Saturday library concerts into other art fields.
Graduation for the Cambridge Central School Class of 1976 set for Sunday at 2 p.m. on the school lawn weather permitting. Anne Walsh will deliver the salutatory, Matthew Pender the valedictory, with Rev. Joseph Getz giving the invocation and Rev. Joseph Caron the benediction.
Cambridge seniors will attend the usual candlelighting ceremony and sing One Little Candle with retired singer Mrs. Jennie Dempsey directing. Awards Night and Graduation are open to parents relatives and district residents. The March of Dimes report lists Cambridge contributions totaling 378.50 and notes Adirondack Chapter activities and outreach. Union graduates Richard Moses and Anthony O Connor are Cambridge natives with college degrees and career plans. The Community Choral Society will sing at a Bicentennial Church Service on July 4 at the Cambridge Central School bandstand.
Semifinalists are announced for Coinword Puzzle No 1098 with 36 players listed by town and surname including Ken Addy Cohoes Alcid Family Troy Deb Baird Bessie Balch Averill Park Corina Bakaitis Hoosick Falls Gail Beaudoin Troy Robert Bendon Andrew Baldish Marion Brehm Edith Cary Schaghticoke Bertha Champine R H Clothier James Conroy Green Island Bob Conway Jerry Dawson Mechanicville William Dyer Dolores Finkle Waterford Mercy Fitzgerald F Fitzpatrick Watervliet Anne Gorzki Cohoes John Gorzki Cohoes David W Houston Blanche Keasbey Troy E J Kowsky Troy T LaChapelle Troy Helen Lasorischak Watervliet Francis Lowery Troy M McCarthy Troy Mrs D A McConnell Troy William S McLaughlin Jr Argyle John P Morizio Raymertown Milton Nelson Troy F Rattner Troy Jack Rivers Troy Albert Sickles Troy Mrs Jane Sullivan Ballston Lake
The Argyle school board proposes next year budget and schedules public hearing for 8 p.m. in the school cafetorium Tuesday. Voting runs from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on July 1 at the Argyle district office.
St Marys Academy in Hoosick Falls holds graduation for the class of 1976 at 8 p m in the school auditorium. President Gerald Ford sends a congratulatory message read by Rev Walter J Quinn. Valedictorian Mary Medvett and salutatorian Teresa Hubbard give addresses. William J Murphy Rensselaer County Executive is guest speaker.
State Police at Brunswick probed five home burglaries in Rensselaer County during June 14 20 1976. The incidents occurred on Route 40 Schaghticoke June 15 Old Road Grafton June 16 St. Clair Avenue East Greenbush June 16 River Road Schodack Landing June 17 and Route 20 Nassau June 18.
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