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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1977
Page
1
A mailed puzzle from The Record Newspaper presents clues with two word choices per entry. Readers decide which fits each sentence to form a coherent phrase, reflecting everyday terms and puns from 1960s style crossword styling.
The Times Record announces a weekly COINWORD contest with a $25 prize for the winner. Entries require puzzle completion, name and address, submitted by 5 p.m. Tuesday after publication. Multiple entries allowed. only one prize per family. judges’ decision final.
Voters discuss two proposed local studies for 1977-78 water supply or library with May 11 annual meeting as final decision point. Meetings set for Halfmoon and Clifton Gardens. more sessions announced.
Clifton Park council member Don McQuay drafts a local law to limit paper fliers left on doorsteps. Distributors would need resident consent, either per delivery, general written consent, or a prepaid opt out card, with deliveries restricted to 6 am to 8 am and fines starting at 25 dollars.
Drum corps director Robert Bruce says openings exist for drummers horn players gunners color guard and cymbal players. Interested people may attend a corps meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday and contact Bruce or Angelo Gentile for details. The group plans many parades including an International Circuit Competition in Montreal. The Green Sabres Committee Auxiliary also meets at 7 p.m. April 12.
Mechanicville middle school holds the second of three clinics for kindergarten through eighth grade students on Thursday. Principal Craig Doherty notes the need for a second polio and diphtheria dose and a third dose if needed. Rubella and mumps vaccines offered for those missing measles doses.
Colonie town police linked three weekend burglaries including a 5:09 a.m. break in at Roxy Cleaners on Fuller Road where a window was broken. Anthony J. Bergin, 18, of 62 Fuller Road Albany, was charged with burglary third degree and scheduled for town court today. A separate Osborne Road home was ransacked with eight dollars taken between Friday and Saturday. The next door resident was hospitalized, leaving a report on a possible missing person unavailable.
The Ecumenical Dinner of the Churches of Mechanicville and Stillwater at St Luke's Episcopal Church on April 4 at 6 30 p.m. features Rev Wilbur E Hogg sixth Bishop of the Albany diocese. Tickets via local church volunteers.
Clifton Park Town Board narrowly approves Robert Van Patten’s Country Knolls West, a 600 plus unit planned development in Jonesville after a year of scrutiny. Opposition from Roy Speckhard and Joseph Johnson centers on town control and housing impact. The vote keeps broader town services and tax issues in focus while establishing a fire code appeals board and approving landfill repair funding.
Skidmore College trustees set tuition at 4295 dollars per year, up 320 dollars, with room and board rising 145 to 2035 dollars. President Joseph Paramountain Jr. cited heating costs salary increases and inflation as reasons for the hike.
Mechanicville Public Schools present the annual Gymnastic Performance on April 7 at 7 p.m. in the middle school gym. Students from grades 3 through 12 will perform vaulting uneven parallel bars balance beam and free exercise. Men’s parallel bars are included. admission is free.
The Clifton Park Town Board approves a resolution altering a $5,500 CAPTAIN matching funds grant for Teens and Neighbors while debating a town director of community affairs. McCloskey questions use of funds. McQuay Johnson Palm back creation of an $11,000 yearly director post amid concerns of duplicating CAPTAIN services.
Two men, Peter J. Kelly and Kevin Mathew Kleine, face disorderly conduct charges after a fight on Mechanicville Main Street near Joyce's Log Cabin Restaurant. They will be arraigned April 14 before City Judge Vincent Pickett. bail set at $50.
A and P will host a donation day at Lifton Country Mall on Wednesday to support the Mechanicville Meals on Wheels program. Blue cards are available from Mary Enzien or program members and presented at checkout to obtain credit. The service now includes meals for diabetics and delivery to shut ins over 60 at noon weekdays.
Mary Catherine Campbell named valedictorian with 96.52 average and Richard Wayne Van Vranken salutatorian at Stillwater Central School. Campbell plans environmental biology at Morris Harvey College. Van Vranken to Cornell University agricultural studies.
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