Staley defeats Reid in 04th Assembly primary
Ellis J. Judd Staley III won the Republican 04th Assembly District primary by about a four to one margin over Joseph A. Reid with 277 votes to 67. Albany board reports incomplete City of Albany districts. several districts failed to notify results. Staley, Albany City Republican endorsed, will face Democrat Richard J. Conners in November.
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Reid
Assembly
Albany
Ellis J
Judd” Staley III
Albany County Board of Elections
Joseph A. Reid
Rensselaer
Board
104Th Assembly
Albany County Board
Albany City Republican Committee
Will
Carl Touhey
Richard J. Conners
Names and rumors span towns in a tangle of hints
Readers in Troy and nearby towns weigh in on a rumor linking TV figures Bobbie on the Lawrence Welk show and Bobby of the Mickey Mouse programs as the same person. Notes include a Browning quotation and a bathtub stain tip, with family and local names cited.
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Troy
Bobbie
Bobby
Beverly Russell
A.m.zimmer
Valerie Perrins
Lawrence Welk
Mousketeer
Albany School One Sold to City for Five Thousand
Albany city officials will acquire old School One from the district for 5000 dollars. Beverly Ainspan opposed the sale citing haste. The building will be used by Centro Hispano Americano Inc for cultural and educational projects, while the district must maintain it.
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Albany
Beverly Ainspan
Stephen Herrick
Centro - Hispano Americano Inc
David Bray
Two Die In Head On Crash In Lake Luzerne
Two people were killed in a head on collision on Call Street Lake Luzerne early today. Adrian Furlo 34 of Palmer Avenue and Frederick Flewelling 55 of 266A Mosher Road Corinth died at the scene. Both were pronounced dead by Warren County Coroner Clinton Lawrence.
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Lake Luzerne
Call Street
South Glens Falls
Adrian Furlo
Palmer Ave
Frederick Flewelling
Mosher Rd
Corinth
Warren County
Clinton Lawrence
Furle
Amsterdam recalls four grated cheeses over mislabeled pecorino
The FDA reports a voluntary recall by Imported Italian Food Products of Amsterdam for four grated Pecorino Romano cheeses. The labels claim Italian style or pecorino, but the product contained cows milk and no imported or Italian cheese, prompting relabeling.
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Federal Food and Drug Administration
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Albany Fire Destroys Top Floor at 99 West Street
Flames swept the top floor of a vacant two story building at 99 West St in Albany around 5 am. The fire’s cause is not known. Residents of first floor units were evacuated and homes at 97 95 and 93 West St suffered smoke and water damage.
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Albany
West St
Historical Society of Esquatak meets Friday at Schodack Town Hall
The Historical Society of Esquatak will gather Friday at 8 p.m. in Schodack Town Hall. Shirly Dunn from East Greenbush presents A Report from the Survey Old Houses and History with slides of Nassau Muitzeskill and Schodack Landing including the Henry Tunis Smith estate. A Q&A follows and refreshments are served. A 24 page booklet Muitzeskill Historic District will be available.
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the Historical Society of
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Muitzeskill
Schodack Landing
Henry Tunis Smith
Muitzeskill Historic District
Young fundraisers collect for muscular dystrophy drive
Two Schuylerville youths David Blake and Corky Colvin gathered donations for the muscular dystrophy telethon. They raised 68 dollars and 55 cents and delivered the money in person to WRGB in Schenectady.
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Schuylerville
David Blake
Daniel Blake
Corky Colvin
Dwight Colvin
WRGB
Schenectady
Mechanicville native recounts TWA hijacking ordeal in Paris
Jack Holland, IBM sales education manager from Mechanicville, describes being among 53 hostages on a TWA plane hijacked Friday night from New York. He details tense hours in a cold cabin, interactions with Croatian hijackers, and his relief upon landing at a Paris airfield and later reuniting with family in Chicago. He urges understanding of the captors' plight while opposing hijackings.
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Chicago
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Paris
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Kelly
O'Hare
Chicago Daily News
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Today Show
Man pleads guilty in fatal high speed chase case
James Harbeck of 1541 Second Street Rensselaer pleaded guilty in Rensselaer County Court to one count of first degree reckless endangerment linked to a Sept 20 1975 chase through Rensselaer and East Greenbush that killed a 12 year old girl Marie Barner. He faces seven years at sentencing Oct 7. The second charge and an assault count were dismissed. Deputy Richard Simm drove the patrol car and was cleared. Judge Don Cholakis presided.
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James Harbeck
Rensselaer
East Greenbush
Second St
Harbeck
Marie Barner
Columbia Turnpike
Rensselaer County
Richard Simm
Dennis Schlenker
Albany
Don G. Cholakis
McCloskey Wins Clifton Park GOP Supervisor Primary
Incumbent Charles McCloskey defeated councilman Donald McQuay by about two to one for the Republican supervisor nomination in Clifton Park. McCloskey, 61, appointed last year, will face Democrat Dean Arden in November as part of a special election to fill two unexpired terms. McQuay, who runs Del Mar Photographic Studios, argued for more open government while criticizing McCloskey’s handling of town board meetings.
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Gioia Diliberto
Clifton Park
Charles McCloskey
Donald McQuay
McQuay
John van de Car
Edwin Wopelak
McCloskey
Dean Arden
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Saratoga County Board of Supervisors
del Mar
Route 146
Town Republican Committee
Petition Urges Burial of Mrs Murphy in Salem Cemetery
A 500 name petition will be presented to the Salem Town Board urging permission to bury Mrs Helen Murphy in Binninger Cemetery despite a May 12 rule restricting burials there to deed owners. Attorney Everett Updike says residents support moving the policy and the board meets at 7 30 p m in the Town Shed to consider the request.
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Salem
Helen Murphy
Binninger
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