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No. 10 Thursday, september 27, 2012 

For 127 years Albany County’s independent newspaper 

The region’s rock climbers look for a home at Thacher Park 

The Enterprise –– Tyler Murphy 

Off a cliff: Officials at the John Boyd Thacher Park are trying to decide if recreational rock climbers should be allowed to scale the limestone 

cliffs of the Helderberg escarpment. The park is in the process of developing a master plan and climbers are asking for access. 

By Tyler Murphy 

NEW SCOTLAND –– As officials 

work to develop a master 

plan for the John Boyd Thacher 

and Thompson Lake State Parks 

to guide future programs, recreational 

rock climbers are asking 

their sport be included. 

When the New York State 

Office of Parks, Recreation and 

Historic Preservation announced 

in March it would begin conducting 

a year-long review of the John 

Boyd Thacher and Thompson’s 

Lake state parks, Mike Wallen 

encouraged members of his 

group, the Thacher Climbing 

Coalition, to participate in the 

process. 

The first-ever master plan will 

eventually document the state’s 

operational goals and involved a 

broad review of current practices, 

services, and facilities. 

The plan included two public 

feedback sessions in May with 

officials taking suggestions for 

future development and recreational 

programs at the parks. 

Wallen said the group had 

around 270 members, 250 of 

them through social media. 

Many, he said, live in the Capital 

Region and had attended the 

public meetings on the master 

plan earlier this year. 

“One problem we find in Albany 

is it doesn’t have a nearby 

climbing area so there is no unity 

in the local rock-climbing culture. 

People are traveling far away for 

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$32K town budget proposed 

No tax hike for Guilderland 

By Anne Hayden 

GUILDERLAND — Even with 

large increases in retirement 

contributions, rising health 

insurances costs, and 2-percent 

raises for employees across 

the board, Supervisor Kenneth 

Runion says Guilderland will 

hold the line on taxes and easily 

stay below the 2-percent taxlevy 

cap. 

The town has held two public 

workshops on next year’s budget 

proposal and has scheduled one 

final workshop for today, Sept. 27, 

at 7:30 p.m. at the town hall. 

The proposed 2013 budget, of 

$31,806, 331, will have a general 

town tax rate of 26 cents per 

$1,000 of assessed valuation. 

The tax rate has remained the 

same since 2005, the last time 

there was a town-wide revaluation. 

Before the revaluation, the 

tax rate was 32 cents per $1,000 

of assessed valuation. 

Three town divisions will have 

a slight increase in the tax levy 

— the highway department tax 

will go up 2 percent, and the water 

and sewer department taxes 

will each go up by slightly more 

than 1 percent. 

The increases are a result of 

the large hikes in pension contributions 

and rising fuel costs, 

said Runion. The increases in 

the three divisions — each with 

separate taxing lines — will not 

have a large impact on residents’ 

tax bills, he said. For instance, 

the increase in the sewer department 

will make the average, 

one-family household sewer tax 

$303.85, an increase of 76 cents 

annually over the average bill 

in 2012. 

“The biggest drivers of the budget 

are retirement contributions 

and health insurance costs,” said 

Runion. “The only thing that is 

difficult for us is these unfunded 

mandates — we have no control 

over them, we can’t anticipate 

it, we just get the bill and have 

to pay it.” 

Before the stock market faltered 

in 2008, the state, which 

invests in the market, paid a 

larger share of benefits for municipalities. 

Retirement contributions have 

increased roughly $400,000 from 

2012 to 2013 and are projected 

to increase by another $450,000 

in 2014. 

Fortunately, according to Runion, 

the town budget can absorb 

the added payments, having 


After residents petition over whistle noise 

Board spends $3K to study RR gates for quiet zone 

By Jo E. Prout 

VOORHEESVILLE — The village board 

agreed Tuesday to spend $3,000 on an initial 

engineering study to determine the costs of 

creating a quiet zone for the railroad tracks 

here. 

The board also met with Voorheesville 

Area Ambulance and Albany County Sheriff's 

Department representatives to discuss a 

three-month trial period of daytime ambulance 

coverage from the 

sheriff’s in lieu of the 

village squad’s hiring 

an emergency medical 

technician. 

Quiet zone 

“Barton & Loguidice 

submitted a proposal to 

do an initial study and 

review of a quiet zone,” 

said Mayor Robert Conway of the engineering 

firm. 

Previously, the board had agreed to meet 

with a committee of residents concerned about 

the effects of loud train whistles as engines 

travel the one mile between two crossings near 

Pleasant Street. Residents have complained of 

hearing loss and sleepless nights as more than 

50 loud trains pass through the village each 

day and night. 

The board also agreed to meet with 

Albany County representatives and railroad 

spokespersons to discuss ways the train 

horns could be lessened while track safety is 

maintained, but decided to hire an engineer to 

provide the board with information on feasible 

plans. 

Local resident and Barton & Loguidice 

principal Richard Straut offered two study 

options for two separate prices. Based on his 

transportation department’s experience, he 

said, a basic study of how much four-way gate 

installation would cost would be the first phase 

of the study, at a cost 

of $3,000. The basic 

study would take 

about four weeks, 

he said. 

A n a d d i t i o n a l 

study that would 

include the creation 

of a divided highway 

with a median, 

rather than four-way gates, would extend the 

study two more weeks, and cost an additional 

$3,000. According to rail guidelines, medians are 

an effective safety device and can also alleviate 

the need for extended train whistles, members 

of the quiet zone committee said. 

“It would be a more expensive way to go,” 

Straut said of the medians. 

At the board's workshop before the meeting, 

Straut told the board that a similar quiet zone 

project in Mechanicville (Saratoga Co.) did not 

come to fruition. 

“I won’t spend 

$6,000 before Friday.” 


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2 The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, September 27, 2012 

Editorial 

An absurd method for judging teachers 

rewards ignorance and breeds cynicism 

Rhetoric is one thing. Reality is another. 

The rhetoric from the State Education Department last week was 

about how the new system for evaluating teachers would advance 

the profession and improve student learning. The reality was little kids at 

Voorheesville Elementary School were crying. 

We had taken their pictures on the first day of school as the giant yellow 

buses disgorged their precious cargo. A little boy, on the verge of tears, hugged 

his stuffed animal for comfort. A young girl solemnly clutched a bouquet, no 

doubt for her teacher, someone she had every expectation of trusting. 

What these kids were faced with during those rocky early days of school 

was a test on material they hadn’t been taught, a test they were set up to 

fail. 

We don’t blame the Voorheesville School District, not in the least. Like 

districts across the state, it was following 

directives from the education 

department. To qualify for federal 

Race to the Top funds, New York 

State agreed to have teachers evaluated, 

in part, by their students’ test 

scores. And now, if school districts in 

New York don’t have Annual Professional 

Performance Review plans 

approved by Jan. 17, they will lose 

their share of this year’s education 

aid increase. 

In order to set up a baseline — to measure how 

much students will have learned over the course 

of a school year — students at Voorheesville and 

elsewhere were tested at the start of the school 

year on what they are expected to know by the 

end of the year when the required state tests 

are scheduled. 

“It was painful,” the Voorheesville superintendent, 

Teresa Thayer Snyder, told our reporter 

Anne Hayden “because it was based on content 

the students hadn’t learned yet.” It was harder, 

she went on, for the younger students to understand 

that they weren’t supposed to know 

the answers to the questions on the tests, and 

that they weren’t being graded on them. 

“We did have some of the little kids cry,” she 

said. “We also had a student ask a teacher 

why she couldn’t help, and we thought that 

was profound — giving these tests seemed 

to go against the role of a teacher, which is 

to help.” 

Profound, indeed. Trust is a cornerstone, 

a foundation for learning. How awful for 

both the students and the teachers to have 

to endure this charade. 

The older students, Snyder said, understood 

that they wouldn’t be penalized for 

not doing well on the tests and some of 

them “scammed the system” or didn’t take 

it seriously. 

This, of course, will undermine the 

“growth factor” against which the teachers 

are measured. 

We support evaluating educators and 

working with them to improve their success 

at teaching. The districts we cover 

already had in place systems of evaluating 

teachers, largely through observation and 

critiques from administrators. Teachers 

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, 

or what’s a heaven for” 

— Robert Browning 

mentoring other teachers, workshops on pedagogy, requirements for advanced 

training in the field being taught, clear standards that teachers have to meet, 

and workable rubrics for assessing them all improve performance. 

Changing the procedure for removing teachers who don’t or won’t respond 

to improve so that it is less arduous and costly for school districts would 

be useful legislation. 

Educators, by and large, want to succeed at teaching their students. We 

wrote last week, for example, of the new contract for Guilderland’s teaching 

assistants. The president of the unit, Cheryl Ainspan, said how pleased the 

TAs are to now be included in the workshops that start the school year. 

The new contract also requires that the work of teaching assistants be 

reviewed annually for the first three years and, after that, every other year. 

Previously, reviews had varied in different buildings with some TAs going as 

long as a decade without review. 

“We want to be the best we can be,” 

said Ainspan. 

That attitude is what makes a good 

educator, benefiting students in the long 

run. Piling on more tests does not — 

particularly tests, like the baseline tests, 

that undermine trust in vulnerable young 

students and underline for older, more 

sophisticated students the absurdity of 

such exercises. 

Even before New York caved in to the federal plan, 

too much emphasis was placed on high-stakes testing. 

Schools were already being judged by state-issued report 

cards, based on a compilation of test scores. This ignores 

a convincing body of research that shows student success 

— as measured, yes, by test scores but also by later life’s 

work — is most directly correlated to family background 

and expectations. 

Tests have worth if they are used to see where a student 

has weaknesses, where a student needs help to succeed. 

But tests designed to measure student achievement are 

not good gauges of teachers’ success. 

Teachers across the state were already pressured to 

teach to the test. That pressure has now intensified since 

their very livelihood depends in part on those test scores. 

It is much easier for a teacher to get rote responses from 

students, working off templates of previous tests, than it 

is to truly challenge them with a rich curriculum, to shape 

young minds in a way that will make them resilient. 

With a state cap on tax levies, increasing pension and 

health costs, along with stagnant aid and a sluggish 

economy, educators are being laid off at an unprecedented 

rate. Teachers and their supervisors are being stretched 

thin. 

So we know what we’re asking is a lot in already tough 

times. But, until the Board of Regents, which governs 

education in the state, wakes up to realize the wrong 

turn New York has taken, we urge our teachers to take 

the path less traveled, to continue on the rough and 

rocky high road. 

Please, please do all you can, within the strictures 

placed upon you, to consider the standardized tests now 

used to measure you as well as your students as merely 

the ground you must stand on. Don’t stoop to making 

those tests the center of your teaching. Please continue 

to reach for the sky — teach your students habits of 

inquiry that will make them lifelong learners and move 

us forward as a society. Our future depends on you. 

— Melissa Hale-Spencer

The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, September 27, 2012 3 

The Enterprise opinion pages are an open forum for our community. 

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Deadline for letters is Tuesday at noon. 

To the editor 

Our children need to be taught to protect our nation 

To the Editor: 

I was saddened to hear about 

how lax the Voorheesville School 

District seems to be about conveying 

and respecting the observation 

of 9/11. Although it 

occurred 11 years ago and it is 

part of history, it should never 

be forgotten. 

It was the first time in American 

history that an outside terrorist 

group attacked our country 

from the inside. Our children 

should know and be aware 

that our country’s safeguard 

was let down so low (politically, 

starting 1993 to 2001) that this 

horrible act of terrorism was able 

to take place. 

In remembrance of 9/11 

Our children need to know 

and understand that we need 

to stand up for our nation and 

protect it! 

If this event goes unnoticed 

and not observed, it will be 

forgotten, and so will the 3,000 

people who died that day; their 

families will be forgotten, too. 

The rescue people, who are still 

suffering and some are dying and 

have died from this event, will 

be forgotten. 

Children are our future and 

they must be educated about 

this event so hopefully they have 

gained enough knowledge to 

make a tragedy like 9/11 never 

capable of happening again. 

My children are in the Guilderland 

School District. Every 

year, their teachers speak about 

9/11 on Sept. 11 and prior to it. 

On 9/11, they have that moment 

of silence in our district schools 

out of sheer respect for our fellow 

fallen countrymen and women. 

I’ve checked all around the 

Capital Region and the Voorheesville 

schools were the only schools 

that chose not to observe 9/11. 

Shame on you, Dr. Teresa 

Thayer Snyder and on you, Principal 

Imran Abassi. 

Shari Menger Lanza 

Guilderland 

Is one minute of silence too much to ask 


I would like to respond to 

what Dr. Thayer Snyder and Mr. 

Abassi said in response to my 

Sept. 20 letter “Voorheesville 

schools should show respect for 

9/11 anniversary.” 

First, [Superintendent Teresa] 

Thayer Snyder said that, even 

though they didn’t do a districtwide 

event, they flew the flag at 

half staff. That is correct, they 

did, but so did every other school, 

government, and federal building. 

They did not do it of their 

own choice. 

I asked [high school Principal 

Imran] Abassi if they made the 

students aware of the flag flying 

at half staff and the reason for 

it. The answer was no. 

Second, Dr. Thayer Snyder said 

teachers discussed 9/11 in their 

classrooms. 

That gives you the idea that 

all teachers discussed it; that is 

also not true. My daughter is a 

senior and not one of her teachers 

talked about it. 

I also asked other students 

in elementary, middle, and high 

school; most told me their teachers 

did not. I do know of at least 

one in the middle school and 

about three in the elementary 

school that did discuss it. That is 

not many teachers out of all the 

teachers they have in all three 

divisions of the school. 

Dr. Thayer Snyder and Mr. 

Abassi want 9/11 to takes its 

place in history; they want to 

move on so they don’t have to 

worry about it. 

On that day, just at the World 

Trade Center — not including the 

Pentagon and Flight 93 — 2,749 

people died, including citizens 

from 80 countries, 343 New York 

City firemen and first responders, 

84 port authority employees 

of whom 37 were police. 

That day showed us what 

human beings are capable of, 

the evil. 

But it also brought out the 

good in people, people taking 

care of each other for no other 

reason than it was the right 

thing to do. 

I have three children and three 

grandchildren. I want them to 

know and remember that day 

for no other reason than what I 

stated above. 

And a way of doing that is by 

having one minute (I don’t think 

I’m asking a lot) of silence in 

schools. But, again, every other 

area school (and I called 11) did 

have at least one to two minutes 

of silence in remembrance of 9/11 

with the exception of Voorheesville 

Central School District. 

Robin Hull-Pease 

Voorheesville 

Albany County cannot afford to build a new nursing home 


There are many tough decisions 

that I face as an elected official 

but none more difficult that 

the fate of the Albany County 

Nursing Home. It is not a decision 

that will be made lightly and 

it is one that has involved many 

people from all walks of life exploring 

the various options. 

Over the past five years, there 

have been many discussions 

about how best to serve the 

financial interests of Albany 

County taxpayers, yet also offer 

solutions to our most vulnerable 

residents. Whatever the decision 

is, I want to ensure that those 

who need skilled nursing care 

like that provided at the nursing 

home get it. 

Years ago, my family needed 

to look for an alternative when 

my father got sick. The Albany 

County Nursing Home was the 

answer. 

Through the years, as I visited 

friends and relatives at the home, 

or as I toured to survey operations 

in my official duties, I have 

always been struck at the level 

of commitment of the staff and 

the care it provides. 

I am also continually reminded, 

as I viewed rooms of elderly 

with no family or friends visiting, 

how critically important it is to 

serve the needs of those who have 

no place else to turn. Let me tell 

you about the work that my team 

has done so far on this critically 

important issue. 

Aside from the task of developing 

and implementing a $560 

million operating budget, the Albany 

County Nursing Home has 

been the issue for which my administration 

has spent the most 

time developing a solution. 

Beginning with the recruitment 

of our region’s top healthcare 

leaders to my Transition 

Team last fall, whom I tasked to 

take an honest, fair and professional 

assessment of the nursing 

home with no prescribed opinions 

from me, I have pursued a resolution 

for the nursing-home issue 

with an open mind. 

I have learned a great deal 

since my time in the Albany 

County Legislature, and certainly 

more about professional 

health care beyond what I saw 

as a visitor of a loved one. This 

process calls for deeper thought 

and not a reactionary decision 

that was not fully vetted. 

In the past few months, since I 

took office, we have accomplished 

the following: 

— Crews from our public 

works and general services departments 

made improvements 

to the facility inside and out so 

the nursing home would look 

and feel more like a home to the 

residents. 

— We put out a request for 

proposals to have an outside 

management company run the 

facility. The bids submitted 

did nothing to address the cost 

structure and, in fact, placed additional 

costs on the county. 

— We also put out a request 

for proposals to transfer the 

license to an experienced third 

party, but received no bids worth 

pursuing. 

— We have brought several of 

the region’s foremost health-care 

management experts through the 

nursing home. They looked at the 

aging facility, commended the 

quality of care, but recommended 

closing the nursing home and investing 

in support programs that 

allow seniors to remain in their 

homes and in the community. 

The dramatic change in the 

economy since I first looked at 

this issue as a legislator has 

changed our county’s financial 

fortunes dramatically. As with 

every government or business, 

these economic realities have 

forced us to re-think some of the 

ideas we once had. 

It is crystal clear to me that 

Albany County cannot afford to 

build a new nursing home in this 

economy. The answer to the challenge 

of balancing the finances of 

the government with the needs of 

our community’s elderly needs to 

be developed through consensus 

between my administration and 

the legislature. 

For my part, as I review all 

the options and consider my 

constituents, there isn’t a Sunday 

that goes by that I don’t get a call 

from my aunt who says, “Daniel, 

take care of the seniors.” She is 

a nun who has devoted 70 years 

to the Little Sisters of the Poor, 

caring for seniors in our community. 

Her words are all the 

inspiration that I need to do the 

best possible job I can on this 

complex issue. 

In the coming months, the legislature 

and I need to make the 

right decision — a decision that 

upholds our moral and ethical 

responsibility to our seniors and 

is financially sound for Albany 

County. 

Daniel P. McCoy 

Albany County Executive 

Back In Time. . . 

1912 100 Years Ago 2012 

Altamont Enterprise September 27, 1912 

Fire At Meadowdale: At an early hour Tuesday morning, 

the large barn on the Jacob A. Relyea farm now owned by 

Edmund and Jacob H. Relyea, near Meadowdale, rented by 

Marvin Perry, was burned to the ground. Mr. Perry had a load 

of loose hay on his wagon and was making preparations to 

start for the city when the lantern which he had set down 

near the door on his going to the interior of the building, 

exploded, setting fire to the combustible material about, 

and he had to fight his way through the flames to get out of 

doors. He was able to save his horses and other stock, with 

the exception of his fowls, but his entire crop together with 

the loaded wagon burned. Fortunately his farm implements 

were in another building and they too were saved. Help finally 

arriving a pig pen adjoining the burning building was saved 

which prevented the flames communicating to the house. Mr. 

Perryís loss is about $1,000 with a small insurance in a stock 

company. There is also a small insurance on the building in 

a stock company. 

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GREAT VOTING CONTEST: The ENTERPRISE this week 

inaugurates the greatest voting contest ever held in this 

section of the state, and one which we believe will arouse a 

great deal of interest. 

This contest will extend over a period of about 90 days, and 

at the close of the contest some lady in this vicinity will be 

the proud possessor of a handsome $400 piano. 

On page six of this issue will be found a full explanation of 

the contest, with the rules which will govern it, and a list of 

beautiful and useful auxiliary prizes which will be given by 

the progressive merchants of the village. There are a number 

of prizes besides the piano, any one of which will be well worth 

winning, and every contestant who gets out and makes any 

kind of hustle will be sure of winning a handsome prize, even 

if she does not win the piano. 

This contest is put on under the auspices of the Publisherís 

Music Co. of Chicago, who will have charge of the arrangements. 

This company makes a business of conducting these 

popular voting contests and at present has a number of them 

under way in this and other states. 

Some popular lady will have a beautiful piano as a result 

of this contest, and a number of others will have beautiful 

prizes of various kinds. 

**** 

Cleanliness In the House: Just because it is a fowlhouse is 

no reason why it should be permitted to be a foul place. If 

you want to raise poultry you certainly should not raise lice 

and germs in the filth. 

Just because the occupants of the house are chickens is no 

reason for permitting filth to accumulate. Clean up the place 

and keep it clean. 

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To the editor 

— Photo by Amy Lauterbach Pokorny 

Terrice Bassler displays some of her pottery, and pottery made by 

Amy Atkins, at the Palmer House Café in Rensselaerville as part 

of the Discover the Hilltowns: Farms and Artisans Tour. 

I support the Voorheesville Public Library 

but have concerns about the new building plans 


What do we need The library 

board has been doing a tremendous 

and thorough amount of 

planning for the past five years, 

trying to find the right combination 

of site location, building size 

and style, and last but not least 

the cost. 

I know the cost means everything 

when considering what 

we get for the dollar, but it can 

mean more to some taxpayers 

for different reasons. More detail 

about this later. 

First, let’s compare where we 

are now to where we are going. 

We have a library that is paid for 

and some extra acreage that was 

purchased and is now paid for. 

The plan was to expand the existing 

library or build a new library 

on the purchased acreage. 

Many of the people I have discussed 

this with seem to think 

updating and maintaining the 

existing building and then adding 

on to it would be far less expensive. 

I know that the committee 

says the existing structure 

is not constructed well enough 

to allow additions, but I believe 

that may mean a second story. 

Something to think about 

Second, let’s consider this 

community-center talk. It would 

be great to have a facility of the 

planned size available for large 

gatherings that groups could 

rent for their own purpose or 

maybe the library could offer 

seminars, meetings, speakers, 

music, etc. 

Somehow, community center 

to me means a larger area that 

would also have more tax base to 

support it. On that subject, does 

everyone know that the library is 

solely supported by the taxpayers 

of the Voorheesville Central 

School district 

Since there are fewer than 

3,000 taxpayers in the district, it 

all adds up to large increases on 

the tax bill. Of course, there are 

many more voters than that, considering 

a possibility of several 

eligible voters per tax parcel. 

While on the subject, let’s talk 

about cost. The library board 

says we would see an increase 

of $124 for a home valued at 

$200,000. I guess you can figure 

how that would impact your 

tax bill. 

The library budget for the 

past nine years has increased an 

average of 5.96 percent. With a 

new larger library, the operating 

budget will need a substantial 

increase. In these times of a 

weak economy and no signs of 

improving, 

We need to watch our own 

budget. 

In summary, make sure to attend 

one of the three public presentations; 

ask lots of questions, 

especially about the cost per taxpayer. 

Also be sure to vote when 

that time comes, because we will 

live with the consequences for 

many years. All budget increases 

are compounded. 

Public meeting dates are: 

Oct. 4, in the performing arts 

center at the high school at 7 

p.m.; 

Oct. 17 at the library at 7 

p.m.; and 

Nov. 11 at the library at 4 

p.m. 

I do really support the library 

and use it myself. I also think 

the staff and board work hard 

and deserve a lot of credit. 

Irving Mosher 

New Scotland 

The Old Men of the Mountain 

Parched earth needs a slow, steady rain 

— Photo by Amy Lauterbach Pokorny 

Sara Luhrman gives tourists a peek at their laying hens at Fox 

Creek Farm. Meanwhile, her husband, Raymond, described how 

his solar panels and windmill provide power to operate a walk-in 

cooler for his fresh produce. 

Farmers, tourists and organizers – 

thanks for supporting Hilltown tour 


I would like to say thank-you 

to everyone who participated in 

the second annual “Discover the 

Hilltowns: Farms and Artisans 

Tour” on September 15 and 16: 

— The farmers, artisans and 

other contributors (and their 

families!) who opened their doors 

to the public; 

— The “tourists” who came 

out to support our great variety 

of wonderful destinations along 

the way; and 

— The Helderberg Hilltowns 

Association folks who helped 

make this fun and worthwhile 

event happen. 

Many thanks to all for making 

this year’s self guided driving 

tour of the Hilltowns a fabulous 

success! 

Amy Lauterbach Pokorny 

Chair 

Farms and Artisans Tour 

Secretary 

Helderberg 

Hilltowns Association 

By John R. Williams 

The Old Men of the Mountain’s 

marching orders were to Mrs. 

K’s Restaurant in Middleburgh 

on Tuesday, Sept. 18, and foul 

weather caught up with the OFs, 

but we need this weather. Not the 

OFs — they need a lot more than 

foul weather to catch up to them, 

but we need rain for the parched 

ground of our locality. 

The sages of the group say 

that, if we get driving rains with 

the ground as hard as it is, it 

will just run off. Anything will 

be of some benefit these same 

sages say, but it won’t be as good 

right now as three days of a slow 

drizzle. 

This, the OFs say, will soften 

the ground and the water will 

sink into where it is needed, 

including the wells that have 

gone dry. All the OFs nodded 

their heads in agreement and 

added their two cents because 

the conversation was a discussion 

on what most of the OFs 

(Old Farmers) knew. 

The discussion continued on 

to not only how dry it is on the 

Hill, but the OFs suppose in 

many other places — like half the 

country. Some OGs were talking 

about their gardens and digging 

down to harvest or plant trees, 

and they were getting dust at 20 

to 24 inches down. That is dry. 

The same conversation on 

weather and gardening turned to 

the specific planting of tomatoes. 

According to the OFs, they either 

have them in abundance or not 

at all. One OF said that his are 

great and of good size but seem to 

have scars on them, and another 

one said he can’t tell because 

the deer ate them all, and with 

another it was woodchucks. 

One OF said all his are volunteer 

tomatoes and another said 

he had 55 percent volunteer, and 

50 percent were planted. (Volunteer 

tomatoes are the ones that 

come up by themselves from last 

year’s crop). 

It seems, though, that by the 

OF reckoning there are enough 

tomatoes among them to go 

around. 

Homegrown food 

and homegrown advice 

Then what continued was a 

discussion on farmers’ markets 

and there are a few on the Hill, 

and in the valley of Schoharie 

where, according to the school 

song, history tells a tale. The 

Hilltown markets are basically 

homegrown produce and the OFs 

take advantage of these markets 

and in the fall make use of them 

to get their corn, squash, tomatoes, 

cucumbers, potatoes, beets, 

and items like that. 

Most are so fresh that they are 

still covered with dirt, and the 

corn might still have the morning 

dew on it. 

Many OFs see people take a 

nice ear of corn and peel it back 

and, if there is a corn borer at 

the top, they put the ear back, or 

throw it away. That little worm 

does not affect the corn — just 

whack off the little piece on the 

top where the borer is and put 

the rest in the pot. 

When discarding that ear of 

corn (because of the corn borer) 

the OFs say that ear may be the 

best one of the lot. Some people 

cook the corn with the husk on 

in the microwave, which the OFs 

say is the best way to do it — that 

little borer will get cooked to a 

frazzle. The OFs say, go ahead 

and eat the whole ear and get a 

little protein with your starch. 

Settling 

What fit in nicely, and followed 

this discussion on food and its 

preparation (you guessed it) the 

OFs started talking about buying 

clothes and how many of them 

are in a class called “portly.” The 

OFs are portly because, just like 

glass, we are not a solid and, as 

we OFs age, we settle. 

What once was a large manly 

chest is now a (well still in the 

male gender) gut. What used to 

be muscle on the arm has now 

got a little swing of flab to it so 

the OFs have to purchase clothes 

that are the same style but of a 

different cut. 

The OF’s mature — really 

mature — figure requires this 

fuller cut. Slim is out, regular 

is out, portly is OK; thank goodness 

none of the OFs need the 

fat size. There are some OFs, 

though, who are of the big-andtall 

gents sizes. 

Vagaries of 

sharing a vehicle 

At the breakfast, the OFs start 

filing in anywhere from around 8 

a.m. to 9 a.m. On this particular 

morning, an OF showed up without 

his normal counterpart. 

After this OF sat and joined 

the group, he was asked, “Where 

is your traveling buddy, is he 

OK” 

The OF answered that his 

traveling buddy called and asked, 

“Whose turn is it to drive” 

The OF said, “It’s my turn.” 

Then the traveling buddy said, 

“OK, then I’m not going!” 

Well now that should tell you 

a lot. Talk about taking the wind 

out of your sails. No one ever said 

the OFs are subtle. 

Those OFs that made it to Mrs. 

K’s Restaurant in the middle of 

Middleburgh and came no matter 

who was driving were: Harold 

Guest, Mark Traver, Glenn Patterson, 

Robie Osterman, John 

Rossmann, Miner Stevens, Steve 

Kelly, Bill Bartholomew, Art Frament, 

Bob Benac, Frank Pauli, 

Don Wood, Carl Slater, Dave 

Williams, and guest Bill Williams, 

Duane Wagenbaugh, Bob 

Ssome, Joe Loubier, Don Moser, 

Lou Schenck, Gary Porter, Mace 

Porter, Jack Norray, Carl Walls, 

Gerry Chartier, Mike Willsey, 

Harold Grippen, and me. 

At this breakfast a few more of 

the OFs said their goodbyes until 

next year as they flew the coop 

for warmer winter climes.











To the editor 

Town may have been pressured 

into firing assessor for doing his job 


This is related to the letter 

printed in the July 26, 2012 issue 

of The Enterprise in which 

Mr. Steve Balogh uses the 

terns “petty politics,” “ongoing 

dispute,” “taxpayer costs,” and 

“truth” [reacting to the July 19 

story, “Fired assessor sues Guilderland.”] 

May I suggest that the town 

officials are not interested in 

taxpayer costs or truth and may 

have been pressured into firing 

the assessor for doing his job 

Realistically, he may have appraised 

property of an influential 

wealthy developer in a fair and 

equitable manner, which is not 

always healthy, especially when 

dealing with issues, which may 

become political. We may never 

know. 

Realistically, do most taxpayers 

really care I do not think 

so. 


Despite, or was it due to, the 

stormy weather on Saturday 

evening, the Berne Senior Center 

was a-buzz with activity. Some 

140 people enjoyed a homemade 

lasagna dinner, laughed and 

chatted with neighbors, and 

took chances on 22 cakes made 

from scratch in Berne’s first-ever 

cakewalk. All came out in support 

of the new library and had 

fun doing it. 

We are grateful to all of you who 

made this event a success: the 

lasagna-makers; the volunteers 

who made sure that everybody 

was served; the 22 bakers who 

donated cakes; Stewart’s, which 

The idea that we will ever 

know the real truth is not realistic 

unless a lot of money 

is available to the plaintiff for 

necessary litigation and/or a 

major change takes place in town 

government. 

Personally, I have been trying 

to force town government to 

enforce state and town environmental 

laws, which have been 

violated continuously over the 

past several years. These violations 

not only affect our property 

and daily lives but also affect all 

citizens who are dependent on 

the Watervliet Reservoir. 

The actual cost to taxpayers 

because of the destruction of 

property, erosion control, reservoir 

contamination, etc. will 

probably never be known, but 

who really cares about what is 

going on in the real world until it 

affects their pocketbook or health 

and then it is too late. 

140 enjoyed lasagna dinner 

Berne Library a third of the way 

to having needed funds for furnishings 

donated ice cream for the event; 

and those who came to eat and 

participate in the cakewalk. 

Thanks to all of you, we are 

now a third of the way towards 

reaching our goal to raise $30,000 

to furnish the new library. Our 

next event is a Vendor Fair at 

the Berne Senior Center on Oct. 

20 from 9 a.m. to noon — just in 

time for those who like to do their 

Christmas shopping early. 

The library is moving to the 

former St. Bernadette’s Church, 

located directly across from the 

school. Thus it will be able to 

serve the students of the Berne- 

Knox-Westerlo School District 

better. 

Earl MacIntosh Sr. 

Guilderland 

Editor’s note: In 2007, Earl 

MacIntosh appeared in front 

of the Guilderland Planning 

Board to say he thought Joseph 

Lucarelli should not be allowed to 

build on land that was zoned for 

agriculture. MacIntosh argued 

that stormwater was flowing 

from Lucarelli’s property into 

the Watervliet Reservoir and 

said that Lucarelli had filled in 

wetlands. 

An engineer from a firm in 

Schenectady told MacIntosh that 

the land had not been filled in, 

and, in fact, nothing had been 

done to the land since the 1980s. 

The planning board gave Lucarelli’s 

project approval. 

For the full story, go to www. 

altamontenterprise.com, under 

the Guilderland archives, for 

Nov. 1, 2007. 

We are eager to see the Berne 

Library become a more useable, 

comfortable, and pleasant place 

for book and media borrowing, 

computer use, research, children’s 

story hour, book talks 

for all ages, and community 

programs. 

With your continued support, 

either through participation in 

our events or through a direct 

donation (see the Friends page of 

the library at www.bernepubliclibrary.org) 

we will be well on the 

way to reaching our goal. 

Gayle Burgess, Treasurer 

Friends of the 

Berne Library 

Thanks for local support of 

monthly community meal 

Four years ago, 

Americans voted emotionally 

without thought or research 


“What fools we mortals be”: 

That is a quote from decades 

ago, and I don’t remember 

who or where. In any case, 

it applies to today’s society 

as much as it did then, if not 

more so. 

Four years ago, the majority 

of this country voted for 

the leadership we have today, 

because they were dissatisfied 

with the “ins.” They wanted 

them out. 

I think I agree, at least to a 

degree. The error, in my opinion, 

they voted emotionally 

without thought or research. 

They voted for rhetoric, snakeoil 

salesmanship and what was 

presented as a rosy future. 

We have gotten anything 

but. The concept of the Democratic 

Party has been hijacked 

by international and domestic 

political whores who have only 

one goal — the destruction of 

our constitutional form of government, 

as we know it. That, 

with the existing religious 


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Out of destruction of Irene came ‘a little spark’ that now travels on 

By Melissa Hale-Spencer 

SCHOHARIE COUNTY — The 

sun shone bright on Monday as 

a dozen workers who had helped 

clean up the debris left in the 

wake of last year’s Tropical 

Storm Irene gathered at Max 

V. Shaul State Park near Fultonham. 

They stood on the stones, worn 

smooth and round, next to the 

water, still in the crisp fall air 

as Brenda Weaver brandished 

a bottle. 

“I am stunned that 

the bottle has held 

up so long,” 

She flung it into the Schoharie 

Creek. The bottle bobbed in the 

gentle waves, its red cap and the 

white papers inside clearly visible 

as it edged its way along. 

This summer, work crews at 

a site in North Blenheim found 

a bottle with two letters in it, 

and brought it to Weaver, the 

office manager for the Schoharie 

County Soil and Water Conservation 

District. 

“The foreman was like, ‘This 

is really cool,’” recalled Weaver 

this week. 

Two teenaged cousins had 

written the letters in 2004. They 

were camping at Nickerson’s 

Campground for Memorial Day 

weekend. Cassandra, at age 13, 

wrote she was having the time of 

her life. Kayla, at 15, wrote, “If 

you find this, make one of your 

own and send along the fun.” 

Weaver was eager to find the 

girls and wrote a letter to The 

Altamont Enterprise, published 

in August. Kayla’s uncle saw it 

and alerted her. 

“I am stunned that the bottle 

has held up so long,” Kayla 

Loucks of Altamont, now a young 

woman, wrote by hand to Weaver. 

“It didn’t make it very far for 

eight years! Haha. But I truly 

hope that someone else finds the 

message and keeps it going. This 

is the most amazing thing!” 

The Enterprise –– Michael Koff 

On the road again: On Monday afternoon, Brenda Weaver, fourth from right, tosses a bottle into the Schoharie Creek. Looking on are 

workers who helped clean up the mess left by the remnants of Hurricane Irene last year. They discovered a bottle with letters inside written 

eight years ago. Through The Enterprise, Weaver, the office manager for the Schoharie County Soil and Water Conservation District, tracked 

down one of the letter writers. Weaver wrote a new letter to put with the originals before sending the bottle on its way. 


Floating away: This bottle holds a bit of history as it floats down 

the Schoharie Creek on Monday afternoon at Max V. Shaul State 

Park in Schoharie County. 


Floating away: This bottle holds a bit of history as it floats down 

the Schoharie Creek on Monday afternoon at Max V. Shaul State 

Park in Schoharie County. 

She thanked both Weaver and 

the crew that “found the bottle 

and didn’t just throw it out and 

forget about it.” 

Weaver composed a letter to 

include in the new bottle along 

with the 

o r i g i n a l 

two letters. 

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typed her 

missive on 

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“This is the most 

amazing thing!” 

w i t h a 

conservation 

district letterhead. Weaver 

writes of the bottle’s discovery 

and re-launching and concludes, 

“We hope you are enjoying the 

natural beauty around the Schoharie 

Valley, and we’d be very 

interested to know of the bottle’s 

travels.” 

“I think it’s unique,” said Weaver 

on Monday. “What impressed 

me the most is that, out of such 

a bad situation, has come this 

little spark. It’s like a history 

capsule.” 

Nickerson’s 

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Weaver 

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flooding last 

year, which washed out one end 

of the road to the campground. 

Nearby, fossils, exposed by the 

flooding, were uncovered and are 

now on display near the town 

hall — another “little spark” of 

discovery out of the depths of 

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CDTA cuts back on bus runs as some object 

By Zach Simeone 

ALTAMONT — As the Capital 

District Transportation Authority 

cuts and combines bus routes 

in the wake of the statewide 

economic crunch, the routes that 

bring riders from Altamont and 

Voorheesville to Albany will be 

changing on Nov. 12. 

“What we presented to the public 

was basically putting together 

two routes: the morning commuter 

buses to 

Altamont and 

Voorheesville, 

and back in,” 

said Jonathan 

Scherzer, CD- 

TA’s director of 

marketing. “We 

took those two 

routes, which 

had varying degrees 

of ridership — certainly not 

efficient ones — and combined 

them into one.” 

Riders getting off the evening 

bus, which arrives at the intersection 

of Main Street and Maple 

Avenue in Altamont at 5:15 p.m., 

said last week that they were 

unsure if and how the changes 

would be affecting them, since 

CDTA has not yet released the 

new schedule. 

Scherzer said last week that 

the planned route change would 

add close to 10 minutes to the 

trip for Altamont riders, but correspondence 

between Scherzer 

and an Altamont bus rider in 

the days that followed suggest 

further changes. 

“We had put our proposal out 

By Tyler Murphy 

NEW SCOTLAND –– Town 

board members are poised to sell 

a 14-passenger senior van to the 

town of Berne and have told dozens 

of concerned senior citizens 

at last week’s board meeting the 

sale would not affect service. 

“Some seniors in the town of 

New Scotland, in my opinion, 

have been unnecessarily aggravated 

into a concern that (the 

town board) is going to sell one 

of the buses,” said Councilman 

Doug LaGrange. 

“Last year, we used it 20 times 

and it sat out there for 340 days 

without use. They’re still going 

to have trips, still going to have 

the bus,” New Scotland Supervisor 

Thomas 

Dolin said to 

the crowd as 

it pelted board 

members with 

questions for 

more than an 

hour at last 

week’s meeting. 

“Tell me what the objection 

is.” 

One of the citizens at the meeting, 

Bill Kerr, was skeptical of 

how available the van would be to 

New Scotland seniors if another 

municipality owned it. He noted 

the cost of the bus was less than 

1 percent of the budget and the 

projected savings even smaller. 

He asked board members for a 

guarantee the sale would not 

impact local seniors. 

The board has scheduled a 

special meeting for Today at 6:30 

p.m., at the Wyman Osterhout 

Community Center to vote on 

the issue, and Dolin, who endorses 

the sale, believes enough 

members support the move to 

pass it. 

Berne residents recently lost 

their hill town bus services from 

the Capital District Transportation 

Authority in August. 

“Revenues are declining, business 

is in downfall, it’s no different 

for government than private 

business,” Berne Supervisor 

Kevin Crosier told the crowd at 

the New Scotland meeting. Crosier 

said the CDTA canceled its 

to the public, and some of our 

more vocal constituents came 

out to the meeting,” Scherzer 

said. “They had their opinions 

of how public transit should be 

doled out, and they did provide 

us with some alternate routings, 

which I think we are going to 

try to incorporate into the final 

plan.” 

Scherzer refers to a couple, one 

of whom rides the Altamont bus. 

“What we presented to the public was basically putting 

together two routes: the morning commuter buses to 

Altamont and Voorheesville, and back in” 

They provided The Enterprise 

with an e-mail from Scherzer, 

which he wrote in response to a 

letter suggesting alternatives to 

CDTA’s proposal. 

In his response, Scherzer wrote: 

“We appreciate the time both you 

and your husband have put into 

finding the best plan and, to that 

end, we will be implementing the 

routing from Route 20 to Route 

146 to Altamont, and then Route 

156 through Voorheesville into 

Delmar.” 

Still, other concerns remain; 

some drive to the 20 Mall on 

Western Avenue, and catch 

the bus from the 20 Mall into 

Albany. 

“The people who get on at 20 

Mall are being affected the most,” 

one rider said after getting off 

the Altamont bus last week. 

“Because they get on our bus, 

and then we get on the highway, 

so their commute is only about, 

15, 20 minutes. They’re going to 

have to take this other bus, the 

63, and that’s like a 40-minute 

bus ride.” 

Scherzer suggests these riders 

simply take another bus. 

“People at 20 Mall have, I think, 

five bus routes 

there,” he said. 

“If someone really 

wants to 

connect there, 

they can [take 

route] 763, or 

one of the others.” 

Some have 

expressed the 

fear that, with the bus trip’s 

duration becoming longer, more 

people will choose to drive, 

thereby increasing congestion 

and the effect on the environment. 

Scherzer disagrees. 

“If you take public transportation 

to begin with, you probably 

have the expectation that it’s 

going to take longer than driving 

a car,” he said. “This isn’t 

something that’s just for you, or 

another individual, or a family 

of individuals, or a household. 

It’s set up for the masses. Would 

I want a shorter ride Of course, 

but if I knew the best way to get 

the services I’m used to was taking 

a bus for an extra eight or 

nine minutes, that’s something 

I’d have to think about.” 

Seniors protest 

Berne asks to buy New Scotland’s back-up bus 

routes, citing a lack of riders and 

a $50,000 fiscal shortfall. “What 

separates us in the hill towns is 

miles,” he said. 

“It’s less than 1 percent of the 

town’s total income. Yes, it’ll 

save money, it’ll help Berne but 

we’re taxpayers here,” said Kerr. 

“I know what happens once you 

give something away; I know 

government. That’s the way it 

goes.” 

Berne asked New Scotland to 

sell one of its two vans. The town 

operates two cars and two vans 

as part of the New Scotland Senior 

Outreach program, though 

Dolin said one of the cars was 

in bad shape and needed to be 

replaced. 

“Revenues are declining, business is in downfall, 

it’s no different for government than private business” 

The purpose of the outreach 

program was to connect New 

Scotland seniors with aid offered 

by the county and state, 

LaGrange said at the meeting. 

The vehicles are used to take 

seniors to medical appointments 

and grocery shopping free of 

charge, since many are unable 

to drive or can’t afford a car, 

he said. 

The buses are also used in partnership 

with the New Scotland 

Seniors club, a private, not-forprofit 

group. The club organizes 

dozens of recreational trips for 

seniors and it often uses a town 

bus for the trips. Since January 

the buses had been on 71 trips 

for the group, said Dolin. 

An agreement with Berne 

would sell the bus for $2,500, 

which is less than its estimated 

value, but the deal would allow 

New Scotland to continue using 

the bus when needed, said Dolin. 

The town only used the back-up 

bus about 20 days of the year 

when the first bus was full during 

trips for the seniors club. He 

also said the back-up bus had 

originally been purchased accidentally 

after the town surprisingly 

received a grant it thought 

was going to be denied. 

“In 2008, when I took office, we 

had no vehicles and now we have 

three and a half –– I considered 

the fly car barely road worthy. 

In my opinion, we need two cars 

and one bus,” said Dolin. The supervisor 

said one of the reasons 

the town was selling the bus was 

because it never really needed it 

in the first place. Dolin said the 

cars are often more efficient for 

transporting seniors, since most 

of the transport involves small 

groups going for medical appointments 

or shopping. 

“In the time we had only 

one bus, I never recall a great 

outcry to get 

another,” added 

LaGrange. 

“I know there 

are some worries 

out there, people 

are worried 

the van will go 

and never come 

back–– we’ll never get to use it 

–– that’s not true,” said Crosier. 

The supervisors told the seniors 

at the meeting, that the two 

towns would enter into a shared 

services contract stipulating the 

agreement in writing. 

“We would use the bus up there 

on day leave –– have a shared 

services agreement with the 

town so that, when you need the 

bus for a trip to the flower show 

or wherever you want to go, we’ll 

make sure it’s clean and fueled, 

ready to go and sitting in the 

parking lot. You’d never know it 

was gone,” said Crosier. 

Though he didn’t say if he 

supported the sale, Councilman 

Daniel Mackay pointed out that 

the proposed agreement stated 

Berne would only be using the 

bus once a week, on Wednesdays. 

“What Berne is proposing is 

a specific day of the week, a 

specific time,” he said. “People 

in the community obviously 

know not to schedule intensive 

events for Wednesday because 

that day we’ll only have one bus 

available.” 

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...A cliffhanger: Will rock climbing be allowed at Thacher Park 

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short climbs. It disassociates local 

climbers from one another–– 

they have no home. When you 

travel to an area where people 

have access to a climb and can go 

there after work, you can see it 

creates a community,” said Wallen. 

“Albany doesn’t have that but 

Thacher could be their home.” 

Currently, Thacher Park, with 

its 75-to 250-foot limestone cliffs, 

prohibits recreational climbing 

along the Helderberg escarpment. 

“There’s been an 

assessment going on; 

there’s no conclusion 

at this point.” 

Park Manager Chris Fallon 

said rock climbing was one of 

the activities being considered 

for inclusion in the master plan. 

The office is due to release a draft 

master plan in October and a 

final review and adoption of a 

plan is to take place by the end 

of the year. 

“There’s been an assessment 

going on; there’s no conclusion 

at this point,” said Fallon. Park 

planners have already had 

meetings with the coalition and 

officials are studying the issues 

involved, such as accessibility, 

environmental impact, liability, 

and safety, said Fallon. He said 

a decision on rock-climbing could 

be announced when the park’s 

draft master plan is released 

next month. 

However, rock climbers could 

be seen on Thacher’s escarpment 

earlier this month when 

emergency crews practiced steep 

search and rescue operations at 

the park. 

Since 1994, the Albany County 

Sheriff ’s Office Search and 

Rescue team has been training 

up and down the cliffs, said its 

Photo by –– Stanley Axelrod 

High-angle rescue: Members of the Albany County Sheriff’s search-and-rescue team prepare to descend down the Helderberg escarpment 

at John Boyd Thacher Park as part of their regular training this month. The team is trained to responded to cave, ice, and water rescues 

in rugged terrain. 

leader, Captain John Layton. 

The 15-member group of 

police and paramedics trained 

for eight hours on Sept. 11 on 

a 75-foot cliff in the park, said 

Layton. The team made multiple 

revolutions up and down the 

rock face as part of training to 

retrieve lost, injured or missing 

people from rugged areas. 

The team recently responded 

to a location in Albany to scale 

a steep gorge beneath a bridge 

to search for a missing man, 

Layton said. 

The team trains at other 

locations besides Thacher and 

responds to a wide variety of 

special emergency situations, 

including ice, water, and cave 

rescues. Layton said most of the 

group’s work is in wilderness 

search and rescue. 

“It’s a highly specialized team 

of skilled individuals,” said Layton. 

When responding to a call, 

such as the man in the gorge, 

rescuers might have an idea of 

where the victim may be but no 

exact location. 

Layton said the team trains 

together regularly at least once 

a month, often at Thacher. 

Though, the search and rescue 

team are not the first to climb 

Thacher’s cliffs, said Wallen. 

“Our parents’ generation had 

the freedom to climb there, said 

Wallen. 

“The restrictive laws of New 

York State were put in place 

during the 70s because of the 

growing influences in the legal 

community.” 

Wallen believes the current 

laws which fine visitors of the 

park for climbing the cliffs or 

even walking off the paved path, 

infringe on the rights of citizens 

to be treated as adults. 

“It’s about lawsuits; it’s about 

liability. It’s about our out of control 

legal culture where a drunk 

can fall off a cliff and sue the 

state for it,” he said. “The laws 

don’t make people responsible 

for their actions and so the state 

is afraid to give regular citizens 

any responsibility or freedom,” 

said Wallen. 

Wallen said court rulings had 

made it difficult for climbers to 

sue because their sport is considered 

a dangerous activity. 

“The idiot who falls off the cliff 

because they’re drunk and sues 

is stealing from us –– stealing 

where climbers could go. He said 

these routes would be selected 

by climbing and safety experts 

to avoid potential dangers such 

as loose rocks. They would also 

place the routes in areas less 

sensitive to damage. 

“People think rock climbing 

and they imagine free climbing. 

Not many do it –– a very 

low percent,” said Wallen. Free 

climbing is when rock climbers 

make climbs without the aid 

of any equipment aside from a 

small bag of chalk they dip their 

fingers into periodically to help 

avoid slipping. 

“It’s pretty crazy and most 

climbers don’t do it. The mentality 

of most climbers is taking 

calculated risks. We use ropes 

“The idiot who falls off the cliff 

because they’re drunk and sues 

is stealing from us 

–– stealing money from the taxpayers, 

and they’ve also indirectly stolen 

our access to the park.” 

Photo by –– Stanley Axelrod 

Climbers considered: As the John Boyd and Thompson Lake State Parks develop a master plan 

for future programming at the park, rock climbers are asking for access to the escarpment. Though 

recreational climbing is prohibited at the park the Albany Sheriff’s search and rescue team (above) 

frequently uses the park’s cliffs for training. 

money from the taxpayers, and 

they’ve also indirectly stolen 

our access to the park,” he said. 

“We have climbers in our group 

who’ve even climbed the Alps. It’s 

hard for people who have climbed 

20,000 feet in South America to 

understand why they can’t go in 

their backyard at Thacher.” 

Wallen is also very concerned 

with the environmental impacts 

of climbing on the geology and 

plant life but said climbing methods 

and practices had evolved to 

minimize any impact. 

“In climbing, we have certain 

routes; we don’t have people 

going all over,” he said. Wallen 

said Thacher, like other parks, 

should establish a local climbing 

authority to issue climbing 

permits and maintain the climbing 

routes. The authority would 

establish predetermined routes 

and safeguards. It’s really safe 

when compared to jumping off a 

60-foot cliff into water. There’s 

more of a chance of getting into 

a car accident than a climbing 

accident,” he said. 

Another point Wallen raised 

was that, on average, a rock 

climber has to spend between 

$1,500 and $2,000 on his equipment 

and they almost always 

climb with at least one other 

person. “These are not just people 

who live in the city and randomly 

decided it was a nice day to go 

for a hike. They’re experienced 

outdoor users. They’ve tried a 

sport, loved it, and have invested 

in it,” he said. 

Wallen said he and his group 

remain optimistic about climbing 

at Thacher one day and are continuing 

to engage park officials 

on the issue.


Still at an impasse with teachers, BKW board plans update soon 


BERNE — A year has passed 

since Berne-Knox-Westerlo taxpayers 

got a detailed update on 

negotiations between the school 

board and the BKW Teachers’ 

Association on their publicly 

funded, multi-million dollar contract, 

which expired more than 

three years ago. 

But BKW School Board President 

Vasilios Lefkaditis said 

this week that the public would 

soon be apprised on how their 

money may be spent in the next 

contract. 

“Up until 

this point, 

it’s been 

professional 

courtesy” 

t o w a r d s 

the teachers’ 

union, 

he said of 

why there 

has not yet 

been an update. 

“But, 

at some point, we are going to 

come forward.” 

Article II of the BKW teachers’ 

contract, which outlines negotiating 

procedures, states, “Both 

parties agree that there be no 

release of information in regard 

to the negotiation to the public 

without prior notice and agreement 

to a joint press release or 

until impasse is declared.” 

Negotiators reached an impasse 

in March 2011. They 

brought in a mediator from the 

Public Employee Review Board, 

but to no avail. In the fall, the 

school board’s negotiator from 

the Board of Cooperative Educational 

Services, Kevin Harren, 

updated the public on the respective 

parties’ terms; the teachers’ 

union did not make a public 

“Being candid.” 

presentation of its own. 

Kelly Smith, president of the 

BKW Teachers’ Association, 

could not be reached this week 

before press time. 

She told the audience at a 

packed budget forum in 2010 

that the union had offered to accept 

a freeze in the teachers’ salary 

schedule — “And we haven’t 

slacked,” she told the crowd. 

“They got back to us at the 

end of April,” Smith told The Enterprise 

shortly after, “at which 

time we gave them a counter offer, 

and that’s the last we heard 

from them. 

In their defense, 

there 

have been a 

lot of things 

going on.” 

The BKW 

administration 

was in a 

state of flux 

then, as it is 

now. 

“So, that 

did put a kink in the works as 

far as negotiations go,” Smith 

said then. “But, there’s always 

going to be something.” 

The Triborough Amendment 

of New York State’s Taylor Law 

requires that employees work under 

the old contract until a new 

one is agreed upon. The contract 

that expired in 2009 includes 30 

steps, and teachers climb one 

step each year; on the first step, a 

teacher earns $38,350; on the 30 th 

step, a teacher earns $86,874. 

Teachers continue to receive 

their step increases under the 

old contract when there isn’t a 

new one. 

Jay Worona, attorney for the 

New York State School Board 

Association, talked this week 

about the rationale behind the 

Enterprise file photo — Zach Simeone 

“We haven’t slacked,” said Kelly Smith, president of the Berne- 

Knox-Westerlo Teachers’ Association, responding at a packed 

budget forum in 2010 to BKW residents’ sentiment that teachers 

were not shouldering enough of the budgetary burden. Salaries 

and benefits for all district employees total more than 75 percent 

of the BKW budget. 

confidentiality of contract negotiations. 

“Being candid,” Worona told 

The Enterprise, “knowing that 

they don’t have to posture so 

that they will be perceived as 

being tough and being consistent 

with what they each might 

believe the public and/or union 

would be expecting them to do, 

in terms of how they express 

themselves, it makes people a 

little more motivated to be honest 

with each other, and waste a 

lot less time.” 

Such ground rules, like the 

requirement of confidentiality, 

vary among districts. 

“There are some schools where 

bargaining agreements don’t operate 

that way; they’ll be totally 

open,” said Worona. “It really depends 

on the climate of the community, 

and the expectations for 

the way things have been done 

in the past. What yields the best 

possible result It’s almost like 

family members in an operating 

room; you want to know what’s 

going on in there. But, even if 

you were in there, you wouldn’t 

feel any less nuts. They’ve got to 

do their thing.” 

Moreover, a contract being 

expired for three years is not 

unheard of. 

“In Buffalo, they’re out eight 

years right now without a new 

contract, so, we don’t see this 

all the time, but we see it often 

enough,” Worona said. “If you 

have a contract that was negotiated 

when economic times were 

great, and they have lucrative 

economic provisions in them, 

it’s hard to convince people to 

come up with a contract that 

gives them a lot less money. 

And, unlike people in business 

who want to keep their profits 

to themselves, people running 

districts want to dole it out to 

the staff, because they want to 

attract the best and the brightest 

for the community.” 

Lefkaditis said Monday that 

he was unsure of when the district’s 

next negotiations update 

might be. 

“But we would let the bargaining 

unit know before we 

do so,” said Lefkaditis. “Several 

members from the gallery have 

addressed that concern, and 

we’ve made clear that it’s going 

to happen sooner rather than 

later.”


Community Calendar 

Thursday, September 27 

Food Preservation Class: 

The Cornell Cooperative Extension 

of Albany County will be 

hosting the last two food preservation 

classes of the season at 

the extension office, 24 Martin 

Road, Voorheesville. On Sept. 27, 

the Introduction to Water Bath 

Canning, will run from 6:30 to 

8:30 p.m. and cover all the basics, 

including pickled dilly beans as 

a class project to take home. The 

fee is $15, payable at the door, 

and pre-registration is required; 

call 765-3547 to register. 

Friday, September 28 

Drive-thru Chicken Barbecue 

at the American Legion 

Altamont Post, 988 Altamont 

Boulevard, from 4 to 7 p.m. The 

cost is $9 per dinner. Call 861- 

6848 for more information. 

Halloween Fall Fund-raiser 

at the North Bethlehem Fire 

Department, 589 Russell Road, 

on Friday, from 10 a.m. to 9 

p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 

from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pumpkins, 

mums, straw, and cornstalks will 

be on sale. Throughout the days, 

there will be ice cream, cotton 

candy, soda, and entertainment 

for kids. 

Voorheesville Farmer’s 

Market from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., 

featuring Two’s Company music 

and Dietrich Gehring Photography. 

Kinyarwanda, winner of the World Cinema Audience award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, will 

be screened on Friday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. at the downtown campus of 

the University at Albany. The film is based on the heroic true story of Muslim clergy who risked their 

lives to save both Tutsi and pacifist Hutu — Christians as well as Muslims — during the Rwandan 

genocide. “Kinyarwanda” refers to the language of Rwanda, spoken by all its ethnic groups. The film’s 

producer, Darren Dean, and leading Rwandan actress, Hadidja Zaninka (pictured here), will answer 

questions immediately after the screening. The film is part of the Justice & Multiculturalism in the 

21st Century Film Series aimed at engaging conversations about the intersection of social justice and 

criminal justice in an increasingly diverse society. 

Grand Opening Event for 

Art de Cure: The Plastic Surgery 

Group in Albany has a 

display, Metamorphosis II, featuring 

work from local artists, 

which will be sold, with a portion 

of the proceeds benefiting 

Circle of Hope, a not-for-profit 

that helps women who have had 

or are currently fighting breast 

cancer. The event will run from 

5 to 7 p.m. at the Plastic Surgery 

Group Offices, 1365 Washington 

Ave., Suite 200, Albany. It is free 

and open to the public. 

“The Art of Living” Talk: 

Dr. David Bole will present a 

public talk, exploring traditional 

Asian healing methods, such as 

acupressure and Chi Kung, for 

enhancing health and happiness, 

at 7 p.m. at the Karma Thegsum 

Choling Buddhist Center, 199 

Washington Ave., Rensselaer. A 

donation of $10 is requested. 

Saturday, September 29 

Friends of Thacher Park 

Highway Cleanup: Please join 

the Friends in picking up litter 

on their adopted section of Route 

157. Volunteers get free admission 

to the park for the day. Meet 

at the Hop Field picnic area at 

8 a.m. Call 872-0800 for more 

information. 

Hike to Historic Schoolhouse 

at Thacher Nature Center 

at 10 a.m.: Ever wonder what 

it was like to attend school in the 

early 1900s We’ll take a walk 

back in time to visit a historic 

one-room schoolhouse. Trade 

your markers and computers 

for quill pens and chalkboards 

and prepare for a mini lesson 

on “The Three R’s.” Enjoy cider 

and donuts for a snack, and play 

simple and fun old-fashioned 

games during recess. The program 

is appropriate for ages 6 

and up. This is a great program 

for scout groups. Call 872-0800 

to register. 

Berne Reformed Church 

Roast Pork Supper from 3:30 

to 6:30 p.m. on the Helderberg 

Trail. There will be continuous 

servings of roast pork, gravy, 

dressing, mashed potatoes, green 

beans, coleslaw, applesauce, dinner 

rolls, homemade pies, and 

a beverage. The cost is $10 for 

adults and take-outs are available 

for $1 extra; children under 

5 eat free. 

Gallupville Volunteer Fire 

Department Auxiliary Fall 

Rummage Sale, Bake Sale, 

and Lunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

The bag sale will be from noon 

to 1 p.m. with a lunch from 11 

a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Historic Fall Festival at 

the Canal Street Railroad Station 

Railroad Village from 10:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 

10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. 

Special features are old gas 

engines, antique cars, hot rods, 

food vendors, farmers’ market, 

chicken barbecue, artisans, and 

more. Visit the Wallace Armer 

Museum general store, a 1940 

diner, and our New York Central 

locomotive. Call 355-6536. 

Fish and Wildlife Festival at 

Five Rivers: A fish and wildlife 

festival will take place at 56 

Game Farm Road, Delmar, from 

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In celebration 

of National Hunting and Fishing 

Day, Department of Environmental 

Conservation staff and 

local conservation partners will 

present a variety of hands-on 

activities, informative talks, and 

educational exhibits. Guided 

children’s activities will include 

archery, catch-and-release fishing 

and lawn casting. General 

interest presentations will include 

restoration of the wild 

turkey, safety afield, ice fishing, 

and how to cook venison. Skill 

clinics geared for sportsmen and 

sportswomen will include how to 

age a deer, how to field dress a 

deer, and recent changes in the 

hunting regulations. All activities 

are open to the public free 

of charge. Call 457-0291 for more 

information. 

Antique and Treasures 

Appraised: The Greenville Volunteer 

Fire Company Auxiliary 

will be hosting a special event 

that may help you become better 

informed of an item’s current 

value. Local auctioneer and antique 

expert, Russ Carlsen, will 

be conducting an afternoon of 

education and appraisal on items 

you bring in for his examination. 

This session will be held on Saturday, 

from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at 

the Greenville Fire Station at the 

intersection or routes 32 and 81. 

$5 donation required. 

Guilderland Community 

Fest to Benefit Rodinos: Local 

organizations will come together 

at Tawasentha Park from 1 to 4 

p.m. for an afternoon of music, 

food, and fun for the whole family. 

Attendees will enjoy performances 

by local bands, free food, 

and kids activities. Local vendors 

will also be selling their goods. 

All proceeds will go directly to 

the Rodino family, who have 

been devastated by Huntington’s 

disease. 

Hilltown Community Market 

and Café from 9 a.m. to 

noon at the Berne Masonic 

Lodge. Open through Dec. 1. 

Local farm-fresh veggies, baked 

goods, meats, eggs, syrup, honey, 

herbals, and fine arts. 

Pumpkin Patch and Annual 

Harvest Sale at the Fort Hunter 

Volunteer Fire Company, 3525 

Carman Road, from 10 a.m. to 

4 p.m. 

Sunday, September 30 

Prayers for Peace Concert 

at 7 p.m. at the Lynnwood Reformed 

Church, 3714 Carman 

Road, Guilderland. The program 

includes traditional, spiritual, 

classic and contemporary anthems 

with media presentations. 

The concert is open to the public 

free of charge. 

Monday, October 1 

Monday Meals for take-out 

will be available at the Voorheesville 

United Methodist Church, 

38 Maple Ave., from 4:30 to 6 p.m. 

The menu includes chicken parmesan 

with pasta, green salad, 

and dessert. The cost for a meal 

is $8; call 765-2895 to reserve. 

Tuesday, October 2 

Civil War Medicine — Myth 

and Reality will be the program 

presented by Dr. Matt Farina at 

the New Scotland Historical Association 

meeting, at 7:30 p.m. 

at the Wyman Osterhout Community 

Center in New Salem. 

This program is free and open 

to the public. Call 765-4212 for 

more information. 

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Tuesday, October 2 

Knox Historical Society 

meeting at 7 p.m. at Knox Town 

Hall. Bob Stevens will present 

the Mobil sign from the family 

gas station and talk about this 

long-running business in Knox. 

Refreshments will be served 

and new members are always 

welcome. 

Thursday, October 4 

After School Adventurer: 

Hey kids! Want to get some 

exercise and have fun outdoors 

Well bring an adult and join us 

for our bi-monthly after school 

hiking adventure club. We will 

meet on the first and third Thursday 

of each month from Sept. 20 

through Nov. 15 to explore the 

different trails and habitats of 

the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. 

You can come once or every time. 

The program is for students in 

grades one through five. Meet at 

the Albany Pine Bush Discovery 

Center, 195 New Karner Road, 

at 3:30 p.m. The program is free 

but registration is required; call 

456-0655. 

Food Preservation Class: 


will host a class, Introduction 

to Pressure Canning, from 

6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at 24 Martin 

Road, Voorheesville. Participants 

will learn how to can vegetables, 

soups, stews, and meat, and will 

can some soup to take home. The 

fee is $15, payable at the door, 

and pre-registration is required; 


The Helderview Garden 

Club will meet at 6:45 p.m. at the 

Cornell Cooperative Extension 

building on Martin Road. The 

speaker will be Melanie Mason 

of Longlesson Farm and North 

County Day Lilies. Everyone is 

welcome. Call 813-495-2654 for 

more information. 

Annual Turkey Supper and 

Bake Sale at the Bethany Lutheran 

Church, Central Bridge, 

beginning at 4:30 p.m. The price 

of the family-style dinner is $9 

for adults, $5 for children, and 

free for children under 5. Takeouts 

are available for $10. Proceeds 

will be used for the church 

and community projects. 

Friday, October 5 

The Schoharie Valley Hayshakers 

will hold a mainstream 

level western square dance at 

the Middleburgh High School 

cafeteria beginning at 7:30 p.m. 

The caller is Ray Taylor and the 

cuer is Dolores Randall. Please 

wear soft sole shoes. 

First Friday Business 

Breakfast: Cynthia Nagel and 

Lis Calndrino have an energy 

packed presentation on how to 

effectively use social media for 

business. Networking begins at 

7:30 a.m. and the presentation 

begins at 8 a.m., at the Guilderland 

Chamber of Commerce 

offices, 2050 Western Ave. Admission 

is $10. 

First Friday Fall Foliage: 

Take a break from your day 

and spend an hour on the trails 

with us observing the changing 

foliage and fall colors. Meet at 



at noon. The program is free 

but registration is required; call 

456-0655. 

Giffy’s Chicken Barbecue 

Tuesday Oct. 2nd 

4 to 6 p.m. 

New Covenant Presbyterian Church 

916 Western Ave., Albany NY 12203 

482-8063 

Advance tickets $10 • At the Door $11 

Saturday September 29: Canal 

Street Station Farmers’ Market 

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Fresh 

seasonal produce from Heritage 

Farms. Now is the season for 

squash, pumpkins, gourds and 

more. Canal Street Station is located 

on Route 20 two miles east 

of I-88 Exit 24 in Duanesburg or 

five miles west of Route 158 in 

Guilderland. “Just look for the 

New York Central locomotive”! 

New vendors are welcome, for 

information call 355-6536. 

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Saturday, September 29th 

3:30 - 6:30 Continuous Servings 

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Berne Reformed Church 

Helderberg Trail, Berne, NY 

Fort Hunter Fire Company 

3525 Carman Road 

Pumpkin Patch Annual Harvest Sale 

September 29 & 30 

October 6 & 7 

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 

Pumpkins, Mums, and Cornstalks 

Please come and support your neighborhood Fire Department. 

Fire Prevention Open House on October 13, 11am - 4 pm. 

Altamont Fire Department 

is sponsoring a 

Night of Comedy 

Hosted by Greg Aidala 

Featuring Jesse Joyce, Comedy Central Roast Writer 

Also seen on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, 

Comedy Central and NBC’s “Last Comic Standing”. 

Date: Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 

Time: Doors open at 7:00 pm 

Show starts at 8 pm 

Where: Altamont Fire Department 

115 Main Street 

Cost: $25 per person 

Includes Beer, Wine, Soda and Finger Foods 

Tickets may be purchased at the door 

OR 

Reserved tickets may be purchased in advance 

by contacting Mark Wertman at the 

Altamont Fire Department 861-5758 

Also at Village Hall, Kelly Best at 861-8554 ext. 10 

An evening of Flamenco music, dance, and song: The University at Albany Performing Arts Center 

presents Flamenco Vivo II on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, 

this five-member ensemble of artists will perform under the direction of Carlota Santana. Intense speed, 

sensual partnering, and stiletto movement are trademarks of Santana’s artists who are celebrating 

their 30th anniversary season.Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12 for the elderly and UAlbany 

faculty or staff, and $10 for students. For reservations and further information, contact the box office 

at 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center website www.albany.edu/pac. 

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• Homemade soups daily 

• Open Breakfast & Lunch 

7 days a week 

• Tuesdays - Burger night 4-8 

• Fridays - Dinners 5-8 

Main Street, Altamont 

861-6452 

Mondays 

Tuesdays 

Wednesdays 

Homemade Comfort Food 

Breakfast 

Home Front Scrambler 

( Eggs, Feta, Spinach, Tom ) 

Fruit topped pancakes or 

French toast 

Sausage & gravy over 

biscuits 

In a hurry Join us for 

“Crock Pot Lunch” 

Goulash 

Beef Stew 

Chili 

Thursdays Eggs Benedict Chicken & Biscuits 

Fridays 

Griddle Sandwich 

( French toast or pancakes 

stuffed w/ egg, meat, & 

cheese ) 

Macaroni & Cheese


Community Calendar 

Friday, October 5 

Birds Take Flight: It’s that 

time of year when birds are on 

the move. Come along on an early 

morning adventure to observe 

some of the amazing birds here 

and see our science team in action 

as they capture and band 

birds. They are working together 

to determine where birds in the 

Pine Bush migrate. After a short 

outside observation period, an indoor 

hands-on presentation will 

take place. Meet at the Albany 

Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195 

New Karner Road, at 8 a.m. The 

fee is $3 per person or $5 per family 

and registration is required; 


Saturday, October 6 

225 th Anniversary Homecoming 

Weekend at the New 

Scotland Presbyterian Church. 

All former members and friends 

are welcome to join in. To be 

included, please call the church 

office at 439-6454. 

The Fall Festival at the Adirondack Museum on Saturday, 

Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. will include pumpkin painting, 

wagon and pony rides, apple cider pressing, arts and crafts, 

music, and more. Erica Wheeler will sing and tell stories at 11 

a.m. and at 1 and 3 p.m. This event takes place on National 

Smithsonian Museum Day. Go to the www.smithsonianmag.com/ 

museumday/”Smithsonian Magazine website, print the coupon 

and visit the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake for 

free during its festival. For more information, go online to www. 

adirondackmuseum.org or call 352-7311.2 

Voorheesville American Legion 

Auxiliary Tag Sale from 

8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the American 

Legion Hall, Voorheesville Ave., 

Voorheesville. Anyone interested 

in donating clothes can call 765- 

4580 or 765-4280 to make an 

appointment to drop items off at 

the legion. Please, no big items 

or electronics. 

Brooks Chicken Barbecue 

from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and a 

pumpkin sale from 10 a.m. to 7 

p.m. at the McKownville United 

Methodist Church at 1565 Western 

Ave., Albany. Dinner includes 

chicken, baked potato, coleslaw, 

rolls, and cake. The cost for an 

adult dinner is $10, the cost for 

a child’s dinner is $7.50, and a 

half chicken is $8. 

Souped Up on Guilderland 

Soup Contest, Car Show, and 

Fall Festival: The Guilderland 

Chamber of Commerce will host 

the annual soup cook-off with 

10 to 12 local restaurants, a 

car show — featuring hotrods, 

classics, antiques, customs, foreigns, 

truck, and bikes — and a 

hay maze, haunted house, hay 

rides, and cider and doughnuts. 

The event will be held at Altamont 

Orchards from 10 a.m. to 

2 p.m. 

Hilltown Community Market 

and Café from 9 a.m. to 

noon at the Berne Masonic 

Lodge. Open through Dec. 1. 

Local farm-fresh veggies, baked 

goods, meats, eggs, syrup, honey, 

herbals, and fine arts. 

Annual Autumn Supper at 

the Jerusalem Reformed Church, 

Route 32, Feura Bush, from 4 

to 6:30 p.m. The dinner is roast 

turkey with all the trimmings. 

The cost is a free-will donation. 

Reservations can be made by 

calling 478-9755, but walk-ins 

are welcome, and take-outs are 

available. 

Mad Hatter Day Hike: The 

Matt Hatter (fictional character 

from Alice in Wonderland) is 

always acting silly and wearing 

a top hat. Join us for a one-mile 

hike in the Pine Bush and be 

sure to wear a silly hat. Meet at 



Albany, at 11 a.m. The fee is $3 

per person or $5 per family and 

registration is required; call 

456-0655. 

Join us as we hear about 

Albany County history from Jack McEneny 

Canal Street Station 

2012 7th annual 

hiStoriC Fall FeStival 

antique Car and hot rod Show 

(non Judged) 

Special Events • FREE admission • Early Gas Engines 

Blacksmithing • Tinsmithing • Live Old time music 

Food Vendors • Farmers’ Market 

Arts & Crafts Vendors • Book Signing 

CHICKEN BBQ By Barbeque Delights Catering 

Visit our historic 1900 “Wallace Armer” Museum 

1941 Silk City Diner now in restoration 

Saturday, Sept. 29- 10:30 to 5:00 

Sunday, Sept. 30 - 10:30 to 5:00 

Located on Rt. 20, 3 miles east of Duanesburg next to 

JOSEPH J. MERLI MANUFACTURING CO. 

“Just look for the New York Central locomotive” 

WWW.CANALSTREETSTATION.COM 

FOR VENDOR INFORMATION CALL 518-355-6536 

— Enterprise file photo — Michael Koff 

Assemblyman John McEneny will speak on Oct. 3 to the Clarksville 

Historical Society. 

By Sandy Slingerland 

Community correspondent 

NEW SCOTLAND — The 

Clarksville Historical Society 

presents “An Evening With John 

McEneny” on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 

at 7 p.m. at the Clarksville Community 

Church. 

McEneny is a former Albany 

County historian and a well 

known teacher and speaker on local 

history, ethnicity, and related 

fields. He led the effort that saved 

the 17th Century Quackenbush 

House, Albany’s oldest building, 

and later chaired the Albany 

Historic Sites Commission. 

He wrote and narrated WMHT 

Public Television’s Tricentennial 

Documentary on Albany, and 

authored Albany, Capital City 

on the Hudson, the definitive 

text on the city’s four centuries 

of history. 

McEneny, a state assemblyman, 

also serves as a member 

of the New York State Archives 

Partnership Trust and the Commission 

for the Restoration of 

the Capitol. 

We are looking forward to hearing 

about some of the history of 

Albany County. The program is 

open to the public; please join us 

for an evening of history. 

Refreshments will be served 

following the program. The 

Clarksville Community Church 

is on Delaware Turnpike, in the 

hamlet of Clarksville. For more 

information, call 768-2870.


Out & About 

GCSD seeks public input on next year’s budget 

GUILDERLAND — On Tuesday, 

Oct. 23, the Guilderland 

Central School District Board of 

Education will meet with members 

of the community to listen 

to their ideas, concerns, and 

questions regarding the district’s 

2013-14 spending plan. 

The input session will begin at 

approximately 7:30 p.m. in the 

Guilderland High School largegroup 

instruction room, located 

at 8 School Road in Guilderland 

Center, and will serve as the 

kick-off to this year’s budget 

deliberations. 

All district residents are 

welcome to attend the session, 

which will also be broadcast live 

on TWC Channel 16, as it is a 

part of the regular meeting of 

the board. 

Those planning to attend 

should call the superintendent’s 

office at 456-6200, ext. 3102 or 

e-mail superintendent@guilderlandschools.org. 

Those unable to attend the 

meeting may submit their 

thoughts on the budget in writing, 

on or before Oct. 23, to: 

Board of Education President 

Colleen O’Connell, care of the 

Guilderland Central School 

District Office, 8 School Road, 

Post Office Box 18, Guilderland 

Center, NY 12085-0018. 

District residents may also 

submit feedback online at: www. 

guilderlandschools.org (click on 

the School Budget News icon). 

Ceremony set for Sept. 29 

Multicultural High School Achiever Awards 

The University at Albany is 

recognizing 218 outstanding high 

school seniors from the greater 

Capital District and beyond as 

recipients of its 2012 Multicultural 

High School Achievers 

Awards. 

Selected for exemplary academic 

performance and leadership 

in their schools and communities, 

the award winners are 

being honored at a special event 

on Saturday, Sept. 29, when they 

take part in campus tours and information 

sessions. The awards 

ceremony is in the Campus Center 

on UAlbany’s main campus at 

1400 Washington Ave. 

Now in its 25th year, the recognition 

program is designed 

to honor outstanding students 

and encourage them to continue 

their leadership development 

in college. To date, the program 

has recognized more than 4,600 

students of color. 

Local students being recognized 

this year include: 

— Briana Beaver-Timmons 

of Schenectady, 

— Jessica Capone o f 

Schenectady, 

— Nicole Das of Schenectady, 

— Azmad Din of Altamont, 

— Lauren Henderson of 

Schenectady, 

— Anna Jacquinot of 

Schenectady, 

— Adeem Khan of Guilderland, 

— Hannah Liu o f 

Schenectady, 

— Anvesh Mateti o f 

Schenectady, 

— Zubin Mukerjee of Guilderland, 

— Gladys Ninson o f 

Schenectady, 

— Jung Eun Park of Guilderland, 

— Redal Ram o f 

Schenectady, 

— Lakshmi Ramasamy of 

Schenectady, 

— Einy Santos of Altamont, 

— Oindri Sen o f 

Schenectady, 

— Yogita Telhu o f 

Schenectady, 

— Joanne Tseng o f 

Schenectady, and 

— Ariana Valverde of Altamont. 

Karl Berger, a leading figure in musical improvisation and 

cross-cultural musical awareness, is a vibraphonist, conductor 

and educator. He is a six-time winner of the Downbeat Critics Poll 

as a jazz soloist and recipient of numerous Composition Awards 

in the United States and Europe. He will help present a program 

of Improvised Music on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at the University 

at Albany Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus. 

Tickets are $8 for the general public and $4 for students, seniors, 

and UAlbany faculty or staff and may be purchased through the 

Performing Arts Center Box Office. For further information, call 

442-3997 or go online to www.albany.edu/pac. This concert is part 

of a daylong artist residency by Berger and will be preceded by 

two music improvisation workshops in the Performing Arts Center 

at 2:45 and 4 p.m. The workshops are open to all and there is no 

charge for participation. 

DEC releases 

pheasants for 

hunting season 

About 30,000 adult pheasants 

will be released on lands open to 

public hunting for the upcoming 

fall pheasant-hunting season, 

according to the New York State 

Department of Environmental 

Conservation. 

The pheasant-hunting season 

begins on Oct. 1 in northern and 

eastern portions of New York, 

Oct. 20 in central and western 

portions, and Nov. 1 on Long 

Island. 

For the sixth year, junior hunters 

(12 to 15 years old) have the 

opportunity to hunt pheasants 

the weekend prior to the regular 

pheasant-hunting season. 

In northern and eastern New 

York, the youth pheasant hunt 

weekend is Sept. 29 to 30. 

Youth hunting locations in 

Albany County include Partridge 

Run in Berne, the Margaret 

Burke Preserve in Knox, and 

the west side of Diamond Hill 

Road north of Clipp Road in New 

Scotland. 

The majority of birds will be 

released on state-owned wildlife 

management areas and cooperative 

hunting areas prior to and 

during the fall hunting season. 

All release sites for pheasants 

provided by state-funded programs 

are open to public hunting. 

A list of statewide adult 

pheasant release sites and sites 

receiving birds for the youth 

pheasant hunt weekends can be 

found on the DEC’s website. 

Diana B. Henriques, 

award-winning financial 

journalist and author of 

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie 

Madoff and the Death of 

Trust, will be in Albany on 

Oct. 4 to present “Madoff 

and More: Unmasking the 

Legacy of Greed and Corruption.” 

The program, to benefit 

The Women’s Press Club of 

New York State’s scholarship 

endowment fund, is 

scheduled for the Touhey 

Forum in the Lally School 

of Education at The College 

of Saint Rose, 1009 Madison 

Ave. The lecture begins at 

6:30 p.m. and costs $25; a 

separately priced reception 

with Henriques follows at 8 

p.m. and costs $75. Tickets 

for both the reception and 

lecture are available at The 

Book House of Stuyvesant 

Plaza in Guilderland, and 

through the website www. 

womenspressclubnys.com. 

“Seeing Gray” 

Altamont Reformed Church 

schedules discussions on faith and politics 

By Bob Luidens 

Community correspondent 

Over the past decade, America 

has become more polarized; 

people seem to be less and less 

willing to listen to one another. 

Much of this division comes from 

the tendency to “see things in 

black and white” when it comes 

to political, moral, and religious 

issues. 

Starting Oct. 16, the 

A l t a m o n t R e f o r m e d 

Church will host a series 

of discussions, “Seeing 

Gray: Where Faith 

and Politics Meet.” The 

studies will focus on how 

people of faith can engage 

in a more thoughtful 

conversation about divisive 

issues. 

They will be based on five 

video presentations by Adam 

Hamilton, author of Seeing Gray 

in a World of Black and White: 

Thoughts on Religion, Morality 

and Politics. 

The group will meet on Tuesdays 

from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the 

Albany Pro Musica diversifies 

church Fellowship Hall at 129 

Lincoln Ave. in Altamont. Each 

session will feature a 20-minute 

video followed by further study 

and discussion. 

Dates and topics include: 

— Oct. 16, Where Faith and 

Politics Meet; 

— Nov. 13, Christ, Christians, 

and Culture Wars; 

America has become more polarized; 

people seem to be less and less 

willing to listen to one another. 

— Jan. 22, How Should We 

Live The Ethics of Jesus; 

— March 12, Spiritual Maturity 

and Seeing Gray; and 

— April 16, What Would Jesus 

Say to America. 

We invite all thinking Christians 

to attend and participate. 

It is an opportunity for us to 

consider how to be constructive 

Albany Pro Musica continues to 

diversify its expressions of choral 

music with a 2012-13 season 

that features Bach’s masterful 

St. Matthew Passion, festive 

Christmas concerts, new musical 

takes on love, and pops cabarets 

serving up familiar tunes and old 

standards. 

Local high school choruses, the 

Capital District Youth Chorale, 

the Boys’ Choir of The Cathedral 

of All Saints and nationally known 

guest soloists will join APM singers 

onstage as they perform at 

some of the Capital Region’s finest 

venues – such as Troy Savings 

Bank Music Hall, Key Hall at 

Proctors, and the Shaker Meeting 

House. 

This season’s featured subscription 

shows are: 

— A Winter Wonderland – choral 

music that celebrates the secular 

and sacred aspects of Christmas, 

including some sing-along 

carols; 

— If Music Be the Food of Love – 

classical, contemporary and newly 

commissioned choral pieces that 

explore various aspects of love; 

— Bach’s St. Matthew Passion 

– considered one of the greatest 

choral works of all time; and 

— Pops Goes the Chorus! – soloists 

and ensembles in a cabaret 

that features show tunes, old 

standards and popular music. 

APM also will perform Bach’s 

Magnificat and Corigliano’s Fern 

Hill in its annual collaboration 

with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, 

being held this year at 

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. 

“Bach figuratively bookends 

our season, and there’s even more 

to be excited about,” said APM 

Artistic Director and Conductor 

David Griggs-Janower in a release 

from APM. “In addition to our 

citizens of both our nation and 

the Kingdom of God. 

Hamilton is the pastor of the 

United Methodist Church of 

the Resurrection in Leawood, 

Kansas with a congregation of 

over 10,000. He is the author of 

11 books. 

Kenneth Carder of Duke Divinity 

School said about Seeing Gray, 

“While the religious and 

political extremes compete 

for power and dominance 

through coercive rhetoric 

and power maneuvers, 

Adam Hamilton provides an 

alternative that is theologically 

grounded and faithful 

to the church’s mission to 

be an instrument of God’s 

reconciliation.” 

There is no fee to attend the 

sessions, but pre-registration 

is requested. Call the Altamont 

Reformed Church at 861-8711 

or e-mail altamontreformed@ 

yahoo.com. 

Editor’s note: Rev. Bob Luidens 

is the pastor of the Altamont 

Reformed Church. 

outstanding subscription shows, 

we have the privilege of helping St. 

Joseph’s Church in Schenectady 

celebrate its 150 th anniversary, we 

will once again host the fabulous 

High School Choral Festival, and 

we’ll join the Albany High School 

Chorus for a concert to benefit 

the Leukemia and Lymphoma 

Society.” 

APM is rolling out a new season 

subscription program this year 

that offers premium seats to two, 

three, or all four featured performances 

at a savings of up to $40. 

Subscribers also receive invitations 

to special preview rehearsals, 

a free ticket to the annual 

High School Choral Festival, and 

discounts at the Albany Symphony 

Orchestra. 

Subscriptions and single tickets 

can be purchased online at www. 

albanypromusica.org or by calling 

346-6204.


Business Corner 

Re-Nue Spa holds drives 

ALTAMONT — For Ronda 

Flansburg, owner of Altamont’s 

Re-Nue Spa, the coming of fall 

means it’s time to start collecting 

for needy families for 

Thanksgiving, to raise funds for 

National Breast Cancer Awareness 

Month, and to plan a party 

for Halloween. 

“All these people come in” to 

the spa, Flansburg said. “They 

love to contribute. Why not harness 

it to help the community 

I think that’s what we’re all 

about.” 

Starting Oct. 1, patrons may 

drop off canned, non-perishable 

food items at the spa, at 119 

Maple Ave. All donations will go 

to the Altamont Food Pantry. And 

those who donate will be eligible 

to win a product gift basket, in 

a drawing. 

The food drive ends on Nov. 

17. “That way, people have lots 

of time to get what they need by 

Thanksgiving,” said Flansburg. 

Throughout the month of 

October, which is Breast Cancer 

Awareness Month, customers 

may get pink hair extensions for 

$12. All proceeds will go to the 

American Breast Cancer Foundation, 

Flansburg said. 

Finally, the spa will conclude 

the month with a Halloween 

open house on Wednesday, Oct. 

31, from 4 to 7 p.m. Treats will 

be offered, and a big trough will 

be set up in front of the spa so 

kids can dunk for apples. Flansburg 

herself will dress up as a 

zombie nurse. 

“It’s the one time all year you 

open your door to strangers,” she 

said, “and we want to be part of 

that celebration. We’re really 

excited.” 

— Melissa Hale-Spencer 


Buying the latest fashion: Last Friday morning, Liesl Hull of Schenectady, left, stopped in the new 

Footbeats Stride Rite store in Stuyvesant Plaza where owner and president, Sharon Cohen, shows 

off the new kicks the store offers children. The 2,300-square-foot store offers 25 brands of sneakers, 

shoes, and boots for children as well as women’s shoes. Cohen operates Footbeats Stride Rite stores 

in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut and plans to open a second Capital District store later 

this year. 


Fuzzy warm slippers: These pink bunny slippers hang on the wall at the new Footbeats Stride Rite 

shoe store in Stuyvesant Plaza. The Sept. 21 opening marked Stride Rite’s return to Stuyvesant Plaza 

after the owners of another store under the Stride Rite umbrella closed in August. 

Breast thermography 

offered at Delmar center 

BETHLEHEM — Breast Thermography 

for Health is now located 

at the offices of The Stram 

Center for Integrative Medicine 

at 388 Kenwood Str. in Delmar, 

offering state-of-the art digital 

infrared thermal imaging for 

early detection of breast cancer. 

Patricia Bowden-Luccardi 

LMT, CTT, is a Certified Thermographic 

Technician, a Whole 

Health Educator, a licensed 

New York State Clinical Massage 

Therapist, and a member 

of Breast Themography International. 

Thermal imaging is a noninvasive, 

radiation-free, and 

painless screening test that 

detects physiological changes in 

the body that are produced by 

developing pathology or disease. 

Thermal imaging can detect 

those changes years before they 

will show up on traditional-rays, 

according to Bowden-Luccardi. It 

shows areas of abnormal physiology 

and not anatomy like other 

standard tests. 

Testing is safe and comfortable, 

she says, using neither radiation 

nor compression. Breast 

thermograhic technology has 

been cleared by the Federal Drug 

Administration since 1982. It has 

been gaining national prominence 

and more widespread use 

only recently, due to the publicity 

received by the recent challenging 

of mammogram guidelines 

by the American College of Obstetricians 

and Gynecology and 

the federal government. 

The FDA has not approved a 

thermography device (also referred 

to as a telethermographic 

device) for use as a stand-alone to 

screen or diagnose breast cancer, 

according to the FDA website; 

it has cleared thermography 

devices for use as an additional 

diagnostic tool for breast cancer 

screening and diagnosis. 

Thermography should not be 

considered an alternative to 

mammography, agrees Bowden- 

Luccardi. “Rather,” she says in 

a release, “it should be regarded 

as an adjunct to mammography 

and should be included in every 

woman’s regular breast health 

regime.” 

She cites a 2008 Cornell study 

that showed thermal imaging 

was 97 percent sensitive. The 

study was published by the 

American Academy of Breast 

Surgeons in the American Journal 

of Surgery. 

Breast Thermography International 

is committed to advancing 

scientific standards in thermographic 

imaging and uses only 

the most advanced technology 

available and Board Certified 

Interpreters. 

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IN MEMORIAM 

Linda Ann Umholtz-Woodard 

In Loving Memory of 

Linda Ann 

who went to the Lord on 

September 30, 2010 

It broke our hearts to lose you, 

but you did not go alone, 

for part of us went with you, 

the day God called you home. 

Each time we see your picture, 

you seem to smile and say, 

“Don’t cry, I am only sleeping, 

and we will meet again someday.” 

Love, 

Mom and Dad, 

Wayne, 

Rick, Colleen, Cheryl, 

Ricky, Katie, and Lois 

Curves fights breast cancer 

Throughout Breast Cancer 

Awareness Month in October, 

Curves fitness centers in 

IN MEMORIAM 

Robert Dunston 

3/3/66 – 9/27/05 

I have not really left you, 

I am always near. 

Just look into the sky, 

You will see me shining there. 

I am the bright star above, 

the cloud that passes by. 

The whisper of the wind, 

the lone eagle’s cry, 

And when you need me most of all, 

I will be there by your side. 

For now I watch over you until the 

end of time. 

We love and miss you 

“Mumz”, Your Sister, 

Brothers, Sister-In-Laws, 

all your Nieces, Nephews 

and Great Nieces. 

the United States, including 

Guilderland, will focus on raising 

awareness about the life-saving 

importance of risk management, 

early detection, and early treatment 

of breast cancer. 

Because women can help reduce 

their risk for breast cancer 

by staying in good health, Curves 

is offering memberships with no 

joining fee from Oct. 1 through 14 

to new members who show proof 

of a mammogram performed 

within the last year or who donate 

$25 to The American Cancer 

Society. In 2011, Curves clubs nationwide 

raised more than $1.7 

million for the society. 

The American Cancer Society 

estimates that nearly 226,870 

women will be diagnosed with 

invasive breast cancer in 2012, 

and another 63,300 will be diagnosed 

with carcinoma in situ, a 

non-invasive, early form of breast 

cancer. 

Breast cancer remains a leading 

cause of cancer death in women, 

second only to lung cancer.

The Enterprise — Michael Koff 

Aligning in the modern mode: Bill MacGregor at Advanced Auto Repair Service sets up a device in 

a car’s back tire that projects a beam to properly align the front and back wheels. 

‘Don’t put a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound” 

Maintenance can be the key to a car’s longevity 

By Melissa Hale-Spencer 

The downturn in the economy 

has made drivers want to keep 

their cars on the road longer, 

according to local mechanics, 

but, at the same time, many car 

owners are taking shortcuts in 

maintenance and repairs. 

“Now they want to 

keep their cars running,” 

said John Foley, 

74, who has been in 

the business for half 

a century — first in 

Altamont and now on 

Depot Road in Guilderland. 

“They don’t want 

to buy another one; it’s 

too expensive.” 

Because his customers are 

suffering in tough times, “a lot of 

what we recommend as maintenance, 

they tend to put off,” said 

Timm Baldauf of Voorheesville’s 

Advanced Auto Repair Services. 

This can range from flushing 

fluids to changing sparkplugs. 

“Doing recommended maintenance 

gets the longevity out of a 

car,” said Baldauf. “It gets longer 

mileage. In the long haul, it’s a 

good investment versus spending 

“I know my customers. 

I know their smiles and cares.” 

$20,000 for a new car.” 

He went on, “Maintenance is 

everything. When you put it off, 

and then you have to do it, you 

have a huge bill, and people get 

overwhelmed.” 

“The economy is so bad,” said 

Kevin Willsey of Altamont Extreme 

Auto, “that people just 

want what will get their car 

back on the road. That’s just 

setting yourself up for disaster,” 

he warned. 

He sympathizes with the 

plight that many of his customers 

are in. “This time of year,” he 

said, “you’re thinking more about 

paying for fuel oil to keep your 

family warm.” Willsey went on, 

“You can see it in their faces. You 

know they want to do what the 

car needs, but they can’t.” 

Be prepared 

The invasion is underway 


ALBANY COUNTY — Foreign 

insects may soon threaten some 

of Albany County’s common tree 

varieties, as more and more 

foreign plants are smothering 

native ones, and can harm people 

in some cases. 

Governments and educators 

are looking to increase the awareness 

of invasive species due to 

their tendency to replace native 

species, many of which feed other 

natives, causing varying disruptions 

in the ecosystem. 

“We’re on the edge of having the 

emerald ash borer 

in our community, 

which is extremely 

destructive,” 

said Mary Jane 

Hughes, a resource 

educator 

mate. But we don’t have any of 

those spruce trees in the area. In 

the asexual reproduction, those 

nymphs that are produced stay 

on the spruce tree, and then 

they hitchhike on birds over to 

a hemlock tree.” 

An adelgid infestation can 

kill a hemlock tree in three to 

four years, as it feeds on the sap 

produced by the tree, according 

to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. 

Likewise, the emerald ash 

borer lays waste to ash trees as 

it feeds on its leaves, and burrows 

through 

the wood, laying 

its eggs in 

the bark of the 

trunk and major 

branches. 

Emerald ash 

with Cornell Cooperative 

Exten- 

b o r e r s w e r e 

“It was just such 

found in a purple 

trap — the 

sion and member innocence that 

of WaspWatchers, brought them here.” 

color of which 

a citizen scientist 

is known to lure 

program that began 

the destructive 

in Maine, and 

insect — in Feu- 

has since spread 

ra Bush and Selkirk 

to upstate New 

last Octo- 

York. 

ber, Hughes said 

The program 

on Monday. 

uses a specific 

But for more 

breed of wasp to monitor the than a year, citizen scientists and 

presence of emerald ash borers, organizations like the Cornell Cooperative 

known for their ability to demolish 

Extension have worked 

ash trees. 

together as WaspWatchers, using 

Also making its way into the the cerceris fumipennis wasp to 

county is the hemlock woolly track the green destroyers. 

adelgid, another species of insect “It’s a solitary, ground-nesting 

that targets the hemlock and wasp; she has a nest in the ground 

dismantles it. 

all by herself,” said Hughes, who 

Daniel Driscoll, a longtime has been teaching children in 

Knox Planning Board member, 4-H programs about monitoring 

was informed by a Glenmont 

the invasive ash borers. “In 

resident that she had spotted July and August, she flies out 

adelgids at her home. 

and catches a particular family 

“So, I’ve been carefully watching 

of beetles,” the buprestidae, “to 

wherever I go to see if there put in her nest; she lays an egg 

Often, Willsey said, his customers 

of late end up putting “a 

Band-Aid on a gunshot wound.” 

Then, when the Band-Aid gives 

way, he went on, “they lose more 

time. They have to find rides to 

work or to take the kids to soccer…It’s 

a never-ending battle.” 

Willsey has had his 

shop, Altamont Extreme 

Auto in the village, for 

two-and-a-half years. 

Although the recession 

started in 2008, the 

effects have trickled 

down, he said. From 

when he opened until 

now, he said, “You can 

see a different approach in what 

they want done.” Last year, for 

example, customers who needed 

it were more apt to ask for a full 

brake job. “Now, they’re asking 

if they can just put pads on and 

keep the rotors,” he said. “They 

don’t have the money they did.” 

Willsey offered some tips for 

keeping cars running in tough 

times. “Stop turning the radio up 

when they’re making noises,” he 

said, stressing that a car should 

are any around here,” Driscoll 

told The Enterprise last month 

as he walked through the rows 

of hemlock trees in the Hudson 

and Nancy Winn Preserve in 

Knox. “But I haven’t found it 

here yet.” 

Invasive insects 

“If this were infected by the 

woolly adelgid,” Driscoll said, 

pointing to a branch on a hemlock 

tree at the Winn Preserve, “then 

right along the center, where the 

needles touch the branches, you 

would see things that look like 

tiny Q-Tips, and that’s what’s 

called the ova sac. That’s a very 

clear indication that you’ve got 

an adelgid infestation.” 

The hemlock woolly adelgid, 

native to Asia, is believed to 

have reached the West Coast in 

the 1920s, and the East Cost in 

1951, according to www.InvasiveSpeciesInfo.gov. 

“The adelgid has an unusual 

life cycle,” said Driscoll. “It has 

two cycles a year: One of them is 

the sexual cycle, and the other is 

an asexual cycle. The sexual cycle 

produces adelgids that can fly, 

on it, and covers it up, and that 

egg hatches out, probably, in the 

fall. The baby feeds on the beetle 

and develops into another wasp 

that next summer. The rest of 

the year, they’re in the ground, 

growing.” 

Included in the buprestid family 

is the emerald ash borer, along 

with thousands of other beetles. 

But the ash borer is a “favored 

treat” for the wasps. 

“In two summers, we have 

not had her bring home an ash 

borer,” Hughes said. “If it’s in 

the area, she’ll bring it back. So 

far, we haven’t found any in our 

surveillance. We don’t want to 

have any. But that’s what we’re 

out doing, and we want to locate 

as many of these wasp colonies 

as possible.” 

The monitoring program is 

largely possible because this 

type of wasp nests in the same 

place that it is born, causing 

small colonies to form. But their 

affinity for sandy areas may 

complicate things. 

“What will probably be a challenge 

is, the most popular place 

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2B Fall Home, Garden and Car Care The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, September 27, 2012 

Commentary 

A better world, one tire at a time: Inspired by Garbage Warrior 

By Forest Byrd 

RENSSELAERVILLE — Trying 

new things can be strangely 

hard. When it comes to building 

a house of tires and dirt, which 

in itself is hard work, the conversation 

with people who have 

never heard of such a thing can 

be even harder. 

I always like having a strong 

grasp on my topic because I’ve 

noticed that, when talking about 

new things, a lot of questions 

come up: What do you mean, a 

tire house Is it stable Does it 

catch fire Is it sanitary Are 

you crazy 

After I learned that it is possible 

to use tires as a building 

material, I was intrigued and 

since then have soaked up all 

sorts of information about the 

process. YouTube is a wealth of 

information on houses made of 

tires and you can even watch the 

movie Garbage Warrior, which 

portrays Michael Reynolds, the 

man who invented the tire house 

or “earthship.” The film catalogues 

the battles he overcame 

in the last 40 years. 

After absorbing all this great 

information, I felt that the next 

logical step was to help build a 

The Enterprise — Forest Byrd 

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Fall Home, Garden and Car Care 3B 

… I believe you can create beautiful homes free of utility bills 

tire house. So, when I saw a 

newsletter at the Buddhist 

center in Berne looking for volunteers 

to build a tire structure 

in Rensselaerville to be used as 

a root cellar and ice and cheese 

cave, naturally, I was all in. 

The project was to take place 

at a 90-acre retreat site owned 

and run by Rachel Ginther. Her 

Garden of One is located at The 

Garden at Thunder Hill on Thunder 

Hill Road above the hamlet 

in Rensselaerville. 

An aromatherapist and herbalist, 

Ginther started out as 

massage therapist and has also 

studied reiki, a traditional Japanese 

method of healing through 

touch. And she has made nearly 

400 different flower essences, 

which, she told The Enterprise in 

2007, “release mental and emotional 

patterns that we carry,” 

and work on an energy level, 

much like homeopathy. 

I drove to Rensselaerville not 

really knowing what I was in for. 

All the YouTube information in 

the world is useless unless you 

apply it. This was an experiment. 

I wanted to see how practical 

it was to use a sledgehammer 

to pack 400 tires with dirt. I 

also wanted to see how many 

volunteers would show up for the 

weekend of work, and meet the 

brave people who had decided to 

try something new. 

As I drove to the site, passing 

a grass-roofed hut full of 

goats and a large retreat house, 

chickens and dogs scattered 

in my wake. Above the door, a 

sign read “Garden of One” and 

all around were nothing but 

gardens and trees with a large 

pond in the distance. Swarms of 

flies filled my truck and a pile of 

tires beckoned ahead. This must 

be the right place. 

Because I was the first one 

there I got a preview of the upcoming 

lesson on cutting tires. 

We were going to cut the sidewall 

off one side, allowing us to fill 

and tamp the dirt into the tire 

straight down instead of filling 

the small groove in between 

sidewalls. It seemed faster in 

one way but the technique of the 

original earthship did not cut the 

sidewall and those builders filled 

thousands of tires in a month, 

so I’m not sure which is better. 

One way or another, it is quite 

easy to cut with a Sawzall and 

a metal blade. 

Saturday, a few volunteers 

meandered in as the day started 

with a full lesson, a demonstration 

of tire cutting and filling. 

We started sorting the tires and 

later more people showed up and 

we were off. Most had read about 


A new kind of dance: Coordinating footwork with sledgehammers, volunteers from Troy to Massachusetts 

and Vermont pound dirt to expand each tire, creating a 200-pound brick that does not move 

and makes a strong foundation for the rest of the wall. 

What do you mean, a tire house 

Is it stable 

Does it catch fire 

Is it sanitary 

Are you crazy 

the project on the Garden Of One 

website; some came from as far 

as Vermont or Massachusetts. 

Everyone was in high spirits and 

very excited to be part of this 

adventure. 

Unfortunately, we had to start 

with clearing a rather large pile 

of shale that would later become 

the floor. The actual task of the 

day became clearing the ground 

so that it was level and so that 

the foundation would sit flat. 

This was a very time-consuming 

process that no one had anticipated. 

In the middle of the day, there 

was a delivery of tires — 400 in a 

box truck, all of them free — and 

the rhythm of the group really 

hummed. We had people sorting, 

measuring, and taking tires off 

the truck. We were able to get it 

unloaded in record time. 

A lot of progress was made on 

the sub floor and we felt pretty 

good. We even started filling a 

few tires in the front. 

Sunday was disappointing as 

few volunteers showed up. It 

turned out most of the volunteers 

had been in it for a day trip. It’s 

really hard to work with just 

two people and, although we had 

done a lot of work, it was nowhere 

near complete. 

I came back two weeks later 

to work with the crew manager, 

Brian Premerlani, and we’ve 

continued to make progress 

although more volunteers are 

needed. 

The final structure will be 

two rooms in an 11-by-24-foot 

space. The seven-foot walls will 

be topped with a shed roof. 

Since the walls are 25 inches 

thick — tires filled with dirt 

— they are dense, similar to 

concrete, and will hold temperature 

well. 

I hope this project will inspire 

others to build with tires. It 

breaks many rules of traditional 

building but it can supply shelter 

for little or no cost. 

When it comes to building a 

new traditional house, a lot of 

different materials come to mind. 

The most prevalent are wood, 

metal, plastic, and asphalt. All 

these materials have to be new 

so that it will increase our carbon 

footprint. 

Using tires not only saves on 

costs but can be a reliable and 

very strong way to build a beautiful 

house that can be completely 

free of utillity bills. That kind of 

creative use of scraps may help 

save our planet from ourselves. 

Editor’s note: Forest Byrd, the 

illustrator for The Enterprise, is 

also a builder. He can be reached 

at forest.byrd@gmail.com. 

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be brought to a mechanic as 

soon as there’s a problem. 

He also said that many car 

owners work under the “misconception 

you have to go to a dealer 

if you have a brand-new car.” 

Willsey went on, “Independent 

shops are cheaper.” He charges 

$70 an hour for labor while, he 

said, many dealerships charge 

$100 per hour and also mark up 

parts 150 percent. “My parts are 

marked up 30 percent,” he said. 

Foley said the rate in his shop, 

at $60 an hour is, similarly, less 

than at dealerships. 

Willsey echoed Baldauf’s sentiments 

when he advised, “Keep 

it maintained.” He said car owners 

should find “someone you’re 

comfortable with” to do repairs. 

“There’s nothing personal in the 

automotive industry anymore,” 

Willsey said. “They treat you 

like a cookie cutter. I know my 

customers. I know their smiles 

and cares.” 

The days of the backyard 

mechanic are over, or at least 

severely limited. Do-it-yourself 

is no longer a money-saving option 

as cars have become so much 

more high tech. 

Baldauf gave the example of a 

brake caliper, which is hydraulic, 

and is something a backyard mechanic 

used to be able to handle. 

“You used to be able to push it 

in,” he said. “Now you need an 

electronic scan tool…It’s still 

The Enterprise — James E. Gardner 

Portrait of an icon: Robert King, a retired dentist, painted this 

portrait of John Foley who at 74 has been repairing cars for more 

than half a century and is still going strong at John Foley’s Garage 

on Depot Road in Guilderland. Owners of independent shops, like 

Foley’s, say they provide quality work at better prices than dealerships 

as people try to stretch their dollars in hard times. 


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mechanism has to be electronically 

released with a scan tool 

through a computer.” 

A nationwide shortage of 

qualified mechanics, trained in 

the new technology, has also 

led to increased costs in some 

regions. 

Shifts in training 

Foley, who quit school on his 

16 th birthday because he knew he 

wanted to be a mechanic and was 

good at it, hasn’t had a problem 

with staffing despite reports of 

fewer young people entering the 

ever-changing field. 

When Foley started his business, 

he worked with two mechanics, 

each of whom stayed 

with him for 41 years and, since 

then, he’s had long-time staff 

as well. 

When asked if it has been hard 

to find mechanics well versed in 

computers and electronics, Foley 

said, “We always have one guy 

that does everything to a T.… 

Now we’ve got three guys at the 

top of the rank.” 

Willsey, who just turned 30, 

has an associate’s degree from 

the auto service program at Hudson 

Valley Community College. 

He has been working on cars 

since he was 16. “I started off 

working on hotrods,” he said. 

He now collects Chevelles, 

Mustangs, and Chevy trucks. 

“I’m a car collector. I like old 

stuff,” said Willsey. “That’s my 

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time you go by, you turn your 

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… ‘The day of the carburetor is over’ as mechanics hone new skills 

of the carburetor is over with. 

Everything is electronic. You 

have everything from electronic 

parking assist to fly-by wire accelerator 

pedals.” 

Willsey explained that cars like 

the new Lexus can parallel park 

themselves with the push of a 

button. And next year, Cadillac 

plans to market a car that can 

steer itself with super cruise 

control. 

Accelerator pedals these days 

— not just in high-end cars like 

the Lexus or Cadillac but in middle-market 

cars like Toyota — no 

longer have a hard cable. “It’s all 

electronic,” said Willsey. 

“I saw the evolution.” 

“They’ve converted the car too 

much into an electronic beast,” 

he said. It used to be, Willsey 

explained, there was one wire for 

the spark plugs, there was a fuel 

supply line, and you turned the 

key to start a car. 

“Now there are 30 sensors,” 

said Willsey. “It has phased out 

all the older mechanics” — at 

least the ones who haven’t kept 

up with the changes. 

Mechanics, he said, are learning 

all the time, often from each 

other. “Nobody knows everything,” 

said Willsey. “There’s 

always someone that knows more 

than you.” 

Baldauf and his partner work 

with three “technicians,” as he 

calls them — one has been with 

the business for four years, another 

for 10 years, and the third 

for 17 years. 

Baldauf, a former mechanic 

himself, has worked in auto 

repairs for 30 years and is now 

occupied managing the business 

end of things. “You can’t do both,” 

he said. While his technicians 

frequently get training in the 

latest electronic and technical 

advances, Baldauf said, he goes 

for management training. 

“You have to update your 

equipment to go along with the 

developments,” Baldauf said. 

“We can do 95 percent of what’s 

out there.” 

Part of the reason Advanced 

Auto Repair Service can’t handle 

the other 5 percent, he said, is 

because “dealers have proprietary 

interests.” Associations of independent 

shops “are always fighting 

for more so we can be on the 

same playing field,” he said. 

Baldauf believes the reason 

fewer young people are going into 

the auto repair industry is “because 

it’s difficult.” He explained, 

“It’s labor intensive, and it’s dirty 

at times. Other technologies are 

easier. If you can make money 

in front of a computer screen, 

that’s what the latest generation 

is interested in. With us, there’s 

more than just the screen. There 

is interpretation. There is diagnostics. 

“I saw the evolution. I started 

work in the seventies…The sophistication 

has made it easier to 

diagnose. You still need a knowledge 

of electronics.” 

Baldauf also said, “People open 

the hood of a car and see how 

complicated it looks; that probably 

scares them.” 

He concluded, “We all want 

something better for our kids. 

There’s a stigma with auto mechanics. 

I’ve called them technicians 

for 20 years.” 

Willsey, too, attributes the lack 

of young mechanics to societal 

attitudes. “Our society says, unless 

you’ve got a desk job, you’re 

no good. They’re kids coming out 

of school that think they can’t 

be a laborer or a carpenter or a 

mechanic…using your hands is 

what it comes down to.” 

Willsey, though, says that a 

good living can be made repairing 

cars. “I do all right,” he 

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said Hughes. “The people don’t 

usually know they’re there, and 

it’s easy to lose these colonies. If 

you tell people there are wasps on 

their ball field, and that you want 

to keep them there, they won’t 

really understand that. But the 

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and the New York State 

Department of Environmental 

Conservation are working together 

with citizen scientists to 

build a mapping database called 

iMapInvasives, where people can 

report sightings of invasive species, 

and their coordinates. 

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Those interested in participating 

may contact Cornell Cooperative 

Extension at 765-3500, and ask 

for Hughes. 

“I’m looking to train people 

so they can go out and do it,” 

Hughes said. 

Portentous plants 

Several invasive plant species 

have come to Albany County, but 

some raise more concern than 

others. 

“The one that concerns me is 

wild parsnip,” said Susan Pezzolla, 

a community educator 

with Cornell Cooperative Extension. 

“Wild parsnip, every year, 

is getting to be more and more 

abundant on the roadsides, so 

it’s drifting into rural areas like 

yards. It grows a little taller 

than Queen Anne’s lace, and a 

lot of people might mistake it 

for that, but it blooms earlier, 

and it’s more yellow than Queen 

Anne’s lace.” 

Wild parsnip, or pastinaca sativa, 

is a biennial plant, meaning 

it takes two years to complete its 

life cycle. 

Like giant hogweed, another 

prevalent invasive species, wild 

parsnip produces a sap that 

causes phytophotodermatitis, a 

condition where skin becomes hypersensitive 

to ultraviolet light. 

When exposed to sunlight, the 

skin will burn, turning red and 

sometimes producing massive 

bubbles that can leave scars. 

Pezzolla said she has seen 

the plant along Route 85A in 

New Scotland, and on Krumkill 

Road from Schoolhouse Road 

to Voorheesville, “But I think 

it was kind of innocent in how 

Wild parsnip, a species believed to have come to the United States 

from Europe or Asia, has been popping up on roadsides in Albany 

County. The plant, when in its flowering stage, produces a sap that 

can cause skin to be come hypersensitive to sunlight, sometimes 

leading to severe burns. 

it was originally brought here,” 

she said. 

Pezzolla wrote an article on the 

plant, “The Devil Along the Roadside,” 

for the online Capital Region 

Living Magazine, in which 

she writes that wild parsnip 

“appears to have been introduced 

to the Midwest from Europe 

and Asia; dried 

plants from the 

University of 

Wisconsin date 

back to 1894.” 

The plant “is 

nothing to fool 

around with, as people have been 

hospitalized after contact…This 

is a relatively new plant to our 

area, and many doctors may not 

know of it or its effects.” 

Further, it is not normally 

found in mowed areas, “so homeowners 

need not worry. But be 

“The one that concerns 

me is wild parsnip” 

careful if you are out gathering 

wild flowers, as this weed would 

find that environment quite suitable,” 

she wrote. 

“In its flowering state is when 

the sap is most harmful,” Pezzolla 

said this week, though it has 

passed that stage by this time of 

year. “The damage has been done. 

The seeds have 

been spread; 

they’ve matured 

and they’ve left 

the plant, and 

the plant is just 

going to be dying 

over the course of the rest of the 

year. That mother plant will not 

come back next year, but all its 

babies will.” 

Pezzolla also talked this week 

about other species of plants that 

have invaded Albany County, 

including the garlic mustard 

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“It’s problematic from the 

standpoint that it’s displacing 

other native species,” Pezzolla 

said. “It’s 

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the edge of the 

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they grew in their homeland, not 

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new country they were going to,” 

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was brought here kind of innocently, 

but it escaped cultivation, 

and it’s kind of been running wild 

ever since.” 

She said that garlic mustard 

has been found in and around 

Delmar. It blooms in late spring, 

and is also a biennial plant. 

In its first year, “It doesn’t 

grow very tall,” Pezzolla said. 

“We’re telling people to try to 

mow it as much as they can.” 

If the plant makes it to its 

second year, it grows taller and 

flowers. 

“It’s important to not let it 

finish that flowering phase,” 

she said. “Cut it down before 

it’s ready to seed. We’re trying 

to discourage using herbicides. 

Frequent mowing almost starves 

the plant to death, because you’re 

limiting its ability to do photosynthesis. 

In this case, we’re 

limiting its ability to set flower 

and set seed.” 

Another invader, which has 

just finished 

b l o o m i n g 

along roadsides, 

is Japanese 

knotweed. 

“It’s spacehungry, 

and 

“It’s space-hungry, 

its root system 

and its root system 

is incredibly 

is incredibly aggressive.” aggressive,” 

Pezzolla said 

of the weed. 

“It’ll just keep 

going till it 

gobbles up all 

the space. It’s 

harder to eradicate because it’s 

almost woody at its base. It’s very 

tough, so the longer you allow it 

to stay, the tougher it gets.” 

Again, Pezzolla recommends 

mowing, but gardeners may also 

then try covering the stumps 

with cardboard or heavy black 

plastic to limit sunlight and 

water absorption. 

Japanese knotweed was originally 

brought to the United 

States in the late 1800s to be 

used as an ornament, and its 

deep and dense roots were used 

for erosion protection along 

stream banks. 

“A lot of these plants, it was 

just such innocence that brought 

them here, and people thought 

they were doing a good thing,” 

Pezzolla concluded. “But the fact 

is, we don’t know what’s going 

to happen with our climate, and 

the way seeds spread around. 

Before you know it, something 

that was a good idea has gone 

very sour.” 

The Enterprise — Zach Simeone 

Unharmed hemlocks: Shortly after the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid was spotted in Glenmont, 

Knox Planning Board member Daniel Driscoll points to the branch of a healthy hemlock tree at the 

Hudson and Nancy Winn Preserve in Knox. Driscoll explained that the destructive adelgid, which feeds 

on hemlock trees, creates small white ova sacs that “look like tiny Q-Tips” when it nests. 

— From Purdue University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology 

Deep roots: From an original one foot of root, these Canada 

thistles spread underground in two years, reaching 10 feet below 

the surface. The thistles cause problems for farmers since the roots 

run deeper than the soil overturned by plows. 

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An Addams Family garden In just three years, Canada thistles overtook this once lush Guilderland 

garden. Although the gardeners spent hours pulling the thistles up by their roots, they proliferated, 

strangling out the other flowers. Finally cutting them off knee-high, the gardeners applied poison to 

each individual stalk. A few of the spiky leaves remain in front. 

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His and mine is now our home, sweet home 

By Anne Hayden 

Moving in with someone is kind 

of a big deal. 

Not just emotionally, although 

that’s certainly part of it, but 

physically. 

When I moved in with my fiancé, 

David, in August, I was amazed 

at the sheer amount of crap that 

two people in their late 20s had 

managed to accumulate. 

Thankfully, I — and now we 

— have a two-bedroom apartment, 

and most of the random stuff that 

we couldn’t find a spot for went 

into the spare room. It looks like 

a storage unit and not a bedroom 

but at least we can close the door 

and ignore it. 

Harder to ignore, though, were 

the arguments about what to keep 

and what to get rid of, and where 

to put our belongings. 

For example, I vetoed hanging 

up a bulletin board David had 

made out of cork and beer bottle 

caps, and he requested that we 

stop sleeping on my pink sheets, 

and use his white ones instead. 

He rearranged the kitchen without 

asking me, and, even after a 

month, I find myself wondering 

where I’m supposed to put the 

canned goods and where I’m supposed 

to find the can opener. 

I made him give away a large 

collection of ridiculous costume 

hats and he made me give away 

some of my many shoes and 

purses. 

People often say that the first 

year of living together is the rockiest 

year of a relationship. This is 

not my first time living with someone, 

but, it is my first time living 

with someone who has moved into 

what I had already established as 

“my” home. I think that distinction 

makes it more difficult. 

The living room I so painstakingly 

set up has been completely 

rearranged — the couch was 

tossed, my small television was 

relegated to the bedroom in favor 

of his big-screen TV, and my decorative 

items have been removed 

from the walls. 

The bedroom, which could be 

considered slightly smaller than 

average at best, is crammed with 

the bed, three dressers, several 

mirrors, and two closets so stuffed 

with clothes that the rods are 

buckling. 

We really need to do a purge, 

but the problem is, neither one of 

us is willing to part with much. 

I still have storage bins of my 

favorite toys from childhood; he 

has storage bins full of novelty 

T-shirts that he never wears. Neither 

of us uses these items on a 

regular basis, but ask us to get 

rid of them, and the answer is a 

resounding no. 

Aside from the issues of space 

and personal belongings, there 

are the challenges of habits and 

routines. 

He cleans more than I do and 

it can be a problem when one 

person does more than his or her 

fair share of the chores. I like to 

fall asleep watching TV and he 

thinks it interrupts his rest. I like 

to sleep in and he is a morning 

person. I enjoy trashy reality TV 

and he likes shows about science 

and politics. I’m perfectly content 

eating cereal for dinner and he 

likes to cook elaborate, balanced 

meals, even if it means we don’t 

eat until 10 p.m. 

When we were “just dating” and 

not living together, none of these 

things posed much of a problem 

— we could easily compromise 

for the good of the little time we 

got to spend together. When we 

are living together it is harder 

to constantly bend to the other 

person’s persuasion. 

The first few weeks involved a 

lot of grumpiness on both of our 

parts. We were confused about not 

enjoying the time more, but too 

afraid to talk about it. 

As it turns out, living together 

requires a lot of compromise, on 

both the physical and emotional 

stuff. After figuring out where to 

put things, and how to arrange the 

apartment, we had to figure out 

how to balance our habits. 

It came down to each of us 

expressing our wants and needs. 

He wanted me to get up in the 

morning and spend time with him 

before work, so now I get up and 

have breakfast with him, then go 

back to bed for a bit if I want to. 

I wanted to eat dinner at a more 

reasonable time, so now, if he 

won’t be home until after 7 p.m., 

he knows I’ll fend for myself and 

prep something for him. 

He is watching more trashy TV 

— and, dare I say, he is enjoying 

it — and I have learned a lot about 

the universe from the Science 

Channel. 

This is not, of course, to say that 

the bad has outweighed the good. 

We have both enjoyed having the 

other person to come home to at 

the end of a long day. We both 

love having someone else there 

to pick up the slack when one of 

us is struggling. It is like having 

a “built-in best friend,” we like 

to say. 

Recently, we were at a wedding 

shower for some friends, and someone 

asked if moving in together 

had been a smooth transition. We 

looked at each other, and I could 

tell we were both contemplating 

whether or not to take the easy 

way out, and smile and nod. 

For some reason, we didn’t. We 

laughed and said, “Not really.” The 

friend laughed, too, and said, “It 

never is.” 

David and I still have a lot to figure 

out as we intertwine our lives 

and move forward as a unit. 

If the first month of the first 

year of living together is supposed 

to be the one of the hardest times 

for us, I’d say we passed the test — 

maybe not with flying colors, but 

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...$3K to study RR gates for quiet 


Straut said that road crews dislike 

maintaining medians in winter, 

and that road reconfiguration 

often requires land purchases 

and creates right-of-way and 

drainage issues. 

“Everyone's pretty certain it’s 

going to be less expensive doing 

gates,” Straut told the board. He 

suggested doing the base study 

first. 

“If it looks like it’s going 

forward, you could do more. We 

think that the gates are going to 

be less,” he said. 

At the regular meeting, quiet 

zone committee member Steven 

Schreiber said that towns across 

the country had installed medians 

and reconfigured roads for much 

less than the estimated cost of 

the gates at $200,000. 

Schreiber said that, in Iowa, 

one of the more expensive projects 

had run $75,000. According to 

online estimates, median costs 

are $15,000 to $30,000 per 

crossing. 

Straut said that the numbers 

Schreiber had seen may not 

have included other aspects 

of the projects, including land 

purchases. 

“Everyone I’ve talked to said 

that gates are more expensive,” 

Schreiber said. He asked the 

board to study both 

options, instead of 

starting with only 

one. “We’re going to 

get there,” he said of 

the second study. 

“I'd rather spend 

$3,000 first before I 

spend $6,000,” said 

Conway. 

One resident said 

that grantors often 

ask applicants what 

alternatives have been studied 

and discounted, and that both 

options might be needed to secure 

funding, and Straut agreed. 

Trustee David Cardona, the 

budget officer, said that Clerk- 

Treasurer Linda Pasquali is 

on vacation and would return 

soon. 

“We were prepared tonight for 

$3,000,” Cardona said. “I feel 

awkward” passing a vote for 

more, he said. “We can’t commit 

to something we don't have. Give 

us till Friday to make sure we 

have it,” Cardona said. 

The board agreed to pay $3,000 

for the first phase of the study, 

and asked Straut if he could 

begin the study within the same 

time period if he waited a few 

days. 

“I won't spend $6,000 before 

Friday,” Straut said. 

The board agreed to hold a 

workshop in two weeks, on Oct. 

10 at 6 p.m., to give the board 

time to look at its general fund. 

“Will that slow you down” 

Cardona asked Straut. 

“We’ll make it work,” Straut 

said. 

Ambulance coverage 

The board discussed using 

EMTs through the sheriff's office 

from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, 

when village volunteers are 

unavailable. 

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“No Train Horn,” says the railroad-crossing sign because a 

median dividing the road alleviates the need for extended train 

whistles. Members of a Voorheesville committee petitioning for a 

quiet zone maintain that a median can be less costly than installing 

four-way gates. 

considered hiring an EMT for 

that period at a cost of $60,000 

per year, but the county is offering 

a three-month consolidation of 

services. 

Ray Ginter, of the Voorheesville 

ambulance squad, said that 

Delmar has backed up the village 

squad before. 

“Everyone I’ve talked to 

said that gates are more expensive.” 

“The sheriff has control of 

the Delmar equipment assets,” 

Conway said. 

G i n t e r s a i d t h a t t h e 

Onesquethaw, Altamont, and 

Berne squads have also offered 

mutual aid, depending on where 

the call is that Voorheesville 

receives. 

Trustee John Stevens said 

that the trial period for shared 

services with the county begins 

Monday, Oct. 1. 

“The purpose of the trial period 

is to see if the service from the 

sheriff's department meets our 

expectations,” Conway said. 

Ginter said that, if doing 

the trial period is the village’s 

decision, the ambulance squad's 

attorney needs to be notified by 

the village attorney. 

Ginter and the board agreed 

to hold an additional meeting to 

further discuss the trial period. 

Ginter asked what would 

happen if the village agrees to 

the trial period but the town, 

which also helps fund the squad, 

does not. 

“The town won’t have a different 

decision,” Conway said. 

“I think it is a good idea,” New 

Scotland Supervisor Thomas 

Dolin told The Enterprise. He 

said that he would explain 

the trial basis to the town 

board at Thursday's board 

meeting. Dolin also planned 

to meet with Voorheesville 

ambulance members during 

the day Thursday, he said on 

Wednesday. 

“There's a little friction here,” 

Dolin said of the way calls are 

now answered in the town. 

Traditionally, Voorheesville 

ambulance volunteers 

had the option to 

answer calls first, and 

other responders like 

the county paramedics 

or the daytime EMT 

currently on the town 

payroll would respond 

if no volunteers were 

available, Dolin said. 

Over time, however, 

sheriff's department 

paramedics and EMTs 

began arriving before volunteers, 

who had to arrive at the squad 

house to get a rescue vehicle 

before heading out for calls, he 

said. 

“This trial program is to 

have the sheriff be the primary 

responder,” Dolin said. 

The village currently helps 

fund the squad with about 

$53,000 per year. 

Other business 

In other business, the board: 

—Increased water rates, 

penalties, and hook-up fees. 

Minimum rates will increase by 

$20 per year. Monthly penalties 

will increase, and costs to hook 

up under the road with pipe 

installation will increase from 

$1,000 to $2,000, the board 

said. 

“We do run in the red with the 

water fund,” Cardona said. 

Conway said that revenues 

brought in by the water fund 

are used strictly for water, and 

that the fund is separate from 

the sewer fund; 

— Learned that the planning 

board needs an alternate 

member; and 

— Agreed to sell at Village 

Hall another run of Dennis 

Sullivan’s book on the history of 

Voorheesville. 

“If not here, then where” 

Conway said. 

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15. Homer 

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16. Calm 

18. Pen pals 

19. Went alone 

20. Horse sound 

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22. Small change 

24. ___ Doo (cartoon 

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25. Rob Roy, e.g. 

29. "Lying thief," 

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30. Vocalist Yoko 

31. Iditarod sight 

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Village of altamont 

fall Yard Waste ColleCtion 2012 

Fall Yard Waste collection will begin monday, october 1 and 

will continue through thursday, november 30. The 

Village will vacuum leaves on Tuesdays and Fridays, weather 

permitting. If using bags, they must be biodegradable, closed 

and sealed. Brush and branches, no longer than 2” diameter, 

must be bundled with twine, a maximum of 4 feet in length 

and must be able to be lifted to the truck by one man. These 

items will be collected on Wednesdays. 

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FALL WATER MAIN FLUSHING 2012 

Water main flushing will begin Monday, October 1 

and will continue through Friday, October 19. 

Flushing will occur Mondays through Fridays between 

8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. 

During the cycle you may experience discoloration 

coming from your faucets. 

Please check your water for discoloration before 

doing laundry. For additional information, or if 

discoloration persists, please contact the village offices 

at 861-8554. 

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BY Ed Canty (Ed@gfrpuzzles.com) 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 

12 13 14 15 

16 17 18 

19 20 21 

63. Author Vonnegut 

64. ___ to go (eager) 

65. What Leary 

tripped on 

66. Canonized Fr. 

women 

67. Lad's sweetheart 

Down 

1. Pts of minutes 

2. Switch addition 

3. Organic compound 

4. Bolt the door again 

5. Battery option 

6. IV x DCL 

7. Brew brand 

8. Army docs 

9. A gentle wind at the 

lake, e.g. 

22 23 24 

25 26 27 28 29 

30 31 32 33 34 35 

36 37 38 39 40 

41 42 43 44 

45 46 47 48 49 

50 51 52 

53 54 55 56 57 58 

59 60 61 

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62 63 64 

65 66 67 

10. Bug 

11. Blacksmith's tool 

13. Ghost costume 

15. Angela's Ashes 

author 

17. Millay and Ferber 

21. Pullover shirts 

23. Floor worker 

25. Baseball's 

Georgia Peach 

26. "My treat" 

27. Calm 

28. Kids' blocks 

32. Spoils, with "on" 

34. Small change 

35. Plot cover-ups 

37. Soup, salad & 

dessert 

38. Like Georgia 

Brown 

43. Storied Swiss 

miss 

46. Boonies 

48. More arid 

49. "___ Weapon" 

50. Cloud nine 

51. Tonto's horse 

53. Peter and Mary's 

sidekick 

54. Mad as a hornet 

56. O'Hara estate 

57. Elevator firm 

58. ID's, of sorts 

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Be Safely Seated 

Senior News 


Getting the correct seat: William Van Alstyne, program director of the Albany County Department 

of Public Works Traffic Safety Education Program, right, answers this family’s questions 

about car seats Sunday at Crossgates Mall. On Saturday, seats were checked for proper 

installation. Both Days were part of the 28th Annual Albany County Traffic Safety Awareness 

Weekend. 

Wannabees 

Guilderland 

The Guilderland Senior Services 

is offering the following 

activities the week of Oct. 1. 

Call the senior office at 356-1980, 

ext. 1048 for any questions or 

information. 

Monday: Scheduled shopping, 

aerobics at 9 a.m., OsteoBusters 

at 10:30 a.m., senior fitness at 

10:30 a.m., and OsteoBusters at 

1:30 p.m. 

Tuesday: OsteoBusters at 

9 a.m., a speech US Treasury 

Benefit Change at 11:30 a.m., 

luncheon of braised beef or cold 

plate at 11:30 a.m., and bingo, 

games and billiards at 12:30 

p.m., 

Wednesday: Scheduled shopping, 

Zumba at 9 a.m., Osteo- 

Busters at 10:30 a.m., senior 

fitness at 10:30 a.m., needlecraft 

at 1 p.m., and OsteoBusters at 

1:30 p.m. 

Thursday: Scheduled shopping, 

OsteoBusters at 9 a.m., a 

Medicare presentation at 10:30 

a.m., Mahjongg at 12:30 p.m., 

and Pinochle at 1 p.m.; and 

Friday: Scheduled shopping, 

painting at 10 a.m., bridge at 10 

a.m., and quilting at 1 p.m. 

Learn about Medicare 

On Thursday, Oct. 4, from 

10:30 a.m. to noon in the town 

hall boardroom join us to learn 

about Medicare. 

Will you soon be 65 Are you 

already enrolled in Medicare 

but still have questions about 

your coverage options There 

are Medicare counselors trained 

to help you understand your 

choices and options. Attend a 

presentation designed to provide 

you with an understanding of 

Medicare and the choices available 

to you. 

Thinking about changing your 

current Medicare coverage This 

is a great time to get a better 

understanding of the whole 

picture. The enrollment change 

period will begin in October and 

end early in December. 

Having trouble paying your 

Medicare premium or related 

medical expenses Find out if 

you may qualify for Federal 

assistance with your medical 

expenses. 

You’re almost 65 Come learn 

about how Medicare works. You’ll 

probably be surprised by the 

number of choices available to 

you and all the factors that you 

should consider when making 

your choices. 

Movie of the month 

On Thursday, Oct. 25, at 10:30 

a.m., in the courtroom join us to 

watch Catch Me If You Can. 

Please register by Oct. 18. 

Driver fitness center 

The Town of Guilderland Senior 

Office and the Town’s Police 

Department have been working 

together to help senior drivers 

drive safer and longer through 

the town’s Driver Fitness Center. 

Located in Guilderland Town 

Hall, the center is designed to 

ensure the safety and independence 

of older drivers and to 

help seniors and their families 

find tangible solutions to their 

driving challenges, in order to 

maintain their independence and 

self-sufficiency while ensuring 

their safety as well as the safety 

of others on the road. 

For more information, please 

call Cindy in the senior office. 

Thanksgiving dinner 

deliveries 

Thanksgiving Day preparations 

are in the works by Equinox, 

Inc. for their 43nd Annual 

Equinox Thanksgiving Day Dinner. 

In order to get home delivery, 

we need to update our list of dinner 

recipients, so please contact 

the senior office to make your 

reservation. 

Fall luncheon 

A fall luncheon is planned for 

Tuesday, Oct. 23, at noon at the 

Italian-American Community 

Center, Washington Ave. Extension 

in Albany. 

Tickets are on sale until Oct. 

16. The cost is $18 per person. 

Please make checks payable 

to: Cluster II, care of the Senior 

Office, Post Office Box 339, Guilderland, 

NY 12084 

Helderberg 

The menu being served by 

the Helderberg Senior Services 

at the Hiawatha Grange on 

Route 32 in Dormansville next 

week is: 

Monday: Spaghetti and meatballs, 

romaine salad with dressing, 

broccoli, and fruited gelatin; 

Tuesday: Hot roast beef 

sandwich with gravy, stewed 

tomatoes, apple juice, and cherry 

crisp; 

Wednesday: Roast turkey 

with gravy, stuffing, cranberry 

sauce, mashed sweet potato, 

green beans, and ice cream; 

Thursday: Salisbury steak 

with gravy, mashed potato, 

carrots, orange juice and fruit 

cocktail; 

Friday: Stir-fry pork, brown 

rice, Chinese vegetables, pineapple 

juice, and pears. 

All meals will be served at 

noon. Call ahead at 797-3652 for 

reservations. 

Funding is provided by the 

Albany County Department for 

the Aging and the New York Office 

for Aging. 


Future police officers These kids along with their parents stopped by the University of Albany/ 

State Police booth at Crossgates Mall to get information about being a police officer during Safety 

Awareness Weekend, Sept. 22 and 23. Albany County, in hosting the annual event, stressed there 

were 8,000 traffic accidents county-wide in 2010 and a few thousand more that went unreported. 

Displays were designed to raise awareness and improve safety. 

Are you considering dentures 

Call 452-2579 to speak directly 

to a dentist who, at no charge, 

can tell you your options. 

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Library Notes 

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By Lynn Kohler 

On Saturday, Oct. 6, from 9:30 

a.m. to noon, come take a walking 

tour of Voorheesville with village 

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Flu shots 

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A flu clinic — for people 

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Patients should bring their 

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Take a walking tour of 

Voorheesville with village 

historian, author, and poet 

Dennis Sullivan. 

take you past historic buildings 

of 19th Century Voorheesville. 

Sullivan will discuss the social, 

cultural, and economic mix that 

makes Voorheesville unique in 

many ways. The tour will begin 

in the elementary school parking 

lot and finish at the Voorheesville 

Public Library where cider and 

doughnuts will be served. Wear 

good walking shoes. 

Finding the right college 

On Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 7 to 

8:30 p.m., join us for finding the 

right college at the right price. 

The world of college admissions 

has changed drastically in the 

last 20 years. Tuition and competition 

have soared, making it 

a challenge for applicants and 

their families to navigate the 

process. Over the past eight 

years, Dr. Skarlis and his staff 

have helped hundreds of families 

save time, money and find “best 

fit” colleges. Call or email the 

reference desk to sign up. 

Digital download 

open house 

On Thursday, Oct. 18, from 

5:30 to 8:30 p.m., the library staff 

will be holding free training sessions 

every half-hour for digital 

downloads. Drop in and learn 

how to borrow free digital books 

and audiobooks from the library’s 

Overdrive collection. 

Bring your own eReader, tablet 

or smart phone, or sample the 

library’s devices. Can’t make it 

on this date Call for an appointment 

for individual help. 

Albany and the Civil War 

with Mark Bodnar 

On Sunday, Oct. 21, at 1 p.m., 

as part of the Hearts Touched 

with Fire…Living Through the 

Civil War series, local historian 

Mark Bodnar’s will present a 

Powerpoint presentation on Albany’s 

Civil War connections. He 

will introduce individuals from 

that era interred in Albany Rural 

Cemetery. His subjects include 

statesmen, businessmen, and six 

Medal of Honor recipients. Learn 

about industrialist John Winslow, 

who helped convince Lincoln to 

build the Monitor, Confederate 

Absalom Bainbridge, who helped 

John Wilkes Booth escape, and 

Major Charles Pease, who rode 

with Generals Grant and Lee on 

the same day. 

NYC bus trip 

On Saturday, Dec. 1, join the 

Friends of the Library on their 

annual New York City, Holiday 

in the City bus trip. 

The bus will depart at 7 a.m. 

from the Middle school parking 

lot and return at approximately 

11 p.m. Spend your day in NYC 

any way you wish. The bus 

drops off and picks up at Bryant 

Park. This trip fills quickly so 

reserve your seats now. Bus price 

is $35 per seat or $30 for FOL 

members. Paid reservations may 

be made at the circulation desk 

at the library. 

Artist Romare Bearden, who lived from 1911 to 1988, is being 

honored in institutions across the country as a centennial tribute. 

The Hyde Collection exhibition, From Process to Print: Graphic 

Works by Romare Bearden, will be on view in the Wood Gallery 

from Oct. 6 through Jan. 6. Over 75 lithographs, etchings, collagraphs, 

collagraph plates, screen prints, drypoints, monoprints, 

and engravings, created over a span of 30 years, will be on display. 

Admission to the Hyde, at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls, is $8; 

children under 14 are admitted for free. There is no admission 

charge on Wednesdays. On Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m., Dr. Jo-Ann 

Graham will speak in the museum’s Froehlich Auditorium about 

Bearden and other artists of the twentieth-century in a lecture 

entitled Abstract Expressionism and the African American Artist. 

This program is free and open to the public. 

Westerlo 

By Sue Hoadley 

For the month of September 

2012 the Westerlo Public Library 

is displaying William Creter’s 

Tribute to 9/11. We will never 

forget. Thanks in no small part 

to Creter’s thoughtful collection 

of books, plaques, and fire department 

memorabilia related to 

the September 11, 2001 attacks. 

Creter is now a seventh grader at 

Berne-Knox-Westerlo school, but 

he was living on Long Island at 

the time of the attacks. “It was 

a frightening time for everyone,” 

he says. But, much more so 

for those who were so close to 

Ground Zero. 

Story time 

Toddler and preschool story 

time will meet on Tuesdays at 

3:30 p.m. Join Miss Lee for 

stories, songs, games, and movement 

activities for toddlers and 

preschool aged children. 

Technology Walk-In 

Wednesday: 

Do you need to brush up on 

your computer skills or obtain 

basic skills See Amy on Wednesdays 

between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., 

for free, personalized, one-onone, 

hands-on instruction on 

how to work the mouse, navigate 

the Internet, set up an e-mail 

account, use office automation 

programs, and more. 

Trustee vacancy 

The library is seeking community-spirited 

town residents for 

appointment to a five-year term 

on the Board of Library Trustees. 

Stay apprised. Read The Enterprise. 

Applicants should have an appreciation 

for and understanding 

of library service; commitment to 

the informational, educational, 

and recreational needs of the 

community; and a willingness to 

actively work to accomplish the 

library’s goals and objectives. 

Interested applicants must 

live in the town of Westerlo and 

cannot be employed by or do 

business with the library. Applicants 

must be available to 

meet on the second Monday of 

each month. Letters of interest 

should indicate why you wish 

to serve, your previous library 

involvement, and any specific 

qualifications or experience you 

have that would be of benefit 

to the library and the board of 

trustees. Send letters of interest 

to: Board of Trustees, Post Office 

Box 267, Westerlo, NY 12193. 

This vacancy will be filled by appointment 

of the town board. 

Coupon exchange 

Do you hate throwing away 

coupons, even when you can’t 

use them Well, we’ve got the 

solution. Donate your unused 

coupons to the coupon exchange 

box and, in turn, help yourself 

to the coupons that others have 

donated. 

Library info 

All library programming is 

free (unless otherwise noted) 

and open to the public. For more 

information, contact the library 

during business hours at 797- 

3415, visit westerlolibrary.org 

or find us on Facebook at www. 

facebook.com/westerlolibrary.


Library Notes 

Community Events 

Middleburgh 

By Anne LaMont 

On Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m., come 

to the Middleburgh Libraryfor 

our Reel Film Split Estate. An 

eye-opening examination of the 

consequences and conflicts that 

can arise between surface land 

owners in the western United 

States, and those who own and 

extract the energy and mineral 

rights below. 

Story time 

On Oct. 2, at 10:45 a.m., join 

us at the library for drop in story 

time. Get ready to move in this 

interactive story time designed 

especially for children up to age 

5 and their caregivers. We’ll read 

books, sing songs, recite fingerplays, 

dance, and watch a short 

movie based on a weekly theme. 

No registration is required. 

Preschool art 

On Oct. 3, at 11 a.m., the library 

will present Doodle Bugs, 

a preschool art program. The 

program is art exploration for 

little ones age 1 through 5 and 

their caregivers. Registration is 

required. 

Wednesday matinee 

On Oct. 3, at 1 p.m., the library 

will show Salmon Fishing in 

the Yemen rated PG-13. This is 

the story of a fisheries expert who 

is approached by a consultant to 

help realize a sheik’s vision of 

bringing the sport of fly-fishing 

to the desert and embarks on 

an upstream journey of faith 

and fish to prove the impossible 

possible. 

Concert 

On Oct. 4, at 7 p.m., songwriter 

Daniel Boling joins us at the 

library. His fingerpicked guitar 

and banjitar support a tenor 

voice that evokes his characters’ 

emotions. Tickets are available 

at the door for a suggested $10 

donation. 

Knitting Circle 

On Oct. 4, at 7 p.m., the 

friendly ladies of the Knitting 

Circle (men are welcome, but we 

haven’t seen any yet!) knit and 

crochet, embroider and quilt, and 

more. You can learn a new skill 

or share your own special talents 

with others. Drop in anytime. No 

registration is required 

For more information, see our 

website at www.middleburghlibrary.info. 


By David Warner 

Nearly a dozen bird-lovers 

took a walk on Brandle Road 

last week. The group leader was 

Dan Capuano, ably assisted by 

Altamont Free Library’s Director, 

Judith Wines. 

This annual autumnal walk is 

timed to catch sight of migrating 

raptors grabbing updrafts in 

front of the Helderberg Escarpment. 

There were not as many 

sightings as in some previous 

years, but no one complained. It 

was a lovely morning with lots to 

see and appreciate. 

There were some raptor sightings, 

several turkey vultures, a 

broad wing hawk, a red-tailed 

hawk, and a bald eagle that 

turned out to be a hiker in a 

white hat at High Point. Also 

spotted were blue jays, red wing 

blackbirds, phoebes, gold finches, 

and crows. The bird of the day, 

we’re almost positive, was a female 

rose-breasted grosbeak in 

the non-breeding phase. 

Book club 

The adult fiction discussion 

group will meet on Monday, Oct. 

1, at 7 p.m., to toss around Chad 

Harbach’s The Art of Fielding. 

Yes, it is a book about baseball. 

No, it is not a book about baseball. 

Fall story times 

The toddler story time will 

meet Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. 

and our preschool program is 

Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. All programs 

are drop in and all ages 

are welcome. 

Bethlehem 

By Louise Grieco 

On Mondays and Thursdays, 

from Oct. 11 to 29, at 4:30 p.m. 

the Bethlehem Public Library’s 

Little Buddies (kids in kindergarten 

through grade 5) read to 

Big Buddies (teens) to build reading 

skills and self-confidence. All 

reading levels are welcome and 

no signup is necessary. 

Lego Club 

On Friday, Oct. 12, at 4 p.m. 

come to the library and build 

things and build friendships. 

Friends of the Library and community 

members donated the 

Lego pieces. 

Berne 

By Judy Petrosillo 

How does the Berne Public 

Library keep patron information 

up-to-date Every three years 

your library card will expire unless 

you renew it. You’ll see an 

e-mail message when the time is 

near, or the staff will see that it 

needs renewing when you check 

out an item at the library. We 

verify your information to make 

sure it is correct and then you 

are ready to go for another three 

years. It’s that easy to keep a 

current library card and there 

is no charge. 

Banned Book Week 

One of the best things about a 

library card is that it gives you 

free and open access to books 

and information. Sept. 30 to Oct. 

6 is Banned Book Week sponsored 

by the American Library 

Association. This is an annual 

event celebrating the freedom to 

seek and to express ideas, even 

those some consider unorthodox 

or unpopular. 

As philosopher Noam Chomsky 

said, “If we don’t believe in freedom 

of expression for people we 

despise, we don’t believe in it at 

all.” This week, read a book that 

others have challenged. 

Book discussion 

The Sunday Book Club is 

reading Fried Green Tomatoes at 

the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie 

Flagg. The author includes the 

challenges of living in a racist 

society and the challenge of aging 

in this novel. Request a copy 

soon and join the discussion on 

Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. 

Story time 

Story time on Tuesday, Oct. 

2 is sponsored by the word 

square. Preschool children and 

their caregivers are invited to 

join Kathy at 11 a.m., for stories, 

activities, and crafts based on the 

shape of a square. 

Thank you 

A huge thanks to the many 

people who made the lasagna 

dinner and cakewalk a success. 

Whether you baked a cake, made 

a tray of lasagna, worked at the 

dinner, or showed your support 

by attending this event, your 

time and effort were appreciated. 

Blood drives schedule 

The American Red Cross Blood 

Services is holding these local 

drives in October: 

— On Wednesday, Oct. 10 from 

1 to 6 p.m. at the St. Stephen’s 

Episcopal Church’s church hall, 

16 Elsmere Ave., Delmar; 

— On Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 8 

a.m. to 2 p.m. at Voorheesville’s 

high school gym, 432 New Salem 

Rd., Voorheesville; 

— On Friday, Oct. 19 from noon 

to 4 p.m., at Time Warner Cable 

— bloodmobile, 337 New Karner 

Rd., Albany; 

— On Friday, Oct. 19 from 

7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the 

Guilderland High School large 

group instruction room, 8 School 

Guilderland 

Class of 1977 

holds reunion 

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland 

High School Class of 

1977 will hold its 35 th reunion 

on Nov. 24 from 6 to 11 p.m. at 

Settles Hill Banquets in Altamont. 

Tickets cost $50 if purchased 

before Oct. 24, and $55 thereafter. 

For more information, call 

Nellie Goutos at 861-6052 or 

e-mail her at Nellie.Goutos@ 

gmail.com. 

GUILDERLAND —The Guilderland 

Central School District 

will once again be hosting a 

Fall Recycling Extravaganza on 

Saturday, Oct. 27, from 8 a.m. 

to 2 p.m. at Farnsworth Middle 

School. This is a communitywide 

event and is open to both 

residents and non-residents of 

the school district. 

Individuals are encouraged 

to bring their unwanted papers, 

metals, plastics (including bags), 

bikes, and electronics equipment 

for free disposal and recycling. 

Hazardous materials cannot be 

accepted. This service is provided 

by the district’s recycling 

partners — Regional Computer 

Recycling & Recovery, County 

Waste/Waste Connections, and 

T. A. Predel’s Paper and Metals 

Recycling. 

Electronics being accepted 

include, but are not limited to: 

old air conditioners, microwaves, 

computers, TVs, gaming equipment, 

large and small appliances, 

computers and terminals, 

phones, and pagers. 

Examples of metals being accepted 

include old bicycles, lawn 

mowers, patio furniture, swing 

sets, grills, steel beams, fences, 

and refrigerators. 

Types of paper being accepted 

include old phone books, office 

Rd., Guilderland Center; 

— On Monday, Oct. 22 from 2 

to 7 p.m., at St. Madeleine Sophie 

Church’s parish center, 3500 Carman 

Rd., Schenectady; 

— On Tuesday, Oct. 23 from 

9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Duanesburg 

Central School’s gym, 163 School 

Dr., Delanson; and 

— On Saturday, Oct. 27 from 

7:30 a.m. to noon, at the Rensselaerville 

Fire Company’s meeting 

rooms, 4990 Delaware Turnpike, 

Rensselaerville. 

Call 1-800-RED CROSS or 

visit www.redcrossblood.org for 

more information and to make 

an appointment. 

Legion auxiliary 

seeks donations 

NEW SCOTLAND — The Voorheesville 

American Legion Auxiliary 

is holding its third annual 

tag sale on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 

8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the American 

Legion Hall, on Voorheesville 

Avenue in Voorheesville. 

Anyone interested in donating 

items may call Robin Hull-Pease 

at 765-4580 or Eileen Lawrence 

at 765-4280 to make an appointment 

to drop off items at the 

legion hall, or to make other arrangements. 

Please, no big items 

and no electronics. 

GCSD to host Recycling 

Extravaganza October 27 at 

Farnsworth Middle School 

papers and envelopes, catalogs, 

magazines, newspapers, and boxes. 

Please note that blueprints, 

carbon papers, and egg cartons 

will not be accepted. 

Plastics being accepted include 

beverage bottles and bags. 

Textiles being accepted include: 

clothing, shoes, rags, 

towels, pocketbooks, belts, fabrics, 

blankets, comforters, and 

sheets. 

In addition to the items listed 

above, on Oct. 27 the district will 

also be collecting old flip-flop sandals 

for recycling by Terracycle, 

as well as any new or like-new 

donations of clothing for children 

and adults, accessories, linens, 

pots, pans, and house wares. 

These items will be collected by 

Grassroots Givers and available 

free-of-charge at the Sheridan 

Hollow Drop-In Center “shop” 

in Albany for individuals and 

families who are homeless, living 

on a limited income, or leaving 

a shelter to move into a new 

apartment. 

The last Recycling Extravaganza 

generated more than $2,800 

in revenue for the district. For 

more information on the upcoming 

Recycling Extravaganza, call 

Renée Panetta, district recycling 

and conservation coordinator, at 

861-5246, ext. 338. 

First Fridays Artswalk: On Oct. 5, from 5 to 8 p.m., downtown Pittsfield, Mass. Will host opening 

receptions featuring dozens of local and regional artists, after which many restaurants and lounges 

will have live jazz entertainment as the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival kicks off. Recent work by portrait 

artist Claudia Shuster, like this oil of Kurt Mazur, will be shown at the Art On No Gallery at 311 North 

Street. More information may be found on the Artwalk’s website, firstfridaysartswalk.com. 

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Correspondents 


By 

Rosemary 

Caruso 

861-6569 

We were going through boxes 

in the garage trying to decide 

what to keep, what to give away 

and what to throw away. It surprised 

us that there was so much 

that we have kept that just takes 

up space and should have been 

thrown away a long time ago. 

However, there was one small 

box that held a few items and a 

lot of memories. 

When I showed the contents 

of the box to 

my husband 

he smiled and 

said, “Those 

were the days 

when you could 

play for hours 

with just a few 

simple toys.” “A 

boy could put a small ball and 

some jacks in one pocket, some 

marbles in another pocket, hold 

up his pants with a length of 

rope, and have a piece of chalk 

in his belt.” 

This box held some of the classic 

childhood games that do not 

require much to keep them going. 

These items probably came from 

the girls Christmas stockings. 

Playing jacks is a lot of fun and 

all you need is a little bouncy 

ball, a level surface and at least 

10 jacks. You can play on any 

hard surface like a driveway, 

sidewalk, or the floor. You throw 

the 10 jacks onto the playing 

surface, toss the ball into the 

air with your throwing hand and 

while the ball is in the air, pick up 

one jack using only your throwing 

hand, then catch the ball in 

your throwing hand before the 

ball hits the ground. Repeat this 

process until you have picked up 

all 10 jacks. 

Toss the 10 jacks onto the playing 

surface again and toss the 

ball into the air and pick up two 

jacks each time. Continue tossing 

the ball, picking up jacks and 

catching the ball, increasing the 

number of jacks you pick until 

you pick up all 10 at one time. 

The other player gets to take 

their turn when you don’t pick 

up the correct number of jacks 

or you miss the ball. Begin 

where you left off when it’s your 

turn again. The winner is declared 

when you or your friend 

succeeds at ‘onesies’ through 

‘tensies’ (one jack through 10 

jacks). 

Another way to play is to 

bounce the ball on the playing 

surface rather than throw it in 

the air, then try to pick up as 

many jacks as you can before the 

ball bounces again. 

Although our daughters didn’t 

play marbles very much, Jim said 

that when he was young they 

played all of the time. For one 

thing, it was an inexpensive toy. 

You could buy a bag of marbles 

for 10 cents. If you lived in a 

neighborhood near a machining 

company you might be able to 

find a ball bearing near their 

trash. Another thing that makes 

marbles such a great game is that 

you can make up different rules 

and play almost anywhere. 

I have gone into great detail 

about marbles before so today I 

will just briefly review a couple 

of the games. 

One game involves drawing a 

“Those were the days 

when you could play for 

hours with just a few 

simple toys.” 

circle in sand, and players take 

turns knocking other players’ 

marbles out of the circle with 

their own marble. This game is 

called ringer. 

Other versions involve shooting 

marbles at target marbles or into 

holes in the ground. This game 

is called rolley hole. While the 

game of marbles was once widespread 

its popularity has waned 

in this computer age. 

Of course the rope was used 

for jump rope. It has often been 

considered a girl’s game but everyone 

used to jump rope. Now 

the schools encourage it because 

it is so good for your health. 

Today, they have competitive 

teams that use ropes and health 

instructors use ropes for their 

client’s health. 

And chalk was for drawing 

games and pictures on the 

ground. 

So for less than a dollar you 

can walk around with a whole 

pocket full of games. Add to that 

stickball, hide 

and seek and 

you could be 

kept busy with 

your friends for 

hours. 

Today, we often 

see people 

sitting in the 

mall, on a bus, in the restaurant, 

or just about anywhere else with 

their cell phone, and computer 

in front of them. They are playing 

games that are far more complicated 

and more expensive. I’m 

not sure they bring as much fun 

to the children playing them. 

I know I still remember Chet, 

Joan, and Pat sitting on my front 

porch talking about going to the 

beach for the day. Or perhaps we 

went to the harbor and sailed 

for a while on Chet’s small sailboat. 

But then we were brought 

up near the water. Jim was 

brought up in the city. 

It didn’t really matter what 

we did as children as long as 

we were with friends, having 

a good time and not spending 

much money. Our parents knew 

who we were with and basically 

where we were. They also knew 

when we would be home and how 

many there would be for dinner 

because the group would make 

those plans before we went out. 

The next time your children 

are looking for something to do, 

why not suggest marbles, jacks or 

jump rope These are games that 

really do not go out of style. 

Chicken barbecue 

The members of the American 

Legion on Altamont Blvd. invite 

the public to enjoy their chicken 

barbecue on Friday, Sept. 28, 

from 4 to 7 p.m. The cost for a 

dinner is $9. The Legion is located 

at 988 Altamont Blvd. 

Fall classes 

Old Songs has announced 

their fall music class registration 

for classes in acoustic music. 

They will begin on Oct. 1, 

at Old Songs located at 37 South 

Main Street in Voorheesville. For 

additional information, times, 

and cost call 765-2815 or by going 

on line at www.oldsongs.org. 

Water main flushing 

The village of Altamont has announced 

that water main flushing 

will begin on Monday, Oct. 1 

through Friday, Oct. 19, between 

the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 

p.m. Discoloration may occur. 

Residents are advised to check 

for water discoloration before 

starting your laundry. 

Book sale 

A collectible book sale will take 

place at the Guilderland Public 

Library on Saturday, Sept. 29, 

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and again 

on Sunday, Sept. 30, from 1 until 

4 p.m. The sale will be held in the 

Helderberg Room in the library 

located at 2228 Western Ave. 

Early Bird Entry will be held 

on Friday, Sept. 28, from 5 to 

8 p.m. The entry fee is $10 on 

Friday evening. 

Toddler time 

The Guilderland Public Library 

has announced that registration 

is required for story 

times that began this week. The 

Toddler Time is held on Wednesdays 

at 10:30 a.m. 

The library can be reached at 

456-2400 to learn more about 

other preschool story times. 

Food pantry 

Peanut butter, jelly, jams and 

canned vegetables are needed by 

the Altamont Food Pantry. Also 

needed are laundry detergent 

and dish detergent. All donations 

can be left in the gathering 

space at St. Lucy/St. Bernadette’s 

Church on Grand Street. All 

donations are appreciated. 

Birthdays 

Happy-birthday wishes are 

extended to: 

— Mike Bresney, Danielle 

Doherty, and Linda Gaige on 

Sept. 28; 

— Sue Blackman, Michelle 

Blackman, Ryan Dzingle, Ron 

Gifford, and Mandi Percoski 

Tooker on Sept. 29; 

— April Bastiani and Zachary 

Connolly on Sept. 30; 

— Kenichi Chiba on Oct. 1; 

— Willie Burnham and Heather 

Holly on Oct. 2; 

— Linda Devenpeck, Laurie 

Fay, Eric Long, and Jean Perl on 

Oct. 3; and 

— Gayle Addyman and Isabella 

Louise Attanasio on Oct. 4. 

Flu shots available 

NEW SCOTLAND — A clinic 

for flu shots will be held on Oct. 

12, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the 

Wyman Osterhout Community 

Center in New Salem. 

To sign up for a flu shot, call 

Diane Deschenes or Carol Cootware 

at 439-4865. 

Thompsons Lake 

By 

Lora 

Ricketts 

872-1691 

We knew this would be a wonderful 

weekend because Brandon 

was picking up his children, 

Samson and Nichole. First, they 

wanted to run the track behind 

the BKW school and then we had 

a quiet evening. 

Saturday was an exciting day; 

we went to the hot air balloon 

festival in Queensbury. Eight of 

us, Brandon, Samson, Nichole, 

my daughter Marcia Pangburn, 

my granddaughter Kyra, Brandon’s 

friend, Jenn Smith, her 

son, Iain, and me piled into my 

Expedition and headed up the 

Northway. We got as far as Exit 

7 of the Northway and cars were 

backed up for miles. 

We went onto Route 9 and that 

was slow also; so we cancelled 

that destination and headed for 

Hoffman’s Playland. 

The weather was warm and 

sunny and the carnival atmosphere 

was exciting. The children 

had a blast. We took lots of pictures 

and we all rode the train. 

Next we went to the Crossing 

in Colonie and that was very 

peaceful. The children enjoyed 

the maze and the playground. 

Our last stop was Friendly’s 

in East Greenbush, where we all 

enjoyed a delicious meal. 

Sunday arrived sunny and 

cool. We went to church and then 

the Nature Center where we had 

A Step Up 

a picnic lunch. Nichole found an 

American robin bird nest on the 

ground. She tried to give it to 

the attendant but was told she 

could have it. 

Nichole made an exhibit with 

the nest when she got home. She 

even had a signup sheet for anyone 

viewing her robin’s nest. 

Brandon, Samson, Nichole 

and Iain enjoyed an afternoon 

of fishing in our pond and Jenn 

took pictures. 

It was a rewarding weekend for 

me; being around children always 

brings out the best to be thankful 

for in life. Everyone caught a 

fish and Jenn promised them all 

pictures to keep as memories. 

Concert success 

I received a call from Sonia 

Lasher who was helping Wally 

Jones do the organizing for 

the concert Sunday, Sept. 16 at 

the First Reformed Church of 

Bethlehem. The generous people 

who attended donated $2,375 in 

response to Wally’s wonderful 

music. This money will keep the 

Venture Churches food pantry 

working on its mission of feeding 

the hungry. 

90th birthday 

Earl Wagoner had a wonderful 

day last Saturday, for his 90th 

birthday at the church hall. Family 

and friends came from near 

and far to spend the afternoon 

with him 

Turkey supper 

It’s time to mark you calendar 

for the Thompson’s Lake Reformed 

Church annual turkey 

supper. The supper will take 

place on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 

4 to 6:30 p.m. The menu includes 

turkey, stuffing, mashed 

potatoes, gravy, squash, coleslaw, 

rolls, beverages, and homemade 

pies. The cost for adults is $10; 

children 12 and under is $5; and 

free for children under 5.. 

Call 872-0432 for more information 

or tickets. 

Volunteer Trail Day: Join Huyck Preserve staff in Rensselaerville and the British Conservation 

Volunteers for a morning of trail work on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The volunteers will 

be repairing Lincoln Pond Trail, including a rebuild of the bridge the beaver’s damaged. A barbecue 

will follow at noon in appreciation of everyone’s efforts.


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County. SSNY has been designated 

as agent of the LLC upon whom 


SSNY shall mail a copy of process 

to the LLC, 1520 East 24th Street 

Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: any 

lawful activity. 

(5-5-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of Avi Zamir 

Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with 






process to: 174 5th Ave, Suite 301, 

New York, NY 10010. Purpose: any 


(1-5-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of qualification of Buffalo 

Freeman Fennimore, LLC. Application 

for Authority filed with NY 

Secretary of State (NS) on 8/8/2012, 

office location: Albany County, NS 

is designated as agent upon whom 

process may be served, NS shall 

mail service of process (SOP) to 

THE LLC @ 911 Central Ave #188, 

Albany, NY 12206, THE LLC is 

designated as agent for SOP at 

911 Central Ave #188, purpose is 

any lawful purpose. 

(6-5-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of qualification of ReppertFactor, 

LLC 

Articles of Org. filed with NY 






NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90 

State St STE 700 Office 40, NW 

Registered Agent LLC is designated 

as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE 

700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful 

purpose. 

(7-5-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation domestic of 

Wear Truce LLC. 


Secretary of State (NS) on June 

18th, 2012, office location: Albany 

County, NS is designated as 

agent upon whom process may be 

served, NS shall mail service of process 

(SOP) to NW Registered Agent 

LLC @ 90 State St STE 700 Office 

40, NW Registered Agent LLC is 

designated as agent for SOP at 90 

State St STE 700 Office 40, purpose 

is any lawful purpose. 

(8-5-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation or qualification 

of Boxing Express. 

Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary 

of State (NS) on 8/13/2012 










purpose. 

(9-5-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation [domestic] 

of 103 Kail Ave. Articles of Org. 

filed with NY Secretary of State 

(NS) on 8/17/2012, office location: 

Albany County, NS is designated as 

agent upon whom process may be 

served, NS shall mail service of process 

(SOP) to Veil Corporate, LLC 

@ 911 Central Ave # 188 Albany, 

NY 12206, Veil Corporate, LLC is 

designated as agent for SOP at 911 

Central Ave # 188 Albany, purpose 

is any lawful purpose. 

(2-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of qualification of Seawolf 

Assets, LLC. Articles of Org. filed 

with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 


County. LLC formed in New Jersey 

(NJ) on 4/26/2012. Princ. office of 

LLC: 10 Buxton Dr., East Windsor, 

NJ 08520. SSNY designated as 



shall mail process to c/o Veil Corporate, 

911 Central Avenue #188, 

Albany, NY 12206.Cert. of Form. 

filed with NJ State Treasurer, Div. 

of Revenue, PO Box 628, Trenton, 

NJ 08646-0628. Purpose: Any lawful 

activity. 

(3-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of NG Online 

Enterprises, LLC. 


Secretary of State (NS) 7/5/2012, 










purpose. 

(6-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of a Limited 

Liability Company (LLC): Name: 

GARNISH MARKETING, LLC, 


the Secretary of State of New York 

(SSNY) on 08/14/2012. Office location: 

Albany County. SSNY has 

been designated as agent of the 

LLC upon whom process against it 

may be served. SSNY shall mail a 

copy of process to: C/O GARNISH 

MARKETING, LLC, 462 Hamilton 

Street, Albany, NY 12203-1334. 

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 

Latest date upon which LLC is to 

dissolve: No specific date. 

(7-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Tubav Realty LLC. Arts. of Org. 

filed with Secy. of State of NY 

(SSNY) on 7/13/12. Office in Albany 

County. SSNY designated agent of 



process to PO Box 10873, Albany, 

NY 12201. Purpose: General. 

(8-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

3021 Seagirt Ave, LLC. Arts. of 

Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY 







(9-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Bleecker Group LLC. Arts. of 








(10-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

MK Planners LLC. Arts. of Org. 






process to Mami Yamada, 271 W. 

47th St #39J, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: 

General. 

(11-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Allanventures Holdings LLC. 

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of 

State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/12. 

Office in Albany County. SSNY 

designated agent of LLC upon 

whom process against it may be 

served. SSNY shall mail process to 

PO Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201. 

Purpose: General. 

(12-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

590 Marcy Ave. LLC. Arts. of 








(13-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Chanteur LLC. Arts. of Org. filed 


7/31/12. Office in Albany County. 

SSNY designated agent of LLC 

upon whom process against it 

may be served. SSNY shall mail 

process to Usacorp Inc, PO Box 

10873, Albany, NY 12201. Purpose: 

General. 

(14-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Bruce Bessi LLC. Arts. of Org. 








(15-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Beauty Island LLC. Arts. of 

Org. filed with Secy. of State of 

NY (SSNY) on 8/14/12. Office in 




shall mail process to Usacorp Inc, 

PO Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201. 

Purpose: General. 

(16-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Qual. of HNI Risk Services 

Of Michigan, LLC. filed with 

Sec of State NY (SSNY): 7/31/12. 

Office in Albany County. Formed 

in MI: 2/23/11. SSNY designated 


against it may be served & shall 

mail process to: Terry Darga, PO 

Box 510187, New Berlin, WI 53151- 

0187. Foreign add: 140 Monroe 

Center St NW Ste 200, Grand Rapids, 

MI 49503. Arts. of Org. filed with 

MI Dept of Licensing and Regulatory 

Affairs Constitution Hall, 1st Fl 

N., 525 W. Allegan St, Lansing, MI 

48933. Purpose: General. 

(17-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Qual. of The Aliant 

Insurance Group, LLC. Fictitious 

Name: CCFN Insurance Agency, 

LLC filed with Sec of State NY 

(SSNY): 3/30/12. Office in Albany 

County. Formed in FL: 11/13/07. 


upon whom process against it may 

be served & shall mail process to 

its Principal Office: 600 Cleveland 

St Ste 600, Clearwater, FL 33755. 

Arts. of Org. filed with PO Box 6327, 

Tallahassee, FL 32314. Purpose: 

General. 

(18-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Qual. of Burns Brokers 

LLC. filed with Sec of State NY 

(SSNY): 7/24/12. Office in Albany 

County. Formed in CO: 1/3/12. 


upon whom process against it may 

be served & shall mail process to its 

foreign address: PO Box 461151, 

Centennial, CO 80013. Arts. of 

Org. filed with Sec of State,1700 

Broadway, Dover, CO 80290. Purpose: 

General. 

(19-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

DAYLE BASS DESIGN, LLC Art. 

of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 

07/03/2012. Off. Loc. Albany Co. 

SSNY designated as agent upon 


served. SSNY to mail copy of process 

to THE LLC 118-21 Queens 

Boulevard, Suite 309, Forest Hills, 

NY 11375. Purpose: Any lawful act 

or activity. 

(3-7-12) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Qual. of Global Rigging 

& Transport, LLC. filed with 

Sec of State NY (SSNY): 6/29/12. 

Office in Albany County. Formed in 

NV: 1/18/2001. SSNY designated 


against it may be served & shall 

mail process to: Tommy Felch, 

1315 Taylor Farm Rd., VA Beach, 

VA 23453. Foreign add: Corporation 

Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, 

NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with 

Tommy Felch, 1315 Taylor Farm Rd, 

Virginia Beach, VA 23453. Purpose: 

General. 

(20-6-11) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR 

AUTHORITY OF 

FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY 

COMPANY 

Name: New York Solar Drive, 

LLC (LLC). Application for Authority 

filed with Dept. of State of NY on 

5/31/12. Jurisdiction and date of 

organization: DE, 5/24/12. Office 

location: Albany County. Secretary 

of State of NY (SOS) is designated 

as agent of LLC for service 

of process. SOS shall mail copy of 

process to c/o Teal, Becker Chiaramonte, 

CPAs, P.C., 7 Washington 

Sq., Albany, NY 12205. Address 

of office required to be maintained 

in DE: 2711 Centerville Road, Ste. 

400, Wilmington, DE. A copy of the 

Certificate of Formation of the LLC 

may be obtained from DE Secretary 

of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 

401 Federal St., Ste. 401, Dover, 

DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful 

act or activity. 

(5-7-12) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of a Limited 

Liability Company (LLC): Name: 

TWO BEARS PROVISIONS, LLC, 


the Secretary of State of New York 






a copy of process to: C/O TWO 

BEARS Provisions, LLC, 18 Rose 

Court, Albany, NY 12209. Purpose: 

Any Lawful Purpose. 

(2-7-12) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of 634698 

LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY 

Secretary of State (NS) on 7/12/12. 

Office location: Albany County. NS 


process may be served. NS shall 

mail service of process (SOP) to NW 

Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State 

St STE 700 Office 40, Albany, NY 

12207. NW Registered Agent LLC 

is designated as agent for SOP 

at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40, 

Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any 

lawful purpose. 

(1-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of Emunah 

16 Development LLC. Arts of Org. 

filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) 

on 6/18/12. Office location: Albany 




shall mail process to: 2201 Avenue 

M, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: 


(6-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of Land 

1347 Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed 

with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 





shall mail process to: 3048 Bedford 

Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: 


(7-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 











(8-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 











(9-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of 11502 

Ocean Promenade, LLC. Arts of 

Org. filed with NY Secy of State 


Albany County. SSNY is designated 



SSNY shall mail process to: 115- 

02 Ocean Promenade, Rockaway 

Park, NY 11694. Purpose: any 


(10-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of 1432 De 

Kalb LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY 

Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/10/12. 





process to: 199 Lee Ave #323, 

Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: any 


(11-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of 389 

Broome LLC. Arts of Org. filed 





against it may be served. 

SSNY shall mail process to: 165 

Christopher St. Apt LZ, New York, 

NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful 

activity. 

(12-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of CRP 

Manager LLC. Arts of Org. filed with 






process to: 1841 Broadway, Suite 

400, New York, NY 10023. Purpose: 


(13-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of Nadav 

WDC, LLC. Arts of Org. filed 






shall mail process to: 1060 Mc- 

Donald Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11230. 


(14-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of S.C.L. 

LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY 






process to: 2003 Avenue J, Suite 

1C, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: 


(15-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of NLJ 

Associates LLC. Arts of Org. filed 






shall mail process to: 425 Park 

Ave. 18th Fl., New York, NY 10022. 


(16-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of TBE Holdings 







process to: 425 Park Ave. 18th Fl., 



(17-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

428 Hart Street LLC. Arts. of 






process to Usacorp Inc., PO Box 


General. 

(19-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

82 Franklin LLC. Arts. of Org. 








General. 

(20-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Triple A Cafe, LLC. Arts. of Org. 








General. 

(21-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Bapaz Ash LLC. Arts. of Org. 








(22-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Gonsalves-Sabola LLC. Arts. of 








General. 

(23-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

DM Deals LLC. Arts. of Org. filed 


8/24/12. Office in Albany County. 


upon whom process against it 

may be served. SSNY shall mail 



(24-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

O’Connor Bait & Tackle LLC. 

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State 

of NY (SSNY) on 8/13/12. Office in 




shall mail process to 33 Washington 

Ave, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: 

General. 

(25-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

VSPS Enterprises LLC. Arts. of 






process to 6211 Johnston House 

Apt #8, Albany, NY 12203. Purpose: 

General 

(26-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of Capital 

Industrial Automation, LLC 

Arts. of Org. of this Limited Liability 

Company (LLC) were filed 

with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 

on 7/31/12. The LLC maintains its 

office in Albany County. SSNY is 

designated as agent of LLC upon 


served. SSNY shall mail a copy 

of any process served to the LLC 

at: The LLC, 77 Helderhill Road, 

Voorheesville, New York 12186. 

Purpose: for any lawful activity for 

which limited liability companies 

may be formed under the law. 

(27-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of Cellar 

Circles, LLC. Articles of Org. filed 

with NY Secretary of State (NS) 

on August 3, 2012, office location: 

Albany County, NS is designated 

as agent upon whom process may 

be served, NS shall mail service of 

process (SOP) to NW Registered 

Agent LLC @90 State St STE 700 

Office 40, NW Registered Agent 

LLC is designated as agent for SOP 


purpose is any lawful purpose. 

(28-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of 239 Mulberry 







process to: 1919 Post Oak Park 

Dr. #3101, Houston, TX 77227. 


(2-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of ACI Equities 







process to: 412 8th Ave. 7th Fl., 



(3-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of Silvershore 

Properties 27 LLC. Arts 

of Org. filed with NY Secy of 

State (SSNY) on 8/31/12. Office 

location: Albany County. SSNY is 

designated as agent of LLC upon 


served. SSNY shall mail process 

to: 1220 Broadway, Suite 707, 



(4-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of Enterprise 

Toren Parking LLC. Arts of 

Org. filed with NY Secy of State 


Albany County. SSNY is designated 



SSNY shall mail process to: 200 

E. 69th St., New York, NY 10021. 


(5-8-13) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of Cheese 

& Jam, LLC. 


of State (NS) on 09/10/2012, 





Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St 

STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered 

Agent LLC is designated as agent 

for SOP at 90 State St STE 700 

Office 40, purpose is any lawful 

purpose. 

(17-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of qualification of Sinclair 

Consulting Services LLC. 


Secretary of State (NS) on July 13, 

2012, office location: Albany County, 

NS is designated as agent upon 

whom process may be served, NS 

shall mail service of process (SOP) 

to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90 



as agent for SOP at 90 State 

St STE 700 Office 40, purpose is 


(6-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of ScootourNYC 

LLC. 


of State (NS) on 07/23/2012, 










purpose. 

(7-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation [domestic]/ 

qualification [foreign] of _Smith 

Property management LLC 












purpose 

(19-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of Chilly 

Monkey LLC. Articles of Org. filed 


on September 10, 2012, office 

location: Albany County, NS is 

designated as agent upon whom 








purpose. 

(16-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 


LIBERTY ENERGY & SUSTAIN- 

ABILITY SOLUTIONS, LLC The 

name of the company is Liberty 

Energy & Sustainability Solutions, 

LLC. Articles of Organization were 

filed on September 6, 2012. LLC’s 

office is in Albany County. The 

Secretary of State of the State of 

New York is designated as agent 

for service of process and shall 

mail a copy of process to P.O. 

Box 12214, Albany, New York, 

12212-2214. The purpose of LLC 

is to engage in any lawful act or 

activity. 

(5-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 


LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 

NAME: DANATOON STUDIOS, 

LLC. Articles of Organization were 

filed with the Secretary of State of 

New York (SSNY) on 03/28/12. Office 

location: Albany County. SSNY 

has been designated as agent 

of the LLC upon whom process 


shall mail a copy of process to the 

LLC, 269 Western Ave Albany NY, 

12203. Purpose: For any lawful 

purpose. (8-9-14)


New Scotland 

Soccer Club 

information 

session 

The New Scotland Soccer Club 

spring 2013 registration information 

night is Oct. 1 from 7 

p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Voorheesville 

High School lobby. 

There will be uniforms available 

to see during this time for 

sizing purposes. Online registration 

is available at www. 

newscotlandsoccer.com. For more 

information, call Wendy Relyea 

at 528-2854. 

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NEED TO SELL YOUR HOME FAST 

Call Us Today 

for a Free and 

Confidential Consultation 

(Absolutely No Obligation) 

CASH IN AS LITTLE AS 5 DAYS 

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Classifieds 

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LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of The Voice 

Realm LLC. Articles of Org. filed 


on 01/25/2012, office location: 





Agent LLC @ 90 State St STE 700 





(9-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of Myriade 

LLC. 


of State (NS) on August 24, 

2012, office location: Albany County, 

NS is designated as agent upon 

whom process may be served, NS 

shall mail service of process (SOP) 

to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90 





purpose. 

(10-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of Little 

Chopins LLC. 












purpose. 

(11-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of LIBERTY 

BELLE SPECTACULAR LLC. Articles 

of Org. filed with NY Secretary 

of State (NS) on 04/11/2012, office 

location: Albany County, NS is 

designated as agent upon whom 








purpose. 

(12-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 


LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 

NAME: Veteran’s Electrical LLC. 

Articles of Organization were filed 

with the Secretary of State of New 

York (SSNY) on 8/1/12. Office location: 





a copy of process to the LLC, 48 

South Main Avenue, Albany, NY 

12208. Purpose: For any lawful 

purpose. 

(14-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of professional 

service limited liability company. 

Name: Kevin J. Hanratty, 

Attorney at Law LLC. Articles of 

Organization were filed with Secretary 

of State of New York (NS) 

on 09/05/2012. Office location: 

Albany County. NS is designated 


be served. NS shall mail service of 


Agent LLC at 90 State St STE 700 

Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. NW 



700 Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. 

Purpose is the practice of the profession 

of law. 

(13-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation [domestic]/ 

qualification [foreign] of tidiani 

international trading. 








Western Ave Albany NY 12203, NW 


as agent for SOP at 1773 Western 

Ave Albany NY 12203, purpose is 


(15-9-14) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

NOTICE TO BIDDERS 

Notice is hereby given that the 

Board of Fire Commissioners of the 

Westmere Fire District will accept 

bids for the delivery and installation 

of 60 firefighter gear lockers to be 

installed in the new fire station currently 

under construction. 

Copies of specifications may be 

obtained at the temporary Westmere 

Fire District offices, located 

at 1732 Western Avenue, Albany, 

New York 12203, between the hours 

of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday, 

Wednesday or Friday, or by calling 

the district offices at (518) 456-6734 

to make an appointment. Specifications 

are also available at www. 

WestmereFD.org. 

All bids must be submitted in a 

sealed, opaque envelope, marked 

“Locker Bid” which will be opened 

at 6:30 p.m. on October 1, 2012 at 

the fire district offices. 

Bids must be valid for 90 days. 

The Board of Fire Commissioners 

reserves the right to reject any 

and all bids. 

Sean Maguire 

Secretary 

Westmere Fire District 

(1-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 


LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 

Articles of Organization of Better 

Welding, LLC filed with Secy. of 

State of N.Y. (SSNY) on September 

10, 2012. Office location: Albany 

County. SSNY designated as agent 

of LLC upon whom process against 


process to: The LLC, P. O. Box 43, 

Glenmont, NY 12077. Purpose: Any 

lawful activities. 

(2-10-15) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

NOTICE OF FORMATION of 

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FUR- 

NITURE CITY LLC, a Limited Liability 

Company. Arts. of Org. filed 

with Secretary of State of New York 

(SSNY) on 09/12/2012. Office loc.: 



be served. SSNY shall mail process 

to: c/o Lightman Law Firm LLC, 

345 Seventh Avenue, Floor 21, 

New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any 


(3-10-15) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of Lynch 

Ray Media LLC Articles of Org. 

filed with NY Secretary of State 

(NS) on 5/15/2012 office location: 










(4-10-15) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of Formation of TL GEN- 

ERAL LLC. Arts of Org. filed with 

NY Secy of State (NS) on 12/21/10, 










purpose. 

(7-10-15) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of New World 

Dentistry, PLLC. 












purpose. 

(9-10-15) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Notice of formation of Wine 

by Rx, LLC. Articles of Org. filed 


on Sept 21, 2012, office location: 










(6-10-15) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

NOTICE OF SPECIAL 

DISTRICT MEETING 

Voorheesville Central 

School District, 

Albany County, New York 

The Board of Education of Voorheesville 

Central School District, 

Albany County, New York, HEREBY 

GIVES NOTICE that a Special District 

Meeting of the qualified voters 

of said School District will be held at 

Voorheesville Middle School Foyer, 

in Voorheesville, New York, in said 

School District, on the 13th day 

of November, 2012, at 2:00 P.M., 

Prevailing Time, for the purpose of 

voting by voting machine upon the 

proposition hereinafter set forth. 

Polls for the purpose of voting will 

be kept open between the hours 

of 2:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. Prevailing 

Time. 

PROPOSITION 

Shall the following resolution be 

adopted, to-wit: 

RESOLVED that the Board of 

Education of Voorheesville Central 

School District, Albany County, 

New York and the Board of Trustees 

of the Voorheesville Public Library, 

are hereby authorized (1) to provide 

for the sale of (a) the existing library 

facility located at 51 School Road, 

Voorheesville, New York, and (b) a 

certain vacant parcel of real estate 

located at 78 Prospect Street, 

Voorheesville, New York, and (2) 

to assist the Voorheesville Public 

Library in undertaking the (a) acquisition 

of approximately 5.9 acres 

of land located at the intersection 

of NYS Route 156 and Dommorro 

Drive, in Voorheesville, New York, 

and (b) construction thereon of a 

new library facility, at a maximum 

estimated cost of $7,600,000, the 

foregoing to include the purchase 

of original furnishings, equipment, 

machinery and apparatus required 

in connection with the purposes 

for which such new facility and site 

are to be used, and all ancillary or 

related work required in connection 

therewith; and to expend therefor, 

including for preliminary costs and 

costs incidental thereto and to the 

financing thereof, an amount not 

to exceed the maximum estimated 

total cost of $7,600,000; and that 

such sum, or so much thereof as 

may be necessary after application 

of State aid, if applicable, and proceeds 

from the sale of the existing 

library and the 78 Prospect Street 

parcel, to the extent received by 

the Public Library and available for 

application to the financing, shall 

be raised by the levy of a tax to be 

collected in annual installments as 

provided by Section 416 of the Education 

Law; and, in anticipation of 

such tax, obligations of said School 

District shall be issued. 

SEQRA STATUS OF PROJECT: 

The Voorheesville Public Library as 

lead agency has determined that 

the project constitutes an Unlisted 

Action under the State Environmental 

Quality Review Act and the 

regulations promulgated thereunder 

for which a negative declaration has 

been made in connection therewith. 

SEQRA information is available at 

the Voorheesville Public Library for 

inspection during regular business 

hours. 

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY 

GIVEN that applications for absentee 

ballots may be applied for 

at the office of the School District 

Clerk. Any such application must 

be received by the District Clerk at 

least seven days before the date 

of the aforesaid Special District 

Meeting if the ballot is to be mailed 

to the voter, or the day before such 

Special District Meeting, if the ballot 

is to be delivered personally to 

the voter. A list of all persons to 

whom absentee ballots shall have 

been issued shall be available for 

public inspection in the office of the 

School District Clerk not less than 

five days prior to the date of the 

Special District Meeting (excluding 

Saturdays and Sundays) during 

regular office hours until the date 

of the aforesaid Special District 

Meeting. In addition, such list shall 

also be posted conspicuously at the 

places of voting during the hours of 

such Special District Meeting. 

Dated: Voorheesville, New York 

September 24, 2012. 

BY ORDER OF THE 

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF 

VOORHEESVILLE CENTRAL 

SCHOOL DISTRICT, 

ALBANY COUNTY, NEW YORK 

By School District Clerk 

(10-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

TOWN OF GUILDERLAND 

The case of Carver Realty will 

be heard on Wednesday, October 

10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the 

Guilderland Town Hall, Route 20, 

Guilderland, New York 12084 for 

the purpose of obtaining preliminary 

plat approval for a subdivision 

known as Lynwood Estates. 

Such subdivision is proposed 

as 13 single family lots cut from 

23 acres. 

The general location of the site 

is on the north side of Old State 

Road, formerly State Farm 

The property is zoned: R-30 

Tax Map # 27.00-1-23 

Plans are open for inspection, 

by appointment, at the Planning 

Department during normal business 

hours. 

Dated: September 21, 2012 

Stephen Feeney 

Chairman Planning Board 

(8-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that 

the Town Board has introduced 

proposed Local Law No. 1 of 2012 

entitled “A Local Law Overriding 

the Real Property Tax Levy Limit 

for Fiscal Year 2013” A copy of the 

proposed local law is on file in the 

office of the Town Clerk. The Town 

Board will hold a Public Hearing 

on the proposed law on October 

9, 2012 at 7PM at the Rensselaerville 

Town Hall, 87 Barger Road, 

Medusa, NY 12120, at which time 

and place all those wishing to 

comment on the proposed Local 

Law will have the oppommity to be 

heard. Written comments will also 

be accepted at that time and place, 

The text of the proposed Local Law 

is as follows: 

BE IT ENACTED by the Town 

Board of the Town of Rensselaerville 

as follows: 

Section l. Legislative Authority 

Chapter 97 of the Laws of 2011 

of New York State, incorporated 

in Section 3-c of the General Municipal 

Law, established a ‘tax cap’ 

that generally limits the amount of 

a municipality’s real property tax 

levy for the upcoming fiscal year 

according to a formula set out in 

the statute, but the statute also 

authorizes local govemments, pursuant 

to General Municipal Law § 

3-c(5), to override the tax levy limit 

for the upcoming fiscal year. 

Section 2. Override of Tax Levy 

Limit for Fiscal Year 2013 

The real property tax levy limit 

set out in Section 3-c of the General 

Municipal Law is overridden, 

pursuant to New York General Municipal 

Law § 3-c(5), for Fiscal Year 

2013, and the Town may adopt a 

budget for Fiscal Year 2013 that 

incorporates a real property tax 

increase in excess of the otherwise 

applicable tax levy limit. 

A copy of the proposed Local 

Law is available for review at 

the Town Hall and on the Town’s 

website (http:www.rensselaerville. 

com). 

The Work Meeting of the Town 

Board will follow the Public Hearing. 

September 27, 2012 

(5-10) 

BY ORDER OF THE 

TOWN BOARD 

Kathleen A. Hallenbeck 

Town Clerk 

LEGAL NOTICE 

PUBLIC NOTICE OF HEARING 

BEFORE THE ZONING 

BOARD OF APPEALS 


Zoning Board of Appeals of the 

Town of Guilderland, New York, will 

hold a public hearing pursuant to 

Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on 

the following proposition: 

Amend Special Use Permit #04- 

00/Request No. 4351 

Request of Elizabeth Adams for 

an amendment to Special Use Permit 

#04-00 under the Zoning Law 

to permit: the conversion of a real 

estate office to a psychic consultation 

office. Site characteristics 

have been previously reviewed 

and approved by the Board for 

office use. 

Per Articles III & V Sections 

280-19 & 280-52 respectively 

For property owned by Robert 

Smith dba Western Avenue Properties, 

LLC 

Situated as follows: 1859 Western 

Avenue Albany, NY 12203 

Tax Map # 52.07-1-37 

Zoned: BNRP 

Plans open for public inspection 

at the Building Department during 

normal business hours. Said 

hearing will take place on the 3rd 

of October, 2012 at the Guilderland 

Town Hall beginning at 7:30pm. 


Donald F. Cropsey, Jr. 

Chief Building Inspector 

and Zoning Administrator 

(12-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 








Articles IV & V of the Zoning Law 

on the following proposition: 

Variance Request No. 4352 

Request of A. Colaruotolo of 

Vital Sign and Graphics Co., Inc. 

for a Variance of the regulations 

under the Zoning Law to permit: 

the installation of a 144sf freestanding 

sign. A maximum area 

of 50sf of signage is permitted; 

144sf is proposed (72sf per side), 

a variance of 94sf (47sf per side) 

is requested. 

Per Articles IV & V Sections 


For property owned by Seventy 

One Fuller Road Colonie LLC 

Situated as follows: 95 Fuller 

Road (NW corner of Fuller Rd. and 

Railroad Ave.) Albany, NY 12205 

Tax Map # 53.05-1-1 

Zoned: IND 











(13-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 








Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on 

the following proposition: 

Variance Request No. 4353 

Request of Serafini Builders for 

a Variance of the regulations under 

the Zoning Law to permit: the construction 

of a two-story addition 

to an existing single-family home 

to be used as a second dwelling 

unit. Minimum land area for a twofamily 

home is 22,500sf; 20,995sf 

is provided, a variance of 1505sf 

is requested. A 5’ wide concrete 

sidewalk will be constructed along 

the Carman Road frontage of the 

parcel. 

Per Articles III & V Sections 


For property owned by Serafini 

Builders, Inc. 

Situated as follows: 3679 Carman 

Road Schenectady, NY 

12303 

Tax Map # 27.15-1-83 

Zoned: R15 











(14-10) 

LEGAL NOTICE 

Public Notice of Hearing 

The Town of New Scotland 

Planning Board 


Planning Board of Town of New 

Scotland, New York will hold a 

public hearing pursuant to Article 

IV, Section 190~41 of the Zoning 

Law on the following proposition: 

A Publlc Hearing for Special Use 

Permit # 550 

Special Use Permit Application 

#550: This request is to allow for 

the construction of a single family 

dwelling on a 6.049 acre parcel 

owned by Mike Cecunjanin. The 

property is located within the Industrial 

District at 64 Waldenmaier 

Road as shown on subdivision plat 

# 386 “Lot #2” and is identified as 

New Scotland tax parcel # 95.-3- 

33.22. This application is a Special 

use of Article Il, Section 190-18 of 

the Town Zoning Law. 

Hearing will take place on October 

2, 2012 at the New Scotland 

Town Hall beginning at 7:00 P.M. 

Charles Voss, Chairman 

Planning Board 

The Town of New Scotland is 

an equal opportunity provider and 

employer. 

(11-10) 

Same Day 










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of pictures and we’ll turn those digital files 

into photographs that will last for a lifetime. 

We’ll even create passport photos. With 

friendly service that is specific to your 

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miles away — our process is fast and 

convenient. The quality is superior to 

home inkjets and less expensive. You will 

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for generations to come. Same day digital 

service for all types of media. Same day 

film processing on Monday, Wednesday 

and Friday. Photo prints of your choosing 

in sizes from wallets to 12 x 18 on all same 

day and next day service, digital and film. 

All photo processing done on premises. 



Photo Shop 

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Classified Ads Info 

Rates: 

$15.00 First 20 Words or Less 

35¢ for each additional word over 20. 

$9.50 each Consecutive Repeat 

35¢ for each additional word over 20. 

Deadline: Wednesday, Noon – Firm 

Ad copy may be e-mailed, faxed or mailed along with payment to: 

The Altamont Enterprise, P.O. Box 654, Altamont, NY 12009. In case there is a 

question, please include a daytime phone number. Ads may also be brought 

in to the office at 123 Maple Avenue. All ads must be paid in advance by cash, 

check, money order or Visa and Mastercard. No ads will be taken over the 

phone, but credit card payment may be made by phone at 861-6641. 

All ads also appear on our website www.altamontenterprise.com 

Crafts & Bazaars 

Wanted – craft & vendor people 

for 5th annual craft-vendor fair, 

Berne Fire House, Nov. 10th, 

9-3pm. Call 872-0377 for info. 

9-4t 

Meat and Poultry Cutters and Trimmers 

New Haven, Vermont Area 

Meat and Poultry Cutters and Trimmers 

New Haven, Vermont Area 

Poultry Cutters and Trimmers 

Orwell, Vermont Area 

instruction 

Instrument Classes, Voorheesville. 

Six weeks, beginning October 

1. Fiddle, Mandolin, Ukulele, 

Banjo, Guitar, Accordion, Pennywhistle, 

Music Theory, Mountain 

Dulcimer, How To Jam. Call Old 

Songs, 518-765-2815. 9-2t 

8 temporary positions at Misty Knoll Farm. Workers needed to 

slaughter, trim and pack poultry. Will perform slaughtering task and 

perform cutting operations. To start approx. 10/08/12 to 11/17/12. 

A great deal of heavy lifting, standing and bending for long periods 

of time. 

Wage is $ 10.56 per hr. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of contract 

period. Tools are provided without cost. Housing provided at 

no cost to workers who reside outside of the normal commuting 

distance. Transportation cost reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of 

contract period, whichever comes first. 

Contact the nearest Department of Labor Office for application and referral. 

Job order # 129539. 

4 temporary positions at Misty Knoll Farm. Workers needed to 

slaughter, trim and pack poultry. Will perform slaughtering task and 

perform cutting operations. To start approx. 10/08/12 to 12/19/12. 


of time. 

Wage is $ 10.56 per hr. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 ofcontract 



distance.Transportation cost reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of 




18 temporary positions at Stonewood Farm, Inc. Workers needed 

to slaughter and pack poultry. Will perform slaughtering task and 

dressing/cutting operations. To start approx. 10/08/12 to 12/12/12. 


of time. 

Wage is $ 10.56 per hr. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of contract 



distance. Transportation cost reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of 




autos 

2005 KIA Optima LX 4dr sedan. 

95K Runs great. $4300. 356- 

1787. 10-2t 

DONATE A CAR- HELP HOME- 

LESS PETS! Free Next-Day Towing. 

Tax Deductible. Non- Runners 

OK. Receive $1,000 Grocery 

Coupons. Call National Animal 

Welfare Foundation 1-888-333- 

3848 (NYSCAN) 

Real estate 

HOME FOR SALE 1717 Thacher 

Park Rd. East Berne. Cottage on 

1/2 acre atop hill, stream in back. 2 

bedrooms,2 three season porches. 

Bamboo floors, wood stove, Skiers, 

hikers, bikers live where you 

play! Price reduced: $105,000. Call 

577-1160, Irene 

Will buy income property – 

look at all/any condition, call Jim 

518-279-6111. 34-tf 

NY CABIN AND LAND BAR- 

GAINS 6 acres- w/ stream- Was 

$29,995 Now $19,995 3 acres - 

long range views- Was $29,995 

Now $15,995 5 acres- “Alaskan 

style” river lodge- Was $89,995 

Now $59,995 Many more deals 

now Call anytime 800-229-7843 

VISIT LANDANDCAMPS.COM 

 

(NYSCAN) 

COURT ORDERED LAND 

LIQUIDATION 17 acres -$29,900 

Just off NY’s I-90, Cooperstown 

Lake Region! Nice views, hardwoods, 

creek, Beautiful fields! 

Great bldg site! Terms avail! Must 

sell NOW! (888) 905-8847 www. 

NewYorkLandandLakes.com 

 

(NYSCAN) 

REAL ESTATE 

for rent 

3BR house, Route 85 , Rensselaerville 

parking, country setting, 

sec/dep. $800/month + util. Available, 

October 1st., please leave a 

message. 518-797-3921 10-2t 

Newly renovated 1 Br. Apartment 

in Berne $550/month 

225-4953. 10-2t 

2BR Apt., Westerlo/Greenville, 

parking, storage, country 

setting, sec/dep. $695,000 + util. 

518-495-8090. 9-2t 

1 BD Apt, Altamont, heat/hot 

water incl. quiet setting, nonsmoker, 

no dogs. Ref & sec dep. 

requires, month-month rent, $700 

a month 872-1259 9-3t 

Apartment – Village of Altamont 

– one bdr., furnished or 

unfurnished, heat, parking, 2nd fl, 

private entrance, quiet. $700/mo. 

Call 330-2855 or 330-2844 7-tf 

2 bedroom Apt. available, Voorheesville 

schools, new appliances, 

utilities not included, no pets, 

$750 - $800 per month. Call Craig 

(518) 669-1166. 8-3t 

Winter Storage Available, boat, 

cars, RV’s, Altamont Fairgrounds. 

Call or email for storage applications 

518-861-6671 or storage@ 

altamontfair.com. Storage dates: 

October 13, 14, 2012, removal 

dates April 6, 7, 2013. 8-3t 

Guilderland secluded 1 bdrm 

apt on bus line , no smoking/pets 

ht/hot water included, security 

plus references. 518-847-6215 

8-4t 

1 bdrm apt Ht/hw included, Near 

library on bus line, no smoking, 

security plus references 518-847- 

6215 8-4t 

2390 Western Avenue 

Guilderland, NY 12084 

518-861-7030 

FIRST OPEN - Sunday, Sept 30th, 1 pm - 3 pm 

1 Toll Lane, Guilderland $214,000 

Split Ranch on Lg Treed Lot, 4BR, 2FBA(1Updtd),1GAR, FDR, HWFs, GFP, 

Full B’ment, Fresh Paint, Pub W+S, GasHeat, GuildSD, Newer: Rf, 

VnylSdng, C/A, Wndw’s, Shed, Needs some TLC. 

MLS#: 201222272 • Mark Burlingame 424-5915 

www.1TollLane.com 

Weichert, realtors ® Northeast Group 

Independently owned and operated 

rock road, Knox. 5 Ac buildable lot. Great view of Fox Creek valley. High, dry, slopes to SE, 

perfect for solar. Agricultural area. BKW .......................................................................... $25,000 

1396 helderberg trail, Berne Best Deal on Hill just got better! Grandma’s house.- 

Solid.4-6 BR, 1 BA. New furnace. 1ac. Needs update. BKW. ...........................sold $110,000 

1747 helderberg trail, Berne Must see inside! 3BR, 1BA completely renovated: roof, 

siding, well, windows, kitchen, bath, AG pool. Sunken LR, 

3 walls cabinets in kit. BKW ......................................................................................... $169,000 

6 Koko ln, Warner’s lake. 4-5 BR, 2BA with water/dock rights. Dbl lot. 

2-car gar. Walkout basement. Privacy on deadend cul-de-sac. BKW. reduced ......$174,900 

1170 township rd, Knox. Solid 3 BR, 2 BA house with 31 acres. Needs updating. 

Attached 2-car gar. Sun porch. Agric area. BKW. ......................................................... $229,900 

18 Pine Knoll ln, Warner’s lake. Yr-round 3 BR, 2 BA on cul-de-sac with water/dock 

rights. Totally redone with too many upgrades to list. A must see! BKW. ................... $269,900 

11 circle dr, helderberg lake. Large chalet with 62 ft lake front. 3-4 BR, 3 full baths, 

garage under. Balconies overlook lake. New kit. Wood floors. Deck, patio, view year-round! 

V’ville Schls .................................................................................................................. $289,900 

For more information, please call ZeNie Gladieux 

cell 518-894-8589 ZenieGladieux@gmail.com 

Please send all classifieds to 

classifieds@altamontenterprise.com 

help wanted 

Full-time Customer Service 

position in private medical office. 

Ideal candidate must have previous 

medical office experience; able 

to multi-task; be a team player; 

work one-on-one with patients; 

make patient appointments; work 

in medical records and have a 

pleasant demeanor, Interested 

candidates, fax resume to 518- 

694-5322. 10-2t 

Maintenance person, some 

knowledge of electrical, plumbing 

and carpentry work, 20hrs 

weekly, call 861-5396 for more 

information. 10-3 

A I R L I N E S A R E H I R I N G 

–Train for hands on Aviation 

Career. FAA approved program. 

Financial aid if qualified -Job 

placement assistance. CALL Aviation 

Institute of Maintenance 

866-296-7093 (NYSCAN) 

Driver- $0.01 increase per mile 

after 6 months. Quarterly bonuses. 

Annual Salary $45K to 

$60K. CDL-A, 3 months current 

OTR exp. 800-414-9569 www. 

driveknight.com (NYSCAN) 

Drivers- HIRING EXPERI- 

ENCED/ INEXPERIENCED 

TANKER DRIVERS! Earn up 

to $.51/mile! New Fleet Volvo 

Tractors! 1 Year OTR Exp. Req.- 

Tanker Training Available. Call 

Today: 877-882-6537 www.OakleyTransport.com 

(NYSCAN) 

Pets 

Puppy pre-school classes begin 

Saturday, October 6, 10-11:30 

a.m. Altamont Country Values 

Agway, $99 for 4 classes and a 

private training consultation. All 

breeds, under 16 weeks old. Must 

present proof of vaccinations. To 

register contact: Emily Shako, 

518-487-1974. Dogwood Canine 

Services, LLC. All breed training 

at both ends of the leash! 9-2t 

building 

& remodeling 

Remodeling and Renovations 

you can afford. Windows, 

doors, kitchens and baths; ALL 

FLOORING, tile, lino, laminate 

and wood installs and floor 

refinishing. Drywall, finishing, 

paint. Call Ed w/ C&C at (518) 

872-0288. 8-tf 

ANTHONY 

THE WASHERMAN 

Washer & Dryer Repair 

Altamont • 356-1311 

364-7061 

www.greenwoodrealty.biz 

GREENWOOD REALTY 

Exclusive Dealer for 

Bill Lake Custom 

Modular Homes 

689 New Salem Rd 

Voorheesville 

Office open Mon. – Fri. 12N – 5 p.m. 

or by Appointment 

ALTAMONT OAKS 

950 Altamont Blvd. 

1 & 2 BedrOOM ApTS. 

FAMILY COMpLeX 

Call (518) 861-5396 

Modern • Disabled Accessibility 

For more information or application, contact 

(518) 861-5396 or TDD Relay (800) 662-1220 

Belmont Management Co., Inc. 

950 Altamont Blvd. 

Altamont, N.Y. 12009


Services Available 

NWCS Wildlife control. Animal 

damage repair, complete handyman 

service. 30 years exp. NYS-DEC 

licensed 518-641-9066. 10-4t 

Local Electrician; reasonable 

prices; free estimates, call Steve at 

810-8857. 9-2t 

Handyman-plus, no job too small, 

fully insured, over 25 years experience, 

free estimates, senior discount, 

calls returned promptly. 518-522- 

4464. 4-Oct 4 

JHI Enterprises, 2261 Western 

Tpke., Duanesburg. Rentals, Sales, 

Welding, Excavation, Landscaping, 

Chippers, Stumpers, Trailers, Trenchers. 

We buy and sell industrial 

and agricultural equipment. (518) 

355-1709 (10-11/14) 

THE HANDY GUY, Haytham 

Bajouwa; home renovations, kitchens 

& bathrooms, doors & windows, 

drywall taping & painting, 

plumbing, home maintenance 

& repair — Fully insured. 

Phone: 518-872-0434 22-tf 

JHI EntErprIsEs 

Rentals and sales 

Excavators, Trenchers, 

Trailers, Chippers, 

Stumpers; Trucking, 

Welding and Landscaping. 

We buy & sell 

industrial and agricultural 

equipment. 

(518) 355-1709 

2261 Western Turnpike, Duanesburg, NY 

Fully Insured 

Custom Baths by Ryan. Locally 

owned and operated bathroom 

specialist. 518-817-5039. 48-tf 

DAVE’S REDECORATING seeks 

discerning clients for paint and wallpaper 

projects. Honey-do lists also! 

Since 1968, (518) 256-2148 16-tf 

THE MAINTENANCE DEPT. 

expert lawn tractor and snowblower 

repair. Over 35 years experience. 

Full line of new and used parts. Call 

Bill 872-0393. 14-tf 

VINNICK CONSTRUCTION: 

New construction, additions, remodeling, 

kitchens, bathrooms, replacement 

windows, fully insured. FREE 

ESTIMATES. Call 861-8688. 19-tf 

J.C. LOCK SERVICE. Residential, 

commercial, rekeying, 

lost keys, safe opening, 

locks, dead bolts. Ph: 366-2337. 

(Dec. 29) 

Tree Removal, Trimming 

Stump Grinding 

Gutter Cleaning • Firewood 

Fully Insured – Free Estimates 

253-1789 

SUNY Certified Fully Insured 

Your local Plumber 

Bill Frisbee 

P l u m b i n g 

In Business Since 1986 

861-8060 

All Weather Construction 

Complete Site Work 

Excavating 

Call Today 

Locally owned and operated 

D.C. BUCKET 

• tree trimming & removal 

• lot Clearing/Brush Chipping 

• Stump grinding/Brush Hogging 

• lawn maintenance/landscaping 

• Firewood 

DenniS Carl 

(518) 797-3924 

518-872-9136 

Driveways - Foundations 

Septic Systems - Ponds 

Free Estimates — Fully Insured 

Roofing: 

Commercial and Residential 

• Single ply 

• Built-up 

• Standing seam 

• Shingles 

• Licensed in asbestos removal 

Deadline for classifieds 

is Tuesday at noon. 

Robert Lawyer Jr. 

• Free Estimates 

• Fully Insured 

• References Available 

• Licensed with 

Carlisle, Firestone, 

Johns Manville, JP Stevens, 

GAF, Owens Corning 

and others. 

Mention 

this ad 

and receive 

$150 OFF! 

firewood 

All hardwood seasoned one 

year. Split, cut, and delivered. 

Full cord: $225 face cord: $100, 

527-2591 10-4t 

Cut, slpit, delivered, $250 per 

cord. Also available, rough cut 

lumber, slabwood. Small backhoe 

and dump truck for hire. 518-872- 

2807. 10-4t 

All Hardwood, cut, split, delivered. 

HEAP accepted. 872-1702 

or 355-4331 

7-tf 

Log length firewood. $900 

delivered by tractor trailer in 

Albany County. About 8 cords, all 

quality hardwood. Call 765-4159. 

9-4t 

Seasoned hardwood, cut and 

split - $210 full cord – delivery 

possible – 518-827-4016 9-2t 

RobeRt building 

& excavation 

Driveways New & Resurfaced 

Underground Water, Sewer 

Shale, Stone, Crusher Run 

Land Clearing, Site Development, 

Grading, Drainage, Septic Systems, 

Ponds, Foundations Dug & Repaired, 

Camp & House Leveling. 

New Foundations 

Under Old Houses 

Insured 

872-9693 

$$ CASH $$ 

PAID 

for your 

junk cars, trucks 

and scrap metal 

Bob • (518) 365-7777 

• (518) 872-9321 

CLEAN OUTS 

Attics, cellars, barns, old 

junk or wood or full house 

clean outs. 

Reasonable rates. 

Fully insured. 

(518) 365-7777 

(518) 872-9321 

garage sales 

Neighborhood garage sales- 

Rock Hill Rd. -New Salem Sept. 

28 & 29, 9 to 9-2t 

Sept. 28, 29, 30 & Oct 5, 6, 7. 

9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Voorheesville, 

5565 Grant Hill Rd. @ Relyea Rd. 

Household, some antiques, electrified 

Singer tredle sewing machine, 

tools, garden tools, some furniture, 

electrical accessories…everything 

10-1t 

MOVING SALE – 12 Mockingbird 

La/Craven Rd Sat/Sun 9/29 & 

30 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., craft kits, Xmas, 

household, all must go. 10-1t 

Voorheesville, 3 Susan Court 

(off Rt. 156), September 28 and 

29, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., kid’s stuff, 

household items, textbooks and 

more. 10-1t 

Guildland huge downsizing 

yard sale, household goods, office 

supplies, toys, books, clothing, 8 

Gladwish Ave. off 155 Fri-Sat 9/28 

& 9/29 9-3 10-1t 

Altamont, 485 Picard Rd Friday 

& Saturday 9/28 & 9/29 lots of 

1960’s-1980’s collectables plus 

antiques, hunting & fishing old 

dolls, tools, oil lamps, homeschool 

materials, furniture, etc. 10-1t 

tree removal and stump grinding 

Tree MainTenance • Land cLearing • Brushhogging 

aaa enterprising 

Serving the Capital District & Surrounding Areas 

Free Estimates • Fully Insured • Residential • Commercial 

— 24 hour eMergency service — 

crediT cards now accepTed 

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WANTED 

WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE. 

Used riding mowers, snow blowers, 

rototillers. Cash re ward. 

872-0393. 32-tf 

WANTED: buying all kinds 

of toys - Cap Guns, Marbles, GI 

Joes, Trucks, Cars, Airplanes, 

and kid related items. ONE item 

or an Attic Full. $Paying Top Dollar$ 

Dan 872-0107 

tf 

Wanted: Will Pay up to $20.00 

for High School Yearbooks 1900- 

1988. Any School/Any State. 

www.yearbookusa.com or 214- 

514-1040 (NYSCAN) 

for sale 

Pig rotisserie with speed 

control, $1,500. 518-339-3390. 

10-1t 

Cub-cadet Series 3000 snow 

thrower attachment with accessories 

asking $1800 872-9691 

10-1t 

Hay-Hay-Hay-Straw 2nd cut 

hay — Long Rye straw. Geurtze, 

Selkirk 767-3345 8-3t 

Freezer Beef: All natural, 

pasture-raised, grass-fed beef 

– buy half, whole – or retail 

cuts ~ custom cut and ready for 

your freezer in October – taking 

orders now. For details, 518-827- 

4016 9-2t 

Leaky roof! 

Chimney and 

masonry work! 

Call 

John Relyea 

258-6324 Free Estimates 

Countryman 

home 

improvement 

vinyl and Wood 

replacement 

Windows 

Vinyl Siding, 

Entry & Storm Doors, 

Storm Windows, 

Bathroom Remodeling 

872-0610 

872-9200 

Loucks Brothers 

General Contracting Company 

Your Home - Our Pride 

Additions - Garages - Decks 

Windows - Siding - Bathrooms 

Kitchens - Concrete Work 

Complete Interior Remodeling 

Ted Loucks 

Joe Marks 

excavating 

Driveways, Septics 

Trucking 

Stone and Sand 

Snowplowing and more. 

FULLY INSURED 

FREE ESTIMATES 

Shale Delivery 

376-5765 

872-0645


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NC. Oct. 18, 2012 at 2pm at 

Koury Convention Center in 

Biltmore Room, Greensboro, 

NC. Iron Horse Auction Co., Inc. 

800-997-2248. NCAL3936. www. 

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SAWMILLS from only $3997.00 

MAKE & SAVE MONEY with 

your own bandmill. Cut lumber 

any dimension. In stock ready 

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Guilderland golf constantly working to improve 

By Jordan J. Michael 

GUILDERLAND –– Seniors 

Billy Duncan and Gabe August 

both shot an identical even par 

score of 36 on Monday at Western 

Turnpike Golf Course. Guilderland’s 

top two golfers paired 

together, each made a birdie on 

the eighth hole before matching 

bogeys on the ninth hole. 

The only thing better than 

matching 36s would have been 

equal 35s. 

August’s 10-foot par putt on 

the ninth came up just short, 

causing him yell and throw his 

ball towards his golf bag. Duncan 

also missed his par putt, but 

contained his frustration. 

After the scores were tallied, 

Guilderland beat Mohonasen, 

236 to 279, to move to 6-4 on the 

season. The rest of the Dutchmen 

team had left, but Duncan and 

August stayed behind to practice 

their chipping and putting. 

“I can always improve on my 

game,” Duncan said. He has a 

37.5 average for this year and 

shot a 34 at Saratoga State Park. 

“This game makes you want to 

play more and more,” he said. 

“It’s constant work.” 

“Every round is different,” 

August added. 

On Monday, August made 

a birdie on the third hole and 

bogeyed the fifth hole. Duncan 

made par on the other seven 

holes. Also, Ethan Bartlett scored 

a 37 and Dan Rhoades had a 39 

for Guilderland. 

No Mohonasen golfers were 

able to shoot under a score of 

42, which is six over par for the 

course. Guilderland’s top four 

scores were all under 40. Dmitri 

Aldershoff shot a 42 for the 

Warriors. 

August, the captain of Guilderland’s 

student fan base, called 

the Red Sea, was wearing red 

and white striped pants, which 

resemble an inmate’s attire. The 

bold pants are passed down to 

each Red Sea captain from year 

to year. 

During warm-ups on Monday, 

August lost his grip on his 

teammate’s chipping wedge and 

watched as it flew over a parked 

car. 

“I probably wouldn’t have 

played my round if that club 

hit that car,” August said with 

a laugh. “I would have been out 

of here.” 

Guilderland Head Coach Andy 

Ryan said that his team is a 

“loose bunch” of guys. The Dutch 

have fun playing golf, and the 

team will most likely send six 

golfers to sectionals in a few 

weeks. 

August told The Enterprise 

that he couldn’t play without 

Duncan. They share clubs and 

talk distances. 

“He’s usually a step ahead of 

me,” said August of Duncan. “We 

help each other play better.” 

The Enterprise –– Jordan J. Michael 

The Guilderland golf team is 6-4 after beating Mohonasen at 

the Western Turnpike Golf Course on Monday, 236 to 279. Here, 

the Dutch’s number-one player, Billy Duncan, spots his ball on the 

ninth green. He bogeyed the hole, but shot a 36. 


On the ninth hole of the Western Turnpike Golf Course is Guilderland 

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Down the hole: Ethan Bartlett makes his par putt at the ninth 

hole for the Dutchmen golf team on Monday during a match 

against Mohonasen at Western Turnpike Golf Course. Bartlett 

shot a 37, which was one over par for nine holes. Guilderland 

won, 236 to 279.


Voorheesville soccer gets trounced at home by Albany Academy, 10-1 


VOORHEESVILLE –– A quick 

ambush of five goals in six minutes 

by Albany Academy buried 

Voorheesville in an 8-to-0 hole on 

its home field Tuesday afternoon. 

There was still 31 minutes to 

play in regulation, but the Birds’ 

spirit was crushed. 

The final score was 10 to 1. It 

was one of the worst defeats in 

Voorheesville soccer history, and 

very unexpected. 

Ahead, 8 to 0, on Tuesday, 

Academy’s head coach, Adam 

Collett, decided to keep some of 

his Cadets starters on the field. 

Voorheesville Head Coach Willie 

Sanchez did 

the opposite, 

subbing in 

players from 

the bench. 

Senior Josh 

Newton and 

junior John 

Moutopoulos 

already had 

matching hat 

tricks for Albany Academy. Each 

player pushed through Voorheesville’s 

depleted defense in the final 

minutes to score their fourth 

goals of the day. Those final two 

goals made the Blackbirds’ awful 

day even worse. 

Sanchez said that Albany 

Academy’s pursuit of more goals, 

while keeping starters in the 

game, lacked class. Collett said 

that he would expect Voorheesville 

to do the same if the roles 

were reversed. On Sept. 5, Albany 

Academy scored 12 goals against 

Cobleskill. 

“I don’t appreciate him putting 

words in my mouth or making 

assumptions about me or my 

team,” Sanchez said of Collett. 

“He doesn’t know me. I wouldn’t 

have kept my best players in the 

game at that point. That was not 

the right thing to do, but that’s 

fine because it’s his team and 

his decision.” 

Collett did put some bench 

players on the field, but also 

kept his most successful scorers 

in play. Not every coach makes 

the same choice. 

“It’s not about pouring on 

goals, it’s about having respect 

for your opposition,” Collett said. 

“I never tell my guys to not take 

an opportunity, and I never tell 

them to not play their best. It’s 

disrespectful to the opposition 

to not take advantage of opportunities.” 

Collett said he respected 

Sanchez “greatly,” and told his 

Albany Academy (9-0) team that 

Voorheesville (4-3) would be its 

toughest test of the season. The 

game didn’t turn out to be much 

of a fight. 

“ I d o n ’ t 

want to have 

pity for the 

other team 

“If one thing isn’t working, 

then you have to switch it up” 

or take pity 

on them,” 

said Collett. 

“That’s like 

s a y i n g , ‘ I 

could have 

scored, but 

I didn’t.’ If it were the other 

way around, I would expect 

Voorheesville to keep going, and 

going like we did. It’s not about 

embarrassing the opposition. You 

just do what you can do.” 

Kevin Clark, who scored the 

Blackbirds’ only goal, said that, 

no matter what the circumstance, 

teams shouldn’t stop 

trying for goals. “That’s what 

soccer is,” he said. 

“A tough loss” 

Albany Academy got on the 

board in the 11th minute of the 

first half when Newton played 

a pass to Moutopoulos, who 

touched the ball over a defender 

and ran around, striking the ball 

under goalkeeper Scott Warren. 

Two minutes later, Newton 

scored on a direct kick from 20 

yards, slicing it into the bottom 

left corner. Newton scored again 

four minutes later, wrapping a 

corner kick right into the goal. 

“You play hard and fair for 

80 minutes and keep working,” 

Collett said. 


Let’s dance: Voorheesville junior Nick Windsor (left) touches 

the ball past Albany Academy’s Dami Osofisan during Tuesday’s 

soccer match in Voorheesville. The Cadets’ offense took it to the 

Blackbirds, winning 10 to 1, remaining undefeated at 9-0. Osofisan 

scored a goal. 

This week’s BKW Cross Country results 

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo 

and Voorheesville cross-country 

teams each had a dual meet on 

Tuesday. BKW was at Duanesburg 

and Voorheesville was at 

Albany Academy. 

Senior Courtney Tedeschi and 

her younger sister, Allie, took 

first and second place for BKW 

at Duanesburg, posting times of 

21:11 and 21:25. The BKW girls 

won the dual meet, beating both 

Duanesburg and Spa Catholic. 

Shannon Quay came in fifth 

with a time of 22:57 and Annie 

Laura Shafer was eighth with a 

time of 23:43. 

Voorheesville’s Joe Becker 

posted a time of 17:43 at Albany 

Academy for second place 

on Tuesday. The Birds lost to 

Academy, 23 to 34, but beat Watervliet, 

15 to 45. Richard Decker 

came in fifth place and Ethan 



Full throttle: Sophomore Luke Gorka (left) tries to keep possession for Voorheesville on Tuesday during 

a 10-to-1 loss to Albany Academy at home. Gorka was able to cross the ball before Cameron Walker 

(right) got to the ball. 

Voorheesville started the second 

half with a few solid chances 

on the Cadets’ net, but the ball 

went to the other end, and Dami 

Osofisan wasted no time giving 

Albany Academy a 4-to-0 lead. 

Thirty seconds later, Newton 

schooled the Birds’ defense with 

some nice footwork, then slid a 

shot under Warren to make the 

score 5 to 0. 

This is when Voorheesville lost 

its cool, and most of its hope. 

Sanchez couldn’t even bear to 

watch, taking a walk behind 

the bench. 

Moutopoulos was taken down 

in the box, setting up a penalty 

kick, which he nailed into the 

goal off the post. Next, it was Ray 

Jerome putting a shot top shelf 

over Warren off an assist from 

Moutopoulos. For an 8-to-0 lead, 

Montopoulos got his hat trick on 

an assist from Newton. 

Warren was helpless in goal. 

The Voorheesville defense had 

practically given up. 

“If one thing isn’t working, 

then you have to switch it up,” 

said Warren after the game. “The 

defense stopped playing, stopped 

challenging, and waited for them 

to fling the ball in randomly. 

There was nothing I could do.” 

Albany Academy went to the 

ball faster and harder than Voorheesville. 

Every Cadet player 

knew his role. 

“It was a tough loss, but every 

game is a learning experience, 

and this one needs to be a turning 

point in our season,” Clark said. 

“We need to keep playing despite 

adversity. We can’t get down on 

ourselves and yell at each other. 

No matter what, we’re a team. 

We need to stay a team.” 

Newton told The Enterprise 

that his team laid off the gas 

for the final 20 minutes. “If we 

play to our best ability, we can 

win sectionals,” he said. Albany 

Academy is a Class A school. 

“That wasn’t even our best play, 

so we should be able to beat 

anybody.” 

Collett thought that Voorheesville 

was capable of scoring five 

goals in six minutes, too. 

“Obviously, we didn’t play 

well,” Sanchez said. “We got our 

butts handed to us. Now, we find 

out what we’re made of. That’s 

life.” 

Will Voorheesville forget the 

terrible loss or learn from it 

“I think it goes both ways,” 

said Clark. “We’re going to try 

and forget, but also use it as 

experience.” 

“We need to learn from this 

game and figure some stuff out,” 

Warren added. 

The 10-to-1 loss to Albany 

Academy won’t define Voorheesville’s 

season. Sanchez said the 

team would show up the next day 

and continue to work on its goal 

of getting better. 

“You have to pick yourself up 

and keep going,” he said. 

Will the Blackbirds stay down 

or get motivated 

“That’s what you find out 

because you never really know,” 

Sanchez said. “We didn’t expect 

to get killed like this, but, in 

times of adversity, you find out 

about your character.” 


Lift off: The Blackbirds’ soccer team suffered a terrible 10-to-1 

loss at home to Albany Academy on Tuesday. Here, Voorheesville 

sophomore Luke Gorka (#19) heads the ball off a cross. Jordan 

Newton and John Moutopoulos each scored four goals for the 

Cadets.


Chi wins Schenectady 

Speed Championship 

By Peter Henner 

The Capital District’s newest 

master, 14-year-old Patrick Chi, 

followed up his strong performance 

in the New York State 

championship by winning the 

annual Schenectady Chess Club 

blitz championship with a perfect 

score of 14-0. 

Ashok Aaron, the father of 

soon-to-be senior master and 

New York State high school 

champion Deepak Aaron, finished 

second with 13-1. 

Jon Leisner was a distant third 

with 10 ½ -3 ½, Dilip Aaron was 

top under 1900 with 8 ½ -5 ½, and 

Cory Northrup won top under 

1600 with 8-6. 

Blitz chess, played at the time 

control of five minutes for the 

entire game, does not lead to high 

quality chess games. In addition, 

in blitz games, a player can take 

his opponent’s King, which is 

not permitted in normal chess 

games. 

In my game against Carlos 

Varela, I had 40 seconds left to 

his 20 seconds, was a rook ahead, 

and had a forced checkmate on 

the next move. However, I failed 

to notice that my King was in 

check, and Varela simply took 

it, to win the game to the great 

amusement of a crowd of spectators; 

it is part of the fun of a 

speed chess tournament. 

Patrick Chi, who traveled to 

play in internationally rated 

tournaments in New York and 

Hartford this summer, is now 

rated 157th in the world among 

players 14 and under, and 14th 

in the United States, despite the 

fact that his international rating 

of 2048 is artificially low due to 

the lack of opportunity to play 

internationally rated players (his 

United States Chess Federation 

rating is 2219). 

In the third round of the state 

championship, he defeated veteran 

International Master Jay 

Bonin. The game ended suddenly 

with an obvious blunder, and 

both players missed a variety 

of opportunities. However, the 

next day, Bonin was commenting 

publicly on how well Patrick 

had played. 

Chi – Bonin 

2012 NYS Championship 

Round 3 

Sept. 2, 2012 

1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 Be7 

4.Nc3 Nd7 5.Nf3 a5 6.e4 Ngf6 

7.g3 With this move, the game 

is already out of any ‘book” lines 

or games known to my 2011 Fritz 

(2600 level computer program) 

Powerbook. 

7…Nc5 8.Qe2 c6 9.Nd2 a4 

10.Rb1 0–0 Black is now clearly 

better after several passive moves 

by White – Fritz rates Bonin’s position 

as approximately a pawn 

ahead, 11.b4 axb3 12.axb3 and 

White is now close to losing: 

Bonin has an open file, better 

placed pieces, and Chi’s King is 

still uncastled. 12…Ne8 Giving 

up much of the advantage: Bg4 

or Qb6 were much better. 

13.Bg2 Nc7. It is almost even 

now – Qc7 or Bd7 would have 

a kept a slight edge for Black. 

14.0–0 cxd5 15.exd5 f5 16.b4 

Na4 17.Nxa4 Rxa4 18.Qd1 Bd7 

19.c5 Bb5 20.Re1 Qa8 This 

move looks obvious, but is actually 

wrong. Had Bonin retreated 

his Rook, say Ra6, he could have 

answered Chi’s next move with 

e4, and maintained an edge. 

21.Bb2 e4 Now e4 is a blunder, 

because it permits a winning 

sacrifice: 22 N:e4 after which 

play might continue 22…fe 23 

B:e4 Qe8, 24 cd B:d6 25 B:h7+ 

K:h7, 26 R;e8 R:e8 and White 

should win easily. 22.Qb3 But 

Chi misses it. Now the game is 

once again even. 22... Rf7 23.g4 

dxc5 24.bxc5 Bxc5 25.gxf5 

Rb4. Both sides have attacking 

chances. Fritz says that White is 

slightly better, and recommends 

26 Qc3 26.Qg3 26... Bd3 would 

be close to winning for Black, 

but he plays 26…Qa2 27.Nxe4 

Bd4 R:b2 was better. 28.Nc3 d6! 

would have been decisive 28… 

Bxc3 29.Qxc3 White is clearly 

winning: Fritz says he is better 

by more than two pawns, but the 

next final blunder ends the game 

quickly. 29…Nxd5 30.Qc8+ 

the fastest win 30…Rf8 31.Qe6+ 

Kh8 32.Bxd5 32 B:g7+ is significantly 

stronger, but it doesn’t 

matter Black resigns. 

Chess Olympiad 

The 2012 Chess Olympiad 

was held in Istanbul last month. 

The United States Open team 

finished fifth, behind Armenia, 

Russia, the Ukraine, and China. 

Nakamura finished fourth on 

Board 1, Kamsky won a Bronze 

medal on Board 2, Onischuk was 

ninth on Board 3, Robson was 

sixth on Board 5. Akobian on 

Board 4 did not place. 

The Women’s Olympiad was 

won by Russia ahead of China 

and the Ukraine, with the United 

States finishing 10 th . Zatonskih 

finished 20 th on Board 1, Krush 

was eighth on Board 2, Goletiani 

finished 20 th on Board 4. Foisor 

on Board 3 and Abrahamyan on 

board 5 did not place. 

The full results, including all 

the games, are on the tournament 

website, www.chessolympiadistanbul.com 

Upcoming events 

This Sunday, Sept. 30, the 

Continental Chess Association 

will conduct the Fourth Capital 

District Open at the Studio of 

Bridge and Games at1639 Union 

St. in Schenectady. The tournament 

begins at 10 a.m. and full 

details are available on the CCA 

website. 

Next Sunday, Oct. 7, the first 

Sunday Quad tournaments will 

resume at 25 Watervliet Ave. 

in Albany. Contact Chuck Eson 

at 221-6332 or hawkphil2@aol. 

com. 

This week’s problem 

In the last round of the 2012 

Olympiad, the United States 

women defeated Israel 3-1. 

On the 86 th move, third board, 

Rusudan Goletiani found a way 

to win her game against Masha 

Klinova. 

Can you see it 

Solution on page 6B 

… This week’s BKW 

cross-country results 


Bain finished in sixth. 

The Voorheesville girls’ team 

beat Watervliet, 20 to 35, and 

lost to Albany Academy, 16 to 39. 

Faith Cunningham had a time of 

23:03 for sixth place. Courtney 

Reilly, Robin Wakeley, and Maeve 

Brennan finished eighth, ninth, 

and 10th. 

BKW’s Adam Forti was the 

second runner to cross the finish 

line in Duanesburg with a time 

of 17:26. The Bulldogs beat Spa 

Catholic, 19 to 39, and lost to 

Duanesburg, 23 to 32. Finishing 

in fifth place for BKW was Lukus 

Becker with a time of 19:12. 

–– Jordan J. Michael 


Eluding tacklers: Voorheesville quarterback Mike Young, center, runs past three Taconic Hills 

defenders on his way to scoring from 25 yards out during the second quarter of Voorheesville’s 

27-to-6 win over Taconic Hills on Friday. Young ran for 101 yards on 12 carries with three touchdowns; 

he also threw for 89 yards with seven completions on 14 attempts. 

Scores 3 TDs 

Mike Young 

has big game 

for Birds 

in 27-6 win 

over 

Taconic Hills 

Friday night 


Dominating runner: Last Friday night, Matt Fuller ran 

for 89 yards on 24 carries, including one touchdown from a 

yard out, in Voorheesville’s 27-to-6 win over Taconic Hills in 

Craryville, N.Y. 


Shoving off: During Voorheesville’s 27-to-6 win over Taconic Hills last Friday night, Voorheesville’s 

receiver Sam Weiss shakes off Cole Baxter of Taconic Hills.


SPORTS 

“In it to win it” 

Voorheesville controls match 

for victory over Holy Names 


ALBANY –– Pressuring Holy 

Names’ goal for the majority of 

last Thursday’s soccer match, 

Voorheesville could have won by 

more than the final 4 to 0 score. 

The Birds had great touches on 

the ball and played smart. 

Voorheesville (3-3) controlled 

the match. Holy Names (1-5) 

rarely played the ball in the 

Blackbirds’ half. 

“We played really well,” said 

senior Hannah Brackett, who 

scored two goals and assisted on 

another for Voorheesville. “We 

came out stronger than usual, 

and were in it to win it.” 

Brackett was accountable 

for both of the Birds’ scores in 

the first half. One of her corner 

kicks deflected off a Holy Names’ 

player, and, in the 33rd minute, 

Brackett made a nice trap on the 

ball, knocking it over goalkeeper 

Megan Gallagher for the second 

goal. 

Voorheesville continued 

threatening Holy Names’ goal 

in the second half. Six minutes 

in, Chelsea Duncan got her head 

on a corner kick by Caroline 

Weiss, and the ball sailed in for a 

goal. In the 67th minute, eighthgrader 

Veda Hensel scored on an 

assist from Brackett. 

“Together, as a team, I thought 

we played really well,” Hensel 

said. Despite being a lot younger 

and shorter than the other 21 

players on the field, she was always 

in the mix during the game. 

Hensel had great touches on the 

ball and led her teammates to 

open space. 

“She loves us,” Brackett said 

with a huge smile as Hensel 

blushed next to her. Brackett 

played for Voorheesville as an 

eighth-grader, too, so the two 

share a special bond. 

“I know how intimidating 

things can be at that age,” said 

Brackett, “but Veda does very, 

very well.” 

“I like playing at a high level,” 

said Hensel, who also plays travel 

soccer with Capital United. 

“It’s fun.” 

Last Thursday, Voorheesville 

was without direction from its 

coach, Joe Santos, who was in 

Portugal for family business. 

Filling in was junior varsity 

Head Coach Tim Kelley, who 

uses a quieter and less critical 

approach than Santos. 

“It’s kind of sad that he’s not 

here,” Brackett said. “I felt a little 

lost without his guidance.” 

The game may have been different 

without Santos present, 

but the Blackbirds took it to Holy 

Names anyway. It didn’t seem 

like the team needed much direction 

during the shutout victory. 

“I don’t know how he’d feel 

about our play today,” said 

Brackett. “He has varying opinions.” 


Power ball: The Voorheesville girls’ soccer team shut out Holy Names last Thursday, 4 to 0, controlling 

the majority of possession during the game. Here, senior Hannah Brackett (left) kicks the ball off 

of Holy Names’ Julia Willox in the second half. Brackett scored two goals and had one assist. 

Come join us in the celebration 

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Levitation: Junior Ashley Bates eyes the soccer ball before heading 

it for Voorheesville during last Thursday’s match at Holy 

Names. The Blackbirds moved to 3-3 on the season after the 4-to-0 

shutout victory.

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