`Kenyon Field` forever fallow

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THE ALTAMONT
Enterprise
& Albany County Post
NO. 10 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
$1.00
Albany County’s independent newspaper since 1884
‘Kenyon Field’
forever fallow
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Serious work: Early Wednesday morning, Mae Duncan prepares pizza crusts at Smith’s Tavern
— popularly known as Smitty’s — in Voorheesville. Beside her is kitchen worker Andrew Myers,
and behind her is her daughter, Deidra Trombley. Duncan has always taken new workers under
her wing, said the eatery’s co-owner Jon McClelland.
After 48 years and a million pizzas,
Mae Duncan retires from Smitty’s
By Elizabeth Floyd Mair
VOORHEESVILLE — Mae Duncan will be
leaving Smitty’s in Voorheesville — where her
boss estimates she has probably either baked
or prepped a total of one million pizzas — on
Friday after 48 years of work in the kitchen.
Talking about it recently, she choked back
tears. “I just thought it was time,” she said.
She will turn 83 on Saturday.
“I plan to enjoy life with my hubby,” she said.
Daughter Deidra Trombley, 48, recently
started working at Smitty’s full-time — until
the end of this week she works alongside her
mother — after many years working as a sea-
INSIDE
sonal cook at Indian Ladder Farms.
She decided that she wanted to start working
year-round and to “take over what my mother
had been doing.” This is actually a return to
Smitty’s for Trombley, who also worked there
from age 15 to 25.
Mae Duncan raised seven children — four
girls and three boys — while working at Smitty’s. Until they reached school age, she would
take them with her to work when she needed to.
Trombley, the sixth of those children, was
seven months old when her mother first started
working at the popular eatery and bar in 1957.
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By Melissa Hale-Spencer
GUILDERLAND — Forty years
ago, Harold “Bud” Kenyon said,
he caught a student — “a peeping
tom,” he called him — looking into
the girls’ locker room. A popular
and successful varsity football
coach, Kenyon took the boy to the
high school principal’s office.
“The first two times did no good,”
Kenyon told The Enterprise. The
third time, when he found the
boy hiding in the bleachers, he
recalled, “I told him, ‘Get down’
and he said, ‘Get lost.’ I got him
by the nape of the neck and the
seat of the pants and took him to
the office.”
That incident came back to
haunt Kenyon this week as the
Guilderland School Board decided,
once and for all, not to name the
high school football field for Kenyon as originally planned.
Kenyon, who is now 87, was the
head varsity coach at Guilderland
from 1965 to 1980, and never had
a losing season, part of a 23-year
winning streak; his overall record
at Guilderland was 86-42-9.
In the hallway of the high
school on Tuesday night, Kenyon
repeated the story he had told the
school board behind closed doors.
The board had voted to go into
executive session over the “strenuous objections” of Mark McGuire,
the Daily Gazette’s executive
sports editor. The district’s lawyer,
Jeffrey Honeywell, said it was a
“personnel matter.”
Robert Freeman, director of
the state’s Committee on Open
Government, couldn’t be reached
yesterday because of the Jewish
holiday but he has frequently
pointed out that nowhere does
state law name “personnel” as a
topic to be avoided in public. Freeman calls it the “Personnel Myth,”
adding that, if people repeat things
enough times, they come to believe
them. “The law says a board may
enter into executive session. The
board is absolutely free to discuss
the issue in public,” Freeman said
earlier.
Superintendent Marie Wiles
on Wednesday cited the relevant
portion of the state’s Open Meetings Law that allows an executive
session for “employment history of
a particular person....”
The Enterprise broke the story
last week about the school board’s
change of plans. Wiles said then,
during months of planning, she
“hadn’t heard a whisper of any
concerns” until last Tuesday.
Wiles said yesterday that the
board’s decision was “not intended
to say all the players coached by
him and admired by him aren’t
valid. The school district has no
problem with that.”
She stressed that the board’s
decision was not because of “a
handful of people who had a
grudge.” Wiles said, “I want to be
clear: That has nothing to do with
the board’s decision.”
Rather, she said, “It came down
to this question: Is it appropriate
to name a school facility for someone who was found guilty by an
independent panel of two counts
of corporal punishment?’
The school board’s role, she said,
“is bigger than what’s right for
football. The school board has a
bigger district responsibility.”
“I got him by the nape
of the neck and the seat
of the pants and took
him to the office.”
Corporal punishment
The board had met in closed session last Tuesday and voted 8 to
0, to rescind the planned naming
of the field for Kenyon.
The next day, the board met
again as some members were
having second thoughts. That
time, the vote was 4 to 3: Catherine Barber, Colleen O’Connell,
and Seema Rivera favored naming the field for Kenyon, while
board President Allan Simpson,
and members Christine Hayes,
Christopher McManus, and Judy
Slack opposed naming the field
for Kenyon.
Members Gloria Towle-Hilt
and Barbara Fraterrigo had been
out of town and did not vote last
Wednesday.
This Tuesday, all of the board
members were present. The meeting started at 8 p.m. After listening to Kenyon for over half an
hour and then deliberating until
9:30, the board decided not to hold
another vote, letting the previous
decision stand.
When Kenyon emerged from
the meeting room, he announced
to his supporters, “I came out of
there undefeated.”
Kenyon said, and Wiles confirmed, that he faced two charges
in 1975: insubordination, and conduct unbecoming of a teacher. “In
my file, it says the school district
had done a terrible job instructing
teachers on corporal punishment,”
he said; in addition to the incident
with the “peeping tom,” there was
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The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, September 24, 2015
Editorial
The more kids move, the more they learn
Guilderland High School hosted John Underwood,
a fitness guru, this month to talk to students about
developing a healthy lifestyle. “The goal is for kids
to think it’s cool to do the right thing,” said Superintendent Marie Wiles, “to lead others with positive
peer pressure — not letting your team down, mentally
and physically doing your best.”
These are all good things and we commend the
school district for its efforts.
But we believe Underwood was preaching to the
choir. Most of the 800 students who listened to his
90-minute talk looked to be athletes. The students
who most need to work towards a healthy lifestyle
probably weren’t in the gym that day.
We’ve been concerned for a long time now about
the obesity epidemic among our youth. According to
the state’s Department of Health, more than a third
— 33.8 percent — of public school students are overweight or obese, with 17.6 percent considered obese.
The costs are enormous. According to a report
released in 2012 by Thomas DiNapoli, the state comptroller, obesity-related health-care costs for young
people were estimated at $327 million in 2011 and
were rising. The costs increase with age, and were
estimated at $11.8 billion for all New Yorkers in 2011.
Such costs are unsustainable. And, beyond the
tally in dollars and cents, are the costs in a child’s
sense of self-worth.
Nationwide, childhood obesity has tripled since
1980 and the trend shows no sign of abating as
the habits learned in youth are often carried out
through a lifetime.
New York sets minimal requirements for physical
education in schools: 120 minutes per calendar week.
And yet, schools we cover have failed to meet even
these meager requirements.
We understand as pressures build, for teachers and
students alike, to meet new standards and perform
well on written tests that physical fitness tends to
be pushed aside.
But the truth is that physical fitness is good for
mental fitness. A shining example can be found in
the Naperville school district in Illinois.
Naperville Central High School outlines its vision
with these words: “Students will be provided with the
foundation for making informed decisions that will
empower them to achieve and maintain a healthy
lifestyle...Physical education is a lifelong process,
which is the primary responsibility of the student,
shared by home, district, and community.”
We like the prioritizing in that vision: A student
has to be in charge but her parents, her school, and
the rest of us have to offer the needed support. We’ll
all benefit.
In the 1990s, Phil Lawler started what was then
a radical program at Naperville. Every student from
sixth through 12th grade had to attend physical education class every day. A baseline fitness level was
established for each student, so each could improve
according to his own baseline.
This was a departure from the team-focused gym
classes of old where certain students regularly excelled and others felt left out. The kids in Napersville
wore heart monitors so their teachers could see how
far each pushed himself, regardless of the outcome.
For example, winning a race wasn’t important, rather,
what mattered was how hard a student tried.
The students at Naperville are to maintain a rate
of 160 to 190 beats per minute for 25 minutes.
The program worked, according to physical measurements. In 2001-03, just 3 percent of Naperville
Central High School freshmen were overweight,
compared to many, many times that nationally.
But, of equal importance, academic performance
improved markedly. In 1999, eighth-graders at Naperville took a test given in 38 countries around the
world and scored in the top 10 percent.
In 2013, John Ratey, at Harvard Medical School,
published “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of
Exercise and the Brain,” which assembles findings
from biomedical, educational, and neuroscientific
research, correlating exercise with a wide range of
brain-related benefits, such as reducing stress and
anxiety; improving attention; fighting off unhealthy
addictions such as to nicotine, caffeine, or alcohol;
and reducing cognitive decline in old age.
Ratey writes that, across the country, only 6 percent of schools offer physical education five days a
week; in New York State, the requirement for fourth
through 12th graders is “not less than three times
a week,” but, again, many schools are not meeting
even that minimum.
At the same time, Ratey states, kids spend 5.5
hours a day in front of a screen, whether a cell phone,
computer, iPad, or television.
Ratey is not alone in his conclusions. In an article
in the Journal of Sports & Exercise, Charles Hillman,
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
writes, based on a study of third- and fifth-graders
from four Illinois elementary schools, that students
who got good grades for aerobic fitness and body-mass
index had higher scores on state exams in reading
and math than those with lower fitness scores. The
relationship held true regardless of their gender or
their family’s income.
A study from August, Georgia, published in the
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, studied
children randomly assigned to 20 minutes or 40
minutes of exercise after school. Those who made the
most cognitive progress and scored best on standardized tests were in the 40-minute group; the gains by
the 20-minute group were half as large.
How precisely does exercise help the brain? Ratey
writes that exercise triggers the production of more
receptors for insulin — having more receptors means
better use of blood glucose and stronger cells; the
receptors stay there, which means the newfound
efficiency gets built in.
In mice and humans, exercise causes the brain to
produce brain-derived neurotrophic factor, known
as BDNF, which Ratey terms “Miracle-Gro for the
brain.” Exercise encourages brain cells to grow
synapses, forming the connections the brain needs
to learn.
We believe the Naperville model is one that our
schools should emulate. It teaches all students, not
just the athletes who excel at sports, the value of
exercise — a lesson that can last a lifetime.
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To the editor
Under Coach Farrell, GHS football was poetry
To the Editor:
It was a good decision not
to name the Guilderland High
School football field in honor of
just one of the many coaches who
have contributed to the program
over the years.
Consider: Last week, The Enterprise reported that boosters
consider 1965 to 1980 to have
been the glory days of football at
Guilderland High School, and so
they would have had the school
field named for Bud Kenyon. But
for those of us who remember it,
top-notch football at GHS began
in 1961, with the hiring of new
Head Coach Ed Farrell.
Up until ’61, GHS has finished
pretty consistently in the cellar.
At his first meeting with the boys
trying out for the team, Coach
Farrell told them there were two
keys to winning football games:
blocking and tackling.
His deep understanding of and
love for the game were both obvi-
ous and infectious. The players
learned to block and to tackle.
They learned to love the game,
and the man who was teaching
it to them. They started believing in themselves. I’m tempted
to write that it was as if Vince
Lombardi had come to GHS, but,
in truth, I don’t think Lombardi
could have done it any better.
Guilderland went 4-3 that
year. It came down to a comefrom-behind win in the final minutes of the final game, against
heavily favored Shaker High. It
was poetry. Guilderland had its
first winning season.
Ed Farrell coached at GHS
from 1961 to 1964. It was under
his tutelage that Guilderland
really started learning the game
of football, and winning.
In ’65, he left to coach at the
University of Bridgeport. He was
head coach there during the ’70
to ’72 seasons when Bridgeport
went 30-3, including a 21-game
winning streak.
Ed Farrell is as fine as gentleman as I’ve ever known. He
coached without bravado or histrionics. His players loved him.
Although he was only there for
four seasons, his contribution to
GHS football remains huge.
It’s clear who my choice would
be, but there’s no need to honor
one coach above all others. They
all gave what they had to give.
They all did their best. And anyway, isn’t it really supposed to be
about the team?
(Just for the record: I didn’t
play football. My brother David
quarterbacked the ’61 team. I
was 12, and a major fan. I knew
many of the fine athletes on the
’61-’64 teams. I think I’ve accurately represented how they felt
about Coach Farrell. Me, I had
the good fortune to play soccer
for Don Snyder.)
Gavin Warner
Altamont
Coach Kenyon changed my life, he believes in me
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to
the decision by The Guilderland
School Board to cancel the dedication of their football field to
Coach Bud Kenyon.
My name is Ken Rice and I am
a former football player of Coach
Kenyon. Myself and many other
former players were planning
on attending this dedication.
Players from all over the country
were excited by the opportunity
to show our appreciation of Coach
Kenyon.
Myself and many others are
extremely disappointed in this
decision to cancel the dedication.
After reading the article in The
Altamont Enterprise, it seems
the opinions of a few shaped the
decision of the school board. Why
were the opinions of hundreds
of former players not taken into
consideration?
Coach Kenyon shaped my life.
I had the honor of playing for
Coach Kenyon for only one year.
In that short period of time, he
taught me many lessons that
helped me become a dedicated
football player, but more importantly helped shape my life.
I was a kid who had a very
tough life, spending time in
juvenile detention centers and
moving from one foster home to
another. I arrive in Greenwich
as a sophomore, a kid who didn’t
trust anybody.
Coach Kenyon changed that,
he changed my life. He believed
in me then, and he believes in
me now.
There have been many times
in my adult life when I have
needed guidance and advice;
Coach Kenyon has always been
there. Willing to listen, support,
and advise me on situations that
had nothing to do with football.
I started coaching youth football 11 years ago, always staying
in contact with Coach Kenyon,
still listening and learning
from him, many times having
him attend my youth football
games. Coach Kenyon even traveled to Vermont to attend an
end-of-season football banquet
for my young football players,
giving motivation and uplifting
speeches to these young players,
continuing to shape young lives.
And, years later watching film
and giving advice to my own high
school-aged son. Always helping
and supporting myself, my play-
ers, and my own son, as well as
many other former players.
Last Saturday, on a cold, rainy
night, two youth football teams
battled it out on the Greenwich
football field. Brian Kuzmich,
Mike Genevich, Pete Hughes,
Mike Conlin, Heath Mullen, Bob
Fish, and myself were at that
game, all of us coaches. All of us
his former players, now coaching
against each other.
And, on that cold and rainy
night, there was Coach Kenyon
at 87 years old, walking up and
down the sidelines — always a
coach. He was there supporting his former players as well
as those young football players
— always a role model.
You chose an outstanding
coach to dedicate your field to.
You allowed Coach Kenyon and
many others to make plans and
become excited about this dedication. And now, only a week away,
you take it all away? That was
the wrong decision — there are
many of us who will fight for
our coach.
Ken Rice
Poultney, Vermont
Editor’s note: See related front
page story.
Village board members should keep faith with the
planning process that they themselves initiated
To the Editor:
A few years back, the Altamont
mayor and village board asked
residents of Altamont and surrounding areas to participate in
an extensive land-use planning
process. Over several months,
many residents took up this request, investing countless hours
in workshops, deliberations, and
drafting sessions. As a commercial property owner in the village,
I participated and I was very
impressed with the entire effort.
People bought into this process because they were brought
into the process. As a result, the
entire village bought into the
result: a thoughtful and comprehensive plan to govern village
zoning and land-use decisions
for the foreseeable future.
This plan was not intended as
merely a suggestion or auxiliary
resource for future political decision makers. It was intended
as a compact governing future
decisions. The plan represents
an article of credibility and
good faith between the citizens
and the elected officials who set
the process in motion, including
several who remain on the village
board today.
There’s been some talk lately
that the plan is merely a flexible
guide and that future land-use
changes, whether supportive or
contrary to the plan, are best
left solely to the discretion of the
individual board members. That
does not keep faith, either with
the plan or with the process that
created it.
I practiced planning and zoning law in Chicago and there I
learned how disillusioned people
could become with local government when they were urged to
participate only to have the results of their work later ignored
by elected officials.
It’s true that, as a matter of
law, a comprehensive plan created with citizen input can be
changed at any time by elected
officials, but, as a matter of
good government, a plan should
be changed only when there is
clear citizen consensus supporting the change. Such is not the
case today.
Perhaps consensus on the
proposed zoning change for
Stewart’s may yet be reached
if Stewart’s were to present a
building that is designed for a
village like Altamont rather than
simply a copy of the nondescript,
suburban structure it recently
built on Western Avenue. That
remains to be seen.
Until then, the village board
members should keep faith with
the planning process that they
themselves initiated.
Jeff Perlee
Altamont
Back In Time. . .
1915
100 Years Ago
2015
Altamont Enterprise, Sept. 24, 1915
GUILDERLAND MUTUAL PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION MEETS
Meeting Held at Sturges’ Hall, Altamont, on Monday
Evening — Annual Meeting Will be Held at McKownville,
Tuesday, Oct. 19.
This association has now been in successful operation for
several months and has been of considerable benefit to the
members. Recently Arthur Rapp of Guilderland, a member of
the association, had two rubber horse blankets stolen from
his premises. Mr. Rapp immediately notified Frank Case, the
president, of his loss and a detective was put to work on the
case. The person who stole the blankets evidently became
alarmed by the vigilance of the association and after a few
days had passed the blankets were returned to Guilderland
Centre one evening. The following morning they were found
on the platform of the West Shore depot. Mr. Rapp is loud
in his praises of the work done by the Guilderland Mutual
Protective Association.
SUFFRAGISTS HOLD TWO MEETINGS IN ALTAMONT
Altamont women are still in the line of march. No one ever
knew them to fall behind. And they are proving the progressive spirit which is theirs by the cordiality and enthusiasm
with which they are lending aid to the last long pull for the
passage of the woman suffrage amendment to the New York
state constitution at the election this fall.
A meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Fred Keenholts
Monday afternoon to form a committee to do active work
in calling the amendment to the attention of the voters.
About fifteen women responded to the call for the meeting.
Mrs. Jeannette Sterling Greve, of New York, a member of
the press department of the Empire State Campaign Committee, was present and spoke on the need of workers for
the cause. If every woman who is convinced of the right and
justice of the enfranchisement of women, Mrs. Greve said,
would do what she could to speak to the voters she knows,
the amendment would be sure to carry because the majority
of men are favorable to the movement and are only waiting
to be assured that the women themselves are asking for it.
In His Line.
“Warden, I’d like to have desk work. I’m used to that.”
“What are you here for?”
“I’m a forger.”
“Um! I have no room on the clerical force. Still, I like to
accommodate a man with work at his own particular trade.
How would you like to forge chains in the blacksmith shop?”
— Louisville Courier-Journal
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editor
We won more than
70 percent of the vote
The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer
Shaking hands, Superintendent Marie Wiles, left, congratulates Altamont Elementary Principal
Peter Brabant, right, and Guilderland High School Principal Thomas Lutsic, center, for their schools
being designated “Reward Schools” by the State Education Department. Wiles said the two schools
were identified as being in the top 20 percent for scores on state-required tests in English and math
for 2012-13 and 2013-14 or for being in the top 10 percent in gains during the 2013-14 school year.
I applaud all the teachers and administrators who work
hard to maintain a level of excellence for our children
To the Editor:
Congratulations to the students, staff, and administrators
of Altamont Elementary School
and Guilderland High School
on receiving the designation of
Reward Schools from the New
York State Education Department. Both AES and GHS were
classified as “High Performing,”
in the report, from New York
State Education Commissioner
MaryEllen Elia. According to the State Education Department website, Reward Schools are either schools
that have high achievement or
schools that have made the most
progress in the state and do not
have significant gaps in student
achievement between subgroups.
To be identified as a Reward
School, a school must:
— Be among the top 20 percent of schools in the state for
English language arts and math
performance for both the 201213 and 2013-14 school years or
be among the top 10 percent of
schools in terms of gains in ELA
and math performance in the
2013-14 school year.
— Have made Adequate Yearly
Progress for the 2012-13 and
2013-14 school years for all
groups of students on all measures for which the school is
accountable, including the requirement that 95 percent of all
groups participate in the English
language arts and mathematics
assessments.
— Not have unacceptably large
gaps in the student performance
on an accountability measure
between students who are members of an accountability group
(e.g., low-income students) and
students who are not members
of that group.
In addition, elementary and
middle schools must demonstrate
that students are making annual
growth in ELA and math that
exceeds 50 percent and that
the school’s lowest achieving
students are also making gains
that exceed 50 percent.
High schools must have graduation rates above 80 percent to
be a high achieving school and
above 60 percent to be a high
progress school and the percentage of students in the school
who graduate with a Regents
diploma with advanced designation or a Career and Technical
Endorsement must exceed the
state average. High schools
must also demonstrate that their
graduation rate for students who
entered the school performing
below proficient in ELA or math
exceeds the state average.
As a resident of Altamont, I
am particularly proud of the
reputation of excellence of our
elementary school, and I applaud
all the teachers and administrators in our system who work hard
to maintain a level of excellence
for our children. Receiving this
honor can only serve to underscore the value that each and
every one of our schools has for
our children, our communities
and our district.
Jean Guyon
Altamont
School board should pay more attention
to solving the problem of excess space
In 2014, a report was released to be announced at your October
To the Editor:
This is a letter I wrote to the with an apparent urgency to close meeting.
I, and I assume others on the
Guilderland Board of Education schools based on what turned out
to be a flawed and myopic report various task forces, will be eager
members.
I am responding to a letter I that eventually was put aside to see some definitive compreand other members of the vol- so that the district might focus hensive action steps outlined
unteer community received from on ways to use its excess space then, including attention to conSuperintendent Marie Wiles dat- to gain revenue. It is now more tinued community involvement. ed Aug. 31, 2015, thanking us for than a year later, and it appears
The report’s groundwork sets
our service on the Repurposing the district is not moving ambi- an excellent base to develop
real and concrete plans
Task Force: Investigating
within the context of this
Alternative Uses of Space. fall’s budget discussions,
The letter made reference
I am concerned that
rather than prolonging the
to the board’s discussion of
the tenure and commitment
analysis and assessment
next steps on the project.
I am optimistic that the
of parameters around the
to the process appears to be less
board will take positive
issue into the next school
than apparent at the moment. year, rendering positive
steps to move toward using
revenue outcomes usedistrict excess space, but
less to this year’s budget
I am concerned that the
tenure and commitment to the tiously forward to capitalize on negotiations.
When I appeared before your
process appears to be less than the community and staff work to
address the shortage of revenue. board in August, I urged active
apparent at the moment. The letter from SuperintenI know how protracted and attention to this topic and exdent Wiles suggests that the bureaucratic institutions can be. pressed my hope that the good
district will complete a more However, continuing the process work of our community will
detailed analysis of its avail- of studying the issue does not not fall on fallow ground like
able space, with no timeline or seem to be where the district the work completed on similar
clear objectives mentioned other should be at this point.
issues in 2006. I appreciate the
The task force report was volunteer work you do as public
than a rather general statement
about studying the use of excess distributed to the board in servants, but I think our comspace. We have heard from the early July. The board discussed munity deserves more attention
administration throughout that the report at its Aug. 18 meet- to this issue than we appear to
there is a need to do their home- ing. I believe, based on reports be seeing.
work, but it seems we should be in the local media of your August Jim Gaughan, mayor
beyond this stage of planning board meeting, that the next Village of Altamont
by now.
steps in the project are promised
To the Editor:
I wanted to publicly thank the
voters responsible for our overwhelming victory in the Conservative Party Primary for county
legislature. Since there was no
coverage of it in The Enterprise
(though there were two articles
containing county legislature
results), many of you have yet
to hear the news.
We won with more than 70
percent of the vote as a write-in
candidate. The county’s Conservative Party boss blocked me
from being on the ballot.
This was truly your victory because you stood up for our shared
values of taxpayer advocacy and
more effective, transparent gov-
ernment. It is an honor to be one
of your champions.
Mark Grimm
Guilderland
Editor’s note: Democrat David
Cardona, a former Voorheesville
trustee who had the Conservative
Party backing, got 16 votes in the
Sept. 10 primary. Using an opportunity to ballot, Republican
Mark Grimm, a former Guilderland Town Board member, got
39 votes, according to unofficial
results from the Albany County
Board of Elections. They are vying
to represent Albany County’s 29th
District, a post currently held by
Lee Carman, a Republican who
is seeking a Guilderland Town
Board seat.
For too long, Guilderland residents
have had to look at commercial slums
To the Editor:
On April 7, 2015 the Guilderland Town Board unanimously
passed Local Law 2. This was
and is a resolution and law to
require owners of vacant and
abandoned buildings within the
town of Guilderland to register
such properties and post performance bonds for the continued
maintenance of such properties.
This resolution passed 5-0.
Two current candidates for
the town board, Mr. [Brian]
Forte and Mr. [Allen] Maikels
supported this measure. As we
are all too aware, the Route 20
landscape has been marred by
buildings such as the Governor’s
Motor Inn, The Rustic Barn, and
1210 Western Ave. as well as the
abandoned gas station at 1611
Western Ave.
At the entrance to Guilderland
at Carman Road is the Nedco
“pharmacy,” which is long vacant and deteriorating. These
problem buildings are owned
by out-of-towners who have no
interest in what happens here.
In addition, there are several
abandoned residences within
the town that are under control
of out-of-town banks as well as
absentee landowners. It would be
great if each of the candidates,
Mr. Forte, Mr. [Lee] Carman and
Ms. [Michele] Coons as well as
Mr. [Peter] Barber, Mrs. [Rosemary] Centi and Mr. Maikels
make forceful declarations of
support of Local Law 2 as well
as an intention of enforcement
regarding this law.
For too long, residents of
Guilderland have had to endure
the viewing of these commercial
slums. Hopefully the approval of
a convenience store/gas station
at the corner of 146 and Route
20 (the long vacant bank building) will be built as approvals
have been gained. This would be
a welcome addition to our town.
The above is a substantive issue that should be addressed in
detail by the candidates. We all
should look forward the each of
these candidate’s views on this
important law.
John B. Haluska
Guilderland
Dinner and cakewalk
will raise funds for Berne library
To the Editor:
The Friends of the Berne Library will be having a Lasagna
Dinner and Cakewalk on Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Hilltowns Senior Center at 1360 Helderberg
Trail in Berne. Several varieties of homemade lasagna will
be available: meat, vegetarian,
and gluten-free. Salad, bread,
beverages, and make-your-own
sundaes will round out the meal.
The Friends will begin serving
at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 prepaid and $12 at the door. There
is a family maximum price of
$50. Tickets may be purchased at
the Berne Public Library or call
872-1246 for more information.
As in previous years, a special
feature at the dinner is the cakewalk. Tickets may be purchased
for a drawing to win a delicious
cake made from scratch.
Proceeds will be used to support a literacy project that Dr.
Kristin Mack, Berne physician,
is starting, called “Roots of Reading: Healthy Minds and Bodies.”
A new or used book will be given
at every well-child visit with Dr.
Mack.
Proceeds will also provide
matching funds for an Upper Hudson Library System
Construction Grant so that
energy-efficient windows can be
installed in the library and also
to clean and re-point the outside
brickwork of the library.
Hope to see you Oct. 3. Bon appétit!
Donna Gwin, president
Friends of the Berne Library
5
Dee Centi-Jones
McKownville homeowners want to be consulted
about demolition of homes in their neighborhood
To the Editor:
This concerns SUNY Polytechnic Institute and the proposal to
build a dorm and provide several
hundred parking spaces on or
near Loughlin Street. The 11
homes to be demolished and the
land to be developed were purchased by a real estate firm tied
to Columbia Development.
Like all private development,
it should be required to apply
for demolition and other permits
and be reviewed by planning and
other commissions.
Because this firm paid well
above market rate for the homes,
it seems unlikely the state will
OK purchase of the completed
project by SUNY Poly. The state
does not permit above-market
prices to be paid whether it’s
buying computer paper or anything else.
If there is no contract, there
is no SUNY Poly purchase. The
entire project will remain privately owned, on the tax rolls
and, therefore, subject to the
municipal review and permitting
process like any other privately
owned project.
The state inspector general,
comptroller’s office and attorney
general review contracts between state government agencies
and private corporations. They
should carefully review this
contract when it is submitted.
I am not trying to stop SUNY
Poly. Alain Kaloyeros has built
something that is wonderful,
just as Henry Ford did many
years ago.
Yet Ford thought labor unions
were a scourge. His employees
wanted to be consulted about
their working conditions.
Likewise, McKownville homeowners want to be consulted
about demolition of homes in
their neighborhood, stormwater
runoff down Fuller Road, and
other developments by SUNY
Poly.
Presidents Council
Multi Million Dollar Producer
Don Reeb
Guilderland
518-528-3811
DeeJones@RealtyUSA.com
Editor’s note: Donald Reeb is
president of the McKownville
Improvement Association. See
related story.
NOTICE TO ALTAMONT WATER CUSTOMERS
The Old Men of the Mountain
Legislator stealing because
he wouldn’t live on $80K causes snickers
By John R. Williams
On a beautiful Tuesday morning on Sept. 15, the Old Men of
the Mountain had their breakfast at the Home Front Café
in Altamont. It was almost too
nice of a day to be indoors, but
here the OMOTM were having
breakfast inside.
This was an unusual breakfast
because of the opening remarks
by some of the OFs as they came
up the ramp to the dining area
of the restaurant. Most were
chuckling and some were even
laughing.
“Did you see the news last
night?” was one opening remark,
and then a few others would come
in and say, “Did you see the paper
this morning?”
What was causing all this
snickering? It was that someone
couldn’t live on $80,000 a year so
apparently it was OK for him to
steal in order he could take care
of his family. All of the OFs said,
if someone gave them $80,000 a
year, they would be able to live
very well.
Some legislator said he could
not live on that amount of money,
and one OF said, add the per
diems to the eighty grand, and
committee assignments, and
it approaches $100,000 a year.
What is wrong with this picture?
The OFs would consider half of
this pretty comfortable.
“Are these people on another
planet?” one OF wondered.
And, apparently, it could be a
defense that it was OK to steal
if you made $30,000 a year or, if
you don’t make enough money
(in your mind) to support your
family, it would be OK to steal to
make up the difference. The OFs
use the “wow” as exclamation
points on this discussion.
Strange deer habit
The OFs left that topic and
segued into hunting. An OF
asked the hunters in the group,
“Why do deer eat burnt wood?”
The OF said in his backyard
fireplace there are pieces of burnt
wood and three deer come out
nearly every day and gnaw on
those pieces of burnt wood. The
OF said the same deer come so
often he has names for them
like pets.
Some OFs gave their opinions
on why the deer are doing this.
The ideas sounded plausible but
for some reason did not seem
right. Deer eat a lot of things
but gnawing on burnt logs was
not on the list.
Waking up is hard to do
The OFs talked a little bit on
how the OFs used to behave when
they were younger. The OFs were
not talking about when they
were kids at this time, but by
younger they were talking about
60 years old.
At this age, when most of the
OFs woke up, they would immediately get out of bed and do
whatever they did, put in their
teeth, or go to the bathroom, or
slip on the slippers — things like
that. The OFs got up out of bed
right away and started the day.
Now in their 80s, most of the
OFs say they sit on the edge of
the bed for awhile and contemplate the effort of getting up.
Then one foot may hit the floor
and the OFs say to themselves,
“Well, I’ve gotten this far, I might
just as well do the whole darn
thing” and then they put the
other foot on the floor.
Are they ready for the day? No,
but the OFs make themselves
ready and, once they get going, it
doesn’t seem that bad. All the old
friends are there — the aching
back, the sore feet, the cramping legs, but the OFs are used
to them by now and continue on
regardless.
Traveling tribe
This scribe is amazed at
how often the OFs have been
to the same places around our
great country. This time it was
Greenfield Village, and the Ford
Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
The OMOTM has an OF who,
with his wife, is there right now
so, when his name was brought
up as to where he was, about nine
OFs said they have been there
and it is some place.
It was concluded that visitors
had better have good walking
shoes if they are going to do all
three things, the village, the museum, and the factory tour. Some
of the OFs said they couldn’t
make this trip any more unless
they stayed a week and took in
a little bit each day.
Disasters abound
On a more somber note, the
OFs talked about the wild fires
out west, and how they feel for
those people. The OFs think
there is really no place to run
away from natural disasters.
The fires out West, the tornados in the center of the country,
the hurricanes in the South and
along each coast, the blizzards
in the North and Northeast, and
earthquakes anywhere makes
it seem like an OF can only run
from one mess into another.
An OF says it really is a miracle that the homes is some areas
are one- and two-hundred years
old. One OF thought a young
family starting out should build
a geotactic home out of concrete.
That, the OF thinks, should
handle just about anything.
“The Dee Jones Team”
Specializing in Guilderland and the Hilltowns
Jury duty
Jury duty is a discussion the
OFs have on occasion but not
many have been called to serve
on a jury, and then a couple of
the OGs have been called more
than once. The OFs think that
most of the OFs are too old to
be on a jury.
Number one is that any one of
us could keel over at any time.
Many have had heart bypass
surgery, and many are walking
around with stents in the heart.
One OF mentioned that most of
the OFs can’t remember where
they put the car keys, or even
their wife’s maiden name.
One OF joked, “To heck with
the wife, sometimes I have to
stop and think who I am.”
What a bunch we would make
if we were on a jury; we would
probably send the judge up the
river for life.
“Yeah,” another OF added, “I
would have trouble remembering who the defendant was, and
might even think his lawyer was
the plaintiff. Wouldn’t any one of
us cause quite a bit of confusion
in the deliberating room? You
bet we would — we’d probably
say ‘not guilty’ to a guy who
stole because he didn’t think he
made enough money to support
the lifestyle he wanted.”
Hmmm — isn’t this where we
came in?
Pressing work
The Old Men of the Mountain
would like to thank Steve Dunham from Dunedin, Florida who
took the time to send the OFs a
lengthy letter of his time on a
dairy farm in the Raymertown,
New York area.
He included a picture of himself as a young man working
at a homemade cider press he
built and he is in hip boots. Mr.
Dunham states this was to keep
the snakes from crawling up his
pant legs as he stood pressing
the cider
Those attending the breakfast
at the Home Front in Altamont
which, according to The Enterprise, was the home of the Enterprise at one time, were: George
Washburn, Robie Osterman,
Joe Ketzer, Art Frament, Miner
Stevens, John Rossmann, Harold
Guest, Frank Pauli, Dave Williams, Bill Bartholomew, Roger
Shafer, Rich Donnelley, Bob
Lassome, Duane Wagenbaugh,
Lou Schenck, Mace Porter, Chuck
Aelesio, Jim Heiser, Glenn Patterson, Mark Traver, Ted Willsey,
Jim Rissacher, Jerry Willsey,
Bob Fink, Bob Benninger, Henry
Whipple, Elwood Vanderbilt,
Harold Grippen, Mike Willsey,.
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FALL WATER FLUSHING
Water main flushing will begin on Monday, Sept. 28 and
will continue through Friday, Oct. 30. Flushing will occur
Mondays through Fridays between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
During the cycle you may experience a drop in pressure or
discoloration from your faucets. Please check your water
for discoloration prior to doing laundry. For additional
information, or if discoloration persists, please contact the
village at 861-8554.
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The Center for Disease Control many
years ago heralded the development
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the rough biting surfaces of molars or
premolar are cleaned thoroughly, etched
with an acid solution, and painted with
an acrylic coating that seals the deep
grooves, thereby preventing decay from
starting.
The grooves on the biting surfaces of
back teeth are the most common site
for children’s cavities. Bacteria can
get into the deeper areas and are very
hard to remove with regular brushing.
Cavity causing bacteria will begin the
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with no need for numbing a tooth, no
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Sealants were introduced in the
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a task. The long term retention rate
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To the editor
— Photo by Amy Lauterbach Pokorny
A tourist admires works by artist John Williams, at the Malachi Farm stand in Knox. Williams
writes thee weekly “Old Men of the Mountain” column for The Enterprise.
‘Discover the Hilltowns’ tour was fabulous
To the Editor:
The “Discover the Hilltowns”
Farms and Artisans Tour was
fabulous last weekend, with a
wide selection of venues for people
to visit, and perfect weather both
days. There was fun for animal
lovers, nature lovers, art lovers,
history lovers, explorers, shoppers,
diners, dancers, hikers, and more.
On behalf of the Helderberg
Hilltowns Association, I would
like to express our appreciation
to all the folks who helped make
it such a big success: all the generous people who opened their
doors to the public, everyone who
helped organize and publicize the
event, and all the enthusiastic
tourists who came out for a drive
in the country to see what we
have to offer, and to support our
local enterprises.
Thank you!
Amy Lauterbach
Pokorny, chairwoman
Farms and Artisans Tour
Helderberg Hilltowns
Association
Join us for fun and safety at NSFD open house
To the Editor:
The New Salem Volunteer Fire
Department would like to invite
you to our Annual Fire Prevention Open House. This year’s
event will be held on Sunday, Oct.
4, from noon to 3 p.m. The Albany County Sheriff ’s
Office and Voorheesville Ambulance Squad will also join us that
afternoon. Come and take a tour
of the firehouse and fire trucks
and learn how you can better
protect your family in case of an
emergency.
Hot dogs, cider doughnuts and
cider will be served. We hope to
see you there!
Katy Carl
New Salem
Volunteer Fire Department
Caregivers’ corner
An ‘average Joe’ is a hero to those he helps
By Judy Rothstein
Why do people volunteer? The
answers are as varied as the
people I interviewed. I asked
some of Caregivers’ volunteers
what actually motivated them
to volunteer.
John Meany — he likes to be
called Jack — started volunteering three or four years ago after
his wife died. Jack’s daughter
had passed along copies of The
Enterprise, and it was there he
learned about Caregivers.
He thought, “If it pans out,
so much the better.” Later he
said, “Volunteering helped me
through that time.” It filled his
empty time.
Jack does transportation twice
a week. Mostly, he takes people
to doctors for their appoint-
ments, sometimes to a hospital.
Sometimes “…transporting for
radiation, you get to know them
[the clients]. After a while, people
open up.” He continued, “After I
got into it, I found that it really
is keeping people in their homes.
It’s doing what its mission says.”
So Jack started out as a volunteer for what he said was ”…a
perceived, personal need.” There
was no pressure from Community Caregivers.
And, after a while, he realized
he looked forward to it; it was
rewarding to satisfy someone’s
needs. “There’s a degree of satisfaction,” he said. “It’s hard to
describe.”
Jack likes meeting people, and
he sees that the people he helps
are so appreciative. He often
finds himself saying, “That was
a good mission today.”
Jack doesn’t want to portray
himself as a hero or somebody
who is outstanding. He calls
himself ”…just an average Joe.”
Jack joins Community Caregivers’ family in choosing to make
a difference in his community
by helping others maintain their
independence, dignity, and quality of life.
Most of Caregivers’ volunteers
don’t think of themselves as
heroes, but they certainly are to
those they help. Consider calling
the office at 456-2878 to sign
up for an orientation. The Fall
schedule is first Tuesdays at 10
or Third Thursdays at noon.
Honor Jean Forti’s memory at the ‘Run for Education’
To the Editor: We are writing to the community members of the Hilltowns —
as well as the community members of Altamont, Voorheesville
and all surrounding areas — to
invite everyone to participate in
a special event in honor of the
late Jean Forti. A s m a n y r e a d e r s k n o w,
Jean was very involved in all
aspects of the community, and
she was a vital presence at everything that went on in our towns. This was especially true of the
Berne-Knox-Westerlo schools;
she was as a classroom parent,
PTA Board member and event
chair, sports parent, school board
meeting attendee — the list goes
on and on.
The BKW Parent Teacher Association is honoring Jean and
her family for all of the hard
work and dedication she showed
to the students and staff of BKW
schools with our first annual
“BKW PTA’s Jean Forti Run for
Education.” All proceeds from
this event will go toward programs and events that the PTA
sponsors for our BKW schools.
The “BKW PTA’s Jean Forti
Run for Education” event features a 5K run or walk, as well
as a Family Fun Run for the
younger kids at the Thompson’s
Lake campground on Saturday,
Oct. 24. The Kids Fun Run begins at 8:15 a.m.; the 5K begins at
9 a.m. All pre-registered people
will receive a T-shirt the morning of the race, provided they
are registered by Oct. 12.
We are hoping to have a huge
community turnout with people
participating in the event, as we
honor Jean’s memory and her
commitment to bringing people
together in support of a cause we
all believe in — our children and
our schools.
People of all age levels and
abilities are welcome and encouraged to participate! All participants must register individually
for the 5K or Family Fun Run
events. The race is being adver-
tised on the Albany Running Exchange Calendar, as well as the
Hudson Mohawk Road Runner’s
Club Calendar, so we are hoping
to see people from all of the surrounding towns participate in
this worthwhile cause.
Individuals may follow this
link to register: https://www.
zippyreg.com/online_reg/registration.php?eventID=636
Paper registration forms are
also available, along with sponsorship opportunities. Please
contact the PTA if you are interested in either of those forms,
or if you have any questions. Please help us to honor Jean’s
memory by participating in this
event, and show her family how
very much Jean was loved and
is missed.
The leaves will be changing
colors and the course will be a
wonderful reminder of Jean and
her love of the outdoors. We look
forward to seeing you all there!
Tami Hanley, president
BKW PTA
‘A non-response,’ says Reeb
SUNY Poly lists
10 ‘facts’ about expansion plan
ria did require a “local developer”
By Anne Hayden Harwood
GUILDERLAND — The State and that the housing be “within a
University of New York Polytech- 10-minute walk” but the release
nic Institute’s expansion proposal said those requirements “are
plan, released last week, was logical and consistent with what
met with concern by residents of numerous other educational inMcKownville, who worry that the stitutions do.”
Only one firm out of the 27
expansion will eventually reach
chose to actually submit a propostheir neighborhood.
al because some
A developof the firms could
ment company
not meet one or
purchased 11
more of the critehomes on Loughria, according to
lin Street, which
“That’s just wrong.” the release.
borders McKFuller Road
o w n v i l l e, a n d ,
Management
according to the
Corporation and
expansion plan,
SUNY Poly “make
the homes would
be demolished to make space for their selections based purely on
merit and are neither privy to nor
a parking lot.
This week, a press release aware of political donations,” said
detailing 10 facts about the uni- the release.
The financing of housing projversity’s “plans to pursue student
housing” was released by the ects, it said, is done through
Jerry Gretzinger, the vice presi- student housing payments. The
dent of strategic communications release said the charge that a developer paid “well above market
and public relations.
Gretzinger did not return calls rate” to buy the homes on Loughor e-mails from The Enterprise lin Street would be a decision
seeking comment this week or between the developer and the
homeowners, and has no bearing
last.
Donald Reeb, the head of the on the university’s housing plans.
“It is disingenuous to suggest
McKownville Improvement Association and a former professor at that prior to the advent of SUNY
the state’s University of Albany, Poly, Loughlin Street was a quiet
said this week, “In academia, residential area far removed from
this would be what we call a non- any type of academic or economic
development activity,” said the
response.”
Reeb has complained for release. It referred to the Freedom
months, since the houses on Quad, less than one-quarter mile
Loughlin Street were purchased, from the street, which houses
about SUNY Poly not being forth- hundreds of students and used to
serve as a training camp for the
coming with its plans.
The plan, said the release, was New York Giants. It also spoke of
sent to eight local governmental the state University at Albany’s
agencies and municipalities, as Empire Commons, across Western
required by New York State’s Avenue from Loughlin Street,
Environmental Quality Review and the amount of pedestrian
Act. In addition, it said, “This and vehicle traffic generated by
process ensures full transparency people going to and from Stuyvesand openness.”
ant Plaza.
The release said that Fuller
Reed, on this point, said, “That’s
Road Management Corporation, just wrong.” It was, he said, a
the lead on the project, is not quiet and residential side street.
required to use a request for
“Finally, it should be noted that,
proposal process because the at present, FRMC’s housing proproject does not use state funding, posal is exactly that: a proposal
but, that it is choosing to do so and nothing more,” read the last
to secure the best “financial and “fact” in the press release. There
economic return on investment is no contract or agreement at this
for it and its stakeholders.”
time. The Fuller Road ManageThe Fuller Road Management ment Corporation may choose to
Corporation complied with all of move forward with the one bidder
the request for proposal rules, it if “a financially viable agreement
said, and the solicitation for pro- can be reached,” it said.
posals was published in the Times
“I don’t know if this has anyUnion newspaper for one week thing of merit in it,” said Reeb.
in March. Twenty-seven firms He said it contained nothing
expressed interest and the Fuller responding to his concerns about
Road Management Corporation expansion into McKownville.
asked for proposals from each
“They are just not trying to be
one, without giving preferential very good neighbors,” he said of
treatment, said the release.
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Senior News
Helderberg
By Phyllis Johnson
OK, I’m going to get serious on
you for a minute, so, if you want
light-heartedness, you’ll have
to skip the first couple of paragraphs. (Sorry, but not very…)
Choices have consequences;
we all know that. On your computer, you can have easy access
or security.
The “safer” your info, the more
passwords, logins, and other
hoops you have to jump through
to get to it. I’m reading an interesting book that describes the
same issue, but in much more
immediate terms. It’s titled “Alone and Invisible
No More,” and the subject is
senior-assisted living. The issue
is how much independence are
we entitled to as seniors? Independence includes risk. Safety
limits independence.
Who gets to choose how much
we need? Our kids? State legislators? Social-service agency folks? If I decide that I want to be independent, and I fall and break
my hip, whose responsibility or
fault is it? You can’t have it both
ways, so the criteria have to be
chosen with care.
At what point am I not competent to make my own choices? Do
we agree on where that point is? You can have an assisted-living
arrangement that is safe, but
it will have to conform to a lot
of the regulations that apply to
nursing homes, and it will probably look somewhat institutional. Which is more important, safety
or freedom? It’s a nearly impossible balance to achieve, but it can affect
every one of our lives. How do
we keep unscrupulous operators
from neglecting us, while leaving
enough latitude for us to run our
own lives?
Of course, I think I know what
is best for me, but do I still have
that right if I’m a bit demented,
or unsteady on my feet, or losing my sight? If we don’t think
about it now, someone else will
decide for us later. We are the
people, and we do have a say, if
we choose to use it.
Goings on
Today (Sept. 22, because the
column is written a week ahead)
is the basket-making class, and
I’m really excited about it. How
about a nice basket to collect all
those tomatoes from the garden,
or hollyhocks? I’m hoping that
we can get Pat Lightbody to continue to give us her assistance
even if we don’t finish everything
today.
It’s autumn already, and the
Hilltown Seniors October meeting is Saturday, Oct. 12, at the
Senior Center in Berne. All are
welcome, but remember to bring
your own place setting for the
potluck lunch. The NEAT (Not Eating Alone
Tonight) dinner is on Sept. 28
this month, instead of the usual
thirrd Monday. It’s not an “official” seniors event, but you’ll
see most of us there. Dinner
is served at 6 p.m. at the First
Reformed Church on Route 443
in Berne, and costs whatever you
choose to give.
The Rensselaerville Seniors
regular meeting is at noon on the
second Tuesday of every month,
and is held at the Medusa firehouse on Route 351. It’s a beautiful drive, so get there while the
roads are still open.
Menu
Yes, we also have the lunchtime menu for next week at the
Hilltown Senior Center. See old
friends and make a few new ones,
and enjoy a lunch that you don’t
have to cook.
Doors open at 11 a.m., and
lunch is served promptly at noon. Don’t forget the live music with
Nancy Frueh on Fridays.
— Monday, Sept. 28: Barbecued chicken, baked potato,
broccoli, whole-wheat roll, milk
and oatmeal cookie;
— Tuesday, Sept. 29: Roast
pork, gravy, mashed potato, seasoned green beans, rye bread,
milk, and applesauce; and — Friday, Oct. 2: Oven-fried
fish; baked sweet potato, peas,
whole-wheat roll, milk, and
pineapple.
Please call 24 hours in advance
to 872-9400 to reserve lunch. Email plightbody@nycap.rr.com,
or sign up when you come in.
Tell us how many are coming,
your name, and your telephone
number. If you’d just like to come
and help out, give Mary Moller
a call at 861-6253, or email her
at helderbergseniormeals@aol.
com, and put “volunteer” in the
subject line.
Lunches are provided by
Helderberg Senior Services, the
Albany County Office for the Aging, and the Peter Young Housing Industries and Treatment
Culinary Program. The Hilltown
Senior Center is located at 1360
Helderberg Trail (Route 443) in
Berne. Guilderland
The Guilderland Senior Services is offering the following
activities the week of Sept. 28.
Call the senior office at 356-1980,
ext. 1048 with any questions or
for information.
Monday: Scheduled shopping,
aerobics at 9 a.m., senior fitness,
and Strong Bones Plus at 10:30
a.m., Strong Bones Plus at 1:30
p.m.;
Tuesday: Strong Bones Plus
at 9 a.m., luncheon of turkey
divan or cold plate at 11:30
a.m., and bingo/Rummikub at
12:30 p.m.;
Wednesday: Scheduled shopping, 20-20-20 fitness class at
9 a.m., Strong Bones Plus and
senior fitness at 10:30 a.m.,
needlecraft at 1 p.m., and Strong
Bones Plus at 1:30 p.m.;
Thursday: Scheduled shopping, Strong Bones Plus at 9
a.m., Mahjongg and Pinochle at
12:30 p.m.;
Friday: Scheduled shopping,
painting at 10 a.m., Bridge at
10 a.m., quilting at 1 p.m., and
advance Bridge at 1 p.m.
Fashion show and luncheon
Please plan to join us at the
fashion show and luncheon at
Colonie Golf & Country Club,
141 Maple Road, Route 85A, in
Voorheesville, on Tuesday, Oct.
27, at noon.
The fashions are from Fashions
by Liz’s Closet and will be modeled by our senior ladies.
Your luncheon entrée choices
are: baked boneless pork chops
with apples in a red wine reduction; broiled haddock Veronique
served with lemons, Panko, and
white grapes in white wine
sauce; and chicken Françoise egg
dipped, pan roasted with a lemon
wine butter sauce.
All entrées are served with
soup du jour, carrot cake and
coffee and tea.
The cost is $23 per person.
Tickets are available in the senior office through Oct. 9. Please
make checks payable to Town of
Guilderland.
Remember to indicate your
luncheon choice and if transportation is needed.
Substitute drivers needed
If you are interested in volunteering once in a while for
about an hour and a half this is
an opportunity for you. Meals
are delivered to Guilderland and
Altamont residents weekdayse
The Enterprise — Jo E. Prout
Smooth beginnings: High school interim Principal Annemarie Barkman, left, and middle school
Principal Jennifer Drautz, center, listen Monday as elementary school Principal Jeffrey Vivenzio describes the first weeks of school. “If you haven’t heard the elementary school sing the alma mater, it’s
utterly amazing,” he told the board. All three administrators are new to Voorheesville this school year.
V’ville School pool repairs will go to public vote
By Jo E. Prout
cylindrical system with pumps merged 30 years ago, Hunt said
NEW SCO TLAND — The and other plumbing.
at the school board meeting.
Voorheesville School Board voted
“When we back flush it — regu“It really has been a great relaMonday to put up a $75,000 prop- larly, or for maintenance — we tionship over the years,” he said.
osition to repair the district’s get leakage of sand in the pool,”
This week, Hunt wrote in an
swimming pool and filtration Hunt said. The district’s mainte- email to The Enterprise, “We have
system. District residents will nance crew must then suck the had a longstanding verbal agreebe able to vote on the project on debris out, he said.
ment to share the costs of the
Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 2 to 9 p.m.
The work may take up to four pool as it regards the Guilderville
at the high school.
days, but “we want to allow a swim teams. We are in the process
“This was identified as a prior- week for it,” Hunt said. If voters of formalizing the cost-sharing
ity cost by the facilities commit- and the State Education Depart- agreement.
tee,” Superintendent Brian Hunt ment approve the project, work
“I anticipate that there will be
told The Enterprise.
could be done over the December some sharing of costs for the pool
Hunt said that the district is or February school breaks, he filter,” he continued, “but not a
proposing the capital improve- said.
50-50 [ratio] split because the pool
ment project, rather than using
“We have to avoid swim-team filter runs 365 days a year, and our
funds from the district’s mainte- season,” he said.
shared swim teams don’t use the
nance budget, to get 61 percent of
The project will include remov- pool for the entire year.” the cost reimbursed as state aid. ing a large metal cylinder that
“We will work with Guilderland
The final cost to the district is ex- must be cut up to get it out of to come up with a cost share for
pected to be $28,000,
the filter that is a fair
he said.
representation of the
If the proposition
costs for the shared
passes, he said, the
swim teams,” Hunt
“We have had a longstanding
district will take up
wrote.
verbal agreement to share the costs
to $75,000 from its
“The pool repair is
of the pool as it regards
capital reserve fund,
not inexpensive,” wrote
which currently has
board member Doreen
the Guilderville swim teams.”
a balance of about $1
Saia in an email to The
million.
Enterprise. “For that
“We get 61 percent
reason, an effort was
returned to us the folconducted to confirm
lowing budget year in state aid,” the building, Hunt said.
that the issue was thoroughly
Hunt said.
Community value
investigated, and the pool repair
If voters approve the project,
“The pool at the middle school was required.”
the proposition must still be ap- and high school campus is obviHunt told The Enterprise that
proved by the New York State De- ously valued by our entire commu- the district plans to send out fliers
partment of Education because it nity,” wrote James Franchini, the to residents two or three weeks
is a capital project, he said.
district’s assistant superintendent before the vote.
Hunt said that a vendor gave for finance and operations, in an
“This is a very reasonable cost
a cost estimate of $67,000, and email to The Enterprise. “We and has no tax impact,” he said.
the board added an extra $8,000 spend a great deal of time and ef- “This is an appropriate time to use
to the proposition to cover design fort to ensure the pool is properly a bit of the capital reserve fund.”
fees and inflation.
maintained. He said that large-scale repairs
Pool needs
“This reconstruction project is must continue to be made, over
The pool and the pool’s filtra- a necessary step that we have time.
tion system were installed in to undertake to make sure the
“Every so often, you’ve got to do
2002, he said.
pool continues to be operational these upgrades,” Hunt said. “We
“Every summer, you do a fa- for our students and community generally have a plan. The fund...
cility walk through,” Hunt said. members,” he continued.
mitigates the impact on taxpayers.
The district’s athletic director
The pool is used by community We’re just trying to be prudent
and members of its maintenance members, and for competitive with the community’s resources
department told the facilities swimming with a combined team and not overburden taxpayers.”
committee to look at the pool.
made of Guilderland High School
“If you let things go,” Hunt
“The filter is starting to go and Voorheesville students.
continued, citing an unrelated
bad,” Hunt said. He described the
Guilderland has no pool of its example, “little roof leaks become
system as differing from that of own.
big roof leaks.”
a residential pool, being a large,
The combined swim team
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...‘Kenyon Field’ forever fallow: Corporal punishment derails planned honor
(Continued from page 1)
his wife and daughter. “He did all
an earlier incident where Kenyon the talking,” said his wife when
pushed a male student back into they emerged. “No one on the
board asked a single question.”
his chair.
Outside, in the hallway, the supWiles said yesterday, “If the
district had been more direct in porters, all men, were eager to talk
sharing expectations about cor- about how the coach had shaped
poral punishment, the penalty their lives. Bill Shriver said his
would have been more severe. sons had played under Kenyon in
It was a reprimand in the form the 1970s. “He taught them about
being a man,” he said.
of a letter.”
Art Waugh, who taught art at
She also said of corporal punishment, “It wasn’t OK back then” Guilderland from 1968 to 2000,
or the school district wouldn’t worked as a coach under Kenyon
have held the rare 3020A hearing for 13 years until he succeeded
Kenyon as head
with a threevarsity coach.
member panel.
Waugh said he
Wiles added,
couldn’t imag“The level of
ine what the
scrutiny then
concerns about
was not what it
Profile on
Kenyon would
is now” as twice
be. “He was a
a y e a r n o w,
facing page.
great role modschools have
el,” Waugh said.
to file a report
with the State
“He really knew
Education Dethe game.”
partment.
“I drove two
C o r p o hours from Verral punishment is the use of mont to be here,” said Ken Rice.
physical force for discipline. He had been coached by Kenyon
Many states, including New York, at Greenwich, and credits Kenyon
outlaw corporal punishment in for his becoming a football coach
public schools. New York banned himself. “I had a troubled childcorporal punishment in public hood,” said Rice. “Coach Kenyon
schools in 1985. Public school changed my life.” (See related
teachers in New York may now be letter to the editor.)
charged with assault and battery
Rick Steverson played Guilderor child abuse for using corporal land football, as did his brother
punishment.
who is now a coach.
During his 1975 hearing, Ke“It’s part of the reason I’m the
nyon recalled, the high school man I am,” said Steverson of Coach
principal at the time said he had Kenyon’s influence. “I’m a good
discussed a letter with Kenyon dad, and I take care of my kids.”
about similar behavior. “I never
Steverson said that today,
saw that letter,” said Kenyon. students often don’t face conseKenyon checked his daily log and quences for misdeeds as parents
found that the day the principal al- undermine rather than back the
leged he had discussed the matter authority of teachers and coaches.
with Kenyon, Kenyon had taken He recalled that, when he was on
personal leave for a physical exam, the Guilderland football team,
an annual requirement for his job three starters had violated the
as a Greyhound bus driver, a job code of conduct, which prohibited
he held in the summer and when smoking and drinking. “He dishe wasn’t teaching.
missed them,” Steverson said of
Kenyon’s lawyer said the princi- Kenyon.
pal could be charged with falsifyHe also said the booster club
ing records. “He was saying I could blossomed in Kenyon’s era besue the school board,” recalled cause, “After we graduated, we
Kenyon. “My staff was handling wanted to still be part of the
practice in double sessions. I team.” The booster club built the
wanted to get back to my team. concession stand and a press box,
When I walked out, I thought I and purchased a scoreboard, and
was free.”
equipped a weight room.
On Tuesday night, Wiles met
“When he was gone — pfft!”
privately with Kenyon and his said Steverson of the decline of
wife, Betty, and daughter, Debbie the booster club.
Lauver, in her office to explain
“As an athlete,” said Steverson,
the board’s decision. “She kept “you didn’t have to take gym class.
saying they couldn’t get past the To a man, we were all there, workletter,” reported Kenyon’s daugh- ing out.”
ter, Debbie.
He also said, “You can’t always
The letter she referred to was say things to your parents but you
placed in Kenyon’s file in 1975, could talk to him. He was better
and said the charge for insubor- than any guidance counselor.”
dination was dropped but he was
Finally, as his voice cracked
reprimanded for conduct unbe- with emotion, Steverson told how
coming of a teacher.
Kenyon had attended his wedding
The letter cited “physical actions and his brother’s. When Steverson
in excess of need.”
asked him why, Kenyon put his
The school board members arm around him and said, “It’s
exited their meeting room in a the valentine and the character.”
solemn, silent single file, with
Bob Fish was coached by Kenthe board’s president declining yon at Greenwich. “Football is a
comment.
pretty basic game,” he said. “He
Testimonials
taught you to be a man, to really
At the start of Tuesday’s meet- push yourself.”
ing, a dozen supporters surAfter graduating from Greenrounded the coach and his family, wich, Fish went to Hamilton Colwaiting in the hallway outside the lege and, after the first practice,
board’s meeting room. Kenyon he said, “I didn’t think I was cut
went into the meeting room with out for college football.” He called
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Waiting: Harold “Bud” Kenyon, right, waits in the hallway Tuesday night outside the room where
the Guilderland School Board was deciding if the high school football field should be named for him.
With him are men he had coached: Ken Rice, at left, and Brian Kuznich.
Kenyon. “He took the time to listen
to me,” said Fish, who then played
four years for Hamilton.
A son’s perspective
Kevin Kenyon said he was 17
when his father was charged in
1975. “It was devastating, not
just to the family but to the community,” he said. “He was a father
to a lot of kids.”
Kevin Kenyon went on, “When
we first heard they were going to
name the field after him, I thought,
‘Finally, they’re doing something
right.’” But, he said, of the 40-yearold incidents, “There are people
still around, administrators and
the union, who are embarrassed
by it.”
Kevin Kenyon said, as he waited
in the hallway, “We’d like to see
the board stick to their original
decision.” He said of naming the
field for his father. “It’s a legacy,
not just for him but for all those
who played for him.”
He said of his father’s request
to tell the board his side of the
story, “He wants to restore his
family honor.”
Of the planned Sept. 25 naming ceremony, Kevin Kenyon
said, “People are coming from all
over the country for this. They’ve
booked planes and hotels.”
After it was learned that the
field wouldn’t be named for Kenyon after all, his daughter said
family members, friends, and
former players who are coming
from far afield would still gather
to celebrate him on Friday night.
“He has elected not to attend
the events at the school,” Debbie
Lauver wrote in an email to The
Enterprise.
Going forward
While Kenyon’s family thought
the school board had decided to
make right a procedure they found
painful 40 years ago, the current
district leaders had no idea the
hearing had ever taken place.
“I wish a thousand times a day,”
Wiles said, “that we had uncovered
this in July when I got the request
from Regan through the booster
club for naming the field.” Regan
Johnson is the district’s athletic
director.
“I said at the time we had no
policy,” Wiles said, of naming
school facilities.
It wasn’t until Guilderland
alumni contacted school board
members and Wiles that the
half-century old personnel file
for Kenyon was unearthed. “We
traced it down to the basement
of Westmere Elementary School,
way in back,” said Wiles. “It didn’t
occur to anybody” to look at the
file earlier.
“We were all kind of stunned,”
she said.
Wiles shared the information in
Kenyon’s file with the board at last
Wednesday’s meeting, she said.
“Last night,” she said, “the
policy committee met to develop
a policy for naming school district
facilities. We own not having done
the process right. It’s terribly unfortunate it went as far as it did.”
But, she said, the decision for
the school board was, “Now that
we have the information, do we
choose to ignore it?”
Wiles concluded, “Nobody
feels good about this and how
it unfolded. Nobody. Some hard
lessons were learned by a lot of
people....I think the board landed
in the right place. It’s bigger than
celebrating football.”
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Profile of a winning football coach
Bud Kenyon found football as
a 17-year-old Marine stationed
in China — and he never let go.
Born Harold Clayton Kenyon
Jr. in Bristol, Vermont, his father
was a farmer and his mother ran
a boarding house.
At 17, he joined the Marines
and was sent to China during
the 1948 occupation after World
War II.
“It is the most emotional
sport known to man.
You find out if you control
your emotions or your
emotions control you.”
“My high school didn’t play football,” Kenyon said. “When I went
into the Marine Corps, and ended
up in North China, they had six
teams...I wanted to try out. They
made an end of me because I could
catch. That got me started.”
When he came home, Kenyon
finished his fourth year of high
school and went on to Springfield
College, where he was captain
of the football team. “The rest is
history,” said Kenyon.
He started his coaching career
in Oriskany where, in addition
to football, he also coached basketball and baseball. In 1959, he
moved to Hoosick Falls, where he
introduced 11-man football. In
less than two years, he turned a
team on probation for misconduct
into the runner-up for the leagues’
sportsmanship award.
Kenyon came to Guilderland
in 1965 as a physical education
teacher and head football coach.
All of the Kenyon boys — Kevin,
Mike, Keith, and Chris — played
Guilderland football and Debbie
was a cheerleader. Her father
points out cheerleading was the
only sport for girls in that era.
He credited his wife of 63 years,
Betty, for taking care of home
life so he could concentrate on
coaching.
Kevin Kenyon said of his father’s coaching style, “He’d call
you out immediately on character issues. It was always about
responsibility and accountability.”
He also noted that his father
founded and ran a clinic for
Section II coaches. “He was way
ahead of his time,” Kevin Kenyon
said, getting competing coaches
to learn from each other to better
the game.
There were no cuts on Kenyon’s
team, his son said; anyone willing
to do the work could join. “Some of
the players we had were not athletes; they just wanted to be part
of the team. They grew physically,
mentally, and spiritually,” he said.
He went on, “The game is selflimiting. Everybody had a role.
You couldn’t take a play off. If it
was a failure, they would critique
you.”
After retiring from Guilderland
in 1980, Kenyon went on to coach
in Washington County.
“It is the most emotional sport
known to man,” Coach Kenyon
said of football. “You find out if
you control your emotions or your
emotions control you.”
His favorite part?
“I like Monday through Friday
the best — the preparation. The
games, I enjoyed; it was hanging
out your laundry on what you did
during the week.”
Kenyon, 87, itemized the three
things his misses the most about
coaching, in this order: “One,
Monday through Friday; two, the
people I coached with and against
that I respected; and, three, the
players.”
“I’m still excited,” he said about
football. Two weeks ago, he stood
out in the pouring rain, to watch
a Pop Warner team coached by
one of his former layers.
“I love those little kids,” he said.
Kenyon — who has 23 years
straight with a winning record,
at Hoosick Falls, Guilderland, and
Greenwich — noted that he had
been inducted into the Capital
Region Football Hall of Fame in
2010 and in 1990 received the
National Football Foundation
and Hall of Fame Award for dedication to amateur football, the
first Section II high school coach
recognized for the honor.
“Naming the field was the icing
on the cake,” he said of the honor
from Guilderland that was nearly
in his grasp. “I was so proud. I
was proud for those kids and their
families. We did things together.”
Enterprise file photo — Michael Koff
Major General Harold J. Greene, in silhouette, salutes in this mural, painted by Scott LoBaido in
2014 on an exterior wall of the Town ’N’ Country Lanes bowling alley. A proposal has been made to
name that section of Route 20 after the slain major general.
Legion Riders push to have part of Route 20
named for Major General Greene
GUILDERLAND — By this
time next year, part of Guilderland’s major thoroughfare,
Western Avenue, may well be
named after the highest-ranking
American military officer killed
in a combat zone since the Vietnam War, Guilderland native
Major General Harold J. Greene.
Greene, 55, was killed on Aug.
5, 2014 in an “insider attack,”
shot by an Afghan soldier as he
met with other senior officials.
Steve Oliver, president of the
American Legion Riders and sergeant-at-arms with the American
Legion Helderberg Post 977, said
that he met recently with New
York Senator George Amedore,
Jr. (R, 46th Senate District) to
ask the senator to propose a bill
that would rename a portion of
Route 20 after Greene.
“We don’t let people forget,”
Oliver said. “We want to let the
families know that the veterans’
community doesn’t just do the
initial fanfare and then disappear.”
The portion that Oliver has
suggested is the part that runs
from the Stewart’s at Route 146
to Carman Road.
That section of Route 20 passes
the Town ’N’ Country Lanes
bowling alley, where a mural of a
billowing three-dimensional flag,
with a shadow image of Greene
at its center and his name at
the top, was painted by Scott
LoBaido in 2014.
It also passes by the entrance
to the Haven Hills neighborhood
of Guilderland where Greene
was raised. Oliver mentioned
that the Riders had returned
to Greene’s childhood home on
East Old State Road in August
on the one-year anniversary of
his death, to honor the fallen
commander and to line the lawn
with American flags, just as they
did a year earlier. Greene’s father
still lives in the house.
The proposed Greene avenue
at its western end would meet
up with the start of the stretch
of Carman Road that earlier this
year was named for Lieutenant
Colonel Todd Clark.
Clark was another Army of-
ficer raised in Guilderland and
killed in an insider attack in
Afghanistan. Clark was killed in
June 2013. The portion of State
Route 146 that runs from Route
20 to Lydius Street — past St.
Madeleine Sophie Church, where
Clark was married and where his
funeral was held — was in July
renamed the Todd Clark Memorial Highway.
Eileen Miller of Amedore’s
office confirmed that Amedore
would be submitting this bill to
the Senate after it reconvenes
in January. Amedore will also
reach out to the Assembly to find
a sponsor there, she said. The
bill would need to pass both the
Senate and Assembly and then,
as a final step, be signed by the
governor.
A street in Massachusetts
has already been named in
Greene’s honor. In July, Kansas
Street in Natick — which leads
to the Army base where Greene
commanded the Natick Soldier
Systems Center from 2009 to
2011 — was renamed General
Greene Avenue.
A Taste Of Autumn
What color are you using? Sierra Schelling, 3, left, looks are her best friend Chase Hoch, 5, as they
paint pumpkins last weekend at the Apple & Wine Festival. Music, food, and vendors were all on hand
during the weekend festival at the Altamont fairgrounds.
A wine connoisseur gets a sample of a red wine from Halfmoon
Cellars at last weekends Apple & Wine Festival at the Altamont
fairgrounds, which were crowded n both days of a sunny weekend.
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Community
Dr. Richard Propp, of Albany, will introduce Maimonides and
the medieval world in which he lived before focusing on some of
his views of health and disease. “Maimonides and the Regimen of
Health” will be offered four Wednesday mornings beginning Sept.
30 from 10 to 11 a.m. at B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation, 420
Whitehall Road in Albany. Registration for this four-session course
is required. Cost is $30; for B’nai Sholom members, it is $20. For
more information or to register for, contact the B’nai Sholom office
at 482-5283 or e-mail office@bnaisholom.albany.ny.us.
Thursday, September 24
The Senior Hope Foundation Fundraiser: The Senior
Hope Foundation will hold its inaugural reception and fundraiser
to support outpatient treatment
services for seniors struggling
with alcohol and/or drug addiction. It will take place from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. at Glennpeter Jewelers Diamond Center, 1544 Central Ave., Albany. All funds raised
will be used to support programs
that help seniors break free from
the vicious cycle of addiction.
Friday, September 25
Sarah McQuaid in Concert at the Old Songs Center, 37
South Main St., Voorheesville, at
8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be
purchased by calling 765-2815.
An Evening of Wine and
Music Fundraiser: Join us for a
special fundraising event. Enjoy
a lovely evening with wine and a
light buffet in the 1848 Meeting
House. Albany Pro Musica will
perform an intimate concert. All
proceeds benefit the preservation and education initiatives of
the Shaker Heritage Society. The
fundraiser will take place at the
1848 Meeting House from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 per
person or $20 for students. Call
456-7890 ext. 22 to purchase.
Giffy’s Chicken Barbecue
at the St. John’s Church from 4
to 6 p.m. The dinner includes a
half-chicken, coleslaw, potato, roll
with butter, cookie, and a beverage. This cost is $11 per dinner
and it is take-out only. Call 8618862 for more information or advance tickets.
Amelia’s Army
Bake Sale and Raffle
Saturday, September 26th
9am - 1pm
Berne Lutheran Church
(red brick church)
Rt. 443, Berne NY
To benefit the Nobis family
(Chantelle Raymer)
Whose 4 year old daughter is being
treated for stage 3 brain cancer.
Altamont Volunteer Fire Department
Spaghetti & Homemade Meatball Dinner
Friday, October 2, 2015
Eat in or Take out!
3:30 pm to 7:30 pm
$ 8.50 Adult Dinner
$ 5.00 Child’s Dinner
YUM!
Town of Westerlo Bicentennial Celebration: Celebrate
Westerlo’s 200th anniversary
with a weekend full of events. On
Friday, see the Story of the AntiRent Wars at the Westerlo Town
Hall at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10
presale and $15 at the door. On
Saturday attend the grand opening of the Westerlo Museum from
10 a.m. to noon; watch the parade
at 1 p.m.; from 2 to 7 p.m. enjoy
historic displays, food vendors,
a silent auction, and back sale;
from 7 to 10 p.m. dance a round
and square dance with music by
Peaceful Country; at 8 p.m. watch
fireworks sponsored by Hannay
Reel Company. On Sunday, run a
5K race at 9 a.m.; attend a community church service at 10:30
a.m. in the town park; enjoy a
community picnic at noon; and
check out a car show from noon
to 3 p.m.
“The Art of Living”: Lama
Losang (Dr. David Bole) will give
a talk exploring traditional Asian
methods of enhancing health
and happiness at Albany KTC
Buddhist Meditation Center at
Doane Stuart School, 199 Washington Ave., Rensselaer. The suggested donation is $15. For more
information call 872-1629.
GHS to Celebrate 60 Years
of Football: In conjunction with
the 2015 Homecoming game,
Guilderland High School will
celebrate 60 years of football
and acknowledge past Dutchmen coaches and players during
the halftime program. The game
starts at 7 p.m. with Guilderland
taking on Albany High School.
Football alumni, fans, and supporters are invited to attend a
pre-game tailgate. Tickets are
$15 and can be purchased via
e-mail through Krista Gallup at
ganggallup@hotmail.com.
Saturday, September 26
Dinner and a Movie: Join
us at the Huyck Preserve, 5052
Delaware Turnpike, at 5:30 p.m.
for a screening of the Extraordinary Ordinary Junco, Amazing
Biology From a Backyard Bird.
After the movie we’ll have a Q&A
with the executive producer of
the film, Ellen Ketterson, and
the film’s director, producer, and
writer, Jonathon Atwell. This
event is in collaboration with the
Audubon Society of the Capital
Region, and is a science film for
all ages and interest levels. Come
learn something new about this
common winter resident to backyard feeders! Tickets are $10, or
$5 for members.
205th Anniversary of the
Founding of McKownville:
Join the second annual sidewalk
celebration and potluck supper
from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the McKownville Reservoir Park. Gary
Sanders and Will Vail will provide
music and there will a pet parade
with prizes for the biggest, smallest, biggest smile, and fastest
tail. Come meet your neighbors
and make new acquaintances.
Bring a dish to share and a chair.
Italian Night at the Voorheesville Legion Post from 4 to
7 p.m. The menu includes lasagna, chicken marsala, sausage,
peppers and onions, baked ziti,
spaghetti and meatballs, chicken
Sorrento, eggplant parmesan,
salad, and fresh bread. The cost
is $15 per person or $8 for children. Take-outs are available.
“From Deterioration to Rebirth” will be the program at
the annual meeting of the Rensselaerville Historical Society. The
meeting will be at the Medusa
Firehouse and will begin with
a business meeting at 5 p.m.,
a potluck supper at 6 p.m., and
the program at 7 p.m. The program will be many of John Eldridge’s vast collection of photos
documenting the step-by-step
progress over the last three year
of the restoration of the Daniel
Conkling House on Albany Hill
Road. All are welcome; visitors
do not have to be members of the
historical society to attend any
part of the meeting.
Night of the Helderberg
Blood Moon: Join the Friends
of the Helderberg Observatory to
view the lunar eclipse from 7 to 9
p.m. at the Town of Berne’s Game
Farm Road property. We will
meet at the lodge, where we will
be treated to a presentation from
astronomer Ron Barnell, who will
discuss the lunar eclipse and the
potential for locating a researchgrade astronomical observatory
in the Helderbergs. From there
we will head out to the fields to
watch the eclipse. Please bring a
flashlight and a blanket or lawn
chair, and dress for cool weather.
Canal Street Station Historic Fall Festival: Enjoy an
antique car and hot rod show at
the Canal Street Station, located
on Route 20, three miles east of
Duanesburg. There will be blacksmithing and tinsmithing presentations, a farmers’ market,
and arts and crafts vendors. Free
admission. There will also be a
mobile blood drive in honor of Joe
Merli from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Nighttime Wildlife at Five
Rivers: Nighttime is special at
56 Game Farm Road, Delmar. It’s
often a quiet time for people but
an active time for wildlife. Join
a center naturalist at 7 p.m. for
an evening stroll to learn about
some of the nocturnal animals
at Five Rivers. Learn the strategies of the hunters and what the
hunted do to avoid being caught.
Call 475-0291 for more information.
Annual Ham Dinner at the
Schoharie United Presbyterian
Church, 314 Main St., from 4 to 7
p.m. Serving family-style homemade mashed potatoes, gravy,
squash, baked beans, coleslaw,
applesauce, rolls, desserts, and
beverages. The cost is $12 for
adults and $6 for children; $1
charge for take-outs.
Guilderland High School
Class of 1975 40th Reunion at
the Cider House Restaurant at
the Orchard Creek Golf Club.
Save the date or spread the news!
E-mail nlevis9@gmail.com or
mchasesr@verizon.net for more
information.
Amelia’s Army bake sale and
raffle from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the
Berne Lutheran Church, Route
443, to benefit the Nobis family,
whose 4-year-old daughter is being treated for stage 3 brain cancer.
Sunday, September 27
Sunday Four Poetry Open
Mic at the Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 South Main
St., Voorheesville, at 3 p.m. Featuring Jay Rogoff reading from
Venera. Hosted by Dennis Sullivan, Edie Abrams, and Michael
Burke.
Discover the Pine Bush: An
extraordinary journey into the
Albany Pine Bush, the best remaining example in the world of
an inland pine barrens. Our experts will guide you along this .9mile hike over rolling sand dunes
where you will discover Pine
Bush natural history, seasonal
surprises, and transformations.
This is a Hudson River Valley
Ramble event. Appropriate for
all ages. Meet at the Albany Pine
Bush Discovery Center, 195 New
Karner Road, at 1 p.m. The fee is
$3 per person or $5 per family,
and registration is required; call
456-0655.
Canal Street Station Historic Fall Festival: Enjoy an
antique car and hot rod show at
the Canal Street Station, located
on Route 20, three miles east of
Duanesburg. There will be blacksmithing and tinsmithing presentations, a farmers’ market,
and arts and crafts vendors. Free
admission.
Tuesday, September 28
The Town of Berne Historical Society joins the Berne
Library in welcoming Bruce
Dearstyne for an evening program of history. Dr. Dearstyne
will speak about his new book,
“The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State’s
History.” The program begins at
7 p.m. and refreshments will be
served.
Tuesday, September 29
Solarize Albany County: Informational meeting, at 7 p.m. at
Conkling Hall, 8 Methodist Hill
Road in Rensselaerville, about a
NYSERDA sponsored, discounted bulk purchasing program for
anyone in Albany County who
wants to buy a solar PV system
for installation at their home or
small business. Feel free to bring
your electric bills for the last
year, or bring summary information about your annual power
use, to help answer individualized questions. Call 618-5376 for
more information.
Financial Resources for
Business Panel Discussion:
Join Economic Development and
Chamber of Commerce professionals for a discussion at the
Bethlehem Public Library at 7
p.m. The panel will discuss financing resources available for
business start-ups and expansions from a variety of sources
including conventional banks
and non-traditional, alternative
lenders. Topics to be discussed
include credit, business planning,
financial projections, appropriate
uses of funds, and more. Call 4394955 ext. 1189 for more information.
Eldercare Resources Fall
Seminar Series: The educational seminars presented by
ECR, featuring various relevant
topics for seniors, are ideal for
both active “Boomers” as well as
families with aging loved ones
and enables them to benefit from
a greater understanding of the
resources and service providers
available throughout the Capital
Region. A seminar will be held
at the Guilderland YMCA from
12:30 to 2 p.m.
Wednesday,September 30
Voorheesville
Farmers’
Market, final week, from 3:30
to 6:30 p.m. at 68 Maple Avenue,
featuring Two’s Company Music.
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Calendar
Brilliant and Bristly Buckmoths: Join us for a .9-mile walk
to discover the amazing world of
buckmoths. The inland barrens
buckmoth is a large beautiful
moth with bold black and white
wings that flies for only a brief
window of time in the early fall.
A species of special concern in
New York State, the buckmoth is
uniquely dependent on the scrub
oak that thrives in this sandy
fire-dependent ecosystem. Appropriate for ages 6 and up. Meet at
the Albany Pine Bush Discovery
Center, 195 New Karner Road, at
11 a.m. The fee is $3 per person
or $5 per family and registration
is required; call 456-0655.
Audrey Flack: Heroines, is the major fall exhibit at The Hyde,
at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls, featuring works by the 84year old photorealist like “When the Stardust Fell From My Eyes,
I Ran,” a digital pigment print made last year. The exhibit will
open to the public on Sept. 26 in the Hoopes Gallery.
Thursday, October 1
Community Net Metering,
be Helderberg Community Energy, at 7 p.m. at the First Reformed Church of Berne, 1663
Helderberg Trail in Berne. Learn
how to use solar power if you live
in an apartment, or if you have a
slate roof, a historic home, shade
trees, or any other reason why installing solar panels at your site
is not your best option. Feel free
to bring Feel free to bring your
electric bills for the last year,
or bring summary information
about your annual power use, to
help answer individualized questions. Call 669-6459.
Turkey Supper and Bake
Sale at the Bethany Lutheran
Church at 4:30 p.m. The price of
the family-style dinner is $10 for
adults and $6 for children. Takeouts are available for $11. Proceeds will be used for church and
community projects.
Friday, October 2
First Friday Walk and Talk:
Take a break from your day
and join us for a 1.2-mile hike
at Kings Road Barrens. We will
meet at the Kings Road trailhead
at noon. Adults only. There is not
fee, but registration is required;
call 456-0655.
Saturday, October 3
Plaid Market Basket Workshop at the Shaker Heritage
Society, 25 Meeting House Road,
Albany, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This basket has an open bottom
woven in natural, smoked, and
your color choice. Please choose
navy, black, dark green, red, or
burgundy at the time of registration. Optional wrapped handle if
time permits. This is a five-hour
workshop; those who do not complete their baskets within the
time frame may schedule more
class time with the instructor at
a later date for an additional cost.
Pre-registration with payment
is required by Sept. 28. Space is
limited, so reserve your spot by
calling 456-7890.
Brooks Chicken Barbeque
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the
McKownville United Methodist
Church, 1565 Western Avenue.
The cost is $11 for an adult chicken dinner, $8 for a children’s dinner, and $8.50 for chicken only.
Also visit our pumpkin patch and
our vendor fair.
Pulled Pork Dinner at the
Bethlehem Grange #137, 24
Bridge St., Selkirk. Menu includes pulled pork, mashed potatoes, vegetables, coleslaw, a roll,
beverage, and dessert. The cost is
$12 for adults and $6 for children
and dinner will be served from 4
to 7 p.m.
Harvest Fair: Heather Ridge
Farm in Preston Hollow is hosting its first Harvest Fair, a daylong event celebrating the abundance of the Catskills and Hudson Valley. The fair will feature
local farmers, artisans, and producers displaying their products,
cider pressing and tastings, wool
spinning demonstrations, farm
tours, and fun fall treats. Live
entertainment will be provided
by Wes Laraway and The Birds
of Prey of the New York Wildlife
Rehabilitation Center. The focus
of the event will be a scarecrow
competition, in which contestants
bring their most dapper decoy for
fairgoers to enjoy, while vying for
the $100 gift certificate prize. For
more information, call 239-6234.
Breast Cancer Awareness
Spaghetti Dinner in loving
memory of Robin Evon, from
noon to 7 p.m. at the Guilderland
Elks Club, 3867 Carman Road.
The suggested donation for dinner is $10 for adults and $5 for
children. Take-out dinners will
be available. Cash drinks, music,
drawings, and more. For questions, donations, or if you would
like to volunteer, call 858-8737.
New Fall Sales at Medusa:
The Medusa Church announces
it is having fall rummage sales.
The first will be open on Oct. 3,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving items,
as well as many other items. The
church hall is located on County
Route 351 in the village.
Schoharie Pumpkin Festival: The Schoharie Promotional
Association announces its 5th annual pumpkin festival to be held
on Main Street in the Village of
Schoharie from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Some of the events planned are
entertainment in the courtyard,
games, contests, prizes, crafters
and vendors, a photo booth, giant
pumpkins, festival food, hayrides,
a pumpkin bake-off, mobile fire
safety trailer tours, local race
cars and drivers, and much more.
The day will end with a giant
pumpkin drop and smash!
7TH ANNUAL
Ladies’ Night Out
Wednesday, September 30
5:30 - 8pm
TREVISO (ITALIAN AMERICAN CENTER)
257 WASHINGTON AVENUE EXT. • ALBANY, NY 12205
Health Wellness and Fun Activities!
35 Vendors, Demonstrators and Samples
$5 to attend with half the proceeds going to The Next Step Inc.
www.guilderlandchamber.com or 518-456-6611
Foliage and Fido — Fall
Hike: Meet at the Research Station at the Huyck Preserve, 284
Pond Hill Road, for a guided
hike, and bring Fido with you!
All dogs must be leashed, up-todate on vaccines, and friendly.
We will hike away from the station down to the lake for a view of
the changing fall foliage, and see
what we can find along the way.
This a free guided hike, but donations are always appreciated.
Lasagna Dinner and Cake
Walk at the Hilltowns Senior
Center, 1360 Helderberg Trail,
Berne. Tickets are $10 prepaid at
the Berne Library or $12 at the
door. Sponsored by the Friends of
the Berne Library.
A New Season of Community Dances: Two of the area’s
leading proponents of traditional
dance, Old Songs, Inc., with underwriting support from Homespun Occasions, host a new season of Old Songs Community
Dances, starting on Oct. 3 at 7
p.m. Admission is $8 per person;
children age 12 and under get in
free. A yummy dessert and snack
potluck during intermission will
return by popular demand. The
first dance will feature caller
Paul Rosenberg and music by
Tamarack.
Sunday, October 4
Prickly Porcupines: Porcupines, also known as quill pigs,
are the only mammal in North
America with quills and they
live here in the Pine Bush. Join
us for a talk and walk to learn
more about these interesting and
elusive animals. We will walk approximately one mile. Appropriate for ages 6 and up. Meet at
the Albany Pine Bush Discovery
Center, 195 New Karner Road, at
1 p.m. The fee is $3 per person or
$5 per family and registration is
required; call 456-0655.
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Anniversary
Correspondents
Altamont
By
Rosemary
Caruso
330-2855
Luther and Solveig Snyder
Snyders celebrate
65 years of marriage
Luther and Solveig Snyder we married on Oct. 1, 1950. They were
high school sweethearts, graduating from Altamont High School
in 1948.
They were married at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Guilderland
Center on Oct. 1, 1950.
The Snyders lived on Gardner Road in Guilderland for 40 years,
from 1948 to 1988, and now live in Carolina Shores, North Carolina.
Mr. Snyder was in the United States Army during the Korean
conflict and served in Japan from 1951 to 1953. He retired in 1988
from a 40-year career at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation.
The couple had three daughters: Carol Adriance, Diane Disser,
and the late Juanita Manss.
Engagement
Jonathan Scrafford and Maria Cizek
Cizek, Scrafford to wed
GUILDERLAND — David and Jeanne Scrafford of Guilderland
are happy to announce the engagement their son, Jonathan Scrafford, to Maria Cizek, daughter of David and Barbara Cizek of Eau
Claire, Wisconsin.
Ms. Cizek earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and earned a master’s degree from Lesley
University in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Scrafford is a graduate
of Northeastern University where he earned a degree in chemical
engineering.
The couple will be wed in San Diego, California where they currently reside.
It is easy to tell that summer
will soon be over. One indicator
is that people are already talking
about the end of daylight savings
time, which does not end until
Nov. 1, 2015. That is the official
date when clocks are set back
one hour giving us less daylight.
Another indicator is our mailbox. So far we have received two
small wallet or pocket calendars,
two magnetic calendars to hang
on our refrigerator, and three
personal planners to keep track
of our activities. The pocket
planners are wonderful, because
we can keep track of all of our
important dates and have them
with us at all times. However,
when we have a busy spell, it is
hard, even for us, to see and understand what we have written
in those little date squares, but
with years of experience we can
usually interpret our own handwriting and not miss too much.
Living in the Altamont area,
we have the best indicator of all
that summer is about come to a
close, and that indicator is the
Scottish Games on the Altamont
Fairgrounds. The advertising
with men in kilts playing the
bagpipes is enough to stir
one’s imagination. Once on
the Fairgrounds you enter a
whole new world. Tents are
set up for traditional Scottish food and, of course, some
good traditional beer. Each
clan has the opportunity to
set up their own tent to meet
and greet other clan members
visiting from other countries
and states.
This year the Schenectady
Pipe Band presented the Capital District Scottish Games for
the 38th year giving us the
opportunity to have a taste of
Scotland in the Capital Region.
They had Caber tossing —
tossing a long thick pole end
over end, highland dancing,
tossing of the sheaves — using
a pitchfork to toss a bundle of
harvested wheat over a bar
measured for height, tossing of
the haggis — a dish made from
chopped lamb parts, cereal,
suet, onions and seasonings,
and packed into a sausage skin
then boiled, Scottish cuisine,
and one of the nation’s largest pipe band competitions.
The annual Capital District
Scottish games and the band
competition attendance has
grown to 12,000 enthusiastic
spectators with 35 pipe bands
competing.
One of my personal favorites
when we visit the Scottish
Games is watching the border
collies competition. The border
collie is a working and herding dog that was developed for
herding livestock, especially
sheep. It was specifically bred
for intelligence and obedience.
Because they are highly intelligent, extremely energetic,
acrobatic, smart, and athletic,
they frequently compete with
great success in dog sports,
in addition to their success in
their traditional work of herding livestock.
The crowd that gathered to
watch the collies as they were
put through their paces was
not disappointed. A dog and his
handler came into the ring, and
the dog took a post and lay on
the ground with his head on his
paws and his ears tilted toward
his handler awaiting his commands. With a low whistle from
the handler, the collie rapidly
moved in a low crouched position to collect groups of livestock
and move them quietly around
a course. Using no words, only
a whistle for a signal, the sheep
were gathered as calmly as possible without being distressed.
The sheepdog would gather some
sheep from the herd, bring them
on an angle to the center of the
field, and then be sent back in
another direction to gather more
sheep. Sheepdogs must be directed through obstacles at varying
distances from the handler, and
then the dog must demonstrate
the ability to do work close at
hand by penning the sheep and
sorting them out. We all watched
in awe at the ability of the handler to give directions with just
a whistle and have the dog obey
him so well.
When talking about Scottish
dogs, my husband, Jim, readily
admits that his preference is
the Scottish terrier. Popularly
called the Scottie, which is one
breed of dog that originated in
Scotland. They have been owned
by a variety of celebrities, including the 32nd President of the
United States, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, whose Scottie “Fala”
is included with FDR in a statue
in Washington, D.C., as well as
the 43rd President, George W.
Bush. They are also well known
for being a playing piece in the
board game Monopoly.
The final indicator that I will
talk about today is the opening of
schools. Your friends and families
have finished their vacations
and are now back to the routine
that includes school for all of
our young people. If you have
children, you know all of the
preparation that has gone into
just getting ready for the end of
summer and the beginning of the
school year.
It is now time for us all to
remember the most important
lesson we learned about the end
of summer and going back to
school, to watch out for children!
They have had a good summer,
and we want them all to enjoy
the rest of the year in order to be
around for next summer’s break.
Good cooks
The members of Noah Lodge
754 cooked the hamburgers,
cheeseburgers, and hot dogs,
while members of Helderberg
Chapter 331 supplied the pasta
and tossed salads as well as lots
of other delicious dishes for the
gathering of the two groups last
week. We sure do have some good
chefs and cooks. Thanks to all
who participated in the social
event to kick off the beginning
of the meeting year someone will
call you back.
PSAT
Junior students — the registration forms for the PSAT to
be given on Wednesday, Oct. 14,
were distributed last Friday to all
junior students. The completed
form must be returned no later
than Wednesday, Oct. 7.
Golfing For A Cause
“If Caitlin were here, she’d be here,” said Maura Clancy of
her daughter before the golf tournament held in her name on
Saturday. The second annual Caitlin Clancy Golf Tournament
honors a young Guilderland graduate, just starting her college
studies, who died two years ago from diabetes. Her father, David
Clancy, started the tournament to raise money for a scholarship in
her name. Before golf was even played, $14,000 was raised for the
scholarship. Last year’s inaugural tournament, with 146 golfers,
raised $23,000. This year, 180 golfers played. Jeff Easley, Marcus
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Fall Home, Garden & Car Care
Mary Brown’s birch tree. Enterprise photo by Melissa Hale-Spencer
2B Fall Home, Garden, and Car Care 2015
Mary Browne’s massive 1800s barn is a canvas for her care and love
KNOX — Mary Browne, a
spiritual healer, has a view as
wide as the world. At 75, she has
a personal relationship with the
farm where she lives on Pleasant
Valley Road in Knox.
Painted replicas of quilts she
has made have recently been
posted on her barn. “I did it
because it’s quite a canvas; that
barn is huge,” she said. “I did it
to honor our children and those
who have made this farm what it
is. I love this place.”
One of the barn quilts is for
Amy Atkins. “Amy is one of my
extra children...She’s an incredible potter,” said Browne.
“I’m here a lot…I like all of the
people who come through. I like
the land. I like being able to work.
It’s home,” said Atkins, who is 27.
The age difference between
herself and Browne doesn’t seem
important to her. “Age isn’t so
much about the number as about
attitude.” Atkins says of Browne,
“She’s got attitude.”
Of the quilt she designed, she
says, “It’s who I am in pictures.
It’s the stuff I love.” She discovered the central figure by looking
through Browne’s quilting books.
“It’s a compass rose…with a heart
painted in and out for each direction….It’s a nice metaphor, hearts
pointed inward and outward, giving and receiving of love.”
The compass is “surrounded by
flowers and bees and mountains
and trees.” The tree is for a birch
— “a beautiful one out back.”
“They usually die young,”
said Atkins, “and branch into
Hearts and thistles center a quilt Mary Browne made for herself
and her late husband. “You can’t know complete joy if you haven’t
had pain along the way,” she said. The quilt square on the wing of
the barn behind is for her husband; it features a modern bear and
a Navajo bear with a traditional flying geese pattern in between
and cattails in the corners.
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...She draws from spiritual traditions around the world to design her quilts
multiple trunks, leaning.” This
birch, though, with a single trunk,
stands straight and strong.
Atkins walks to the birch she
loves, her bare feet sure of the
way. She crosses a newly built
bridge over a woodland stream
near the bowl of space where
Browne’s daughter was married,
and where mourners came to
share their love after her son,
Bart, and later her husband,
Stephen, died.
As if on a pilgrimage, Atkins
leads the way through the dappled light of a woodland path that
winds some distance before suddenly opening to the bright light
of a green pasture. And, there, on
the horizon stands the birch tree,
solitary in its splendor.
She hugs the tree and tells its
story.
“When Mary and Steve first
moved here, Steve wanted to cut
it. Mary said, ‘No, you leave that
tree.’”
When asked about the story,
Browne says that the birch then
— over a half-century ago — was
just a sapling. She recalls she
told her husband, “Touch it and
you die.”
Browne went on, “The birch
is the queen of the forest as the
oak is the king, in the Celtic way.
We’ve all been everything.”
Browne’s life and quilts pull
threads from different traditions
to make a whole cloth.
Her feet are covered with intricate tattoos based on a design
from Morocco. One represents
male, the other female. “They are
Photo from John Elberfeld
Vibrant with motion:
Mary Browne made a quilt
of a kangaroo with a joey in
its pouch for her daughter,
Heidi, who is a midwife.
John Elberfeld who, like
Browne, lives in Knox, painted a replica of the quilt to
hang on Browne’s barn. Elbereld is helping to create a
Helderberg Quilt Barn Trail,
part of a national grassroots
folk art movement.
identical — it doesn’t matter,”
she says of the lesson her feet
represent.
“If we can get beyond gender
bias, we’ll be a long way toward
recovering our soul,” says Browne.
The tattoos were applied by “a
biker on Lark Street,” she says.
“I hate shoes; I loathe them,” she
goes on. “My feet are remarkably
ugly so I had them disguised.”
Favorite tree: Amy Atkins walks toward a solitary flourishing birch tree on Mary Browne’s farm.
Browne protected it when, a half-century ago, it was a sapling. “The birch is the queen of the forest as
the oak is the king,” says Browne, “in the Celtic way. We’ve all been everything.”
She has recently traveled to
France and now is on a sojourn
to Scotland. In France, she studied Catharism, a movement in
southern Europe in the 12th
Century. “They were a group of
people with religious beliefs that
embrace kindness, compassion,
and generosity,” she said. Cathars
were denounced by the Catholic
Church as Satanists.
Browne went to Montségur,
one of the last strongholds of the
Cathars where, in 1243, those who
would not renounce their faith
were burned.
“I went to Montségur where
that debacle occurred...I went
part way up and sat under a tree,”
said Browne. “I did a meditation
and was just gone. When I came
back to myself, I could see where
they had died below me. They
didn’t try to escape.”
She describes the meaning behind the quilts on her barn.
“On the side facing the pond
is a quilt I made for Steve and
me — Life 101. It has hearts and
thistles,” says Browne, explaining
their meaning: “You can’t know
complete joy if you haven’t had
pain along the way.” She has
known more than her share of
pain. Her son Erik was born with
disabilities including blindness.
Her son Bart took his own life.
Her husband died in 2012 when
his tractor overturned, killing
him. He was 73.
And yet, Browne sounds joyful
as she describes the quilts made
in their honor.
Describing the quilt for her
husband, she says, “The quilt on
the big side of the barn facing the
pond, I designed in less than 10
minutes — a modern bear and a
Navajo bear with stylized tracks.
In between that is a traditional
flying geese pattern and in the
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“The birch is the queen of the forest
as the oak is the king, in the Celtic way.”
Mary Browne, a Reiki healer, listens to a friend as they sit on
her patio on Sept. 8, the day they were setting out for a sojourn
to Scotland.
corners are cattails.” These reflect her husband’s work with big
game; with the state’s goose project; and protecting endangered
land like swamps.
“Bart’s quilt faces the road,” she
goes on. “He spent time in Australia. It’s a songline; it represents a
snake — he didn’t mind snakes.
He was a kid who walked about.”
A songline, she explained, is
what native Aboriginals follow,
paths across the land to mark
the route of a creator being like
a snake or rabbit; traditional
songs keep the paths alive and
ever present.
Browne says of her son’s death,
“I have no pain around it — I
never did. He was the most beautiful child I could imagine. I loved
him with everything I had. He
did some terrible things. He did
some stupid things. He did some
remarkable things.”
“The next quilt is a child’s quilt.
It looks Amish — a heart with
flowers. I used stencil paint on
it,” says Browne.
“Next is a traditional antique
Irish harp. Erik is blind. Many of
the traditional harpists in Ireland
were blind. He loves Irish music.”
His brilliant green quilt faces
Pleasant Valley Road.
The inspiration for her daughter’s quilt came from Black
Mountain in Australia. “It’s an
important Aboriginal ground. It
has an area like Thacher Park
with cliffs, and paintings that
are thousands of years old,” said
Browne. This inspired her to portray a kangaroo — with a joey in
its pouch. “My daughter, Heidi, is
a midwife,” she explained.
An Amish quilt honors Howard
Coughtry, the New Scotland carpenter who helped restore their
house.
The canvas isn’t finished yet.
Browne has a design in mind
for her friend, Kate Laity, who
teaches medieval literature and
new media at The College of Saint
Rose. “Kate’s is coming next,” said
Browne; it will be a book opening
to the stars, with a quill pen.
The paintings went up after
the barn was re-sided, a massive
undertaking.
A year and a half ago, Browne
found a list of projects her husband wanted yet to do on the
farm. “Everything is done now,”
said Browne. The list included
some major projects: re-siding
the massive barn, replacing the
house’s cellar, and redoing the
bee house.
“The Amish boys re-sided the
barn and totally redid this,”
Browne said of the bee house,
which has two of its own quilt
paintings — small to fit the scale
of the building. “Steve made the
shutters and I wouldn’t trade
them for anything.” Inside is both
the functional and artistic. “That’s
who I am,” said Browne.
She told the history of the
post-and-beam barn that she
learned from neighbor Charlie
Roney who heard it from his
uncle, Johnny Schoonmaker: In
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...‘Land that was worked for many years, now works in another way’
the 1800s, Browne said, the barn
timbers were laid out by Merriman Nasholts who lived in Knox
and built the first bicycle.
“He laid it out with hammer
handles…He stood on the ridge
pole and pointed to what was
needed next,” she said.
“Mike Vincent’s grandparents
owned this farm,” said Browne.
“When they left, Michael never
came back until I started work
on the barn. He showed up in his
Model A Ford.”
Farm lessons
Michael Vincent, in his own
way, loves the farm as much
the exposed cathedral-like structure of the big barn, Vincent said,
“This is the original wood and it’s
all straight and it’s all tight.”
“I marveled at it back then and
I still do,” he said.
Vincent also likes the quilt
boards that Browne has put on
the barn. They were painted by
John Elberfeld as part of an ongoing project to make a Helderberg
Quilt Barn Trail, part of a national
grassroots folk art movement.
“John Elberfeld has been just
fantastic,” said Browne.
“I want to do one myself,”
Vincent said. “Every one of them
“This is the original wood
and it’s all straight and it’s all tight.
I marveled at it back then and I still do.”
as Browne. While his time on
Pleasant Valley Road was much
shorter — he lived there with his
grandparents from the age of 11
to 17, when they sold it in 1964 —
it was during his formative years
and shaped his life.
His father, Gerald Vincent,
worked for Central Markets and,
when the company expanded
in 1959, his family — his three
sisters and his brother with
their mother, Delia — moved to
Pittsfield, Massachusetts for his
father’s job.
Michael Vincent didn’t like it
there. “I’m a farm boy, a country
boy,” he said. So, at age 11, he
moved to the farm on Pleasant
Valley Road to live with his
grandparents. They were in their
60s then and welcomed the help,
he said.
“They always worked until they
couldn’t work anymore,” he said.
Some of the lessons he learned
as a boy on the farm were practical. He was told to chop wood as
a punishment but loved the task.
The farmhouse was heated with
wood, so there was much chopping to do.
He shared a trick his grandfather taught him. “When you had
a piece of oak or maple that was
extremely hard to split, Grandpa
taught me to set these aside until
it got really cold. When it was 10
below, you put motor oil on each
side of a sharp ax and chop into
it and it would be like cutting
butter.”
Some of the lessons were harder
to learn.
He often walked the farm with
his collie, Lassie. When Vincent
was 14, a neighboring farmer
came by and said the collie had
been at his sheep. “Grandpa said,
‘Go get her.’”
He brought Lassie to his grandfather who opened her mouth and
they could see wool on her molars.
“I knew what I had to do,” he
said. He shot his dog.
Despite the hard work and
hard lessons, Vincent felt lucky.
He remembers having newspaper
stuffed in the toes of his boots,
waiting for his feet to grow to fill
them. Once, when he was making
fence stakes, an ax went through
his boot but did not harm his foot.
The boot was repaired by Helen
Becker in Altamont.
“All straight and all tight”
Vincent was pleased to see
Browne re-side the barn. “I’ve
always been interested in structures,” said Vincent who worked
doing carpentry and caring for
state parks, including Thacher.
He points to two boards he has
made with carefully beveled edges
to display pictures of the barn
from his childhood and under
reconstruction a year ago.
Pointing to a picture that shows
means something to someone,”
he said.
Vincent’s Aunt Muriel painted
a hex sign as a present for him
and his bride when they married
in 1967.
Centerpiece
The everyday rhythms of farm
life on Pleasant Valley Road ebbed
and flowed from the barn.
When Vincent lived on the farm,
the massive barn was home to 15
dairy cows with four calves and
four or five heifers, and close to
200 chickens as well as an occasional horse.
“We got up at 5:30 in the morning to start milking at 6,” he said.
He described the process, beginning with putting a five-gallon pail
on a coil to wash the udders. The
two milking machines were put
together, strainers were placed on
top of the big milk cans, and the
air compressor was started. The
Michael Vincent points to a picture he took a year ago of the
barn he loved as a boy. Last summer, Mary Browne had the barn
re-sided, revealing its cathedral-like structure beneath the outer
boards.
— Photo from Michael Vincent
Snapshot of the past: Michael Vincent, right, operates a tractor with his father, Gerald, on the Knox
farm owned by his grandparents, Guy and Agnes Vincent. The barn behind them was recently re-sided.
Michael Vincent has fond memories of growing up on the Pleasant Valley Road farm.
milk cans were cooled with water
until a milkman arrived, every
other day, to pick them up.
“We ground our own corn,
wheat, and oats” to feed the cows.
The grinding was done in the barn,
which had “a great big tub with a
grinding mill” that was belt-driven
and ran off of an Oliver tractor.
The chickens would be fed every
morning. They roosted in the top of
the barn’s smaller addition.
In the spring, summer, and
fall, the cows would be let out to
pasture.
Breakfast was prepared by his
grandmother. A hearty meal, it in-
cluded half-inch thick bacon, made
from pigs raised on the farm, and
fried in a big iron skillet. The eggs
were fresh, too, collected in yellow
wire baskets from the barn.
The Vincents had white leghorns because, he said, “They’re
the best laying hens.”
They carefully washed all the
eggs and then candled them,
holding them to the light to see if
there were double yolks or blood
spots. “Those, you don’t sell,” said
Vincent.
On Saturday morning, Vincent
and his grandfather would take
their eggs and vegetables they had
grown to a huge farmers’ market
in Albany. “We had a huge garden
where Mary has flowers. We hoed
the potatoes and hilled them up,”
he said. “We’d pick dandelion
greens and sell them, too.”
“We’d put heads of slaughtered calves on the corners of
our table,” said Vincent. “The
Italians and the Poles boil them
and make head cheese…I’d pat
the tongue and it was really
rough.”
Vincent said it didn’t bother
him to eat the animals he had
helped raise.
“You’ve got to eat,” he said.
Loving the work
While the milking of the cows
and the feeding of the chickens
was constant, other work on the
farm varied with the season.
“Right now,” Vincent said of the
fall, “there’d be a second cutting of
hay…I love to rake hay.” He likes
operating equipment, he said. “The
wind is in your face; you’re hair is
blowing away.”
He sounded not unlike Browne
as he described his love of working
the farm.
“Since Steve died, so many people have helped,” said Browne. “All
have different skills…I haven’t
had a day here by myself since
he died. They do whatever needs
to be done.”
“She’s modest,” Atkins insisted
later. “She does a ton of the work
herself. She’s incredible.” She
mows the grounds entirely herself,
for example, which takes 11 hours,
said Atkins.
Browne says she does the mowing because “it’s beautiful.” She
goes on, “It’s my time for meditation and reflection. The wind will
be blowing like it is now and one
leaf will be moving — it’s magic.”
Self-sufficiency
The farm, Vincent estimated,
counting up the acreage of each
field, had 100 acres of tillable land
and wood lots besides.
“You better be in the house by
noon or you didn’t get lunch,” said
Vincent. His grandmother was a
good cook. A bacon, lettuce, and
tomato sandwich — all from the
farm — was a favorite meal for
lunch.
“Grandma baked her own bread
and made her own butter. The only
thing you had to buy for the BLT
was the mayonnaise.”
A favorite drink on the farm was
ice tea, made by setting jars with
tea bags in the sun.
“You set down to supper at 7:15.
You always had baked or mashed
potatoes from the garden. I never
had French fries till I was 20.”
Meals also included beans and
squash, ham and beef steak — all
from the farm.
Some of the food was found in
the woods — puffball fungus to fry
or blueberries and huckleberries
picked from their plants.
The kitchen pantry was stocked
with canned goods his grandmother
put up. His left-handed grandmother hooked rugs from worn
clothes for the farmhouse. “She did
everything,” he said. “You had to be
self-sustaining.”
Vincent also hunted on the land,
much of which they ate. He hunted
woodchucks, too, for safety on the
farm. “You don’t want woodchuck
holes in the field,” he explained. “It
could blow a tractor tire or break
your leg if you step in it.”
He was proud of the woodchucks
he shot. “We hanged them on the
fence stakes to show off,” said
Vincent.
One day, a regular visitor to the
Helderbergs stopped and offered him
25 cents for every woodchuck he shot
and cleaned.
One of his favorite places on the
farm was “a little indentation in
the field, where the stones came
out; there used to be maple and ash
there,” said Vincent. “It was shady
and cool and I liked to sit and look
down at the farm…What a beautiful
place….My grandparents wanted
me to have the farm.”
“We all had responsibility,” he said
of life on the farm. “I knew every
acre of that farm, from tilling it or
hunting it.”
“It’s an oasis,” said Browne’s
friend, Laity, describing the farm.
She met Browne when friends of
hers attended a retreat there.
“I always refer to it as Brigadoon,”
said Laity, alluding to a mythical
Scottish village that materializes
for just one day every century. “Some
mornings, the fog is so heavy, it’s like
being in another world — so peaceful. Land that was worked for many
years, now works in another way.”
A traveler from Guilderland compares our homes and gardens to those in Gelderland
translated as “coziness.” These
By Ellen Zunon
“Welkom in Gelderland” — No, concepts are emblematic of the
Dutch lifestyle as well as their
it’s not spelled wrong!
It’s what the road sign says homes.
Orderliness is evident in the
when you drive across the border
from Germany into the Dutch way traffic moves in the capital
province of Gelderland, from city of Amsterdam, where mowhich we get the name of our tor vehicles, trams, cyclists, and
local town Guilderland. On a pedestrians keep to their desigrecent trip to the Netherlands, nated lanes with the expectation
I had an opportunity to spend that others will do likewise. It is
time with relatives who live also evident in the neat homes,
in Gelderland, and this got me usually smaller than ours, that
thinking about how our homes sit side-by-side on uncluttered
and lifestyles are both similar streets.
Gezelligheid
and different.
refers not only
The
bestto the neatness
known example
Dutch relatives
and coziness of
of Dutch homes
one’s home, but
is perhaps the
who have visited
also to less mateluxurious town
me in my home have
rial matters. It
homes along the
is gezellig to sit
canals in the cenremarked about
down and have
ter of Amsterhow large my yard
a cup of coffee
dam. These were
and garden appear
and a cookie (a
built by wealthy
word of Dutch
merchants and
in comparison
origin) with a
traders during
with theirs.
friend and catch
the country’s
up on their news.
“Golden Age”
It is gezellig to
in the 17th and
have a less hur18th centuries.
These “McMansions” of the day ried lifestyle than ours: The
embody the key notes of elegance Dutch are a practical and hardand practicality, as they served working people, but they seem
as both residence and warehouse. to know better than we how to
Built up rather than out due to slow down and enjoy life. A walk
city ordinances intended to make in the park or a bicycle ride in
the best use of space (always a the countryside is also gezellig.
Dutch relatives who have
concern in a densely populated
area), the houses have tasteful visited me in my home have reliving quarters on the first and marked about how large my yard
second floors, and storage spaces and garden appear in comparison
on the top floor, where goods with theirs. Our house sits on a
were winched up by pulley from corner lot of about a quarter of
the outside.
an acre, which gives us space for
Several of these early man- a turf lawn (weedy as it is!), a
sions are now museums, i.e., variety of perennial flowers and
the Museum Van Loon and the shrubs, and a tiny wooded area.
Museum Geelvinck, and, behind
In contrast, I saw fewer turf
their facades, you can get an idea lawns in the Netherlands, and
of how the other half lived in more flowers and shrubs, as well
those early days, with furniture as vegetable gardens. Since the
and artifacts imported from the surface area of their property
various ports around the world tends to be smaller than here
where the Dutch traded.
in our suburbs, the Dutch make
Behind the houses are land- use of every inch of space, often
scaped gardens precisely mani- including fruit trees in their
cured in an orderly European gardens as well as flowers.
style quite different from our
This must have been an idea
sprawling suburban gardens.
that my Dutch grandparents
Riding my bicycle around my brought with them from the
own neighborhood in Westmere, Netherlands many years ago,
I can see a mixture of modest because I recall in my earliest
homes built during the 1950s and childhood plucking grapes and
1960s, and, a few blocks farther apples from the fruit orchard in
away, more luxurious houses the lot adjoining their house in
that might be thought of as our Albany.
local version of the Amsterdam
In both Zaandam and Ede,
mansions; however, instead of where I have stayed with relawarehouses, huge garages that tives, I noticed that, since the
may hold three vehicles com- homes are often quite close to
pose a large portion of the total each other, many have privacy
structure.
fences, which prevent you from
In describing contemporary seeing what your neighbor is
Dutch homes, two key words barbecuing on any given evening.
come to mind: orderliness and There are fewer garages than in
gezelligheid, which is often our neighborhoods, more likely
— Photo by Ellen Zunon
When roads are made of water, a variety of boats are docked
along a canal in front of houses in Zaadam.
Bright red shutters flank the windows of a massive old farmhouse in Ede, now a pancake restaurant.
A swan takes in the view of traditional townhouses in Amsterdam.
a shed to keep the bicycles that
are a typical means of transport
in the Netherlands.
In order to get an idea of the
population density of the Netherlands, picture a country with
twice the surface area of New
Jersey and about twice the population as well; thus, according to
the World Almanac and Book of
Facts for 2015, a density of 1,210
residents per square mile for
New Jersey and a slightly higher
density of 1,290 per square mile
for the Netherlands.
However, I did not experience
a feeling of being crowded in my
cousins’ homes or yards; a garden
or a small patio, sometimes overlooking a nearby canal, gave us
ample room to sit and chat. The
overall impression was indeed
“gezellig,” pleasant and homey.
Moving indoors into a Dutch
home, one difference that an
American might notice would be
the absence of window screens.
Perhaps due to the higher latitude, there appeared to be fewer
insects wherever I was in the
Netherlands (except perhaps in
the countryside), so the Dutch
apparently do not feel the need
for screens.
I recall that, during a visit to
Albany in the 1960s, my mother’s
cousin Geertje told her that it
was customary to paint window
and door frames blue, which was
believed to discourage flies from
entering. However, I doubt that
the younger generation of Dutch
people subscribe to this belief!
One custom that does appear
to still be in force, though, is that
of leaving your curtains open in
the evening. I noticed this when
I took a walk one evening around
my cousin’s neighborhood in Ede,
when I discretely observed families watching television in their
cozy living rooms. Other than the absence of
window screens, Dutch interiors are much like ours: living
room, dining area, and kitchen
on the main floor, and bedrooms
upstairs. Modern homes have
all the conveniences and amenities that we expect here in the
United States: wireless internet,
cable TV, fancy coffee makers,
and so on.
However, there are still some
traditional old-style farmhouses
out in the countryside. In fact,
I enjoyed visiting an old farmhouse with my cousins, which
has been re-purposed as a pancake restaurant.The gables and
shutters reminded me of the
house in Loosdrecht where my
grandmother was born.
So architecture in the Netherlands is a mixture of the old and
the new, always interesting, and
always gezellig!
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Stories unfold in a house with a narrative that dates back to the early 1800s
GUILDERLAND — It’s a house
full of spirits and stories, said
Scott Frush recently of his home
at 6130 Nott Road in Guilderland.
Built in about 1840, the home
has been lovingly and painstakingly restored by Frush, who has
also added custom vintage decorative elements everywhere. Many
of these are reclaimed items that
were “cast off or broken or bought
for pennies on the dollar at an
estate sale,” Frush said recently.
Many are given to him in disrepair by people who don’t have the
inclination or ability to fix them.
“People don’t bring me things of
value that are new and shiny; they
give me things because they know
she knew, back then, that this boy
was going to be hers,” Frush said.
Because he was. The two neighbors were married just five years
later. They spent their whole lives
together and are now buried side
by side in Prospect Hill Cemetery,
Frush said.
Another story is one that the
Frushes added themselves. It’s
in a Scrabble game, framed and
covered with glass, that hangs on
the hallway wall just outside the
living room.
Scott Frush made it as a Christmas present for Mariella in 2006,
six months after they first met. He
had filled it with words like “cozy,”
“warm,” and “naps” to describe
their relationship and also hidden
The Enterprise — Elizabeth Floyd Mair
The game of love: Scott Frush had purchased an old Scrabble
game at an estate sale and found himself idly forming words on it
in his spare time in 2006 when he was thinking about proposing
to Mariella. He noticed that the words he chose described their
relationship. This was the kernel of the idea, he says, of proposing
by presenting her with a framed gift that would express his feelings and also contain the words “Please marry me.”
— Photo from Scott Frush
The first selfie Scott Frush ever took was this photo, from spring
2015, of him and Mariella on their porch, with their then-new pet,
the black rescue pug, Lucy. All three of their pets, including an
imposingly large but very friendly mutt named Chloe and a Maine
Coon-like long-haired cat called Wally, are rescues.
I enjoy bringing them back to life.”
He then either reuses them in
some new way or restores them to
their original use and luster.
The home he shares with his
wife, Mariella, contains a wealth of
stories that they have discovered
within its walls as well as many
that they have introduced into the
home in the form of rescued and
recycled items.
One of the stories hidden within
the house itself dates from 1888
and is literally written into the
house’s original wavy glass windowpanes. This window, in what
would then have been the kitchen
and is now a mudroom, reads
“Anna Cromme / and / Charlie
Magill.”
The story goes that the names
were scratched by Anna into the
glass with her mother’s diamond
wedding ring during the great blizzard of 1888, when she would have
been 15. Neighbor Charlie Magill,
who lived “not a quarter mile from
here” would have been 13.
“The romantic in me thinks that
there the words “Please,” “marry,”
and “me,” staggered over different
lines. He gave it to her in the carriage house, where he was living
at the time.
She soon began to cry, looking
at it. “It’s so nice,” she kept saying.
“But did you read it?” he had to
ask. “Did you read this line, for
instance: ‘Please.’ And this one?”
He pointed to “marry” and to “me.”
She said, “Wait a minute, what are
you saying? Do that again!”
They were married the following
June, a day short of a year from
the time they met.
Frush originally thought that
the house was built earlier, in the
1700s. He hired an architectural
historian to assess the home’s age,
who “pinned it down to between
1837 and 1842.” Frush believes
that it was built by Dr. Charles
D. Cooper, who played a role in
the death of Alexander Hamilton.
Cooper owned a house on State
Street in Albany and was the one
who wrote the original article
outlining Hamilton’s beef with
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Before and after: The exterior of Scott Frush’s home as it looked
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article was “reprinted in, I think,
The Washington Post,” Frush said
recently, where it was read by
Burr, who promptly challenged
Hamilton to their fateful duel.
The reason he thinks that Cooper had the house built?
Frush has a deed transferring
property (“I believe it said that it
was in Hamiltonville, which is an
old name for Guilderland”) from
Dr. Cooper to the Cromme family,
dated 1843. And Frush says that
old-timers in the area refer to his
house as “the Cooper house.”
The house’s scale, he says, is
grand for the period, suggesting
that it would have been built by
a person of means. “We know that
the Crommes lived there,” so it
makes sense, he says, to believe
that it was Dr. Cooper who built
the house, or rebuilt it on the site
of an older, smaller house.
Dr. Cooper’s home in what is
now Guilderland would have been,
Frush says, a country home. “At
that time, this was the wilds,”
he adds.
Eunice and Harlan Milks
bought the property in 1959, and
all of their children grew up there.
Frush is in contact with their son
John Milks, who still lives in the
area.
John Milks told Frush that he
remembers an old woman coming
to the house and introducing herself to his mother and asking if she
might take a look around inside.
She told the family she had been
born and grown up in the house
and wanted to see it one more time
before she passed away.
She came inside and immediately went over to the window
and exclaimed, “Oh, they’re still
there!” Presumably she was happy
to learn that the windows, with
their embedded story, had not been
replaced with modern glass.
She told the Milkses that her
sister had scratched the names
into the glass during the great
blizzard of 1888.
The woman who visited the
home could not have been Anna
herself, Frush says, since she died
in 1954, before the Milkses moved
in. He says she must be one of
Anna’s younger sisters, either Elizabeth, who was born in 1877 and
died in 1969, or Aleda, who lived
from 1883 through 1981. Elizabeth
remained in Guilderland, Frush
says, so it may well have been she
who visited the Milkses.
Frush was trained in traditional
wooden boatbuilding in Maine
and worked for furniture makers
in Maine before taking on the
Nott Road house. So he had some
knowledge, he says, of wood and
woodworking. But the learning
curve was steep, and included finding out fast how to repair electrical
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Mellow meals: Scott Frush made their dining room table himself. The top came from wood reclaimed
from a corn silo in Galway, and the legs were from an antique table from a junk store. The polished
stone tiles along the center act as permanent trivets, allowing hot plates to be placed directly on the table.
Frush also added inlaid concentric squares of black walnut, cherry, and maple as a decorative element. ...A warm hearth tended with heart by hand
He had help from general contractor and restorer of old homes
Charlie Stewart Jr., whose family
is from Altamont. Stewart was one
of the first people Frush met after
moving to Albany, and he eventually became a close friend. Frush
says he is now “like a brother.”
Early on, Frush sometimes
helped out on Stewart’s projects,
and he in turn often consulted
Stewart when he was “snookered
by something.” Once, when Frush
received an insurance check for
the damage to his roof from the
big hail storm about five years ago,
he just “handed the check over” to
Stewart and asked him to fix it
rather than try to teach himself
how to put on a roof.
Layered stories and history are
everywhere.
As just one example, a bathroom
just off the mudroom was added, he
says, in 1923, when Margaret Nott
owned the house. Frush knows
when it was added because he
found newspapers inside the wall;
they had been placed there as insulation when the room was added
onto what had been the exterior of
the house.
Another bathroom started out
life in the 1908s or 1990s as a room
that featured a huge Jacuzzi and
wall-to-wall mirrors. Frush’s sister
took those out years ago, and then
the room became a laundry and
storage room until Frush gutted
it and turned it into a vintage
showpiece.
He put in a chandelier that was
being sold “as secondhand junk”
in a shop on Central Avenue in
Albany and added a tongue-andgroove Douglas fir ceiling. The
couple’s washer and dryer are still
housed there, and an artist friend
gave him a vintage wooden expandable clothes-drying rack that he
has cleaned up and affixed to the
wall. The couple uses it now when
their clothes come out of the dryer
not quite done.
A small barn on the property is
filled with all manner of vintage
material. Scott Frush said that
his wife calls it the Magic Barn because she will suggest, for instance,
that it would be great if they had a
round coffee table to place in front
of a particular couch. Then he will
disappear for the day and come
back at dinnertime, rolling in a coffee table that he has put together
from wood he found in the barn.
Once she said that they needed
something big to place over a couch
and he came in with a huge enameled steel “Theatre” sign — that
had once been double-sided and lit
with neon — from one of Albany’s
original vaudeville theaters.
A shelf in a hallway is actually
the mantel from one of the original
fireplaces; it also emerged from the
barn. “Every time I find original
pieces of the house, I like to use
them again,” he said. Mariella has a “tremendous eye,”
Frush said, “for decorating, color,
furnishings, taking a space and
making it comfortable.”
She doesn’t like him to spend
money on gifts for her, he said, so
he has to use his imagination at
birthdays or Christmas. One such
gift hangs on the kitchen wall.
“Mariella loves pigs,” Frush
explained, and, when he saw a
broken-off cigar box top lying on
the basement floor at an estate
sale, he was drawn by its graphics
and the illustration it bore of a pig.
He asked the price and the man
running the sale looked at him like
he was crazy and said, “Take it.”
Frush cut up a yardstick from
an old Albany furniture store and
framed the illustration with that
and with some original window
trim “from when I was redoing the
bathroom.” Soon he had an anniversary gift that cost him nothing
to make and that now hangs over
their kitchen stove.
The couple first met on a blind
date in 2006, at the Miss Albany
Diner, “down on Broadway,” for a
cup of coffee and breakfast. He
calls it a “double blind date,” since
he did not know Mariella’s friend
who introduced them, and she did
not know his friend. “I think we
both felt very strongly by the end
of breakfast that we would, one
way or another, know one another
our entire lives. And here we are.”
The Frushes, who have no children, might sell the house at some
point. There are obvious practical
reasons to think about that idea.
It is a lot of house for just the two
of them to maintain, Scott Frush
says, and they have a lot of capital
tied up in the property.
They put it on the market briefly,
a year ago, through Sotheby’s International Realty. They had thought
that it would be smart to try to
sell it while both of them are still
young and healthy, and downsize
to something smaller.
But they quickly realized that
they didn’t have the heart to go
through with it. Frush explained,
“When it actually came down to the
reality of selling it, we couldn’t.”
They were, he said, much too emotionally attached.
“One day somebody else will own
it,” he reflected. “I’ve put my mark
on it. Just the way people have
put their mark on it before, and
somebody will come along after
me and put their mark on it. It’s a
continuing story.”
The house is filled with “continuing sagas, and I just feel like ours
isn’t done here,” he said. He doesn’t
feel so much like the “owner” of
the house, he said, as the steward.
For now, he and his wife will
continue to add their own history to
the home that Scott Frush says has
a “tremendously good energy to it.”
Sure, he says, his house has
honed his skills as a restorer. But
mainly, he says, it has forced him
to develop greater reserves of ”patience and creativity.”
“When you open a wall in a
new house,” he says, “you know
what you are going to find. But,
as anyone who owns an old house
can attest, when you open a wall
there, you have to put on your
thinking cap and figure out what
to do next.” It’s a challenge that he
doesn’t want to give up just yet.
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Everyone in my family enjoys
car shopping, and, since we put
60,000 miles per year on our two
cars, we shop fairly often. You have
to know what’s out there on the
market, and what you want, so
you don’t meet any surprises as
your vehicle ages and meets its
conk-out potential.
Well, everyone but my youngest
daughter enjoys car shopping. Little Monkey thinks that she doesn’t
like change. When it was time to
replace my minivan, she wasn’t
having it. She saw me checking
edmunds.com, and freaked out.
She saw my printouts from cargurus.com, and cried. She saw me
reading kbb.com, and told me the
cars on the screen were ugly.
I was sick of the minivan — my
third, having borne kids across two
decades and needing car seats at
the same time we needed baseball
bats. I wanted a nice car. A N-I-C-E
car. A car like the Cadillac DeVille
my parents had when I was a teen.
What kind of teenager likes a
Cadillac? The kind who gets to
drive a V-8 engine seated on a
cloudlike leather seat with the
most responsive steering wheel
in existence.
I wasn’t usually allowed to drive
their car. I had a Chevette. It was
crap. It died. They fixed it. It was
still a Chevette. They bought me a
replacement — an agreement we’d
had for years; straight-A grades
equaled a vehicle — and gave
me a new Mercury to go away to
college with. The bills from fixing
the Mercury’s tie rods still give me
nightmares. It was a lemon, but I
was too young to know it.
Still, my parents let me drive
the Cadillac one night, as my father accompanied my mom in an
ambulance. The Caddy was the
last car in the driveway so it was
the first one out. Dad gave me the
keys and told me to keep up.
We sped across 40 miles of
empty, open Texas highway in the
pre-dawn, and all I worried about
while fumbling to find the lights
was keeping that ambulance in
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They’re a big deal in my house,
too, especially now that we have
a third driver who is also a tall
teenager. He insisted that I buy
another minivan, rather than a
sedan, so that, during all trips, he
could be physically separated from
the Little Monkey and the Middle
Child, who is prone to moodiness.
I wanted a nice car, Little
What kind of teenager
likes a Cadillac?
The kind who gets
to drive a V-8 engine
seated on a cloudlike
leather seat with the most
responsive steering
wheel in existence.
Monkey wanted no new vehicle
at all, Teenager wanted a fourth
minivan, and Middle Child? She’s
a born contractor, and she’s tiny.
She wanted a huge truck.
How about an Escalade? Even
my husband liked that idea, but
Teenager and Middle Child argued about having a third seat
versus having a truck-bed model.
Escalades are expensive; it would
have to be used.
Could I buy a used American
car? Not after the Chevette, the
Mercury, and the two Dodge
minivans that died on me before
I fell in love with my Toyota
(built in Kentucky, so still technically somewhat American). I just
couldn’t part with my hard-earned
money for a used Escalade.
Middle Child has years of knee
surgery behind her, and a few still
to go. Those third-row trucks are
too high up over the rear axle to be
comfortable for a tall Teenager or
a recovering Middle Child. Crud.
That took out the Toyota Highlander and the Lexus SUV (also
expensive, also used).
An additional strike against
the two — and I really was disap-
dealer in Rensselaer to drive a
Toyota Sequoia — a big, honkin’
oversized truck with leather seats
and room for everyone. Toyota?
Check. Truck? Check. Third row?
Check. Heated leather seats and
a nice steering wheel? Check.
Expensive? Well, it was used, but
still a chunk of change.
I opened the door and prepared
to get in — the leather seat was
dirty. It was Dirty. Stained with
dirt, with a big price tag. I sat
in the driver’s seat, and thought
about spending my money to buy
a car that made me cringe when I
opened the door, then decided not
to waste anyone’s time. I turned
off the car and gave the keys back
to the sales lady.
The workweek came, and I sent
the kids to school, then scoured the
internet for a car, again. This time,
I found one. It was the right price,
the right miles, the right make. We
bought it that day.
When we broke the news to the
kids, their eyes glistened with
excitement. Did we get a truck?
A Lexus? A crowded luxurious
sedan?
No. We bought a two-years-newer Toyota minivan with 100,000
miles fewer on it than the one we
traded in. It was the same color,
and the same style — the same
everything.
The kids cried. Little Monkey
cried because it was still a different vehicle. Middle Child cried
because she’s a long way from 16
and having her own truck. Teenager fussed because he wanted
the Lexus. I laughed at all of them
until tears streamed down my face
and they called me “mean.”
Now, it’s time to search for a
third car for Teenager; he doesn’t
need one, but he has straight-A
grades, and I have other kids who
need rides after school.
We could share it — he could
drive a Volvo to school and I could
run errands in it on the weekends,
right? Or, maybe we could find a
nice, newer Cadillac. All I know is
that there aren’t enough “new car
smell” chemicals to ever convince
me to get another Chevette.
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sandwich. Last night Jenn and
Iain went to visit her wonderful
grandmother, Connie Hughes, in
Albany and tonight she and Iain
went grocery shopping.
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ditch along the driveway. Kyra
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Monday, Aug. 31, was a very West Sand Lake. I balanced my
sad day for our family. My be- checkbook.
When Brandon returned with
loved son, Danny, was killed in
Samson
and Nichole, I rode up
an ATV accident about 2:30 p.m.
to Danny’s pond to watch them
on this day two years ago.
My sister, Pat Sykola, of Rot- swim. Then Jenn prepared a
terdam, came to visit me in delicious dinner. It was chicken
the morning. She was on her alfredo served over a bed of vegetables. For desway to Callicoon,
sert she served
where she has a
chocolate cake
time-share at Villa
with strawberries
Roma.
and ice cream.
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On Saturday,
took instructions to
Sept. 5, I cut up
my granddaughter
chicken and mariDanielle Ricketts’
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house as they were
a macaroni salad.
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all
ended
for Kassi Martin,
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daughter, who was
in early afternoon
Zoey’s house, as
caring for Zoey,
for more swimming. they were having
Danielle’s 2-yearfriends and famold daughter. Daniily over. Brandon
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worked on the
now, in her office.
deer shanty all
Later, I went back
day that Danny
to Danielle’s house
had started that
as she had half a
fateful day he
day off and wanted
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dad, Danny.
The instructions I took to Kassi Ryans, one of Danny’s very
were for her and her husband, best friends, Gary Carnevale,
Jared, as they are going to spend Dan’s brother-in-law but also
a few days in Aunt Pat’s time- dear friend, Paul Ginter and his
share at the end of the week. My cousin, Roger, also worked on the
daughter, Kathy Carnavale, came shanty. Danny had all the mateand reminisced with Danielle, rial bought before his death, but
Kassi, and I about Danny. In the cousin, Chris Richardson, used
evening, Miles and Melissa Pan- a lot to build chicken coops for
gburn, Brandon Clark and Jena Danielle. Brandon and Samson
Smith, Kassi and Jared Martin, drove to GNH in Greenville and
Stevie Grace, Kaiya Keeler, and bought more material. Samson
Samantha Parralla came and and Nichole helped their dad
reminisced around the bonfire with the deer shanty and then
joined the party at Danielle’s.
about Danny’s life.
Danielle and cousin, Natalie
On Tuesday, Sept. 1, my daughter, Marcia Pangburn, came and Richardson, built a slip n slide.
ate breakfast with me. I then Nichole, Samson, and Iain rewent to physical therapy. My ally enjoyed that and then went
grandson, Brandon Clark, ate swimming the rest of the day in
dinner with me. We enjoyed a the pond.
On Sunday, Sept. 6, Brandon,
salad and a BLT sandwich. Jenn
Smith planned an evening with a Samson, Nichole, and I went to
school friend, Theresa Tombari. the combined service of ThompIain choose to eat a jelly sand- son’s Lake and Knox churches at
wich. Iain’s appetite is off and Thacher Park. The weather was
he still misses his grandfather, enjoyable, the scenery beautiful,
and the service inspiring. Jenn
Michael Smith.
On Wednesday, Sept. 2, I went and Iain went to church at St.
to the bank and then I visited my Lucy’s in Altamont with other
niece, Sandra Weigand, who lives family members for a mass dediin Voorheesville. I continued on cated to her dad, Michael Smith.
We all ended up at Danny’s
to the grocery store. I bought two
pond
in early afternoon for more
Florentine steaks and two twicebaked potatoes for Brandon and swimming. Kyra returned from
I, because it was too hot to cook, her camping trip and joined us.
Then Iain went with his dad,
or I should say plan, meals.
I am glad Brandon eats with John Bullis. Brandon, Samson,
me when Jenn is gone. It is better and Nichole played paint ball.
than eating alone. Jenn asks him Jenn barbecued the chicken I
to go, but he says it is hot and had marinated along with yelhe has already been off the hill low summer squash and onion.
all day. Jenn works at home in Jenn cut up a watermelon I had
her office as a transplant nurse and along with the macaroni
for Anthem Inc. The Florentine salad. We enjoyed a delicious
steak was disappointing. It was meal together. Marcia and Kyra
a little tough, but we ate it, and joined us. Then I joined Brandon
in driving Samson and Nichole
I will not buy it again.
On Thursday, Sept. 3, I went back to Schoharie, and the weekto physical therapy for the last end was over. But we ended the
time. I’m going to Miss Brian summer in the most memorable
Thornton and his coaching. I do experiences.
Bible study
have a list of exercises to do at
The
next
adult bible study
home. Kassi came over and we
spent the afternoon together. led by Pastor Bob Hoffman will
Brandon came and mowed my be held at the Knox Reformed
lawn. I sautéed breaded zucchini Church Hall on Thursday, Sept.
for us and made us each a BLT 24, at 7 p.m. All are welcome.
Thompsons Lake
Intrigued by art: New Scotland Seniors stopped at the T.E. Breitenbach Studios to see Thom
Breitenbach’s castle and artwork, and had fun naming the proverbs he depicts in his paintings. The “discover the Hilltowns” tour is sponsored annually by the Helderberg Hilltowns
Association.
From The Good Earth
Fall is in the air and pumpkins are on the ground: Festival-goers walk into the Malachi
Farms stand in Knox during the annual “Discover the Hilltowns” Farms and Artisans Tour
Sunday morning to buy vegetables, maple syrup — or pumpkins.
St. John’s
S t . Jo h n ’s L u t h e r a n
Church at 140 Maple Avenue in Altamont has two
worship services on Sept.
27, at 8:30 a.m. They will be
in a discussion format, and
a traditional service will
be held at 11 a.m. Sunday
school starts at 9:45 a.m.
The sermon title will
be “Memories of Egypt”
based on Numbers Chapter
11, the story of the Israelites in the desert complaining against God.
FREE DOCUMENT SHREDDING EVENT!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
9 AM – NOON
WALLACE PARK, SWIFT RD.
Open to Town of New Scotland
Village of Voorheesville Residents
Shred your outdated taxes, files, paper documents, checks,
envelopes, file folders, bank statements, etc…
Paper clips, staples and rubber bands may be left on material.
For more info call 475-0385 or
email tcampana@townofnewscotland.com
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Out & About
Library Notes
Altamont
Watchfire to honor all veterans
ALTAMONT — Veterans of
recent wars — World War II, the
Korean War, the Vietnam War,
and the modern-day wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq — will be
honored Saturday at the Altamont
fairgrounds. A half-century after
America began fighting in Vietnam, a group of Vietnam veterans
is planning a fire that will light
up the night.
The Capital District chapter of
the Vietnam Veterans of America
hopes, said chapter president Ray
Sestak of Glenmont, that this will
become an annual event.
The symbolic “watchfire,” or
very large ceremonial bonfire, is
meant to honor all of those lost in
United States military conflicts.
The watchfire will also serve as
a respectful way to dispose of a
large number of worn or damaged
United States flags.
Admission to the event is free,
and everyone is welcome. Visitors
are also welcome to bring worn
flags with them for proper disposal. Gates will open at noon, and
there will be activities for kids
that include bounce houses; face
painting; and Lowe’s workshops
in which kids make objects such
as birdhouses.
Lowe’s and Sears will both have
representatives on hand to help
veterans fill out job applications.
There will be large educational
displays on all of the U.S. military
conflicts from World War II on.
Jack Pollard, who, with his wife,
owns the Home Front Café in Altamont, will also display some of
his military vehicles and smaller
items. Military memorabilia from
the New York National Guard will
also be shown.
At 4 p.m. the American Legion
Riders, Helderberg Post 977 will
post the colors and the Mendelssohn Club of Albany will perform
the national anthem. This will be
followed by a reading of the names
of all of the service members from
Albany County and the surrounding counties who were killed in
conflicts from World War II up to
the present day.
At 5 p.m., Vietnam veteran
Dr. John Ebersole, president of
Excelsior College, will speak. The
Gold Star Mothers — a group of
mothers and family members of
service members killed in recent
conflicts.
The Patriot Riders of New York
will then conduct a ceremonial
burning of a single flag, near the
stage.
This is in keeping with the U.S.
Flag Code, which states that any
flag that is “no longer a fitting
emblem for display” — meaning
a flag that is worn or damaged —
should be destroyed “in a dignified
way, preferably by burning.”
At 6 p.m., the Altamont and
Guilderland fire departments will
ignite the watchfire, which will
consist of a huge pile of pallets
donated by manufacturer IFCO.
Within those pallets will be hundreds of flags properly folded and
tucked in.
This event, to be held rain or
shine, is hosted by the Vietnam
Veterans of America, Capital
District Chapter 8, with support from iHeart Media and the
management and staff of the
Altamont Fair.
Monday Meals are back
VOORHEESVILLE — On
Mondays, patrons may drive
to the Voorheesville Methodist
Church and a hot, homemade
meal and a dessert will be
brought to the car.
The menu is:
— Sept. 28: Pot roast;
— Oct. 5: Spaghetti pie;
— Oct. 12: Chicken Parmesan;
— Oct. 19: Swedish meatballs;
and
— Oct. 26: Turkey.
The cost is still $8 per meal.
Pick-up time is between 4:30
and 6 p.m.
To reserve a meal, call the
church office at 765-2895, ext. 5
or call 368-5159.
Eldridge to tell the story of the
rebirth of the Daniel Conkling House
By Janet Haseley
RENSSELAERVILLE —
“From Deterioration to Rebirth”
will be the program at the annual
meeting of the Rensselaerville
Historical Society on Saturday,
Sept. 26.
The meeting will be at the
Medusa firehouse. The business
meeting starts at 5 p.m., followed
by a potluck supper at 6 p.m.
with the program at 7 p.m. All
are welcome; visitors do not have
to be members of the Historical
Society to attend any part of the
meeting.
The program will showcase
many of John Eldridge’s vast
collection of photos documenting
the step-by-step progress over
the last three years of before,
during, and after restoration of
the Daniel Conkling House on
Albany Hill Road by brothers
Stewart and Roy Myers.
The Myerses are descended
from the original owner of the
house and this year were honored
by an award from the Preservation Society of New York State.
The Daniel Conkling House has
also been listed this year on the
National and State Registers of
Historic Places. It was originally
built in 1806, one of the earliest
houses in the Town of Rensselaerville.
Before the Myerses bought it,
the Daniel Conkling House had
been neglected and vandalized
for over 20 years. John Eldridge’s
photos show what it looked like
when his grandmother owned
it in the early 1900s — it was a
magnificent structure then. His
photos also show the progress
“From Deterioration to Rebirth”
as the Myerses removed many
Dumpsters full of trash and repaired broken stair railings and
broken windows and replaced
damaged walls and restored areas to what they looked like in
the past life of the house.
Modernization of heating and
plumbing systems and updating
of the kitchen area make the interior of the house more suitable
for today’s needs but the exterior
is restored to the appearance it
enjoyed in the early and mid1900s. The Myerses are now
restoring various outbuildings
on the property also.
They will be at the Historical
Society’s annual meeting and
will be willing to talk to visitors
about details of their restoration
project.
Editor’s note: By Janet Haseley
is the research chairwoman of
the Rensselaerville Historical
Society.
— Photo by Kristen Roberts
Hamming it up: Piggie made a stop at the Bethlehem Public
Library, where he and his pal Elephant were given rock-star treatment as they charmed young fans of the “Elephant and Piggie”
series of books by author Mo Willems.
Bethlehem
By Kristen Robert
Getting a business up and running can be daunting, and one of
the biggest questions is how to
find the financing you need to get
your great idea off the ground.
On Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m.,
the library will host a panel of
experts that might just have the
answer.
Featuring representatives
from The Community Loan Fund
of the Capital Region, New York
Business Development Corporation, and the Capital Region
Chamber of Commerce, the Financial Resources for Businesses
program will discuss financing
options available to business
start-ups and expansions from
a variety of sources, including
conventional banks and nontraditional lenders.
Topics will include credit, business planning, financial projections, do’s and don’ts, and more.
This program is co-sponsored
by the Bethlehem Department
of Economic Development and
Planning, and the Bethlehem
Chamber of Commerce.
Borthwick Avenue roadwork
We would like to thank our
patrons for their patience and
understanding as we deal with
roadwork-related delays and
disruptions. We will do our best
to keep you informed about
last-minute changes that affect
access to the library.
Check Facebook and Twitter,
which also appears on our website’s home page, for the latest,
or give us a call at 439-9314. We
would also like to remind you
that you can always search our
catalog, make requests, renew
items, and access our databases
24 hours a day at www.bethlehempubliclibrary.org.
Volunteers needed
for costume swap
The library is looking for
volunteers to help out with our
costume swap in October. If you
are interested, contact librarian
Cathy Brenner at cathy@bplkids.
org. Youth volunteers must be
accompanied by an adult.
Library trustee receives
business award
Library trustee Tamra Wright,
who serves as the board’s treasurer, has been named one of The
Albany Business Review’s 2015
CFO’s of the Year for her work as
controller at the law firm Deily
& Glastetter, LLP. Tamra has
served on the library’s Board of
Trustees since 2006.
Preschool math
On Friday, Sept. 25, from 10 to
10:45 a.m., explore shapes, sort
them by their attributes, and
more. This program is for up to
age 6 with a caregiver.
Time out for tales
On Saturday, Sept. 26, at 11
a.m., enjoy stories and fun for
children up to age 6 and families.
Lego WeDo workshop
On Saturday, Sept. 26, from
1:30 to 4 p.m., kids will be paired
up to create projects and animate
them using the WeDo software.
Parents return at 3:45 p.m. to
see the creations. This program
is for grades 3 through 5. Sign-up
required, so please call 439-9314. Paws to read
Also on Saturday, Sept. 26,
from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., bring a
book and read to a gentle dog
who loves stories. This program
is for grades 1 through 5. Knit one, purl one
On Sunday, Sept. 27, from 2 to
3 p.m. If you’re an experienced
knitter, bring your current project. If you’re a beginner, bring
size eight knitting needles; we
will provide yarn and get you
started. This is for ages 9 and up. Tiny Tots
On Monday, Sept. 28, at 9:30
a.m., and Tuesday, Sept. 29, at
9:30 and 10:30 a.m., enjoy stories, songs, and fingerplays for
children up to age 35 months
with a caregiver. Family Storytime
On Wednesday, Sept. 30, at
9:30 a.m. Stories, songs, and activities for children up to age 6
with family. At 10 a.m, come for
free play and socialization with
toys, blocks, balls, and more.
By Joe Burke
Back to (wizard) school: Now
that school’s back, Sunday hours
are back, too. With all the homework you’ve got, you’ll need to
take a study break. What better
way than by joining us at the
Altamont Free Library to go
back to school with our favorite
wizard, Harry Potter.
On Sundays in September,
we’ll be showing Harry Potter
movies. This week: “Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban” on
Sept. 24 at 2 p.m.
Upstate potluck
As you may know, every month
we hold a very popular potluck
dinner where we focus on a different national or regional cuisine
every month. Since the early fall
gives us such wonderful food here
in the Capital District, we’ll be
coming back home this month.
At 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 28,
we’ll be sampling the foods of
Upstate New York. If that’s not
cool enough, we’ll be joined by
a special guest, Dieter Gehring
from Indian Ladder Farmstead
Brewery and Cidery, who will
talk about his hop- and barleygrowing and beer-brewing operation and he may even bring some
samples for us to try.
If you’ve never joined us for a
potluck before but have always
wanted to, this is the month to
do it. Please call the library to
register in advance and bring
a dish to share. If you need inspiration, check out one of our
upstate-focused cookbooks.
Social Security workshop
Have you been thinking about
retirement? Are you unsure of
how to maximize your income in
your golden years? Do you have
questions about Social Security?
Have you been thinking
about retirement?
If so, please join us at 6:15
p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, for a
free public information workshop
called “Making the Most of Social
Security.” This workshop is designed to help people ages 45 to
75 better understand their Social
Security retirement benefits and
what they may be entitled to.
Our presenter, John Kalil, is
a volunteer from Retirement
Solutions, an office of MetLife,
who specializes in retirement
planning.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi classes with Kyoshi Joe
Mansfield are back. On Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m., we’ll
meet at the gazebo in Orsini Park
for a free hour-long class in this
Chinese martial art form, which
is renowned for its’ meditative
and healing properties. Please
join us even if you missed the
previous classes.
Book discussion
Please join the First Monday
Book Club at noon on Monday,
Oct. 5 for a discussion of “No Impact Man” by Colin Beavan. This
non-fiction book follows Beavan
and his family through a year of
trying to live in modern society
while having as little negative
impact on the environment as
possible.
See how the author navigates
through a year of no plastics, no
electricity, and no cars and the
lessons he learns along the way
about how we can all reduce our
impact on the planet. There’s still
plenty of time to pick up a copy of
this great book, so please join us.
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Library Notes
Voorheesville
Guilderland
By Lynn Kohler
On Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7
p.m., the Voorheesville Public
Library will be hosting a free
public information workshop
designed to help participants
ages 45 to 70 better understand
their Social Security retirement
benefits and what they may be
entitled to.
Popular questions such as
“When can I stop working?”,
“How much can I expect from
the government?”, and “What’s
the best claiming strategy to
maximize my benefits?” will be
discussed. This program will be
presented by volunteers from
Retirement Solutions. Registration is required and can be done
online at www.voorheesvillelibrary.org.
WWI movie
Join us at 2 p.m. on Sunday,
Oct. 4, for the WWI movie “Paths
of Glory.” Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front
lines, the French general staff
passes down a direct order to
Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas): take
the Ant Hill at any cost.
Light refreshments will be
served. This movie is part of “The
Great War Remembrance Series”
of educational programs.
WWI slide show
Robert Mulligan’s slide show,
“Sammy Doughboy Remembers,”
and lecture will begin at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 8. It derives from
the New York Times Wednesday
afternoon rotogravure section.
By Mark Curiale
It’s time for you to make your
reservation for the annual bus
trips to New York City, sponsored
by the Guilderland Chamber of
Commerce and the Guilderland
Public Library.
There are two trips: Go on one,
or go on both; it’s up to you. The
first trip is on Saturday, Oct. 10
and, if you want to go on this, you
need to act soon. The second is on
Saturday, Dec. 12. The Oct. 10 trip lets you enjoy
the fall scenery, a (hopefully) cool,
crisp day, and go shopping or see
a show before the holiday crowds
descend upon the city. Hurry,
there’s just one bus for this trip.
The Dec. 12 trip is the one to
take if you want to experience the
city all dressed up for the holidays
but hate the hassle of driving down
and back. (And parking? Fuhgeddaboudit!) As we have for the
past two years, we will have two
buses for this trip, but the seats
fill quickly.
Making your reservation is
simple: You can come to GPL and
make your reservation in person
at the circulation desk. Or you
can visit to the chamber’s website
at www.guilderlandchamber.com,
and click on the calendar of events.
Go to Oct. 10 and click on “Autumn in the City” to purchase
seats for the fall trip. Or go to
Dec. 12 and click on “Holiday Bus
Trip!” to make reservations for
the holiday outing. Can you go
on both? Of course!
Here are details for both trips:
— The cost is $45 per person;
— Buses leave the GPL parking lot precisely at 7:30 a.m., and
arrive in New York City about
10:30 a.m.;
— You will be dropped off in
midtown, on 42nd St., between
7th and 8th avenues;
— You have all day to enjoy all
the sights, sounds, and celebrations the city has to offer.
For the return trip: Buses will
meet you in front of the McDonald’s (on 42nd St, between 7th
and 8th avenues) just before 7
p.m. Please be on time. The buses
will leave New York City at 7 p.m.,
and get back to the GPL parking
lot about 9:30 p.m.
Eating disorders
in adolescents
As part of the Adolescent/Teen
Series with the Capital District
Physicians’ Health Plan, the library is hosting a class on Eating
Disorders in Adolescents, with
Julie Morison, Ph.D., on Tuesday,
Sept. 29, at 6 p.m.
Eating disorders rank as the
third most common chronic illness among adolescent females. If
you’re concerned about your child’s
relationship with food or body
image, this workshop will help
you learn to recognize the signs
of a possible eating disorder and
the ways you can help, including
available treatment options.
Please register by calling 4562400, ext. 2, or online at www.
guilpl.org.
Coster kicks off
Celebrate International Batman Day at GPL on Saturday,
Sept. 26, starting at 11:30 a.m.
when the first of two major events
kicks off. Veteran actor Ritchie Coster,
who played The Chechen in “The
Dark Knight” Batman movie, will
introduce a showing of the twoand-a-half hour film, which will
begin at noon. Batman Day continues with
artist (and Guilderland resident)
Greg Capullo.
Join internationally renowned
DC artist Greg Capullo, principal
artist for the Batman franchise,
at 3 p.m., for a talk about the art
of comic book drawing, followed
In a world of his own, a little boy entertains himself the modern way while his father shops for old books at the Voorheesville
library’s sale last Friday. Nimblefingers was at the event, too, offering a quilt to be won through a drawing.
For the love of books: Last Friday, reading enthusiasts leaf through boxes of used books for sale outside
of the Voorheesville Public Library. “Our annual book sale has really grown,” said Sherry Burgoon,
president of the Friends of the Library. She called the volunteers “inspirational.” One of them, Patty
Miller, “has spent literally hundreds of hours since June,” Burgoon said, setting up a book shed to open
next year. A contest will name the shed.
The rotogravure process gave
newspapers the ability to publish very sharp, clear photographic images.
These images were collected
from the Times and supplemented through Mulligan’s
research for a museum exhibit
about WWI. Mulligan spent some
time in the trenches himself at
Neuville, the recreated trench
system created and maintained
in central Pennsylvania by the
Great War Association. We are
pleased to have him share his
passion for military history and
his expertise, knowledge and
artifacts for our WWI Remembrance Series.
NYC bus trip
On Saturday, Dec. 5, you can
enjoy a day at one of New York’s
most exciting holiday destinations and support the library at
the same time. The cost of the
bus is $40 for Friends members;
$45 for non-members.
Paid reservations are accepted
at the circulation desk. Payment
in advance is required; no seat
is reserved until payment has
been received. For more details
visit the library web site. Buses
will depart from Voorheesville
at 7 a.m. and return at 11 p.m.
Middleburgh
By Anne Lamont
On Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 10:45
a.m. join us at the Middleburgh
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.
Mahjong Mania
On Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 1 p.m.
men and women are invited to
come learn the game of Mahjong. No experience is necessary, just
a willingness to learn and have
fun. No registration is necessary.
by a signing of his memorabilia.
Be sure to pick up some of the
free Batman giveaways that he is
bringing. And there will be collectible items for sale at the event. You
can even bring a personal item for
Greg to autograph.
Classic Film
“Think ya’ used enough dynamite there, Butch?”
This month’s Classic Film, on
Thursday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m.,
is director George Roy Hill’s
Oscar-winning (four!) masterpiece,
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid,” a western that paired Paul
Newman and Robert Redford.
Loosely based on the actual exploits of Wild West outlaws Robert
LeRoy Parker, known to history
as Butch Cassidy (Newman), and
his partner Harry “Sundance Kid”
Longabaugh, (Redford), this film
traces their search for a more
successful criminal career in Bolivia, as they’ve barely managed
to escape U.S. authorities.
The last Thursday of each
month GPL screens a classic film.
The series concludes on Oct. 29
when it shows “Nosferatu.”
Berne
By Judy Petrosillo
One of the nicknames for
New York State is the Empire
State. License plates didn’t include the name until 2001 yet
the term has been universally
acknowledged since 1825. The
origin of the term is unclear.
The book, “The Spirit of New
York: Defining Events in the
Empire State’s History” by Bruce
Dearstyne, presents New York
history in a fresh way through
16 dramatic events. From the
launch of the state government
in April 1777 to the tragedy of
September 11, 2001, these events
altered the course of state and
U.S. history.
Dearstyne is discussing his
book on Monday, Sept. 28, at 7
p.m. The program, sponsored
by the library and the Berne
Historical Society, is open to the
public. Support this local author
by attending his lively presentation. The book will be available
for sale after the program.
Story time
Whether a child chooses a
historical figure or a storybook
character, it is fun to make
believe. Story time on Tuesday,
Sept. 29 will involve playing
pretend. Children ages 1 to 5
and their caregivers are invited
to join Ms. Kathy at 10:30 a.m. Movie Night
All age groups fantasize about
being a super hero, which may
explain the popularity of Marvel
comic books. Movie Night at the
Library is Friday, Oct. 2, and
the film includes some of these
characters. Visit our website to
find out the title. The movie is
rated PG-13, starts at 6:30 p.m.,
and runs for 141 minutes. Admission is free and refreshments are
provided.
Fundraiser
The Friends of the Berne Library are our heroes. In order to
raise funds to support the library
and literacy programs, this group
is holding a lasagna dinner and
cake walk on Saturday, Oct. 3, at
5:30 p.m. Purchase tickets at the
library for $10 per adult, $8 per
child under 12, with a $50 family
maximum. Adult tickets at the
door are $12 for a delicious meal
of lasagna, salad, bread, beverage, and ice cream sundae. With
a $10 donation, participate in
drawings for homemade cakes to
take home after the dinner. Enjoy a night out and support the
library.
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...After a million pizzas
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She recalls her mother taking
her along to work when she
was about 3, together with her
younger brother, Darrin, who is
now 45 and would at the time
have been a newborn.
The original owners, Frank
and Gert Smith, would sometimes call her little brother the
“Freihofer bread baby,” Trombley
said, because Mae Duncan would
place him in a Freihofer’s bread
box to sleep.
Did Trombley like going there
as a young child? “Yeah,” she
said, “because you were with
your mom.”
When they reached school age,
she said, she and her siblings
would stay home with their
father, Donald Duncan, who
worked days. In the evening, he
would often take them along with
him to baseball games. “He was
in a league,” she said.
Six of the seven would later go
to work at Smitty’s for at least a
time. The Duncans’ oldest son did
dishes at first, and later cooked
pizzas. Their oldest daughter
became one of the cooks. “And
on down the line,” Duncan said.
The only one who never worked
there was the youngest, Darrin,
who was always busy with sports.
Duncan’s main responsibility right now, said restaurant
co-owner Jon McClelland, is
prepping the pizza dough in the
morning — weighing it, putting
it through a machine, cutting it,
and putting it in a pan. “That’s
what she’s known for,” he said.
McClelland and co-owner John
Mellen bought the tavern from
Frank and Gert Smith 25 years
ago, in 1991.
“Pizza was introduced in 1958
— a few years before Mae’s time
— and in that time we have probably made close to two million
pizzas. Over the years, I would
guess that Mae has probably
had her hand in literally half of
them, prepping or baking them.
That’s just an estimate,” McClelland says.
In addition to prepping dough,
Duncan also currently makes
homemade soups and salads
and, perhaps most importantly,
continues to mentor the new high
school and young college kids,
McClelland said. “She’s had them
under her wing for as long as I
can remember.”
She has done everything in
the kitchen over the years, and
has waited tables and done some
bartending, he added. “She’s been
a great employee,” he said.
McClelland spoke of her consistency (“If she’s on the schedule, she gets there”) and her good
humor (“She’s a sweet person
and a lot of fun to be around”).
Everyone here likes her a lot and
will miss her, he said.
Duncan has 20 grandchildren
and 11 great-grandchildren.
None of the grands or greatgrands have worked at Smitty’s.
Not yet.
Experienced hands: Mae Duncan knows something about preparing pizza dough. She’s been doing it for almost 50 years at Smitty’s.
She retires on Friday at the age of 82.
— Photo from Sam Dikeman
All aboard: Troop 50 Scouts from Guilderland enjoyed their sojourn on the battleship Massachusetts
docked at Fall River. From left, in front, are Jesse Bulla, Devin Bulla, Matt Hesler, Kyle Dikeman, Devin
DiBianco, Matt Cortelyou, Jack Streeter, Cameron Burdgick, Shane O’Brien, Asa Guntert, James Plummer, Robert Fitzpatrick, Quang Tran, and Nathan Labunski; in back are Sean Rafferty, Joe Reluzco,
Jason Streeter, Eric Motler, Ryan Ericson, Brian Chew, Riley Mitchell, Minh Tran, Alexander Evans,
and Brian Muller.
Troop 50 learns history,
spends a night on the battleship Massachusetts
By Sam Dikeman
GUILDERLAND — On Aug.
29, twenty-four Boy Scouts and
14 adults from Troop 50 left Guilderland for an overnight stay on
the battleship Massachusetts in
Fall River, Massachusetts. The
Scouts were going to the national
historic site of Battleship Cove.
We were greeted by a beautiful
day for our trip and everyone was
so excited that we left early for
the first time in Troop 50 history. We arrived in Fall River just after
lunch and, after a quick check-in,
we were shown to our bunks on
the battleship where we would
be sleeping.
The rest of the day was spent
exploring the battleship Massachusetts; Destroyer Joseph
P. Kennedy, Jr.; Submarine Lionfish; and the only two motor
torpedo boats on display in the
world, PT 617 and 796. It was
non-stop adventure for all as
we also saw the Hiddensee, the
Russian-built missile corvette.
The boys didn’t notice so much
but all the adults quickly became
used to ducking in all doorways. They warn you at check-in that
steel is harder than concrete. We
had a few bruises to verify that.
The Massachusetts has many
displays showing life on the ship
with recordings from sailors explaining many of the areas. The
Massachusetts was used during
World War II and was involved
in a major battle in North Africa
and then transferred to the Pacific to assist in operations there.
She was retired in 1947 and
sent to the scrapyard. The
people of Massachusetts raised
funds and were able to get the
ship moved to Fall River to be a
permanent museum.
As an added treat, any Scout
who wanted to was able to sleep
up on deck. We enjoyed a beautiful moonlit night and rested
our legs and feet after all that
walking.
The next morning we packed
our gear, had a quick breakfast,
and then headed home. We are
still talking about all we saw and
the fabulous trip we had.
Troop 50 serves youth from
11 years of age to 17. The troop
meets Wednesdays when school
is in session from 6:45 until 8
p.m. at the St. Madeleine Sophie
Parish Center on Carman Road. For information, call me at 5770434 or call Assistant Scoutmaster Larry Vincent at 859-9633.
Editor’s note: Sam Dikeman
is an assistant scoutmaster for
Troop 50.
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Girl Scout Troop 1003, for its Bronze Award project, created a Tawasentha Park Nature Find,
posting signs in Guilderland’s park, on Route 146, that lets visitors scan the signs with their
smart phones to learn about nature. Details may be found at found at http://bit.ly/1PtZ6U0
or on the town’s website at.
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Obituaries
James Harri William Pearce
parents said.
A LTA M O N T — T h e s i m From there, the family went
ple phrases uttered to family
to St. Louis, Missouri, and Mr.
and friends who do motocross
Pearce worked in landscaping
summed up James Pearce’s
as he also rode in pit races.
nature:
Living on 15 acres just outside
“He always had a smile,” his
of Altamont for the past few
father, Stephen Pearce, said.
years, he enjoyed being outdoors,
“He was always, ‘lighten up and
and with his two dogs, a Plott
let’s go.’”
hound and a pit bull, Rocky and
James “Harri” William Pearce
Pork Chop. He had applied to
died on Sunday, Sept. 20, at
join a union and work in heavy
Albany Medical Center, with
equipment operation, his family
his loving family by his side. He
said, and he worked as a parts
was 25.
manager at Griffin Motor Sports
He was an active motocross
in Schenectady.
Pro Rider, riding in the New Eng“At 3, he was riding a bicycle
land Motocross Association and
— he was just a happy, happy
New England Sports Committee
child,” his mother said.
for many years as number 462.
Two things that kept him at“James lived motocross,” his
tached to the risk-taking sports
family wrote in a tribute. “He
were the speed and the commuenjoyed skydiving, snowboard- James Harri William Pearce
nity, his parents said.
ing, wake boarding, jet skiing
“He used to go to the pit bike
— he enjoyed life and lived it to
races in Indiana,” his faits fullest potential.”
ther said. “Even after the
“He was a devoted Karaces are over and everywasaki man,” his family
“He enjoyed
body went home, he’s still
wrote, naming his favorite
skydiving, snowboarding,
doing laps.”
make of motorcycle. Mr.
wake boarding, jet skiing —
After his death, Mr.
Pearce was sponsored by
Pearce’s
organs were doKawasaki from 2006 to
he enjoyed life and lived
nated, a decision he’d made
2007.
it to its fullest potential.”
since his late teens.
He traveled throughout
“The person that’s rethe East Coast and had
ceived his heart, what a
friends from throughout
gift,” his mother said. “If
the country. He drew people to him, his parents said, and would strike up they’re not going to be the happiest person in the
world, I don’t know what else to say.”
conversations with “Hey, you ride dirt bikes?”
****
“There is a young man who has his motorcycle
Mr. Pearce is survived by his parents, Stephen
over at the house and he freely admitted that, ‘Hey
I can fix this by myself, but I wanted to come to “Randy” and Marie (née Dewhurst) Pearce, his
James’ house because I wanted his friendship to brother, Thomas E. Renfrow, and his sister, Stephanie Nicole Pearce-Revero.
help fix this,” his father said.
He is also survived by his grandparents, James
Mr. Pearce was born on July 15, 1990, in Norwich, Connecticut. Growing up in Connecticut, and Rita Dewhurst, and his aunts and uncle, Linda
he started riding motorcycles around 8 years old. Boyd and her family; Pauline Stackhouse and her
His first taste of extreme sports came from hare family; Susan Dewhurst and her family; Anthony
scrambles — rough, muddy terrain in the woods Dewhurst, his wife Kathryn, and his family; Wendy
where the highest speeds win the course — with Hyland and her family; Pamela Ferrigno and her
his father, and he later fell in love with the outdoor family; and his girlfriend Meagan Morge.
Memorial contributions may be made to Maketracks and jumps of motocross.
“I was his mechanic…” his father remembered. A-Wish Foundation, 1 Mustang Drive Cohoes, New
“He got good, he got real good. So, I was like, ‘All York 12047.
A memorial service will be celebrated on Oct. 1,
right, I’m not going to hold you back.’”
Mr. Pearce graduated from Terre Haut South at 7 p.m., at New Comer Funeral Home, 343 New
High School after his family moved to Indiana Karner Road in Colonie. Calling hours will precede
from Norwich, and studied business at Ivy Tech the service from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Community College. Not an academic type, he Burial will be private.
was fascinated by with astronomy and history, his
Mary Stuart Manning
GUILDERLAND — Mary Stuart Manning, a free-spirited woman
dedicated to her family, died in her home on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015.
Mrs. Manning was born in Port
Byron, New York, to Jessie Weaver Manning and Ralph Monroe
Manning on Feb. 22, 1926.
She graduated from Port
Byron High School, and then,
according to a tribute from her
family, “took on the position of a
dedicated mother.”
Thirty years later, she worked
a variety of jobs in order to support her family, before taking a
steady job at General Electric.
After she retired, she went to
work for Tawasentha Park, in
Guilderland, where she tended
to the flower gardens.
Her family wrote that she devoted herself to the things she
Mary Stuart Manning
loved, including reading, baking,
gardening, sewing, and knitting.
“She adored opera music,” they wrote, “but, most of all, she loved
her family and committed herself to them.”
“Mary Manning was a free spirit with a kindred heart. Known for
her dramatic ways, which can be looked upon with fond memories,
she was loved by all those whose lives she touched,” wrote her family.
“She has left behind a legacy which will never be forgotten and her
spirit will live on in the hearts of those who hold her memories dear.”
****
She is survived by her sons, William, and his wife, Karen, and
Stuart, and his wife, Nina; her daughters, Suzanne, Priscilla, and
her husband, Robert, and Martha, and her husband, Thumper; 13
grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and her beloved Sophie.
A memorial celebration will be held in Tawasentha Park on Oct.
11 from noon to 4 p.m. Arrangements are by the Fredendall Funeral
Home in Altamont.
Memorial contributions may be made to Guilderhaven, Inc., 6655
Route 158, Altamont, NY 12009, or to WMHT, by going online to
www.callswithoutwalls.com.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of
Robert Dunston
March 3, 1966 – Sept. 27, 2005
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 eagles 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
and nephew.
Bryanna Lee Tanner
RENSSELAERVILLE — Bryanna Lee Tanner from Rensselaerville
was 13 years old when, her family wrote in a tribute, “she entered
eternal rest” on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 at Albany Medical Center.
She was born on Nov. 22, 2001.
She is the beloved daughter of Brian and Rachel Tanner and the
amazing big sister of Brian II, Dustin, Hanna, and Kegan.
Calling hours will be held on Friday, Sept. 25, from 4 to 8 p.m. at
the A.J. Cunningham Funeral Home at 4898 Route 81 in Greenville.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 11 a.m.
at South Westerlo Congregational Christian Church at 282 Route
405 in Greenville.
Arrangements are by the A.J. Cunningham Funeral Home in Greenville and condolences may be posted at www.ajcunninghamfh.com.
Memorial contributions may be made to either the Tanner family
for funeral expenses at 417 Albany Hill Road, Rensselaerville, NY
12147 or to the Ronald McDonald House at 139 South Lake Ave.,
Albany, NY 12208.
Daniel P. Brate Sr.
WESTERLO — Daniel P. Brate
Sr., a generous and enterprising
man who loved his family and
friends, died on Saturday, Sept.
19, 2015 at Community Hospice
in St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany.
He was 92.
“He still had opinions and
comments right down to the very
end,” said his daughter, Regine
Brate.
Mr. Brate was born on Aug. 15,
1923, to Elmer and Anne Brate
in Reidsville, a Westerlo hamlet.
He enlisted in and served in the
United States Navy as a young
man.
Mr. Brate and his wife, Jennie
Mae (née Northrup), lived in
Feura Bush for many years. He
Daniel P. Brate Sr.
served on the consistory of the
Jerusalem Reformed church, and
in the Onesquethaw Fire Company.
Mr. Brate worked in trucking most of his life, and also operated
the local grocery, Brate’s Superette.
“His greatest affections were for his late wife, Jennie Mae; his
immediate and extended family; friends; work; his antique cars; and
baseball,” said his family in a tribute. “All who knew him will miss
his generous heart, his humor, and his unassuming, no nonsense
approach to life.”
****
Mr. Brate is survived by his daughter, Regine Brate, of Saratoga; his
sons, Daniel Brate Jr., of Selkirk, Bruce Brate, of Westerlo, and Mark
Brate, and his companion, Sherri Cronin, of Selkirk; six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and three great-step-grandchildren.
His parents, Elmer and Anne Brate; his beloved wife, Jennie Mae
Brate; his brothers, James Brate Sr. and August Brate Sr.; his sisters,
Harriet Lyman and Catherine Smith; his nephew, Reed Brate; and
his dear friend, Delores Geel, all died before him.
Calling hours were Wednesday, Sept. 23, with prayer and music at
Meyers Funeral Home in Delmar. Prayer and burial will take place
today, Sept. 24, at 11 a.m. at the Onesquethaw Cemetery, in Clarksville.
Special thanks, and memorial contributions, may be made to the
Westerlo Rescue Squad (Ambulance Corp.,) Post Office Box 12, Westerlo, NY 12193 and St. Peter’s Hospital, Community Care Hospice,
455 New Karner Rd., Albany, NY 12205.
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Legion sale seeks donations
VOORHEESVILLE — The
Voorheesville American Legion
Auxiliary is holding its sixth
annual Community Tag Sale on
Saturday, Oct. 10, from 8 a.m. to
3 p.m., at the American Legion
Hall on Voorheesville Avenue in
Voorheesville.
Anyone interested in donating
items can call Robin Hull-Pease
at 765-4580 to make an appointment to drop items off at the
Legion Hall or to make other
arrangements. Large items, electronics, or clothing other than
baby items cannot be accepted.
Criteria set for free school lunches
— Photo by Theresa Smolen
Seventy Girl Scouts and adults from Guilderland Service Unit
192 participated in a Rededication Ceremony on Saturday, Sept.
12. “We rededicated ourselves to the Girl Scout Promise and
Law,” said Betty Fuller, the service unit manager. “The festivities
included families, and all enjoyed games, crafts, and a picnic supper despite the rain.”
The Guilderland, Berne-KnoxWesterlo, Voorheesville, and
Bethlehem school districts have
released the income criteria for
students to qualify for free or
re
duced-price lunches. All four
districts have the same standard,
based on family size and income.
In order to qualify for free
lunch or breakfast, a family of
one must have an annual income
of less than $15,301. For each additional person in the household,
$5,408 is added. So, a household
of four must have an income of
less than $31,525 to qualify.
Breakfast and lunch also are
offered at reduced rates. To qual
ify, a family of one must have an
income of less than $21,775. For
each additional person in the
household, $7,696 is added. So,
a household of four must have
an income of less than $44,863
to qualify.
More information is available
by contacting the individual
school districts.
Lulu is missing. She was
last seen at Thompsns Lake
Campground on Aug. 21.
If you have seen her, call
432-3640. “Even if you have
found her a good home, I
want to know she is safe and
loved. She is my sweetie,”
said Ellen McGarrahan.
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The name of the LLC is Prime
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Articles of Org. were filed with the
NY Secretary of State on Sept. 17,
2015. The office of the LLC is to
be located in Albany County. The
Secretary of State is designated as
the agent of the LLC upon whom
process against the LLC may be
served. The address to which the
Secretary of State shall mail a copy
of any process against the LLC is
c/o Dean DeVito, 621 Columbia
Circle, Cohoes, New York 12047.
The purpose of the LLC is to engage
in any lawful act or activity.
(13-10-15)
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office location: Albany County, NS
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process may be served, NS shall
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TOWN OF GUILDERLAND
NOTICE OF ORDER CALLING
FOR A PUBLIC HEARING
At a Meeting of the Town Board
of the Town of Guilderland, held
at the Town Hall, McCormack’s
Corners, Guilderland, New York on
the 15th day of September, 2015.
PRESENT: Supervisor Kenneth Runion
Councilman Brian Forte
Councilman Allen Maikels
Councilman Paul Pastore
Councilwoman Patricia Slavick
ABSENT: None
WHEREAS, the annual estimate
of expense of improvement and
benefit assessment roll for the
Guilderland Sewer Improvement
Area, in the Town of Guilderland,
Albany County, New York, pursuant
to §202 of the Town Law, has been
duly prepared; and
WHEREAS, the expense of
said sewer improvement area is to
be assessed in proportion to the
amount of benefits derived from
the improvement area pursuant to
§202 of the Town Law of the State
of New York; and
WHEREAS, the assessment roll
for the said sewer improvement
area has been prepared and describes each lot or parcel of land
contained within the said sewer
improvement area and shows the
names of the reputed owner or
owners thereof and the aggregate
amount of the assessment to be
levied upon each such lot or parcel
of land; and WHEREAS, the aforesaid estimates and assessment roll, copies
of which are annexed hereto were
heretofore filed with the Town Clerk
of the Town of Guilderland, County
of Albany, New York.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED AND RESOLVED, that a
public hearing pursuant to §202 and
239 of the Town Law of the State of
New York shall be held at the Town
Hall, McCormack’s Corners, Guilderland, County of Albany, State of
New York on the 6th day of October,
2015 at 8:00 o’clock p.m., to hear
all persons interested in relation to
the aforesaid estimates and assessment roll and to hear and consider
any objections to the aforesaid estimates and assessment roll and to
take such other action on the part of
the Town Board as may be required
by law or property in the premises.
The foregoing Resolution was
offered by Councilman Maikels and
seconded by Councilman Forte and
adopted by the following votes:
AYES: 5
NOES: 0
Dated: September 15, 2015
STATE OF NEW YORK
)
COUNTY OF ALBANY
)
SS.:
I, the undersigned Clerk of the
town of Guilderland, Albany County,
New York,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY:
That I have compared the foregoing copy of the minutes of the
meeting of the Town Board of said
Town, including the resolution
contained therein, held on the 15th
day of September, 2015 with the
original thereof on file in my office,
and that the same is a true and correct copy of said original and of the
whole of said original so far as the
same relates to the subject matters
therein referred to.
I FURTHER CERTIFY,
that all members of said Board had
due notice of said meeting and that,
pursuant to Section 94 of the Public
Officers Law (Open Meeting Law),
said meeting was open to the general public and that I duly caused a
public notice of the time and place
of said meeting to be given to the
foregoing newspapers and/or news
media as follows:
Newspapers and/or other News
Media
Altamont Enterprise
Date Given
1/1/15
and that further notice of the
time and place of such meeting was
given to the public by posting such
notice in the foregoing place on the
following dates and by giving such
other notice as follows:
Location of Posted
Town Clerk’s Bulletin Board
Date Given
1/1/15
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Town this 15th day
of September, 2015.
s/Jean Cataldo
TOWN CLERK
(3-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
TOWN OF GUILDERLAND
NOTICE OF ORDER CALLING
FOR A PUBLIC HEARING
At a Meeting of the Town Board
of the Town of Guilderland, held
Corners, Guilderland, New York on
the 15th day of September, 2015.
PRESENT:
Supervisor Kenneth Runion
Councilman Brian Forte
Councilman Allen Maikels
Councilman Paul Pastore
Councilwoman Patricia Slavick
ABSENT: None
WHEREAS, the annual estimate
of expense of improvement and
benefit assessment roll for the Guilderland Sewer Improvement Area,
in the Town of Guilderland, Albany
County, New York, pursuant to
§202(a) of the Town Law, has been
duly prepared; and
WHEREAS, the expense of
said sewer improvement area is to
be assessed in proportion to the
amount of benefits derived from
the improvement area pursuant to
§202(a) of the Town Law of the State
of New York; and
WHEREAS, the assessment roll
for the said sewer improvement
area has been prepared and describes each lot or parcel of land
contained within the said sewer
improvement area and shows the
names of the reputed owner or
owners thereof and the aggregate
amount of the assessment to be
levied upon each such lot or parcel
of land; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid estimates and assessment roll, copies
of which are annexed hereto were
heretofore filed with the Town Clerk
of the Town of Guilderland, County
of Albany, New York.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED AND RESOLVED, that a
public hearing pursuant to §202(a)
and 239 of the Town Law of the
State of New York shall be held
Corners, Guilderland, County of
Albany, State of New York on the
6th day of October, 2015 at 8:15
o’clock p.m., to hear all persons interested in relation to the aforesaid
estimates and assessment roll and
to hear and consider any objections to the aforesaid estimates and
assessment roll and to take such
other action on the part of the Town
Board as may be required by law or
property in the premises.
The foregoing Resolution was offered by Councilman Forte and seconded by Councilwoman Slavick
and adopted by the following votes:
AYES: 5
NOES: 0
STATE OF NEW YORK
)
COUNTY OF ALBANY
)
SS.:
whole of said original so far as the
same relates to the subject matters
therein referred to.
I FURTHER CERTIFY,
that all members of said Board had
due notice of said meeting and that,
pursuant to Section 94 of the Public
Officers Law (Open Meeting Law),
said meeting was open to the general public and that I duly caused a
public notice of the time and place
of said meeting to be given to the
foregoing newspapers and/or news
media as follows:
Newspapers and/or other News
Media
Altamont Enterprise
Date Given
1/1/15
and that further notice of the
time and place of such meeting was
given to the public by posting such
notice in the foregoing place on the
following dates and by giving such
other notice as follows:
Location of Posted Notice
Giving Notice
Town Clerk’s Bulletin Board
Date Given
1/1/15
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Town this 15th day
of September, 2015.
s/Jean Cataldo
TOWN CLERK
(4-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the
Village of Altamont Board of Trustees will hold a Public Hearing on
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 7:00
p.m., 115 Main Street, Altamont,
New York, to consider proposed
Local Law No. 3 of 2015 to amend
provisions of Chapter 355 of the
Village Code concerning the definition of what constitutes elderly or
senior housing and allowing such
housing in the R-10 zoning district
in the Village. The proposed law is
available at the Clerk’s office Monday – Friday during regular office
hours for inspection.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
VILLAGE OF ALTAMONT
Patty Blackwood
Village Clerk
DATED: September 23, 2015
(17-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a
public hearing has been scheduled
for October 6, 2015 at 7:30 PM at
the Guilderland Town Hall, Rte. 20
Guilderland, NY on a proposed
Local Law for rezone of six properties located on Frenchs Mill Road,
Altamont, NY, from Local Business
(LB) to Residential R-20.
All those wishing to be heard
will be heard.
DATE: August 18, 2015
BY THE ORDER OF THE TOWN
BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GUILDERLAND
Jean J. Cataldo
Town Clerk
(5-10)
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Notice of Qualification of
WOHLSEN CONSTRUCTION
NEW YORK, LLC
Appl. for Auth. filed with
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
09/01/15. Office location:Albany
County. LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 07/22/15. Princ. office of
LLC: c/o Novak Druce Connolly
Bove + Quigg LLP, 1007 North
Orange Street, Wilmington, DE
19801. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St.,
Albany NY 12207-2543. DE addr.
of LLC: c/o Novak Druce Connolly
Bove + Quigg LLP, 1007 North
Orange Street, Wilmington, DE
19801. Cert. of Form. filed with
Secy. of State of DE, PO Box 898,
Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
(12-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Advanced Cultural Technologies LLC
Articles of Org. filed w NY Secretary of State (NS) on 6/15/2015
127 w25th street , NY 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.
(7-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
Town Board of the Town of Berne
will hold budget workshops on
October 5, 2015 at 6 PM and October 7, 2015 at 6 PM (if needed)
at the Berne Town Hall, 1656
Helderberg Trail, Berne, NY.
Anita C. Clayton
Berne Town Clerk
(1-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that
the Planning Board of the Town
of Berne will hold a public hearing pursuant to article 276 of the
Town Law, on the Minor Subdivision of the lands owned by Phyllis
Johnson
The parcel is located at 47
Smith Lane, in the Town of Berne,
noted as Parcel Id. No. 114.-115.2.
The applicant wishes to subdivide the current parcel consisting
30+/- acres into two lots, Lot #1
consisting of 7.75+/- acres and
Lot #2 consisting of 22.25+/acres.
Said hearing will be held on
Thursday, October 1, 2015, at the
Berne Town Hall, Helderberg Trail,
Berne, New York at 7:00 p.m., at
which time all interested persons
will be given an opportunity to
be heard.
BY ORDER OF THE PLANNING
BOARD
Alan Rockmore, Chairman
(2-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Blue
Waters Cruising, LLC Article
of Organization filed with the
Secretary of State of NY (SSNY)
on 07/02/2015. Office Location:
Albany County. SSNY has been
designated as agent of the LLC
upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to the LLC, 302
Indian Trace, Weston, FL 33326.
Purpose: Any lawful purpose
(8-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of King of
the Gym, LLC. Articles of Org.
filed with NY Secretary of State
(NS) on 8/11/15, 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, 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 is any
lawful purpose.
(15-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation [domestic]/
qualification [foreign] of M,McCoy
construction LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with
NY Secretary of State (NS) on
8/29/2015[date], office location:
as agent upon whom process may
(16-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC):
Name: MHC Acquisition Fund II
LLC, Articles of Organization filed
with the Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 9/15/2015. Office
Location: Albany County. SSNY
has been designated as agent
of the LLC upon whom process
shall mail a copy of process to:
C/O Jay Raymond, PO Box 56,
Guilderland, NY 12084. Purpose:
Any lawful purpose. Latest Date
upon which LLC is to dissolve: No
specific date.
(9-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
Nutrition Elements LLC. Art.
of Org. filed with the SSNY on
08/05/15. Office: Albany County.
SSNY designated as agent of the
LLC upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to the LLC, 355
Westwoods Ct, NY 12303. Purpose:
Any lawful purpose.
(10-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
Psychosomatic Dance LLC Art.
Of Org. filed with the SSNY on
08/25/15. Office: Albany County.
SSNY designated as agent of the
copy of process to Incorp Services, Inc., 99 Washington Ave.,
Suite 805 – A, Albany, NY 12210.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
(11-10-15)
LEGAL NOTICE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the
Town Board of the Town of Rensselaerville will hold a Special Meeting
on October 1, 2015 at 7:00 PM to
present the 2016 Tentative Budget
and to address any other matters
that come before the Board. The
meeting will be held at the Town
of Rensselaerville Town Hall, 87
Barger Road, Medusa, NY.
Victoria H. Kraker
Town Clerk
(6-10)
I, the undersigned Clerk of the
town of Guilderland, Albany County,
New York,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY:
That I have compared the foregoing copy of the minutes of the
meeting of the Town Board of said
Town, including the resolution
contained therein, held on the 15th
day of September, 2015 with the
original thereof on file in my office,
and that the same is a true and correct copy of said original and of the
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Conclusive Communications LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY
Secretary of State (NS) on May 08th
2015, 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.
(11-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEMUS DUARTE, LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
(LLC)
Articles of Organization filed with
the Secretary of State of the State of
New York on July 7, 2015.
New York Office Location - Albany County. Secretary of State of the
State of New York is designated as
agent upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. Secretary
of State of the State of New York
shall mail a copy of any process
against the LLC served upon him/
her to: c/o LLC, 198-200 Central
Avenue, Albany, New York 12206
PURPOSE: To engage in any
lawful act or activity.
(12-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of OppScore
LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on June 10,
purpose.
(13-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Early Bird
Students LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on June 11,
purpose.
(14-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION
DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY (LLC). Name: COASTAL
COPPER, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NY Secretary of
State, September 2, 2015. Purpose: to engage in any lawful
act or activity. Office: in Albany
County. Secretary of State is agent
for process against LLC and shall
mail copy to 50 State St., 6th Floor,
Albany, NY 12207.
(18-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Signal to
Noise, LLC.
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
lawful purpose.
(15-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Ohr Light LLC Arts of Org filed
served & shall mail process to PO
BOX 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(16-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
2M Properties, LLC Arts of
Org filed with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 3/4/15. Office in
Albany Co. SSNY desig. agent of
LLC upon whom process against it
may be served & shall mail process
to C/O Paracorp Incorporated One
Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington
Ave, Albany, NY 12210. Purpose:
General.
(17-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Seagirt 29th LLC Arts of Org filed
BOX 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(18-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
517 Holdings LLC Arts of Org
(SSNY) on 7/31/15. Office in Albany Co. SSNY desig. agent of
to C/O Registered Agents Inc., 90
State St Ste 700, OFFICE 40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: General.
(19-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Kfm Animation LLC Arts of
to C/O Registered Agents Inc., 90
State St Ste 700, OFFICE 40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: General.
(20-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
American MDB LLC Arts of
Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC
upon whom process against it may
be served & shall mail process to
Po Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(21-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Aver Capital LLC Arts of Org
(SSNY) on 8/10/15. Office in Albany Co. SSNY desig. agent of
to Anthony Calabrese, 10 Stanwix
St, Albany, NY 12209. Purpose:
General.
(22-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Payson Parkview LLC Arts of
to C/O Incorp Services, Inc. One
Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington
Ave Ste 805-A, Albany, NY 122102822. Purpose: General.
(23-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Himrod Equity NY LLC Arts of
PO BOX 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(24-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Tapscott Equities LLC Arts of
(SSNY) on 8/10/15. Office in Albany Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC
PO Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(25-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Ocean Hill Group LLC Arts of
to 266 Stuyvesant Ave, Brooklyn,
NY 11221. Purpose: General.
(27-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Forest Park Holdings LLC Arts
of Org filed with Secy. of State of
to PO BOX 10873, Albany, NY
12201. Purpose: General.
(28-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Troy Manor LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(29-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
4 Demerest YMJ, LLC Arts of
PO BOX 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(30-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Nile Valley Projects And Development LLC Arts of Org filed
BOX 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(31-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Inova Payment Solutions LLC
Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 8/17/15. Office in
it may be served & shall mail process to Po Box 10873, Albany, NY
(32-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Bre Realty LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(33-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
The Bushwick Bread Lab LLC
(34-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
The Brooklyn Bread Lab LLC
(35-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Blake’s Jerky LLC Arts of Org
Purpose: General.
(36-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
2429 LLC Arts of Org filed with
& shall mail process to Usacorp
Inc., P.O. BOX 10873, Albany, NY
(37-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
& shall mail process to Usacorp
Inc., P.O. BOX 10873, Albany, NY
(38-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Larisa’s Salon LLC Arts of Org
Purpose: General.
(39-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
1172 FB Ave LLC Arts of Org
Purpose: General.
(40-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
725 Bedford, LLC Arts of Org
Purpose: General.
(41-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Sauquoit
Development, LLC. Arts of Org. filed
with New York Secy of State (SSNY)
on 11/7/06. Office location: Albany
County. SSNY is designated as
shall mail process to: 5 Adirondack
St. Albany, NY 12209. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(42-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Limited
Liability Company. Name: Fresh
Lime Affect, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary
of State of New York (SSNY) on
8/25/2015. Office location: Albany
County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, c/o Christine
Guerin, 12205 Admirals Walk Dr,
Cohoes, NY 12047. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(43-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of SaQus,
LLC. Articles of organization were
filed with the Secretary of State
of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/15. Office
location: (Albany) County. SSNY
has been designated as agent of
process served to: The LLC c/o
United States Corporation Agents,
Inc. 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202,
Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(44-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
American Timber Works LLC
filed it’s Application of Authority
with the Secretary State of New
York (SSNY) on June 15, 2015. Office Location: Albany County. SSNY
is designated as agent of LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail process
to 1596 Helderberg Trail, Berne, NY
(19-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation domestic of
COMPLIMENTS BEDS LLC.
Registered Agents Inc. @ 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40, Registered
Agents Inc. is designated as agent
for SOP at 90 State St STE 700
Office 40, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(9-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name:
Rampart Brewing Company, LLC.
Secretary of State of New York
(SSNY) on 6/15/2015. Office location: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of process
to the LLC, c/o Eric Benson 90
State Street, Suite 713, Albany, NY
12207. Purpose: any lawful purpose
(10-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of WI Shipping Company, LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on July 30,
to Registered Agents Inc. @ 90
State St STE 700 Office 40, Registered Agents Inc. is designated as
agent for SOP at 90 State St STE
purpose.
(12-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
QueensBooks.NYC, LLC Arts
of Org filed with Secy. of State of
Albany County. SSNY desig. agent
of LLC upon whom process against
it may be served & shall mail process to NW Registered Agent LLC.
Address of registered agent for
process: 90 State St STE 700 Office
40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any
lawful purpose.
(13-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Our Exquisite Corpse LLC. Articles of Org.
(14-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Elle’s
Elations LLC. Articles of Org. filed
with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on 7/29/2015, Office Location:
process (SOP) to Registered Agents
Inc. @ 90 State St STE 700 Office
40, Registered Agents Inc. is designated as agent for SOP at 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40, Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
(15-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of domestic formation of
Maid in Midtown LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on August 27,
2015 office location: Albany County,
NS is designated as agent upon
purpose.
(16-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
NAME: Mount Square LLC. Articles
of Org. filed with NY Secretary
of State (NS) on 08/31/15. Office
location: Albany County, NS is
designated as agent upon whom
purpose.
(17-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation domestic of
Therapy24x7 LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 8/31/2015,office location: Albany County, NS is
designated as agent upon whom
mail service of process (SOP) to NW
St STE 700 Office 40, Albany, New
York 12207.
NW Registered Agent LLC is
designated as agent for SOP at 90
State St STE 700 Office 40, Albany,
New York 12207. Purpose is any
lawful purpose.
(19-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Eastern
District Camera LLC.
purpose.
(39-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION: 7-11
Clinton Ave LLC. Arts of Org. were
filed with the Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 8/25/15. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of the
a copy of process to the LLC, 1031 Rose Street Far Rockaway, NY
11691. Purpose: any lawful activity.
(10-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of
limited liability company (LLC).
Name: 615 EAST 17 TENANT LLC.
Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on
County. SSNY designated as agent
copy of process to: THE LLC 1360
E. 14TH ST. STE. 101, BROOKLYN,
NY 11230. Purpose: any lawful
purpose.
(15-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name:
1151 LLC. Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State of
NY (SSNY) on 8/25/2015. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail copy of
process to: THE LLC C/O LEAH
SCHLESINGER
6 7 7 B E D F O R D AV E N U E ,
BROOKLYN, NY 11211. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
(16-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION: 11921204 Ocean Ave LLC. Arts of
Org. were filed with the Secretary
County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, P.O. Box 387
Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
(11-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
BRONX COLLINS, LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with Secretary of
State of NY (SSNY) on 6/1/2015.
Office location: Albany County.
SSNY designated as agent of LLC
be served. SSNY shall mail copy of
process to: THE LLC MAPLE WAY
REALTY LLC
321 ROUTE 59, SUITE 940,
TALLMAN, NY 10982. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(17-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of a Limited
Liability Company (LLC): Name:
MACG DELIVERY LLC. Art. Of Org.
filed with the SSNY on 08/20/15.
Office: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon
process to: Gulko Schwed LLP,
44 Wall Street, 2nd Floor, NY,
NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
(12-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of a Limited
Liability Company (LLC): Name:
NKSMJK LLC. Art. Of Org. filed
with the SSNY on 07/02/15. Office:
Albany County. SSNY designated
as agent of the LLC upon whom
to: 1134 East 19th Street, Brooklyn,
New York 11230. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
(38-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
NAME: Thompsons Lake Cedar
Lodge LLC Articles of Organization
filed with the Secretary of State of
NY (SSNY) on 6/29/2015. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY has
a copy of the process to the LLC,
Thompsons Lake Cedar Lodge,
419 Ridgehill Rd, Schenectady,
NY 12303. Purpose: For any lawful
purpose.
(13-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
4017 Manor LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(17-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qual. of Sunnova Ap4
Warehouse, LLC filed with Sec of
State NY (SSNY): 4/7/15 in Albany
Co. Formed in DE: 11/20/14. SSNY
& shall mail process to : Corporation Service Company, 80 State St,
Albany, NY 12207-2543. Foreign
add: 2711 Centerville Rd Ste 400,
Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy Of State Corp
Service Co, 2711 Centerville Rd Ste
400, Willington, DE 19808. Purpose:
General
(18-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
G C Anddesign LLC Arts of
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(19-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
1080 36th LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(20-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Vadsun LLC Arts of Org filed
& shall mail process to Sunjeev
Konduru, 2 Deerwood Ct, Albany,
(21-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Crown Galaxy International, LLC
to C/O Park Legal Counsel Group,
Pllc, 380 Lexington Ave 17F, New
York, NY 10168. Purpose: General.
(22-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
L&K Villa Associates LLC Arts of
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(23-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Villa Partners Realty LLC Arts of
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(24-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Sarkn, LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(25-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
79th St Acquisitions LF Group
LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/28/15.
Office in Albany Co. SSNY desig.
against it may be served & shall mail
process to PO Box 10873, Albany,
(26-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Chcoury LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(27-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Washington Heights Enterprises
LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/3/15.
Office in Albany Co. SSNY desig.
against it may be served & shall mail
process to Po Box 10873, Albany,
(28-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Tcprnc LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(29-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Asry Realty LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(30-9-14)
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Notice of formation of WELP
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with
NY Secretary of State (SSNY) on
06/29/15, office location: Albany
County, SSNY is designated as
agent upon whom process may
be served, SSNY shall mail service
of process (SOP) to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St
STE 700 Office 40, Albany, NY
lawful purpose.
(53-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
ROCKCLIFFE LLC. Articles of Org.
filed with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on July 21, 2015. Office location:
Agent LLC @ 90 State Street Suite
700 Office 40, Albany, NY 12207,
NW Registered Agent LLC is designated as agent for SOP at 90
State Street Suite 700 Office 40,
lawful purpose.
(15-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Holistically
Slim LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on 8/5/15,
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St
STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered
Agent LLC is designated as agent
purpose.
(16-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
A-TEAM PUMP &
CONTROL SERVICE, LLC.
151 WILLSEY RD,
MEDUSA, NY 12120
A-team Pump & Control Service,
LLC articles of organization of this
limited liability company (LLC) were
filed with the secretary of state of
New York on May 19, 2015. The
LLC maintains its office in Albany
County. Nicholas M. Bear is designated as agent of LLC upon whom
SSNY shall mail a copy of any
process served to the llc to 1965
state highway 162, Esperance New
York, 12066. Purpose: for any lawful activity for which limited liability
companies may be formed under
the law. TU 6T (3825642)
(17-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Liability Company: Alden Property,
LLC
Articles of organization filed
York (SSNY) on 8/6/2015. Office in
Albany County. The SSNY has been
designated as agent of Alden Property, LLC and shall mail a copy of
any process to 3 South Grandview
Drive, Latham, NY 12110. Alden
Property, LLC was formed to engage in any lawful activity.
(23-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Ofek At 416 W LLC Arts of Org
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(34-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
122 Harrison Ave LLC Arts of
Purpose: General.
(42-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
124 Harrison Ave LLC Arts of
Purpose: General.
(43-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
BGB Cherry LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(33-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
18 SCOTT GADELL REALTY LLC.
copy of process to: THE LLC 20
WEST 47TH STREET, SUITE 1202,
NEW YORK, NY 10036. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
(19-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Acadian
Consulting Group, LLC, a foreign
Limited Liability Company. The
Application for Authority was filed
with the NY Secretary of State
on July 23, 2015. The LLC was
formed in Baton Rouge, LA on July
25, 2006. The LLC will primarily
operate in Albany, County. The
Secretary of State is designated as
the agent of the LLC upon whom
process against the LLC may be
served. The address to which the
Secretary of State shall mail a
copy of any process against the
LLC is 5800 One Perkins Place
Drive, Suite 5-F, Baton Rouge, LA
70808. The address of the office
required to be maintained in the
jurisdiction of formation is 5800
One Perkins Place Drive, Suite 5-F,
Baton Rouge, LA 70808.
The Louisiana Secretary of
State located at 8585 Archives
Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70809
is the authorized officer in its
jurisdiction of formation where a
copy of its articles of organization
is filed. The primary purpose of
business of the foreign LLC is to
provide research and consulting
services as it relates to economic,
statistical, financial and accounting
issues that arise in the regulation
and public policy of energy and
regulated industries.
(18-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of PINKY
POPS LLC.
lawful purpose.
(20-5-19)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of qualification of Syndeste, LLC.
purpose.
(21-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Liability Company Articles of Organization of Healing With Movement
Pilates, LLC (the “LLC”) were filed
York (“SSNY”) on June 5, 2015.
Office location: Albany County.
SSNY is designated as agent of the
copy of any process to Healing
With Movement Pilates, LLC, 16
Wilan Lane, Albany, NY. 12203.
The LLC does not have a specific
date of dissolution. Purpose: All
legal purposes. Filer: Penny Shure,
Address: 16 Wilan Lane, Albany,
New York. 12203
(22-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION 458
EAST 51ST REALTY LLC. Arts of
Org. were filed with the Secretary
County. SSNY has been designated
SSNY shall mail a copy of process
to the LLC, P.O. BOX 25, Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(42-9-14)
LEGAL NOTICE
Wis Management LLC Arts of
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(51-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of JD Real
Estate Holdings I LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on July 31,
purpose.
(25-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation [domestic]
of PL Accounting Solutions LLC.
700 Office 40, purpose: any lawful
purpose.
(26-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
& shall mail process to Po Box
General.
(27-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
443 Brooklyn Family LLC Arts of
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(28-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Hudson Livery Leasing LLC Arts
of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(29-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
CSLEWISNY LLC Arts of Org
served & shall mail process to 368
Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221.
Purpose: General.
(30-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
KH347 LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(31-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Schaefer Estates LLC Arts of
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(32-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
514 Atlantic Ave LLC Arts of
19 West 96th St Apt 7, New York,
(38-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Realty 89 LLC Arts of Org filed
& shall mail process to PO BOX
General.
(39-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Tapiach LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(40-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
1664 Broadway LLC Arts of
Purpose: General.
(41-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Quad 2698 LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(49-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Quad Investors LLC Arts of
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(50-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of limited
liability company (LLC). Name:
ALTAMONT PLAZA LLC Articles of
Organization filed with Secretary of
Office Location: Albany County.
SSNY designated as agent of LLC
be served. SSNY shall mail service
of process (SOP) to: Altamont Plaza
LLC, 122 Old Stage Rd., E. Berne,
purpose.
(10-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of limited
liability company (LLC). Name:
PARK HOUSE APARTMENTS LLC
6/27/2001. Office Location: Albany
service of process (SOP) to: Park
House Apartments LLC, 122 Old
Stage Rd., E. Berne, NY 12059.
Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
(11-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
N O T I C E O F F O R M AT I O N
DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY (LLC).
Name: FALLS VIEW, LLC.
NY Secretary of State, August 28,
2015. Office: in Albany County.
Secretary of State is agent for
process against LLC and shall
mail copy to 50 State St., 6th Floor,
Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: to
engage in any lawful act or activity.
(6-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
1063 Bedford Realty LLC Arts of
Purpose: General.
(26-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Harrison Union LLC Arts of Org
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(44-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Eitzbiren LLC Arts of Org filed
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(45-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(46-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(47-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(48-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Altru Property LLC Arts of Org
Registered Agent: Usacorp Inc,
325 Div Ave Ste 201, Brooklyn, NY
(35-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
727 Madison LLC Arts of Org
Purpose: General.
(36-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Realty 138 LLC Arts of Org filed
BOX 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(37-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
16 Stanwix St LLC Arts of Org
Box 71637, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(52-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
CROWN JEWEL BEVERAGE
LLC, Articles of Organization filed
with NY Secretary of State (SSNY)
on 4/29/2015. Location: Albany
agent upon whom process may be
process to: NW Registered Agent
LLC, 90 State St STE 700 Office
40. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
(54-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). NAME:
BIOEMPIRIC, LLC. Art. of Org. filed
with the New York Secretary of
State (SSNY) on 07/30/15. Office:
to the LLC, c/o Richard Weltzin,
1315 Bozenkill Road, Delanson,
purpose.
(56-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of qualification of Jen
Rogers Travel, LLC.
Office 40, Albany, N.Y. Purpose is
any lawful purpose.
(57-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Liability Company: Alden Property,
LLC
Articles of organization filed
York (SSNY) on 8/6/2015. Office
in Albany County. The SSNY has
been designated as agent of Alden
Property, LLC and shall mail a copy
of any process to 3 South Grandview Drive, Latham, NY 12110.
Alden Property, LLC was formed to
engage in any lawful activity.
(23-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Imaged Photography Services of
New York LLC.
lawful purpose.
(55-5-10)
LEGAL NOTICE
Lakewood Oaks LLC Arts of
to InCorp Srvcs, One Commerce
Plaza, 99 Washington Ave, Ste
805A, Albany, NY 12210. Purpose:
General.
(14-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of a Foreign
LLC: iQuasar, LLC, an Information
Technology Services Company,
Certificate of Authority was filed
York (SSNY) on April 4, 2015 for
location in Albany County. iQuasar
LLC was formed in Virginia on May
21, 2004 and Articles of Organization filed with State Corporate
Commission. The SSNY has been
designated as agent of the LLC,
be served, SSNY shall mail a copy
of process to the iQuasar LLC, 6
Pidgeon Hill Drive, Suite 305, Sterling, VA 20165
(8-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of domestic of GAVRIELY LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on May 29,
purpose.
(9-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of
limited liability company (LLC).
Name: 5508 16TH AVENUE LLC.
copy of process to: THE LLC
SOLOMON SAMUEL 5508 16TH
AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11204.
Purpose: any lawful purpose.
(12-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Legal Notice of Formation of a
Limited Liability Company (LLC).
Name: Seabird Soleil, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with
the Secretary of State of New York
(SSNY) 7/15/15. Office location:
Albany County, N.Y. SSNY has
a copy of process to the LLC: 696
County Route 411, Greenville, N.Y.
12083-2415. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose. LLC is member managed.
(13-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Closet
Classics LLC. Articles of Org.
(15-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of JBI Nutrition LLC. Articles of Org. filed
with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on 07/28/2015, office location:
(16-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Dan &
Gary Games, LLC.
purpose.
(17-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of SHO
Nutrition, LLC. Articles of Org.
(NS) on 6/12/15. Office location:
Albany County. NS is designated
be served. NS shall mail service
of process (SOP) to Northwest
St. STE 700 office 40. Northwest
as agent for SOP. Purpose is any
lawful purpose.
(18-6-11)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Retailest
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY
Registered Agent LLC is designated as agent for SOP at 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40, purpose is
any lawful purpose.
(8-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Smart Strategies LLC. Arts of
Org filed with NY Secy of State (NS)
NS is designated agent upon whom
process may be served & shall mail
process to 90 State St STE 700 Office 40, Albany NY 12207. Purpose:
General
(11-8-13)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION
of Commercial Solutions of Insurance Agency, LLC Application for
Authority filed with the Secy. of
Office Location: Albany County.
LLC was formed in New Jersey
on 10/18/2012. SSNY has been
designated as an agent upon whom
The Post Office address to which
the SSNY shall mail a copy of any
process against the LLC sen/ed
upon him/her is: 127 Maple Ave.,
Hackettstown, NJ 07840.The principal business address ofthe LLC
is: 127 Maple Ave., Hackettstown,
NJ 07840. NJ address of LLC: 127
Maple Ave., Hackettstown, NJ
07840. Certificate of LLC was filed
with Secretary of State of NJ at: NJ
Division of Revenue, Corporate Filing Unit, 33 West State St. Trenton,
NJ 08608. Purpose: any lawful act
or activity.
(7-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
FRESCO ENTERTAINMENT
LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the
Secretary of the State of New
York (SSNY) on 06/24/15. Office:
to the LLC, 1955 CENTRAL AVE
ALBANY NY 12205. Purpose: Any
lawful purpose.
(9-7-12)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Authorization of Foreign Professional Service Limited
Liability Company
Studio D Architectural Design
LLC, a New Jersey Limited Liability
Company filed its Application for
Authority (Foreign Professional
Service LLC) with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY) on May
29, 2015. The Date of Formation
in New Jersey is June 11, 2013.
Work shall be performed in Albany
agent of the LLC upon whom
SSNY shall mail process to: 18
Eagle Terrace, West Orange, NJ
07052. Purpose: Architecture.
(10-7-12)
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The Altamont Enterprise –Thursday, September 24, 2015
ANTIQUES
VACATION
DIVORCE
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show openings.
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Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/ partial weeks. Call for
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DIVORCE $349 - Uncontested
divorce papers prepared. Only one
signature required. Poor person
Application included if applicable.
Separation agreements. Custody
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- MAKE & SAVE MONEY with
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All Weather
Construction
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Septic Systems - Ponds
Complete Site Work
Excavating
Locally owned and operated
Call
Fully
Today
Insured
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518-872-9136
RobeRt
building & excavation
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• Site Development
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SERVING THE AREA A
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Robert Jr.
Excavation
Altamont, NY
(518) 708-4075
Land Clearing
Foundations
Site Prep
Grading & Drainage
Septics
Ditches
Ponds
Driveways
One-bedroom apartment for
rent, East Berne, NY. No pets.
One-car garage, heat water, sewer
included, $700/month. 872-0970.
9-4t
WANTED
East Berne one Bedroom
Apartment heat and hot water
included, washer and dryer, No
pets $695 872-2563 9-3t
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE.
Used riding mowers, snow blow
ers, rototillers. Cash rew ard.
872-0393.
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202 Main St. Altamont. Commercial rental across from Stewarts. Renovated: new natural gas
heat and a/c. Ample parking, about
1,350 sq. ft. $1,200 355-0531 10-2t
WANTED: buying all kinds
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Joes, Trucks, Cars, Airplanes,
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or an Attic Full. $Paying Top Dol
lar$ Dan 872-0107
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AUCTIONS
AUCTION REAL PROPERTY
TAX FORECLOSURES ESSEX
COUNTY. Selling properties
October 21 @ 11AM. Held at Best
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CASH for Coins! Buying Gold
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Money, Comics, Entire Collections,
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Countryman
home
improvement
Driveways, Septics
Trucking
Stone and Sand
Snowplowing and more.
Waitress evenings f/t, p/t exp.
nec. p/t busser. Apply in person.
Township Tavern, 1412 Township
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placement assistance. Call AIM
for free information 866-296-7093
(NYSCAN)
The Altamont Enterprise, a
weekly that treasures good jour
nalism, is looking for a dedicated,
responsible salesperson. We offer
a base salary with commission
and established accounts. Send
resume and cover letter to mhalespencer@altamontenterprise.com.
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Even less for smaller coverage
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Loucks Brothers
vinyl and Wood
replacement
Windows
872-9200
Shale Delivery
376-5765
872-0645
General Contracting Company
Since 1993
Now accepting
Mastercard and Visa
Vinyl Siding,
Entry & Storm Doors,
Storm Windows,
Bathroom Remodeling
Additions - Garages - Decks
Windows - Siding - Bathrooms
Kitchens - Concrete Work
Complete Interior Remodeling
872-0610
Ted Loucks
(518) 872-0295
Mark Dibble Sr.
2915 Berne Altamont Rd.
Berne, NY 12023
P l u m b i n g
In
Since 1986
1986
In Business
Business Since
861-8060
Voorheesville Elementary School
Tree MainTenance • Land cLearing • Brushhogging
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(518) 861-6452
Residential Rates
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Sign up for:
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3 months - $26.85/mo.
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These are not promotional rates
Call for commercial rates.
Post
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The Altamont Enterprise, a weekly that treasures good
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New York
12009 responsible salesjournalism,
is looking
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We are a century-old newspaper with new owners
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We offer a base salary with commission and established
accounts. Send résumé and cover letter to mhale-spencer@altamontenterprise.com. (518) 861-5005
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Family Owned and Operated
Fully Insured
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Installation and Repairing of Driveways
Office: (518) 895-5341
Cell: (518) 528-1864
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Outlet Office: Voorheesville
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tree removal and stump grinding
266 Craven Rd., Delanson, NY 12053
Exhaust,
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Excavator, Bulldozer, & Environmental Services
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Oil & Filter
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Albany Speed Shop seeks Automotive Technician. Experience
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AUTOS
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excellent condition, one owner. Dealer maintained. 75K,
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EVENTS
REAL ESTATE
Just Ducky Weekend 9/26 &
9/27 at the Fly Creek Cider Mill!
Race your rubber duck along the
creek for prizes! 10am-4pm. www.
flycreekcidermill.com 607-5479692(NYSCAN)
HAVE A VACATION HOME OR
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Even less for smaller coverage
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SALES
Large sale, 10 Picard Rd. Farm
equip, old barn items, snow scoop,
long handle sye, milk cans, tools,
much more. Glass dining-room
table, chairs, brass bed. Children’s
clothing/toys. Household items.
7652889. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fri
through Sun, Sept. 25 - 27. 10-1t
Garage sale in Voorheesville.
33 and 35 Voorheesville Ave.
Collectibles, fur coat, Christmas,
books, miscellaneous items, 8-4
p.m no early birds.
10-1t
KNOX: Moving/Estate Sale, Friday and Saturday, October 2 and 3,
8 to 4. EVERYTHING MUST GO.
Contents of farmhouse, workshop,
and small sewing business. 66
Beebe Road (CR 259), Knox (Berne
ZIP 12023). See online listing of
items at http://www.beebefarm.
info/moving-sale.html
10-2t
Garage sale, now open Mon Sat. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Auto parts,
furniture, consignment items, gifts
and handmade jewelry, antiques.
92 Martin Rd. Voorheesville. 2696582
9-4t
CRAFTS/BAZAARS
Berne Fire Auxiliary 9th Annual Craft & Vendor Fair, Nov.
7th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.Crafters
& Vendors needed call 872-1566
9-2t
INSTRUCTION
Instrument Classes, Old
Songs, Voorheesville 6 weeks,
beginning week of Oct. 5: Fiddle,
Mandolin, Ukulele, Piano Accordion, Clawhammer Banjo, Mountain Dulcimer, Fingerpicking
Guitar, Music Theory and “How
to Jam” Register now 518-7652815 oldsongs.org
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No job too small. Need a handyman for small jobs? call Mark at
RSI 872-2997
9-4t
2390 Western Avenue
Guilderland, NY 12084
518-861-7030
Credit card scammer to serve 5
GUILDERLAND — A Brooklyn
man was sentenced this week in
Albany County Court for a credit
card scam after being arrested in
November 2014 on Interstate 90
in the town of Guilderland.
On Nov. 17, 2014, Kahlil
Ramsey, 20, and three codefendants, were stopped, by New York
State Police, for speeding on Interstate 90. They had fraudulent
credit and debit cards, according
to a press release from Albany
County District Attorney David
Soares’s office.
Between the four of them, they
had 30 different fraudulent cards,
as well as iPods, iPads, and other
electronic devices that had been
purchased by using the cards at
Best Buy, the release said.
An investigation was conducted by the New York State Police
and the United States Secret
Service.
On Aug. 7, Ramsey pleaded
guilty to one count of seconddegree criminal possession of
a forged instrument, a felony,
and one count of fifth-degree
conspiracy, a misdemeanor, the
release said.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced to two-and-a-half to five
years in state prison for criminal
possession of a forged instrument, and a concurrent sentence
of one year for conspiracy, in front
of Judge Stephen Herrick.
Financial Crimes Unit Bureau
Chief Daniel Lynch prosecuted
the case.
the RANDAll lAW fiRM
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OPEN HOUSE – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH
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Bath Remodel • NEWER: Roof, Central Air, Windows, 3 Zoned Boiler, Hot Water
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Mark Burlingame c: 518-424-5915 or Lisa Wloch c: 518-588-1239
Kahlil Ramsey
Robert G. Randall, Jr.
Denise McCarthy Randall
Over 60 Years Combined Experience
Estates - Wills - Trusts
Medicaid Asset Protection
Divorce - Real Property
1777 Western Ave., Albany, NY 12203
Discover, Master Card and Visa Accepted
869-1205
www.randalllawfirm.com
OPEN HOUSE • 1pm - 3pm
102 Mohawk Dr, Guilderland ................................ NEW PRICE $279,000
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Appliances, Electric + Generator Hook up, Fresh Paint, Fixtures, Hardware +
More!
MLS#201510758 • www.102Mohawk.com
Mark Burlingame c: 518-424-5915 or Lisa Wloch c: 518-588-1239
OPEN HOUSE • 1pm - 3pm
152 Maple Av, Altamont ..................................................NEW PRICE $310,000
Classic Victorian in Village of Altamont. Beautifully maintained 2500SF home w/
orig. details, spacious rooms, character & craftsmanship. 700SF enclosed wraparound front porch, LivRm, FamRm and Frml DinRm each w/fireplace. Eat-In
Kitchen, Butler Pantry, HdWd Flrs, 3BdRm+Library+add’l Den/Office, 2.25 Bath,
2 Yr old Roof, Large yard!
Melanie Jakway, c: 518-265-0979 • MLS#201513947 PO#2015-72707
Young, Fenton,
Kelsey & Brown, P.C.
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
1881 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203
Phone: (518) 456-6767 • www.yfkblaw.com
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oing all out, Berne-Knox-Westerlo tied Mekeel Christian Academy, 1 to 1, at home last
Friday. BKW’s Merleana VonHaugg, at top, does a flip throw-in during the game’s first overtime. Also in overtime, at center, Kristen Norray, right, gets off a shot despite close defense
from Mekeel. It was a hard battle, bottom center, throughout the game as Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s
Riley Morrow, left, battles a Mekeel defender during the second overtime and Sarah Martin, bottom
left, tries to get the ball toward the goal for the Bulldogs. Nicole Filkins made three saves for the
Bulldogs. Ila Kochan, bottom right, scored BKW’s lone goal of the game.
Photographs by Michael Koff
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SPORTS
In the end, Dutch dominate at Albany High
Concentration to the max: Guilderland’s Rebecca Straubel, foreground, keeps her eye on the ball
coming toward her as teammate Kate Johnston looks on last Thursday, when Guilderland traveled
to Albany High School, a new member of the Suburban Council. Guilderland won in five sets: 25-19,
21-25, 25-21, 11-25, and 25-16. Straubel had 10 digs and 13 kills for the Dutch.
Primal Scream: Guilderland’s Michelle Papandrea goes for a
spike in the fifth set of Guilderland’s five-set victory over Albany
last Thursday. Julia Nagle had 8 kills, 15 digs, and 11 assists, and
teammate Morgan Manning had 12 digs, 16 assists and 13 service
points. Guilderland won Monday at home against Niskayuna in
straight sets: 25-19, 25-23, and 25-22.
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Using her fingertips: Guilderland’s Bridget Yankowski keeps her eye the ball as she sets it up for a
teammate during the Dutch’s five-set victory last Thursday at Albany High School. Guilderland girls’
volleyball is now coached by Tamara Bryngelson-Eppard, assisted by Rich Nunziato.

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