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300a t0i& t»8031 AM puetJepiiriy ****** jyQTjr'j? ****** Z)0 TVOr CL/P ANYTHING from newspapers. This is defacing library property, and anyone found doing this will be held responsible for the cost of the items defaced. ********************************************** No. 45 - THURSDAY, JUNE 1,2006 •ty s independent newspaper V, > •^'i :K ^ - iL * v <: •»> '• v - J>* <-\ NYS last The Enterprise - Matt Cook Floating down the road: A trailer full of Cub Scouts watches the crowd while the crowd watches them in the Berne Memorial Day Parade. Ill Still no decision on voting machines By Jarrett Carroll GUILDERLAND — New York State is in last place when it comes to new voting machines. New York is the only state in the union and its territories, like Guam, that failed to comply with a federal mandate requiring all polling places to provide voters with new electronic voting ma- chines. New York's current lever ma- chines have been deemed illegal by the Congressional Help America Vote Act in 2000. While many states chose a single voting machine, the New York Legislature failed to make a decision and left it up to indi- vidual counties. Nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of federal funds are at stake as counties must each now choose a voting system and have them in place by the 2007 primaries. For the past few weeks the Al- bany County Board of Elections has held public demonstrations in Guilderland of ballot marking and vote-by-phone systems, which will allow disabled citi- zens to vote independently. \The state will not be replac- ing lever machines this year...We will be replacing them in 2007,\ said Bo Lapari, director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting. Lapari is one of 12 members on a New York State' (Continued on Page 18) Police say BOCES teacher caught with coke By Holly Grosch VOORHEESVILLE — Special education teacher Brooke Huntington will not be finishing the school year with her stu- dents -at Voorheesville's high school; she was arrested by Al- bany City Police last Thursday night for possessing cocaine. Huntington is a first-year teacher employed by the Capital Region Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), which rents out classroom space from the Voorheesville School District. She has been placed on administrative leave by BOCES, pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings. Around 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, Huntington was ille- gally parked in a bus-stop zone on Washington Avenue in down- town Albany not far from the in- tersection of Lark Street, when police approached her about moving her vehicle, said Albany Police Detective and press officer Jim Miller. She immediately acted nerv- ous and suspicious, Miller said. One of the officers looked in the passenger window of the car and saw in plain view powdered co- caine inside her purse, he said. An eighth of an ounce was re- trieved, which is a personal-use size, but enough to be of a felony' weight, Miller said. Huntington, who is around 30 years old, is charged with fifth- degree criminal possession of a controlled substance — which is a felony, Miller said. Huntington was \very coop- erative \ at the time of her ar- rest, Miller said. She has no previous record, h e said. According to Albany City Court clerks, Huntington was arraigned on Friday, May. 26, and then she returned to court this Wednesday afternoon for her preliminary hearing before judge William Carter. According to Albany County's jail she did not spend any time there. Huntington is an Albany resi- (Continued on page 14) Weird Albany County Berne witch: fact or fiction? By Matt Cook BERNE — Eva Messer's troubles didn't end with her short life. The 21-year- old's grave is the source of one of the Hilltowns' most persistent rumors: that there's a witch buried there. Graveyards in this area don't get much more iso- lated than the Turner Burying Ground, where Messer was interred. In the heart of the Partridge Run preserve, it's accessible only by an unpaved road and surrounded by forest and a crumbling stone wall. The gravestones, dating from 1812 to 1937, are mostly intact, and, thanks to a volunteer restoration effort a few years ago, straight. Until 10 or 15 years ago, Messer's was one of the most prominent. An un- dated photo on file with the Berne History Project shows a tall white stone enclosed by an iron fence. Vandalism, however, pre- sumably motivated by the rumors, has taken its toll. What remains, an over- grown rectangle of stones, (Continued on Page 20) Inside litis week's edition starting on page.. Opinion News I page s I Community Calendar jpage is| Classifieds N 625 ! . Sports N e3 °
