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AV VT; -CM\V--^--y- .-j't, 1 ,;- '•'' •••'••••.. :•'- '«', DO NOT CLIP^tNYTHING from newspapers. This is defacing library property, and anyone found doing this will be held responsible for the cost of the items defaced. ********************************************** No. 52 * TPR$D/\Y,/JULY2Q, 2006 For 121 years Albany County's independent newspaper f •*- IV' hi If 1 * . ••••*;,;. . ' .••'-f-v'- '. ; > • -•••• , '•,'•£:• • ; .V I I' . Rffc&htogfinisfcedmpettiors ofthejPineBush THathlm get copied kowmbyfr city of Albany, Over400athletes participated in this year's event despite temperatures Uihe^upper .^ . wny. 80s. Stprjy inside., New Scotland interested Mixed reviews on merging with county By Saranac Hale Spencer \ AkBANY COUNTY — A fstanding-.room-only crowd at last [jpWednesday's town board meet- |y«ig heard Michael Franchini, the ^Albany County department of !;; -iPublic .Works commissioner, pre- 3sent the proposed highway con- '$£[ 'Isphdafion plan between Berne 'iiJand Albany County, a proposal iflthat the other HiJltowhs don't J jplan to pursue but piqued inter- | ;est in Neyv Scotland. | ; Berne Supervisor Kevin Cro- | sief arid the Berne highway su- ^^erihteijdeht, Ray Storm, who ^^iboth'feack the plan, along with |||&iinty officials, had presented §!^he first-in-the-state proposal to } z0Fhe Enterprise last week: Sj- \It's a bold experiment that i;?|prq'sier.,arid his: highway super- l^uiteniient and the county are i^jp|^ji;;^ve^ v ;tb:ereJ'' , s,aid Rensse-'' ^Jflefyilife-^up^ryi'sor, Jbst fjick- i?|jf|lie^: The plan is still in its p^aesis, but it outlines v 0v\er fe|^j|P;iCiGO in expected savings ^hd service improvements for j,! the town. F \We need to look at ways to keep taxes down,\ Storm told The Enterprise. He said that the cost of materials has gone up 25 to 40 percent; the county gets cheaper prices than the town on some materials, like stone and salt, because it buys in such large quantities. - \The easy thing to do is ask the board for more money,\ Storm said? he'd rather look into money-saving strategies. In the town of Berne, every 1,000 people,support 27.85 miles of road. Supporters of the plan say that consolidation would lighten the burden, on taxpayers. Berne has the secondjiighest ra- tio in the county of lioad iniles to people; Rensselaervilie has the highest, which is 43.45 miles per 1,000 people, according to the report On consolidation. \I suppose it's a possibility,\ Nickelsberg said earlier this week when asked if Rensse- laervilie would consider consoli- dating its highway department with the Albany County De- partment of Public Works. \We haven't really thought about it,\ he said. The idea, which Berne pitched after Albany County Executive Michael Breslin held an inter- municipal cooperation forum in April, was the biggest proposal to come out of the forum, said Breslin. (Continued on Page 22) Expansion proposed Overstocked V vile library checks out land By Melissa Hale-Spencer VOORHEESVILLE — Trus- tees apd the director of the Voor- hee$yjjle Public Library are ex- cited kbout the chance to expand. They are hoping to buy, for $100,000, the 5.6 acres adjacent to the library property on Pros- pect Street, just behind the li- brary, which faces School Road. The land is owned by the Sick- les arid Ulion families. The library has reached its ca- pacity, said Director Gail Sacco and Robert Kent, vice president and treasurer for the library's Board of trustees. \For every new book we buy, she has to take one off the shelf,\ Kent said, gesturing to Sacco. He spoke to The Enterprise Monday night after asking the school board to put a library proposition on the ballot for Sept. 19, at the same time the district is holding a vote on a $5.8 million building project. (See related story.) Kent listed some of the many community groups that use the library and named a variety of library-sponsored > activities, ranging from children's story times to family concerts. He also pointed out the heavy use of li- brary computers. \We're maxed in terms of what we can do,\ said Kent. When the library was built in 1988, it housed 35,000 items; now it has 125,000 items, Sacco told The Enterprise last year. She also said that last year the library was visited 73,000 times, based on a door count, and 8,200 people attended 447 programs. Sacco said Monday night that the land purchase \will give us options.\ A building committee is being formed, she said, to assess the comtiiunity*s needs. \We'll go out for community forums as well as hold them in the library,\ she said. (Continued on page 11) Inside this week's edition starting on page.... Opinion []§iH News .-V'-hi: •.-U 1 \ tl 1 ' 1 J I l J ,•' Community Calendar [fi^O Classifieds l»n»ffl Sports l!^ 30 WW 7 ' 1 1 <i r! m I /I I'. r'<v''i| m :4 1
