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*A J<V^ ' i * h G UILD6RLAND P UBL,CUBRARY D0N0TC|RCULATE * * •kie-k-kl^QYICE** * * * * Z)0 AW CLIP ANYTHING from newspapers. This is defacing library property, and anyone found doing this will be held responsible for the cost of the items defaced. WW & Albany County Post No. 92/ THURSDAY, JULY 20,200e For 121 years Albany County's independent } i MefaehingfinitH: Competitors of the Pine Bush THathton get tooled down bvaftM hose oftereom. 5K38? T *2£\ 2** ™*™<* fads for youth s%ttsm the ZnofGu^anfaMe QtpSSZ*\ afMe * S ****** » *» W«r>s event despite temlerauZ Shtuppt M New Scotland interested r* . reyiewson merging with county By Saranac Bale Spencer cheaper prices than the town on ALBANY COUNTY — A s5me materials, like, stone and ttanding*room-only crowd at last salt, because it buys in such Wednesday's town board meet- large quantities x ing heard Michael FrancMni, the % \The easy thing, to do' is ask Albany County Department of the board for ..more money>\ Public Works commissioner, pre- Storm said; he'd rather 109k into sent the proposed highway con.- money-saving strategies sphdation plan between Berne In the town, of Berne, every and Albany County, a proposal 1,000 people support 21 85 miles that .the other Hilltowns don't v of road Supporters of the plan plan to pursue but piqued inter- say that consolidation would est in New Scotland lighten the burden on taxpayers * Berne Supervisor Kevin Cro- Berne has the seqond,-highest ra- sier and the Berne highway su- tio in the county of toad^ miles to penntendent, Ray Storm, who people; Rensselaervill^Jnas^the hoth bade the plan, along wjth highest, which is 43 45 miles per county officials, had presented 1,000 people, according to the -the first-m-the-state proposal to report on consolidation *The Enterprise last.week \I suppose it's a possibility*\ \It's a bold experiment that Nickelsberg said earlier this Crdsier and his highway super- week when asked if Rensse- intendent and the county are laerville would consider consdh- Soing oyer, there,\ said Reijsse-- dating lfci highway department laejrvjlle supervisor, Jbst Nick- with the Albany County De- Islsberg. The plan is still fn its partment of Public Wdrks \We -genesis, hut it\outlines over havetfrrealiy thought about it,\ * $6Q0,00a in expected savings he said 1 * j - « jj je ^ ea ^ w jiich Berne pitched after Albany Cpunty*. Executive Michael Breshn held an inter- municipal cooperation forum in and service improvements for the town \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 April, was the biggest proposal to come out of the forum, said Breshn (Continued on Page 22) , < Expansion proposed Overstocked V'ville library checks out land ' By Melissa Hale-Spencer VOORHEESVILLE — Trus- tees and the director of the Voor- heesvdle Public library are ex- cited about the chance to expand. \ They are hoping to buy, for $100,006, 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 and Ulioii families '' The library has reached its ca- pacity, said Director Gail Sacco tod Robert Kent, vice president _and treasurer for the library's HBoard of trustees. 1 \For every new book we buy, she has to take one off the shelf,\ Kent said, gesturing to Sacco. JHe 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 \WeVe 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 tunes, 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 community's heeds. \Well go out for community forums as well as hold them in the library/ she said. (.Continued on page 11) ' [ |iiu_J)i IJI.1 **mr***m \(') *•••\ liisidemis Week's edition starting On page.,. t , ' » ( •> ' , &' Hffitt OltfMiott^lSS frfaw» Sffl Community Catondar Egg) Clawificdt Egg S]iorts S51 \J/ff f nil I I a»f| ' t» 11 HlfriinlHUininlfili \w fl 3 •» ft) to ••ii
