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** *— \V> \H ——j-^fy—y i '-,iir W .\~^^ ^V-r^-r^rv^^ It f V * \h r m i l<?% It MAWf ft* R)' ft Ml w I ft: ifi pi re' ll i i; IB OUllPEBLAHO PUBLIC UBKAW THEiLLTAMONT 80N0T©ggjiiAf* •^ DO NOT 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 & Albany County Post No. 4 • THURSDAY,AUGUST17,2006 For 122 years Albany County's independent newspaper The Enterprise rr- Sarariac Hale Spencer Animals of all sorts put their best feet forward for the judging at the Altamont Fair this week. This sheep peers out of his stall to watch the competitors in the ring. See pull-out section inside with in- depth coverage of the Altamont Fair. Frank Smith dies VMHe's pizza man remembered By Tyler Schilling Frank L. Smith Jr., who ran a popular Voofheesville tavern that bore his name and centered a village, died on Monday, Aug. 14, 2006 at his home in Boynton Beach, Ma. after a short illness. Mr. Smith celebrated .his 77 th birthday just 10 days before, on Aug- 4- For 35 years Mr. Smith and his wife, Gertrude, owned and operated $i£ith ? s;' tavern, Mown for ite award%injlang\pizza. \He was the greatest person I ever met in all my life...in all my life;\ Mrs. Shrith said, \ilb^ed him. He Created the greatest pizza.\ This year, the Smiths cele* (Continued on page 17) No deed yet By Jarrett Carroll KNOX — The new owners of the Fox Creek Flea Market got approval for a permit to legally open on the stipulation of a deed transfer, but the market's former owjier claims he hasn't been paid -^- and he's not handing over the deed until he does. The Knox Zoning Board ap- proved*^ special-use for Edward and Martha Allen to run the auction facility on 2305 Helder- berg Trail in Knox.. Knox Zoning Board Chairman Earl Barcomb told The Enter- prise yesterday that the Aliens are in good legal standing with the town pending a deed transfer and proof of insurance. Hoyfepij^-the Aligns do not have the deed, according to for- mer owh^r @nory Henness. The Aliens could not be reached for comment. \It kind, of fell to the wayside because they didn't furnish the right information,\ Barcomb said about the Allen's original permit application. \The effective date of the permit is the effective date the deed is transferred to the Aliens.\ Henness says that won't hap- pen until he is paid. \I've got a contract with them, that's it,\ said Henness. \They don't get a deed until its paid for.\ As far as he knew, Barcomb • said, the deed was on its way. The flea marked in the south- west corner ,6f Knox, just north of the hamlet of ^West Berne, had been run years ago by Douglas Cater, bringing hundreds of peo- ple into the hamlet every week- end. Cater, in the early 1990's, was taken tp court for illegal auction practices and was forced to shut down. Since then, the stream of visi- tors slowed to a trickle. Edward Allen re-opened the flea market last.year. He was ticketed in 2005 for operating the flea market with- out a special-use permit; he filed for personal bankruptcy under (Continued on Page 8) Milltowns ponder energy lite answer is Mo win' in the By Saranac Hale Spencer HILLTOWNS — In the last month two halls have filled with people curious about wind. A crowd sat in thick dank summer heat in Rensselaerville's Conkling Hall to hear about farmer-owned wind projects; a smaller group came to the last Knox Town Board meeting to hear about a community-owned wind project. Like residents in the Hilltowns, most town govern- ments are cautiously interested in the idea of generating their own electricity. \I like the idea of wind power; we definitely have wind,\ Berne Supervisor Kevin Crosier told The Enterprise. When planning for large wind, farms, Crosier said, \The devil is in the details with that stuff.\ New York Farmer's Wind Power Standing at the front o£Conk- ling Hallj Harvey Wassermah presented his company's take on the dqrppratizatidn of the wind industry and, its: plah for farmer- owned wind farins. \There tyill be large-scale util- ity wind; power in this area in the next 10 years,\ he declared, going on to say that the question is: Who will own them? New York Farmer's Wind Power, LLC was -founded by Wasserman; Davis Weiss, who lives in Rensselaerville; and Daniel Juhl, who owns a wind farm in Woodstock, Minn. There are eight major wind developers in the United States, Weiss told The Enterprise. among them are General Elec- tric and Goldman Sachs. These companies will pay farmers $3,000 to $7,000 per turbine per year to house their windmills, Wasserman said. Weiss esti- mated that, if the turbines were locally owned, they could bring in a million dollars for the town each year. The business model that they suggest is similar to what Juhl did to finance his wind farm, which is called, a flip arrange- ment. A farmer would find a financier, who would buy the windmills and own/9J9 percent of them for the first |0 yearn After l6 years, the~fai[mer would own 99 percent of them and the fin- ancier only one percent. (Continued on page 16) • •••.••...... . . • ,/ Inside this week's edition starting on page.... 'j : &$tii^^Ml' News Paaesi Community CftrifcttdHr . |*PJ4} Classifieds iPagezoj Sports [Page23 ; • ! • 1111 ' 7. > IM •fev ^.:^M::;^imj!-\M 'W- ^X-'j\\.$?X'<:.;%:< '
