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Lance Corporal Anthony Denier Honored – By Tom Mahoney
STILLWATER JUNE 29- Mary Morgan, her family, friends, the Patriot Guard, elected officials, and US Marine Corps gathered to honor Mary’s son, Mechanicville native Lance Corporal Anthony J Denier. They gathered at Solomon National Cemetery to witness the unveiling of Anthony Denier’s name on the Saratoga Veterans’ Monument. Lance Corporal Anthony J Denier died in combat in Afghanistan on December 2, 2012. His name joins other Saratoga County natives who died in service to their county.
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Sailing Vermont Farmers Market – By Harold Wessell
MECHANICVILLE, June 26 – In a time when "snail mail" is a glibly uttered – and still found inaccurate at times – put-down of a centuries-old mode of delivery that by tech-era standards takes too much time, an initiative by a Vermont farmer is bringing back a viable alternative to the truck: delivery by boat.
Not just a boat, a sail boat – and one that looks a lot like a canal barge, at that. "Delivered by Sail" is part of the logo of the Vermont Freight Sale Project Erik Andrus heads up.
Andrus farms high up along Lake Champlain – a rice farmer in Vermont of all things, in fact the biggest Japanese rice farmer in the Northeast USA. "I used to grow wheat and rye and barley," he began. "Then with rainfall arriving in more and more torrential amounts and my fields being very heavy soil and wet... I shifted over to rice!"
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Marty Canavan Inducted into Hall of Fame – By Sandy McBride
Marty Canavan, Mechanicville native and 1960 graduate of Mechanicville High School, was one of 24 contributors to the great sport of basketball inducted into the Upstate New York Basketball Hall of Fame at their fifth annual induction ceremony held last week at the Troy Hilton Garden. 400 people attended the ceremony.
Marty retired in 2011 as an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Business Department at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs after a thirty year career in higher education. A graduate of Siena College, he served as a second lieutenant the United States Army’s Transportation Corps following his graduation.
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The Express Newspaper – July 4, 2013
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Schaghticoke at Harper’s Ferry – By Chris Kelley
For the last couple of weeks, I have written about our recent visit to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The National Park Service has preserved many buildings there and does a find job telling the story of what was once a thriving industrial community at the gorgeous confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. We really went to try to understand why a Union Army of 12,000 was surrendered to Stonewall Jackson and the Confederates on September 15, 1862 at Harpers Ferry, including our local boys, Company K of the 125th NY Infantry.
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July, 1863: Gettysburg Part I – By Sandy McBride
In the beginning, it was about shoes.
In the green and glorious countryside of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania at the end of June in 1863, two opposing armies groped their way toward destiny, neither knowing for sure where the other was or where it was headed.
There was a small town called Gettysburg in southern Pennsylvania where nine roads converged, almost like the spokes of a wheel. It was rumored that there were shoes to be had in Gettysburg, and many of the Confederate soldiers who had marched all the way from Virginia still had no shoes.
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Brown’s Beach: Bright Future – By Harold Wessell
TOWN OF STILLWATER, June 20 – Stillwater Supervisor Edward Kinowski took some time at the start of the first Town Board Business meeting in a new Town Hall to address some news generated that day on a radio station and newspaper.
Indeed, he began, it was why he requested an on-air interview with YNN, and seen around the time the board meeting was starting, concerning the prospective purchase and revival of Brown’s Beach.
"There's a lot of misinformation that is out there." he began. "Here's the straight skinny from me. And I don't know what else to say," as he outlined that the longtime favorite recreation place for people from Stillwater, Mechanicville, Malta and beyond lies completely within the bounds of the Town of Stillwater; that his Town is the only entity in formal negotiation with the current owner to purchase it – and that, while a money contribution by the chipmaker would be most welcome, the Town has been methodically working out how it could make the purchase on its own.
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Malta Mulling GloFo Interest in Supporting Beach Purchase – By Harold Wessell
TOWN OF STILLWATER, June 20 – Stillwater Supervisor Edward Kinowski took some time at the start of the first Town Board Business meeting in a new Town Hall to address some news generated that day on a radio station and newspaper.
Indeed, he began, it was why he requested an on-air interview with YNN, and seen around the time the board meeting was starting, concerning the prospective purchase and revival of Brown’s Beach.
"There's a lot of misinformation that is out there." he began. "Here's the straight skinny from me. And I don't know what else to say," as he outlined that the longtime favorite recreation place for people from Stillwater, Mechanicville, Malta and beyond lies completely within the bounds of the Town of Stillwater; that his Town is the only entity in formal negotiation with the current owner to purchase it – and that, while a money contribution by the chipmaker would be most welcome, the Town has been methodically working out how it could make the purchase on its own.
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