The Express Newspaper May 23, 2013
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City of Mechanicville Launches New Housing Rehab Program $340,000 in Grants Now Available
MECHANICVILLE - The City of Mechanicville was awarded a HOME grant from the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal in December 2012. Grants of $5,000 to $25,000 per residential unit are now available from the City for the purpose of making health and safety, energy efficiency and other critical improvements to both owner-occupied buildings (including one and two family properties).
The purpose of the HOME program is to increase the availability and quality of affordable housing for low-income families. As such, all residential units rehabilitated using HOME funds must be occupied by families whose annual income does not exceed limits established by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for Saratoga County.
Camoin Associates of Saratoga Springs is under contract to administer the program, in partnership with the City. Application materials will be available starting Thursday, May 30th at the City Accounts Office in City Hall, 36 N. Main Street, Mechanicville, NY 12118. Contact Gina Kenyon at the City at 664-7303 for information on how to apply. Applications will not be accepted after June 28th and will be time stamped, so the sooner you are able to submit a complete application the better.
“I am thrilled to be able to offer financial assistance to residential property owners here in the City. This is an important piece of the City’s economic development goals and we are looking forward to getting the program started,” said Mayor Anthony Sylvester.
For more information on the City’s new HOME Program, contact Gina Kenyon at City Hall at (518) 664-7303. A detailed summary of eligibility criteria and other requirements of the program is available upon request.
Students Plant Flowers at Mechanicville Elementary – By Sandy McBride
MECHANICVILLE - Beautiful flowers now grace the entrance to Mechanicville Elementary School and the area at the base of its flag pole thanks to students in Mrs. Elyse Pooler’s 2nd grade class and Mrs. Nicola Billert’s 5th grade class. On Tuesday, May 7, the kids got down in the dirt to make it happen, planting some brightly blooming salvia and marigolds that were provided to them by Hewitt’s Garden Center in Halfmoon, creating a beautiful welcome for visitors to the school.
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Don’t Let a Night of Happy Memories End In Tragedy – By Melissa LeMay
WATERFORD- On Friday morning the 11th and 12th grade students of the Waterford-Halfmoon school got to witness firsthand what could happen when you decide to make one bad decision; have a few alcoholic drinks and get behind the wheel of a vehicle. The parking lot of the school looked like a scene none of us ever want to witness; smoke, two vehicle head on crash, police car, ambulance, EMS crew, fire trucks, firefighters, broken glass, blood and beer cans. The Waterford fire dept. along with the Northside FD, Waterford Police Dept., and the Waterford rescue squad put on a mock driving while intoxicated vehicle accident extrication exercise.
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A Message for Prom-Goers – By Christine Barton
The mission of Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD), according to the website, is to “provide students with the best prevention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, risky and impaired driving, and other destructive decisions.” Hoosic Valley is among many schools in the nation that offers a Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD) chapter. Ray Payne, the SADD Advisor at Hoosic Valley is encouraging his students as well as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders to get involved by sending a message of safety this year to those students attending the prom. “We hope it will have some impact on students to stay safe,” says Payne.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville – By Sandy McBride
Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson liked to say that his goal as a commander was to “mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy”. On May 2, 1863, he once again fulfilled that goal admirably.
Jackson had turned 39 in January. He had fought fourteen full-scale battles in 8 months, and had not seen his wife in a year. He had a five month old daughter he had never seen at all. He took a brief respite from the war when in the last nine days of April, he was able to have Anna and the baby come to visit him at the Yerby house overlooking Fredericksburg, Virginia. There the couple enjoyed a few days of quiet time, walking in the woods and along the heights, even though across the Rappahannock River they could plainly see the Union gun emplacements and the yellow observation balloons rising above the enemy camp.
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Saratoga County to Air Landfill Options – By Harold Wessell
BALLSTON SPA, May 7 – Saratoga County's Public Works Committee now has in hand
proposals from three major landfill operators interested in taking on private ownership of, or leasing, its never-utilized landfill built in the Town of Northumberland in the 1990s. The proposals, contained in a report by Hans Arnold of consultants Gerhardt, LLC, were developed in response to the County's Request for Proposal (RFP) issued beginning in April 2012, with responses submitted last October.
Arnold, who was formerly director of the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority, said that the full report would shortly be available on County website www.saratogacountyny.gov.
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The Express Newspaper – May 16, 2013
Matthew J. Kiley – 95
STILLWATER – Matthew J. Kiley, 95, of No. Hudson Ave., died Friday, May 10th at St. Mary’s Hospital, troy, after a short illness.
Born in Mechanicville, July 29, 1917, he was son of the late Lawrence and Elizabeth Facto Kiley. During WWII, Matt proudly served in the US Army’s 929th Field Artillery Battalion of the 104th Infantry Division, the “Timberwolves”, serving on the front lines in France and Holland, during the allies push into Germany. He was honorably discharged after VE Day.
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Ernest J. Scarati – 87
MECHANICVILLE – Ernest J. Scarati, 87, of Vial Ave., passed into his new life with the Lord, Friday, May 10th, at Evergreen Commons, East Greenbush, after a long illness.
A native and lifelong resident of Mechanicville, November 7, 1925, son of the late John and Madeline DeSorbe Scarati. Ernie served with the US Army Signal Corps during WWII.
A painter at the former West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. in Mechanicville for 28 years, until the plant closed in 1971. He then worked at the G.E. Knolls Lab in Niskayuna until retiring in 1988.
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