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Pittstown Area Food Pantry Gets Ready for Thanksgiving – by Christine Barton

The holiday season is upon us. Volunteers from the Pittstown area food pantry spent Saturday November 17th arranging and handing out Thanksgiving food baskets to area families who requested assistance this holiday season. The mission of the Pittstown area food pantry is to provide food for people who need it, which is exactly what happened this Saturday before Thanksgiving.

Almost everything in the Thanksgiving boxes this year came from the Thanksgiving food drive led by Michael Raucci of Clifton Park Toyota, with the help and support of many area businesses. Pittstown food pantry volunteers arranged pickup of the boxes and transported them back to the church to get ready to open the doors for the 1pm pick up time. This year about 58 individuals signed up to receive a Thanksgiving food box.

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Costanzo’s Rocks It Again – by Melissa LeMay

WATERFORD -  On Saturday afternoon and into the evening Costanzo’s River Side Restaurant was the site for the fifteen annual Rock For Tots NY event. Andy Walters & Alan Hein came up with this idea fifteen years ago and started a partnership with Toys for Tots as a way to give back to their community. This is a great organization that helps families in need and who struggle during the Holiday season. Without this program children in our community would go without a Christmas.

 

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Town May Consider Tax Incentive to Increase Trail Routes — by Harold Wessell

TOWN OF STILLWATER, November 15 – Town Supervisor Ed Kinowski put out a question for the future    of trails in the Town to participants in Thursday’s Town Board meeting.

As the Town and County – indeed whole country as he said -- are more and more actively pursuing development of trails, the Supervisor floated the idea that perhaps it could be an incentive for the Town to offer some assessment credit to landowners who would be willing to allow a trail over or along some of their property.

An effort by a municipality to gain land for a trail – like any easement request – can be time consuming and expensive ... and sometimes become contentious. He suggested that a more creative and citizen-friendly approach would be to offer some  assessment credit on what little square footage of land might be sought, and the transaction could become one in which owners who are approached can feel that they are being  invited to be a positive part of something for the community. "We've been trying to pursue trails within our town.

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Jennifer Senecal-Mott – 42

MECHANICVILLE – Jennifer Senecal-Mott, 42, of Harris Ave., died unexpectedly Sunday, Nov. 18th, at Albany Medical Center, after suffering a brain hemorrhage the day before.

Born in Saratoga Springs, Sept. 7, 1970, he is the daughter of James Senecal, Sr. and his wife Linda Rose Senecal of Stillwater, and the late Yvonne Crammond Senecal.

 

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Robert F. Walsh – 57

STILLWATER-Robert F. Walsh of Stillwater passed away on November 16, 2012. He was 57.  Born in Bronxville on February 14, 1955, he is a son of the late Edward E. and Jane F. (White ) Walsh.

Bob was a Branch Manager at VP Plumbing, formerly Aird Dorrance in Ballston Lake. In earlier years he enjoyed restoring European sports cars and he loved the Hudson River, he was especially fond his time fly fishing there.

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Raphael D. “Butch” Fiorino – 63

MECHANICVILLE – Raphael D. “Butch” Fiorino, of No. Main St., and a longtime resident of Altamont, died Sunday, Nov 11th, at St. Mary’s Hospital, Troy, in the company of his loving family.

Born in Troy, April 6, 1949, he was son of the late Raphael “Ray” and Leona Stalter Fiorino and attended Mechanicville Schools.

He was a US Army Vietnam Veteran, serving in the Pleiku region of South Vietnam from Aug 69 – Sept 70.

 

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Anthony F. “Tut” Zappone – 88

MECHANICVILLE – Anthony F. “Tut” Zappone, 88,  native and lifelong resident of Mechanicville, died early Monday morning, Nov. 19th a Baptist Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Scotia, in the loving company of his three daughters.

Born November 16, 1924, he was son of the late Michael and Mary Veraldi Zappone.

During WWII, Tut proudly joined the US Marine Corps, serving in the Pacific Theatre of operations, as an anti-aircraft machine gun crewman.

 

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Francis J. DeVito – 84

MECHANICVILLE – Francis J. DeVito, 84, of No. Third Ave., died Friday morning, Nov. 16th, at St. Mary’s Hospital, Troy following a short illness.

A native and lifelong resident of Mechanicville, born June 24, 1928, son of the late Orlando and Mary Valentino DeVito, Sr., he was a 1945 graduate of Mechanicville High School.  A US Army Korean veteran, he served with 50thArmy Field Artillery Anti Aircraft unit in Korea for over a year.

A Funeral Mass will be held Monday at Noon at All Saints on the Hudson SouthChurch (St. Paul’s) 121 No. Main ST., Mechanicville.   Burial with military honors at the Saratoga National Cemetery.

Calling hours at the DeVito-Salvadore Funeral Home, 39 So. Main St., Mechanicville on Sunday from 3-6 PM.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to Community Hospice of Rensselaer County in loving memory of Francis J. DeVito.

www.devito-salvadorefh.com to leave condolences and for directions.

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Anna Sluti Durante – 87

MECHANICVILLE – Anna Sluti Durante, 87, of Hemstreet Park, died at home, Monday, Nov 12th, after being stricken.

A native and lifelong area resident, daughter of the late Michael and Susie Sluti, and wife of the late Ralph Durante, who died in 1991. A homemaker, Anna had worked years ago for Galante Paper and Stillwater Knitting Mill.

 

 

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