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New Stewarts in Malta? – By Harold Wessell

MALTA, May 20 – "You don't have a quota," Stewart's real estate director Tom Lewis recalled former company head Bill Dake saying –  when the company already had 189 stores. " If it doesn't make sense doing it... I don't just want more stores."

The company, accordingly he told Malta leaders at Monday's workshop, has  walked away from a fair amount of sites "that might have been good for one reason or another."

In particular, as the  proposal for a shop in Maltaville near the Rte. 67 entrance to Luther Forest Technology campus has evolved, Lewis acknowledged that in trying to find a specific "public benefit" – a crucial requirement for granting the Planned Development District rezoning of a property, it's all come down to water.

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Malta’s One Room School Houses – By Harold Wessell

MALTA, April 24 – A member of the audience drew laughter – one of many such moments – during Malta Historian Paul Perreault's presentation on one room schoolhouses in Malta.

  "Is it true that boys used to dip the girls' pigtails in the inkwells?"  "Yes, they did!" confirmed alumna Olga Voehringer.

  Perreault, who titled his presentation "Education in Malta --3R's to TEC SMART" began by recalling some words of a 1907 song not sung much now: "School days, school days, good old Golden Rule days..." of learning the "Three R's." (For those who may be too young, that's for "readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic.") The event was held at Malta Ridge United Methodist Church, and featured many photos of school groups and school documents.

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