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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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Town Now On Course For Possible Beach Purchase – By Harold Wessell

 

TOWN OF STILLWATER, June 6 – "There isn't a person that hasn't come up to me and said, ‘When are we going to buy it?' ... ‘When is the deal done?'" Town Supervisor Edward Kinowski told Wednesday's Town Board Agenda Meeting. "There has not been a negative word from one person" about the prospect that the old Brown's Beach site on Saratoga Lake will soon become a facility of the Town of Stillwater in various ways. "We're taking a number of steps toward bringing us closer to a purchase agreement."

The Supervisor, stressing that he is addressing the prospect only to the extent he is entitled to at this stage, told Wednesday's Town Board Agenda meeting that it was unlikely there could be any community use of Brown's Beach this year; but at least its status should be should be established in 120 days or less.  That is the amount of time a prospective purchaser has to complete a closing after a Letter of Intent (LOI) to purchase has been signed – as it now has.

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City of Mechanicville Hearing on Charter – By Harold Wessell

MECHANICVILLE, June 5 – The City Council held the first of several public hearings expected over next few months   to update and make changes to the charter and city code.

The June 5 public hearing was on the charter portion of the project.

Accounts Commissioner Mark Seber pointed out that the Council considered a hearing at the next meeting, but that is July 3. While there will be a meeting as usual at 7PM, it was felt the coming holiday makes it not the best time for a public hearing. The next one accordingly will be at the first meeting in August, then in September and probably October.

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Malta & Stillwater Rescues to Combine – By Harold Wessell

MALTA, May 29 – Malta Ambulance Corps representatives met with the Malta Town Board

at its agenda meeting for June 3, to outline a proposed plan, long under consideration by the Corps and the Stillwater Rescue Squad, that would essentially absorb the Stillwater service and formalize daytime assistance that Malta has been providing for a decade.

The move reflects steps - such as hiring paid staff for daytimes -- that emergency services including fire departments have had to resort to for some years because of lack of volunteers.

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No Progress This Month on North Sewer Plant Plans – By Harold Wessell

HALFMOON, May 22 – Saratoga County Sewer commissioners will not be able to act further on prospects of a new, north treatment plant until at least the June 26 meeting, because of a one-month delay voted at the April meeting.

Accordingly Executive Director Chad Cooke could only confirm at the May 22 meeting that, based on last month's meeting he has issued the requested delay pushing back the due date for proposals to June 6, from the original due date of May 9.

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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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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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City Police Taking Strong Stance on Problems at Plaza – By Harold Wessell

MECHANICVILLE, May 1 – City Police will increase patrol of the Park Avenue Plaza, and seek more collaboration with businesses, in the wake of troublesome large group loitering there that can lead to fights, and has.

Chief Joseph Waldron addressing the City Council at its May agenda meeting reported that there has been a rise in such incidents, and the department will be "taking a strong stance against loitering." He said two persons were seriously injured from one fight that developed inside the Plaza.

Another time, officers pulled over “a car with six people, vodka and a 30 pack of Budweiser, and not one person over 20."  One became resistant and injured an officer, he added.

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Town of Stillwater to Initiate Water Consolidation – By Harold Wessell

May 2, Town of Stillwater:

— IMPORTANT NOTE TO RESIDENTS: As further explained below, the Town Board meeting that would normally be held May  16h has been moved up to the 14th, 7PM, to facilitate actions on the proposed consolidation of water districts. Details are below. –

The current Stillwater Town offices will close May 15-19  for final moving and concluding work by contractors particularly in communication, and the new location will be  open for business May 20.

Town Supervisor Edward Kinowki at the May 2 agenda session of the Town Board  commended highway employees who, using their personal skills sets, and donating use of their personal tools, have worked to ready the new Town Hall.  "We have saved literally thousands of dollars by having our own folks work on the Town Hall."

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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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