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THOMPSON’S LAKE. 

Town justices of the peace in the 1890s and early 1900s had an easy time hearing the relatively few cases that arose here each year.

VOORHEESVILLE. 

Jim Meade, Los Angeles

 

DUANESBURGH QUARANTINED BECAUSE OF CORN BORER 

The town of Duanesburgh has been listed as a quarantined area because of the infection of European corn borer, according to a recent notice issued by the bureau of plant industry of the national department of agriculture. 

A group of citizens dedicated to supporting the historic Schoolcraft House has disbanded but Guilderland’s supervisor says the town will continue to support the house and the town’s historian says, “The potential is there.”

Compromise in the late 1700s moved a new nation forward. We could learn from that example now — on both a national and local level. Where is the domestic tranquility, where is the promotion of the general welfare, where are the blessings of liberty today that the Constitution set out to secure?

RENSSELAERVILLE. 

Clinton Wood caught an eel in the mill dam which weighed eight pounds and was four feet long. 

 

WEST MEADOWDALE. 

The Altamont Board of Trustees voted this week to solicit bids for the demolition of the Doctor Frederick Crounse House.

THOMPSON’S LAKE. 

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