Police Suspect Foul Play in Fire
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The weekly newspaper serving the Towns of Bethlehem and New Scotland Police suspect foul play in fire By Michael Hallisey The fire that gutted one store and caused extensive damage to three others in an Elsmere strip mall was deliberately set, according to Bethlehem police Lt. Fred Holligan. Police investigators said the fire started early Thursday morning in the rear of Mail Boxes Etc., a packaging and shipping business, Other related fire stories See Page 10 and caused heavy smoke and water damage to Pizza Hut, Cyber Haus, Knuffles Children's Center and the state Dormitory Authority offices, across from Delaware Plaza. More than half of the 270 Dormitory Authority employees either had the day off or worked Cleanup begins immediately lor businesses damaged in Thursday's lire. Paul Deyss from offices in Albany Thursday, said Dormitory Authority spokeswoman used to light or spread the fire. Officials the blaze is connected to the vandalism of Claudia Hutton. By Friday, all were back would not say if anything was found.· Mail Boxes Etc. owner Richard Schaefer's in the Elsmere office. Tfie · Elsmere. Fire Department car the night of the. fire. Holligan said Investigators from the state Office of received an automaiic fire ·alarm at 12:43 ~Schaefer reportedly discovered a broken Fire Prevention and Control, the federal a.m. from the Dormitory Authority office, sun .roof when he left his store shortly Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms two stores away from where the fire CY FIRE/page 32 (ATF) and the county District Attorney's . started. office are looking into how the fire quickly Carole Riley, owner of the neighboring spread, said Holligan. Pizza Hut delivery store, said her A dog from the state Office of Fire employees would have left an hour before Prevention was called onto the scene to at around 11:45 p.m. detect substances that could have been Police are also investigating whether By Michael Hallisey NiMo plans major rehab in ~lenmont · Approximately 45 residents attended a two-and-a-half hour By DevTobin said Thomas Baron, information session on a proJ)osed Besides prophets of doom NiMo's vice president of senior housing facility 'for what is and computer dating fossil and hydro generation. nowavacant 6.7,acre lotnext d?or problems, the millennium will "The Albany Steam to Bethlehem' Public Libniiy on bring a new look and smell to Station needs 21st-century . DelawareAVenue. the Capital District's major technology to compete in .·· CMI Senior Housing & electricity generating facility. the 21st-century market Healthcare neld the. public meeting Niagara Mohawk Power place," Baron added, noting atF'I.fSt Uruted Methodist Church on· Corp. has announced plans to that under new state Kenwood Avenue Moiiday,\to turn its Albany Steam Station, regulations, NiMo will have inform residents on its:proposed' · to sell generating facilities in operation since 1952 in the 107;unitfadlitY. ..•. { . , ;: ~ , town of Bethlehem adjacent like the one in Glenmont. The meeting hall wa~)iuzzing < to the Hudson River, just over Whiie the turbines are with questions about drainage .and :.: the city line, into the original, the fuel to power ',~·traffic~ '' 0 <:::~, Bethlehem Energy Center. them has changed twice, CMI plans to build ~ assisti"Je-.: . The new facility will have from coal to oil in 1970 and ,living facility, as opposed to a then to the current three natural-gas-fueled The Glenmont electrical generating plant will look like this by 2001. ' ' nursing home, for the frail combination of oil and eld~rly~ 1'\ combined-cycle turbines in r:··sa:ld'companY.•.Presidellfr~t~ye.ll.J.,.: place of the four 40.plmryears-old turbines The plant's four 337-foot-high natural gas in 1981. nowthere. · · smokestacks will also be removed, to be "We're taking a facility that can't P-,_~:Ip~ft{:_,: ~JHt:il·l~; ;: .>r ·: ··~ ~ :.~:·:';i;~il~;~~~:t~Ji~~;~;:~~; <) ;~:oilr go~Us to offe( a ~igt~ified:·· replaced by three shorter stacks next to compete, and getting the permitting The new turbines, with heat recovery .:n!sideritial •alternativiffor'ih~[trllil i. , steam generators, will produce up to 729 the building. process started so it can be competitive," 0 0 said NiMo spokesman Nicholas Lyman. .· :' ~.~~~~:Jt~." h~_;~~!~.:::: .. :,~, R: :·:.'~c:; .:''~'~•.:t\~;:'\~:~;:::··.·~ :-]~~ megawatts, a substantial increase from the 'This project will reduce air emissions . , ,.:;]ns'oft .said 'the,,typical•fclienl•f,![ while nearly doubling the plant's capacity 400.megawatt-maximum possible with the The state permitting process will take ·····.···.: ::o· ··.:~~:;:n::;~~'i;;i#f.!fi~u.~~~ii1 current equipment. and significantly improving its efficiency," 0 NIMO/page 20 PAGE 2- September 24, 1997 THE SPOTLIGHT Library looks to fill trustee position By Michael Hallisey _ library has increased computer Birkhead said the board will After serving three years of a access for its patrons. Magazine appoint someone to take over five-year term, Roger Beck has and newspaper articles can now Beck's term on an interim basis, resigned his po be researched through CD-ROM and will expect the new trustee to sition on the collections. run for election next May. If Bethlehem Pub The library already is working elected, he or she will serve on the lic Library on switching from a computer board until]u1y 2000, when Beck's board of trust network system with Albany Pub term ends. ees to move lic Library to the Upper Hudson 'The board is looking for com with his family library Access Network, said li munity experience and work ex to Connecticut. brary director N arrey Pieri. perience that would be a valuable The board And in the near future, patrons contribution to the board," said will appoint a will be able to access the Internet Birkhead. new trustee on through the library. The Internet People interested in serving as an interim basis might also play a role in allowing a trustee should contact Pieri at until the next election in May, said town re.sidents to see which books 451 Delaware Ave., Delmar 12054. board president Susan Birkhead. the library has in stock through "We will certainly miss him," their own personal computer at ''Giadneywas ~barged with f<?Urth·•degree she said. "He was an energetic home. Corrections ceny. and committed board member. He ."Roger has a master's in library The following are corrections Gladney is in Albany County jail without bail and is scheduled took a specific interest in library science, which gave him in-depth to the Community Services Guide to appear in Bethlehem Town Court Tuesday, Oct. 21, Halligan technology as we move into the sight into library issues," said published last week. said. · . ·. 21st century." Birkhead. 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