'-'!~- ~-.'1 . BETHLEHEM PUBLIC LIBR/\PV DO NOT CIRCU~ zooo Rockwell1s BLG hosts 2.~0£-~~02-t AN ~~Wl3G . 3~~ 3~~M~l30 l£~ A!!~Ha Il ::J nand W3H3lHl39 notor1ety hockey· tourney d&L M0t 00-t0-E>0 £~0£ Oseepage26 0 see page 18 • WMI3************************ ----------------- .- Consensus: BC parking .. ·Lemonade brigade .. must be worked out By JOSEPH A. PHILLIPS consideration, were only short-term salution to a long-term problem. It is one More than 150 residents packed that, several speakers warned, is not Bethlehem town hall auditorium for a limited to students or to the school day. town board meeting last Wednesday, Said Grantwood resident lisa Gruber, "I where the controversy over student favor this proposition - but only on parking in the neighborhoods adjacent condition that the bigger picture is also to Bethlehem Central High School addressed." · topped the agenda. The high school's facilities have seen At issue: a public hearing on proposed growing round-the-clock and all-season new parking-restrictions for Grantwood · use by a broad Avenue, a side ________________ctosssectionofthe ·:·srreet in the community ~B r o o k f i e I d I'Ve asked that thiS be a senior citizens development that . , participating in "faces the high permanen t so Iu t ton, so we re open swimming .'school across not constantly having meetings programs; families Delaware Avenue. The one-hour attending soccer on parking issues. Dr. Loomis tournaments; parking limit on has agreed. Sheila Fuller participants in Grantwood during _________...., ______ open houses, school hours was summer aimed squarely at recreational programs and evening and student drivers who have taken in after-school activities - all of which growing numbers to parking on the occasionally overwhelm available shoulders of that narrow side street this parking space. spring. A growing number of students drive A parade of Brookfield residents, and to and from school, for reasons, ranging even a few students, endorsed the from convenience to necessity in proposed limits, and with no one reaching after-school jobs and off­ opposing it, the board unanimously campus educational enrichment passed the measure. They then moved programs. That has added to the demand Ben Fuchs, left, and James Hooper-Hamersley made $5 on the first lemonade slaQd of the on to more than an hour of discussion of for more parking and put pressure on season on Saturday in front of their Delaware Avenue home. J1m Franco limited parking at the high school and residential neighborhoods. what to do about it. In turn, the town board in the past four On one point nearly all speakers years has created time-limited parking agreed: "!tis a student parking problem," restrictions on Van Dyke Road, in 7 BCHS science students said student Senate leader Dan Brookfield and on nearby Evelyn Drive, Rosenthal, "but greater than that, it is a but that has simply pushed tlie parking community problem." chalk up more accolades problem farther away from the school. ' Supervisor Sheila Fuller said the new Several Brookfield residents at the restrictions, and more now under Groups." Schmidt's project also ~arned 0 PARKING/page 22 By KATHERINE McCARTHY him a first place award from the Army, Science fair winners from Bethlehem and he will present his research at the New York State. Science Congress Fair Central High School have become the in Syracuse over Memorial Day norm, and the Greater Capital Region Science and Engineering Fair, held at RPI weekend. A senior, Schmidt is currently recently was no exception, where seven deciding whether to attend Cornell or Bethlehem students came away winners. New York University. Sophomore Harold Barnard won Senior Jason Chatterjee received the second place for his project entitled National Association ofBiologyTeachers "Engineering Insect-Like Robots with award, and will also present his project Mechanical Intelligence." Barnard won in Syracuse. Chatterjee's project is titled $300, a $12,000 scholarship to RPI, and a "Activation of the Extracellular-Regulated spot at the International Science and Kinases is Not involved in the Signaling · Engineering Fair that starts in Detroit, Pathway Associated with TGF-B1 Mich., on May 7. Barnard also received induced Myosin Light Chain awards from the Army, the Intel· Phosphorylation in Endothelial Cells." .;· Excellence in Computer Science award, Chatterjee, who is going to Duke and the Scientific American Award. Not University in the fall, explained the bad for a bug Barnard modestly said he project that he worked on with Dr. Peter built out of things lying around the house. Vincent at Albany Med. 'The metal's from the hardware store,. 'This was to identify protein-signaling and the wires are from Radio Shack," pathways that lead to the breakdown of Barnard said. "The antennae are from endothelial cells, the cells that line blood coat hangars. My dad's been collecting vessels," Chatterjee said. "By identifying electrical junk for years. I've been making the pathways, we can create medicines radio-controlled airplanes." Not out of to inhibit the pathways. We looked at junk, Barnard programmed a BASIC TGF-Beta 1, which occur naturally when Stamp II chip with a regular computer to the body's in a state of hypertension. This send out digital pulses to coordinate the can cause a breakdown between cells, legs of his bug. and fluid gets in, for instance, the lungs, The third. place winner at the fair is causing pulmonary edema. We found out already a familiar name in the Capital that the most plausible pathway turned • District; Intel Science Talent Search out to be the one not being activated." finalist and Bethlehem senior Gordon Patricia Sandison and Victoria . Schmidt earned more acclaim for his Winkeller, both seniors, worked together .. project, "The Relationship between Attachment Style and Distrust of Societal 0 ACCOLADES/page 23 Police agencies report flurry of OWl arrests .~-. By Joseph A. Phillips court that day, but his case was maned, and Macilla Lee Halpin, two-car accident in front of the Giaconeexitedthevehicle,ran Bethlehem and state police re­ adjourned until May 2. 19, of DeWitt Clinton Apartments Days Inn, involving a Selkirk man to the back door of his house, and cently charged 11 individuals with A rollover accident on April 2 in Albany, and a passenger were whose vehicle was struck by an- locked·himself in, police said. Of­ driving while intoxicated (DWI). on the Thruway ended in a Sun- found hiding in the brush. A K-9 other driven by Angela C. ficersrespondingtoassistHughes Two arrests occurred on Satur­ day-morning manhunt in search unit found the keys to the Benaway, 38, of 135 Main St., eventually forced Giacone out of day, March 18, on Route 9W in Glenmont and the arrest of a vehicle hidden under a log. Police Ravena. the house. Glenmont. The first occurred Ravena man on felony DWI. saidthecarwasbeingdrivenwith­ Vunck administered field so- Giacone was charged with about 2 a.m., when Officer James charges. out its owner's permission, but briety tests and arrested Benaway DWI, failure to comply with· a po­ Rexford stopped a vehicle for Theaccidentoccurredabout2 the owner declined. to press for DWI. lice officer, resisting arrest and speeding near Glenmont Road. miles south of Exit 23, and was charges. On April 8, shortly after mid- failure to keep right. After administering field so bri­ reported to state police shortly Halpin was charged with DWI, night, Vunck responded to a call A felony DWI arrest was made ety tests, Rexford arrested Cheryl before 9 am. Troopers said the driving under the influence of to assist with a vehicle that had . on River Road in Selkirk at about · ·L- Guilmette, 22, of 16 Patroon driver had apparently fled to a drugs and driving without a seat gone off the road on Route 85 . 9:20 p.m. on April 8. Officer Rob- Place, Ballston Lake, for DWI and wooded area. belt. Vunck administered field so- ert Markel stopped Jason John speeding. Joined by State Police units, ShewastumedovertoColonie briety tests and arrested Deirdre Shear, 26, of Coeymans Hollow, .. At2:15am.,Sgt.RobertBerben including a K-9 search team, and police on an active warrant. Elaine Clarke, 41, of 531 North near the Thruway maintenance observed a· vehicle crossing the by Albany .County Sheriffs depu- River Road in Glenmont was Salem Road, Voorheesville for building for speeding. Markel ar· center double lines on Route 9W. ties, Bethlehem police combed a the scene of a DWI incident on DWI. rested him for DWI. A license Officer Thomas Heffernan ar­ heavily wooded area of Vagele April 7. Stephen Michael Fiato, Bethlehem and State Police of- check revealed several previous rested Gregory Alan Thompson, L;!ne. At about 9:35 a.m., police 24, of39 Dorchester Ave., Selkirk, fleers participated in. another ar- DWI convictions, thereby elevat­ 39, of 61 Main St., New Baltimore, arrested John H. Minor Jr., 33, of was stopped after turning onto rest, involving Joseph Jeremiah ing the charge to a felony. for DWI. Since Thompson had a Dean's Mill Road in Ravena GlenmontRoad,shortlyafter3:15 Giacone, 44, of 5 Maple Terrace, A drug-related DWI arrest was prior DWI conviction the charge Officer Brian Hughes made a.m., for speeding. After adminis­ Delmar, also accused of resisting made byHughesonSunday,April was raised to a felony. another DWI arrest in Glenmont tering field sobriety tests, Fiato arrest. 9, shortly after 12:30 am. on Dela- Guilmette appeared in Town on April 6 that also involved a wasarrestedforDWiandordered Atabout2:40a.m.,OfficerBrian ware Avenue. Hughes stopped CourtonApril4andpleadedguilty searchinthewoods.Atabout1:30 to appear in Town Court on May Hughes observed a vehicle being Richard Michael Malatesta, 35, of to a driving while ability impaired a.m.