If any of you can make this event it is well worth the trip out to the boonies.  The train is fantastic and the festivities are a blast.  The event has become a staple of the holiday season and ejoyed by many from miles around.

I will put my 2 cents in about this here - when the lieing repubs all get voted out over there then my wife and I will think about coming to that thing but until the demos can come into power and clean up that village then we will stay away

Sal, you truly are an idiot.

Actually Sal, the VILLAGE of Delanson, which is a total sperate entity from the TOWN of Duanesburg does not run on Republican or Democratic lines, they have their own line called the Sunshine party or some such thing.  Delanson and Duanesburg are like the Village of Scotia and the Town of Glenville  SEPERATE.  We have been through this and I have told you this atleast three or four times.  Are you really that dense?  

By the way, your opinion is worth less then 2 cents to me and I will take great pleasure in knowing you won't be at this event  

I think Sal should be there....with the gin and all.....Sal.....have your wifey bake.......

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DUANESBURG
Post office could close doors
Service looks to consolidate
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    The Quaker Street Post Offi ce in Duanesburg may be closed and its operations consolidated with nearby post offices, a U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman said Wednesday.
    “This is the beginning of a process to determine what to do with the facility,” said spokeswoman Maureen Marion. The Postal Service will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Quaker Street fire station to discuss the proposal, Marion said. Letters were sent to area residents about the meeting.
    The Quaker Street Post Office is part-time and has 30 rental boxes. The clerk who works there also works at a nearby post office. “That’s a small facility,” Marion said.
    Should the Postal Service close it, residents of the 12141 ZIP code would be able to obtain services at two nearby offices on Railroad Avenue and Duanesburg Road, Marion said.
    The Postal Service is looking to reduce a $2.8 billion deficit. Over the past year, it cut 41,000 jobs through attrition and now has a hiring freeze.
    Local resident Ken Sanders said the Postal Service tried to close Quaker Street at least once before, but residents fought the move. “We want to get the word out about what they are trying to do,” he said.
    Marion said the Postal Service considers many factors in the closure process. One is the hours of service. She said Quaker Street is open two hours a day, six hours a week, indicating a lack of demand for services.
    “We have to look at ways to control costs and grow business where we can,” Marion said.
    The Postal Service is also looking at closing a small post office in Oneida, the only other facility in the region affected, Marion said.
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For those who don't know Duanesburg well, the USPS Delanson post office is located less than a mile down Main Street (Route 395) from the Quaker Street post office at the corner of Routes 7 and 395.

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DUANESBURG
Quaker Street library expansion put aside
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

The $1 million Quaker Street library expansion project, pitched three years ago as a campaign pledge, has quietly been shelved, local officials said.
    Schenectady County, which funds the countywide library system, included the expansion in its 2006 capital budget as a recommended project, but the county never borrowed the money.
    The county’s capital project budget extends for five years for planning purposes, meaning the county could still do the expansion. But Library Director Andy Kulmatiski said he doubts it will proceed.
    “The library board studied it and looked at sites, but the priority of the library board is the central library,” Kulmatiski said. “Quaker Street is still in the capital budget, but there is no money for it.”
    Duanesburg Supervisor Rene Merrihew, a Republican, said she suspected that the Duanesburg library project “was dead even before it was even started. It was politically motivated. It came up out of the blue, they had one or two meetings and then I never heard anything about it.”
    County Legislator Judith Dagostino, D-Rotterdam, asked former County Manager Kevin DeFebbo to include the project in the 2006 capital budget. One plan was to make the library part of a new community center built along Route 395. Quaker Street residents opposed the idea of moving the library but supported its expansion.
    Dagostino was running for reelection in 2005 and used the project as an issue during her campaign. Her intervention pushed forward by a year a plan to rebuild the library, originally slated for 2007.
    Dagostino’s current four-year term expires in 2009. She is now chairing an effort to consolidate central dispatch in the county. Rotterdam is expected to join the unified system, which would save it money. She did not return a phone call for comment.
    Kulmatiski added that a worsening economy makes it unlikely that the county will tackle capital projects such as Quaker Street anytime soon. In fact, the county last year reduced the Quaker Street’s branch operation by seven hours per week to save money. Kulmatiski had to reduce his 2008 budget by $90,000, to $5.5 million, compared to his 2007 budget.
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New shopping center possible; D’burg planners meet tonight

    DUANESBURG — Members of the Planning Board expect tonight to hear plans for a new town shopping center, which include a major national company as its primary tenant.
    Ventura-Duanesburg LLC is seeking approval for a special use permit that would allow it to build the structure on a Western Turnpike lot. The board meeting begins at 7 p.m. today in Town Hall and is expected to be attended by representatives for the main tenant, which .............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01204

And.....it starts........

The tenant is Hannaford.  I am very excited.  We have been working with the developer since July or August and tonight they revealed the store.  It has been a long time coming and I think the residents will welcome the news.

Will that mean you will need a police force of 1 for the shoplifters? just curious.....I wonder how the developement happens......is it because the
population ages(demand more services),,,,,cost's(taxes) go up,,,,,population exodus from cities (missing the conveniences),,,,etc??????

see, we are like the locust.......nothing bad, just an observation.....

I know what you mean and I think it is probably a little bit of all of the above.  I've said it before.....be careful what you ask for, but this is too good to resist.  In 45 years that I've lived here I have heard friends, foe, and all others say "If only we had a supermarket" or "When will we ever get a market?"  That is long before I ever had any idea I would be Supervisor of the town as well as during the time I've been Supervisor.  

I am more interested in the library expansion and rebuilding that "Judy" promised. When will that happen????

Rene, For those not so up on things, where in Duanesburg is this planned for?  I assume somewhere near I-88 Exit 24?  Western Turnpike is Rt 20, and it goes the entire length of Duanesburg.  Glad you are going to get some development out there, just hope that Duanesburg is able to keep it's "small-town" feel.  I think it would be if this was at the outskirts of town, maybe even on 20 the opposite side of I-88 from the 7 & 20 intersection.