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Rensselaer in Brief
Troy cleans up
A total of around $2.5 million in state grants were announced last Friday in an attempt to clean about 27 acres in South Troy, including the former home of the Burden Iron Works, which dates back to the Civil War. Rensselaer County has received $2.2 million of that grant aimed to clean 21 acres of county-owned land in the South Troy Industrial Park. In addition, Mohawk and River streets, a six-acre city-owned piece of land, are earmarked in part for a new river research center run by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries.
Troy received a $225,000 grant to study pollution and cleanup plans for the land, which once housed the former Rensselaer Iron Works, where plates for the Union’s first ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, were made. It later housed the Ludlow Valve factory, which closed in the late 1960s. The Department of Environmental Conservation also announced a $211,500 grant to the town of Amsterdam to investigate pollution at an abandoned mill on the Chuctanunda Creek on Pioneer Street.
The grants cover 90 percent of cleanup costs, with the rest paid by the local government. Cleanup work on the Rensselaer County parcel is planned to begin this year under a contract with Latham-based C.T. Male Associates. Hypocrisy doesn’t pay
A Common Council member was arraigned last Wednesday on charges that he was driving drunk, four days after he voted to ban beer sales in city fire departments. Third Ward Alderman William Lithgow, 65, was charged with DWI on August 19. Police arrested Lithgow after someone called in a report of an erratic driver on Broadway. Lithgow appeared in City Court on Wednesday morning and pleaded not guilty to DWI and was released on his own recognizance. Lithgow is next due in court in mid-September. This arrest would be Lithgow’s second DWI in less than a year and could land him in jail for up to a year. According to officials, Lithgow’s blood alcohol content at the time was 0.17.
Lithgow was one of six Common Council members who at an August 15 meeting voted to ban alcoholic beverages from municipal buildings. The fire departments got in trouble with the State Liquor Authority after residents who live near the firehouses reported seeing people driving away apparently intoxicated.
RAA elects president
Carrie Eckart ’85 has been elected as the new president of the Rensselaer Alumni Association, an organization made up of more than 90,000 Rensselaer alumni worldwide. Eckart is only the second woman to serve as president of the RAA (or its predecessor, the Association of Rensselaer Graduates) since 1862. Paula Simon ’68—now a member of RPI’s Board of Trustees—was the first woman to serve as RAA president. Currently director of graduate medical education at Albany Medical College, Eckert began her two-year term this past June. She received a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer in 1985 and, in 1986, as a graduate student, she was elected by her classmates to serve as Grand Marshal. Eckert continued on to receive a master’s degree in business administration from the Institute in 1987. |
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