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1999 December 1999, January 2000
Garbage in the Pine Bush – City Proposes Landfill Expansion
SPB Files Most Unpopular Suit Yet – Sues the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission
The Thruway Authority Comes Across Royally
Thank You to All Who Responded to the Emergency Appeal
1st Annual Pine Bush Walk-a-Thon a Sucess!
October/November, 1999
Save the Pine Bush Sues City – Back in Court with Charlie Touhey
Pushing and Pulling West: Pending Extensions of the Boundaries of the Pine Bush Preserve
Michael Breslin Speaks
July/August, 1999
Save the Pine Bush Sues Albany Common Council Over Illegal Office Complex
The Portland Plan – A Better Way To Grow
Well, How About Here? Can We Plan the Capital District?
Pyramid Goes To Court Sprawl Malls Need Lawyers, Too
Gotta Watch’em Like Hawks – Can’t Trust Nobody
Mayor Jennings’ Bankrupt Pine Bush Policy And Loss of Words Exposed
How Well is the Pine Bush Doing?
Fire? What Fire? Pine Bush Better Than Ever
April/May, 1999
Action Alert! Call your Common Council Member – Ask to Vote No on Touhey
Council Sacrifices Pine Bush – Nitido, Hershberg Win
The Deer Crisis – No Easy Answers
The Devil In Skaneateles – Wealthy Developer Deplores Development
Guilderland Holds Steady – History In The Making?
Letters to the Editor
February/March, 1999
Drumlin Fields – Its Not Over ’til Its Over (There is still time to call your Council Member!)
Action Alert! Oppose Drumlin Fields Office Complex: Five Minutes to Help Save the Pine Bush – No matter where you live, please, call a Common Council Member about Drumlin Fields
Our Friends Visit – FORCE Is Here To Stay
Crossgates Follies – The Government Plays Catch-Up
Sprawl Raises Taxes – The Myth Of The Expanding Tax Base
485B – Promoting Destruction of the Pine Bush through Tax Deductions!
December, 1998/January, 1999
Willow Street Again, SPB Sues over Sewers Built in the Preserve, DEC Caves in to Developer
Spadefoot Toads and Hognose Snakes – Neil Gifford Has Great Pictures
Democracy Survives -Just Barely Once Again
Jennings Makes A Dump – Plans To Defile Pine Bush
Crossgates Warning: Stay Away For The Holidays
Action Alert! Oppose Drumlin Fields Office Complex: Five Minutes to Help Save the Pine Bush – No matter where you live, please, call an Alderman about Drumlin Fields
January, 1998
Developer Takes Preserve to Build Water Lines – Save the Pine Bush Sues the Albany Pine Bush Management Commission & Others
Captain Planet Comes to the Pine Bush
Emergency Appeal
Creek’s Bend Cohousing – Another Perspective
They Have Their Niche – Memo From The PB Commission
Touhey’s Obsession And Other News
March/April, 1998
Proposals for Paving the Pine Bush Come Fast and Furiously -Guilderland, Albany consider destroying Full Protection Areas
Judge Cobb Grants Injunction – State Defends Pine Bush
Divided Highways
New Light on an Old Road – Part I
Devil Eats Developer – Massive Coverup Alleged
GE Brings Dead Things To Life – Breathe Those PCBs
Surprise! They Can’t Build There -YMCA May Move
Lew Oliver Recovering
June/July, 1998
News Flash!! Black Bear Encounter in the Pine Bush
Location Is Everything – Kunstler Offers Solutions
Crossgates Shouldn’t Expand- But Who Will Stop Them?
Action Alert! Touhey Gets A Boost – Politicians Defy Voters
Write To Your Alderman to Oppose the Touhey Office Complex
New Light on an Old Road – Part II
Another Action Alert! Please call/write to Oppose these Guilderland and Albany Developments
The Emperor’s New Plan – The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission’s acquisition plan
August/September, 1998
Save the Pine Bush Forces Developer to Remove Water Lines from Pine Bush Preserve – Victory for the Pine Bush!!!
War On Crossgates – The Community Fights Back
Residents Organize! – How to get involved to Stop Crossgates
Crossgates Information – How the Media Covers the Maul
Jack Fights Back- McEneny Debates A Letter
No Credit Given – A Letter From the Commission
Best of Metroland – Rezsin wins a “Best of” Award
Interview with Helen Caldicott
October/November, 1998
The Proposed Albany City Charter: For Better or For Worse – Read why community leaders believet the proposed Albany City Charter should be voted down.
Politics and Garbage – That Sweet Smell
FORCE Fights Pyramid – Guilderland Citizens Organize
A Proposal – For Guilderland Officials
Black Bear Encounter in the Pine Bush
Peter Vallone For Governor – A Superb Environmentalist
December, 1998/January, 1999
Willow Street Again, SPB Sues over Sewers Built in the Preserve, DEC Caves in to Developer
Spadefoot Toads and Hognose Snakes – Neil Gifford Has Great Pictures
Democracy Survives -Just Barely Once Again
Jennings Makes A Dump – Plans To Defile Pine Bush
Crossgates Warning: Stay Away For The Holidays
Action Alert! Oppose Drumlin Fields Office Complex: Five Minutes to Help Save the Pine Bush – No matter where you live, please, call an Alderman about Drumlin Fields
1997
February/March, 1997
Victory In Colonie SPB Stops GEIS
Driving Backwards – Transportation Committee Shuns The Future
The Advantages of An Unpoisoned Lawn
Home From Nowhere – Book Review
Remember The Elections? Be Thankful We Still Have Them
Snake Ridge in Pine Bush, Spring 1997 (Blueberry Hill East) – Photos from the Pine Bush Hike
April/May, 1997
SPB and Town Agree – Colonie Signs Settlement
Meat Will Kill You…Just More Good News
Letters To SPB – Honorable Keith St. John Writes
An Exposé by John Wolcott:
The 1996 Clean Water, Clean Air Bond Act
What It Is, What It Isn’t, And What Some Of It Might Be
Albany Pine Bush Devil?!? Must Be April Fools
Revolution, Treason and Hypnotism -Guilderland Comes of Age
July, 1997
DEC reintroduces box turtles in Albany Pine Bush Experiment
August/September, 1997
The Two Month Debate- Jennings and McEneny In A Death-Grip
Land Crunch in the Pine Bush
Is There a ‘Y’ in Guilderland?
October, 1997
Candidates Night at SPB – Common Council Presidential Candidates Speak to Save the Pine Bush
November, 1997
Victory in Colonie! Vinyl Golf Driving Range Proposal Withdrawn
Montreal Eco-tourism
The Rome Sand Plains
Guilderland CandidatesNight At SPB
Let Your Voice Be Heard! – Don’t Let Them Take Land from Preserve!
December, 1997
Albany Area Coalition for Light Rail
Creek’s Bend Cohousing
1996
January/February Newsletter 1996
Save the Pine Bush Action Alert!
SPB Needs Your Help to Fight Road
City Strangles Downtown Growth
Lasagna Makes You Smarter
Rao Disaster-End Of The Legal Road
March/April Newsletter 1996
Coyotes in the Moonlight – Response to the Commission’s Final Implementation Guidelines
SPB meets with Bill Aylward
Love Of Money The Root Of All…?
Murdered By Pyramid: It Could Happen Here
May/June Newsletter 1996
Earth Day Lasagna-Wasserman Headlines Gathering Of Activists
They Don’t Ever Quit – But Neither Do We
Late Breaking News
July/August, 1996 Newsletter
Albany Common Council Denies Dunes Residents Chance to be Heard
A Brief Historical Note on the Six Mile Waterworks (Rensselaer Lake)
McEneny Tables Water Slide for Pine Bush on Six Mile Waterworks
Teacher Wins Toyota Tapestry Grant
Town of Colonie – Will It or Won’t It Destroy Its Pine Bush?
Membership Reminder
September, 1996 Newsletter
Show Down Over Roundup – Should Pesticides be used in the Pine Bush????
Save the Pine Bush Joins with Residents of the Dunes to Win Big – Charlie Touhey Cannot Build His Office Buildings
October/November, 1996 Newsletter
Breslin Calls For Preservation
SPB Enjoys Another Victory – Adventure Park Parcel Added to the Preserve
Save the Pine Bush Sues the Town of Colonie
John Wolcott Versus The Dump – Skewering An Inane Document
“Farmers” Sue Albany Pine Bush Management Commission
December 96, January 97 Newsletter
New York to Buy Pineland Tract From L.I. Scouts
The Karner Blue vs Crossgates Mall – Secret Meetings and SEQRA Violations
The Karner Blue and the Wishing Wells
Save the Pine Bush Sues the Town of Colonie
November, 1996 SPB Dinner Speakers
Now We’ve Got A Bond Act – Jeff Jones of Environmental Advocates
Bethlehem Pickled – Formaldahyde And Corruption
Poor Folks Don’t Mind A Garbage Dump In North Albany
Charlie’s At It Again! – Touhey proposes housing units in the Pine Bush
1995
1994
January, 1994
The Most Important Thing You Can Do Today to Save the Pine Bush
February/March, 1994
10 Minutes & 29¢ The Most Important Thing You Can Do Today to Save the Pine Bush
Everybody Wants One -Preservation Plan Makes Waves
1993
1992
January/February
Butterflies-Not Bulldozers – Keeping the Karner Blue in Clifton Park
March/April
Letter-Writing Made a Difference – Your Letters Needed to Help the Karner Blue Butterfly