LOOKING BACK 100 YEARS AGO Tractor plant advances
A 13-year-old competitor from Lyons Falls takes part in a sled dog race Jan. 10, 1991, in Indian Lake.
Gov. Nathan Miller said he did not have the planned Ford tractor plant in Green Island in mind when he directed Attorney General Charles D. Newton to appear before the Federal Water Power Commission later in the month and contest the provision of an act that gave the commission jurisdiction over water power rights in the boundary streams of the state. Miller promised the eventual operation of the plant would in no way be interfered with due to this challenge, but said it would be up to Newton to decide if the factory situation would be included in the dispute. The Attorney General’s office also indicated Henry Ford had provided all necessary paperwork and requirements, the federal government was planning to waive any objections to a speedy start of construction, the land in Green Island would be sold by the state to the federal government, which would, in turn, lease it to the company, and that three state engineers were surveying the site that very moment.
— Times Union, Jan. 10, 1921
50 YEARS AGO Concern over institute’s fate
Vincentian Institute in Albany, along with every school of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, was suffering what Bishop Edwin B. Broderick termed an “intolerable financial burden.” Operating costs rose 100 percent in the past five years, enrollment remained stable the past few years at 1,066 for high school and 904 for elementary school with tuition averaging $335. The high school faculty had 45 members. With the need for innovative teaching techniques and equipment, it looked to action of the legislature and the Rockefeller administration.
— Times Union, Jan. 10, 1971