I guess I'll ask you the same question you asked me somewhere. What's your problem? No sense of humor? If you read the thread from the beginning and knew something about the town and the Little League situation, then maybe you'd realize that the whole thread has been a recurring joke. There are no new fields! There were never going to be any new fields! That's the joke! Geez don't get you panties in an bunch. This whole thread has been a put on from the first post. The only purpose of this thread was to be the straight man for the rest of the community to joke with. So yeah, you and Exit3 hijacked a comic thread and tried to make it something that the OP never intended. Lighten up.
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Some of the posts were serious, no need for vulgarity, I still don't understand what is setting you off but this is not the first thread where you have attacked the other posters.
Some of the posts were serious, no need for vulgarity, I still don't understand what is setting you off but this is not the first thread where you have attacked the other posters.
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"Holy crap!! Did she EAT Bob??"
Not everything on the Interweb is truth. Only a gullible fool would believe otherwise.
I am neither Left wing nor Right wing. I am gro-wing.
maybe galesi will donate some space in the ind park or we could put them on the old land fill or on the well fields next to sch'dy chemical in the junction
or maybe Skip the Crooner could build a indoor Drive-in Eating Facility - like a drive-in of the 50's - rollorama could provide trained wait staff on skates and we could use the parking lot for the ball fields
but next to the sewer treatment plant - WTF - because we need to pile on the appts - per the recommendations of Donald Z the planning god of the tri-cities - who only cares about his pocket not the town
Why doesn't Larned step up and donate the current location of the fields to the League? I'm assuming there must have already been some sort of agreement made for the league to continue to use the fields this year. That means that Larned's plans to develop the site are in limbo right now, and won't be moving forward.
So why not do the right thing. Donate the entire parcel and create a park in addition to the ball fields. Build a gazebo, and have town concerts there. Maybe site a community center such as Senders' suggested.
Or does that idea make too much sense?
"Holy crap!! Did she EAT Bob??"
Not everything on the Interweb is truth. Only a gullible fool would believe otherwise.
I am neither Left wing nor Right wing. I am gro-wing.
larnard shouldn't have to donate anything....the town as a whole needs to STEP UP AND HOLD UP THE BAR......every time we accept 'gifts' from the local big fish the comp plan later gets thwarted for sh!t.....
too many gumbas with their own agendas not caring about the town's posterity
I don't work for free either, but expecting or coercing a 'payback' for a donation is all that ever seems to be done around here...
it's either a donation or it's not.....PERIOD....same thing with the mayor of hamburg street, how'd that work out for posterity...
STUCK IN THE MUD
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Perhaps donate was the wrong word. He should give a portion to the Little League, and the rest to the town for the park/community center. He has after all along with the town held the Little League hostage all this time.
I realize this may be "pie in the sky" thinking, and his past shady deals with Jimmy C. certainly doesn't lend itself to him doing the honorable and right thing.
Still I hold out hope.
"Holy crap!! Did she EAT Bob??"
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exit3 - that is interesting that you mention the green space, I was just talking with someone about that issue the other day. One of the benefits of growing up in a place like Rotterdam, or Schenectady too, was the abundance of green space and recreation areas and also the proximity of stores and workplaces. The best of both worlds. They kill the goose, no more golden eggs, then they move on to some other nice area and lay waste to that. We can see it now - look at Halfmoon.
You know what? All this talk of "for the children", and when something comes up that really is for the children, something proven to be good for them and their communities, something many will remember all their lives, fuhgeddabouddit.
remember.....no one is going to move to any municipality because of 'green space' .... or a 'little league park'.....there needs to be JOBS, UPDATED INFRASTRUCTURE, LOW TAXES, NO BLIGHT(which ROTTENdam is now has a supply of) and A GOOD SCHOOL SYSTEM! Until those issues become the priority, 'green space', as important as it may sound, shouldn't be on the list of priorities.
eg...folks aren't buying homes in schenectady because of central park.
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HEY!!!! WTF!!!!! I just took a drive down Burdeck St. to look at the new fields. WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY. IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE!!!! I think you should reimburse me for the gas I wasted.
Opening day is next week. Do you think they still have time to get them built?
"Holy crap!! Did she EAT Bob??"
Not everything on the Interweb is truth. Only a gullible fool would believe otherwise.
I am neither Left wing nor Right wing. I am gro-wing.
Maybe if we didn't need to pay police retirement rates greater or equal to a police officers last year of public service - we would have nice fields for sports -
our children(future) are not as important as retired cops(past) - but the kids parents are scared something might happen to the children and bend over backwards for law enforcement(response) not crime prevention
I don't know whether to laugh, cry or go running down the street pulling my hair out screaming obscenities. I'm spent.
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Little League field project stalled Tuesday, April 30, 2013 By Justin Mason (Contact) Gazette Reporter
ROTTERDAM — Mounds of dirt remain piled on the land designated for a new ball field complex for the Rotterdam Little League.
Last summer, some had hoped the four fields and concession stand for the league would be completed for this season. But with the league’s play now under way, those hopes are all but dashed.
“They’re not going to be ready,” County Attorney Chris Gardner said of the fields Tuesday.
And that’s of little surprise, considering the 9 acres designated for the fields behind the Rotterdam sewage plant off West Campbell Road isn’t yet graded or seeded. This preliminary work needed to be completed last fall for the league to have any chance of using the fields this spring.
But this time, Gardner said, the delay in building the fields has nothing to do with the county or the developer still planning to sell the property for the fields. In July, he said, the county signed an agreement with Timothy Larned and the league allowing them to start work on the fields in advance of the county closing on the property.
Yet little site work occurred in the months since. Gardner said the county will close on the property shorty and it’s now up to the league to live up to its end of the deal and build the fields. “They could start working on the fields right now if they want to,” he said.
The league appears to be using its old fields off Princetown Road, but it’s unclear whether it will have access to a concession stand. The old concession stand lost its power supply after Larned began preparing that property for a 248-unit apartment complex last summer.
League officials voiced concern about not being able to sell the normal amount of concession offerings this year. They indicated that the league previously generated 90 percent of its concession income — or about $25,000 — from games at the three ball fields.
Attempts to contact league officials and Larned were unsuccessful Tuesday.
Larned still hasn’t received a permit to begin constructing the apartment buildings. Town Supervisor Harry Buffardi said work on the project isn’t expected to begin until after the Little League’s season ends later this spring. “That’s what I’ve been led to understand,” he said.
The delays, however, have also allowed discussions to continue over installing a new 12-inch sewer line from the development to the town’s sewage treatment plant. The main would travel up Burdeck Street and connect to Techfibers Inc., the British specialty paper manufacturer that purchased the building once occupied by Vstream Manufacturing.
The initial town approval of Larned’s apartment complex indicated the developer would install a much smaller sewer line that would connect only his property to the sewer plant. Buffardi said a deal was reached between the town, county and developer over the past month that will both serve the needs of the apartment complex and of Techfibers, and allow for future connections that could spur growth along the Burdeck Street corridor.
A building permit for the apartments could be issued within the month. Now Buffardi is hoping the field project can also get moving, so the fields the league has sought for so many years can finally get built.
The fields were once proposed for an area across the street from the Rotterdam Square mall, before state officials ruled the deed restrictions on the town-owned land would prohibit such development. Several years later, county officials signed an option to buy land on Guilderland Avenue, only to realize that the amount of wetlands on the property would make it impossible to build the four fields needed by the league.
“I’m anxious to see it get going,” Buffardi said of the field project. “There’s been a lot of controversy over it.”
The initial town approval of Larned’s apartment complex indicated the developer would install a much smaller sewer line that would connect only his property to the sewer plant. Buffardi said a deal was reached between the town, county and developer over the past month that will both serve the needs of the apartment complex and of Techfibers, and allow for future connections that could spur growth along the Burdeck Street corridor.
* * * So everyone knows the cost is the excavating, bedding, and laying of the pipe, NOT the pipe cost! * * *
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The fields were once proposed for an area across the street from the Rotterdam Square mall, before state officials ruled the deed restrictions on the town-owned land would prohibit such development. Several years later, county officials signed an option to buy land on Guilderland Avenue, only to realize that the amount of wetlands on the property would make it impossible to build the four fields needed by the league.
* * * So instead they approved the wetlands for residential housing! * * *
Before the work on the fields can proceed the people who promised to do the site work on the land to be used must live up to their promises. Where is FDG with his equipment, why no action from Judy D and TJ Hooker on this issue?
FDG would have had this all done......if it weren't for.......s,.............................................................now he's supposed to belly up????......ya know.....he was abused by the Town's citizens and council the whole time he was in
office...NOW he's needed???????
so hypocritical and so twofaced.......that's the government in this Town......the citizens and children are the last things on the agenda......and another apartment complex???....why not industry???......something that brings
growth to this town...besides......restaurants, pizzas galore, bas area like Malta,nks, pharmacies and the like......REAL jobs.....build this area......instead of taking green space for easy "YES" projects......
no wonder there won';t be a younger generation here to build this community.....they are all moving elsewhere....good .....get some new blood in this town ...instead of the "WAY IT WAS" and is now......
Attempts to contact league officials and Larned were unsuccessful Tuesday.
League Officials too busy campaigning for democraps
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now up to the league to live up to its end of the deal and build the fields. “They could start working on the fields right now if they want to,” he said.
...too busy running for dempcrap office
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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