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Subject: [NYALBANY] Forwarded article from timesunion.com
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:12:11 "GMT"

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Thought this might interest some of you. The story will be available for 7 days.
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Long-forgotten public records return home

State reveals a mysterious school district, a Starbucks who sold whale oil rather than coffee

by: ANNE MILLER Staff writer

A mystery of history has consumed Bethlehem Town Hall.<p>State archivists deposited in the town vault a thin volume with stained covers that looks as if it might crumble at the touch.

Town Clerk Kathleen Newkirk gingerly opened the 175-year-old book to show the handwritten notes for 30 years of meetings, dating back to 1827, involving School District 16. Trouble is, no one at Town Hall has ever heard of a school or district in Bethlehem with that number.

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