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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: John Haluska — Have brush, will emblazon history
Description: In 2015, John Haluska took it upon himself to start sprucing up Guilderland’s historic markers.His work caused a bit of a stir when the late Guilderland town historian, Alice Begley, learned that Haluska had already painted 22 markers when she saw a photo of him posing before a half-painted sign in the Sept. 8, 2016 Altamont Enterprise.Begley had been, said Town Supervisor Peter Barber at the time, in charge of an ongoing process of repainting signs, as needed; signs were picked up by the highway department, Barber said, and taken back to the department’s shop for...