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Article: NEW TOWN HALL'S GOT IT ALL; CLAY'S $5.75 MILLION FACILITY NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2003
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Byline: Pam Greene Staff writer
The first business day in Clay's new $5.75 million town hall Monday seemed like any other.
Except that residents strolled down halls of textured ceramic tile and rich poplar moldings to get to the towns' various departments.
The new hall, just west of the former hall on Route 31, is more appropriate for the 17th largest town in New York state, said Clay Supervisor Mark Rupprecht. When the previous town hall was built in 1959, he said, Clay's population was about 15,000. Forty-four years later, the population has quadrupled, he said.
The "pole barn," as Rupprecht called it, couldn't accommodate the size ...