East Greenbush Library receives major bequest  The East
Greenbush Community Library has received a major bequest from a
local woman.  Sandra M. Jiemback, who passed away in January
2012, left $10,000 to the library, which didn't learn of the
gift until nearly a year later, when the estate was settled.
Evelyn Butrico, director of the library, said she felt "honored"
by the gift. "It is a privilege any time the library is named in
lieu of flowers, or in a bequest, or when we work with the
family to determine an appropriate memorial." Neither Butrico
nor Kevin McCann, treasurer of the library's board of trustees,
knows precisely why Jiemback left the bequest, but they are
pleased it occurred.  "It was a great moment" when he got the
news, McCann said, speculating that Jiemback "valued the
library. Trying to maintain a library is a struggle, so it
couldn't have come at a better time." He cited soaring expenses
to operate the library as a result of increases in such costs as
retirement benefits, energy and repairs