Camp scholarships are still available for the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center’s Summer Outdoor Learning Adventure (SOLA). These week long day camps provide age appropriate activities in ecology, wildlife and outdoor living skills. Games, hikes and hands-on discoveries will give campers a lifetime of memories.
Camps run from mid-July to mid-August depending on age. Scholarship applications, camp schedules and details can be downloaded at www.dykenpond.org or by contacting the Center at 518-658-2055 or dykenpond@fairpoint.net.
Albert H. Andrew
Berlin – Albert H. Andrew, 72, former resident of the Berlin, NY, area died on Sunday, June 12, 2011, at the Wesley Health Care Center in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Margaret Kelly Fuller
Stephentown – Margaret Kelly Fuller, 68, of Summerville, SC, died May 19, 2011. Ms. Fuller was born January 11, 1943, in Pittsfield, MA, the daughter of Lionel A. Kelly Sr. and Sara E. Kelly. She was raised in Stephentown, NY, and resided there for a few years after her marriage to Mr. Ronald L. Fuller. [Read more…] about Margaret Kelly Fuller
Maura Olga Stouter
New Lebanon – Maura Olga Stouter, 63, of 58 Pool Hill Road, New Lebanon, NY, died Saturday morning, June 11, 2011, at her family home following an heroic year’s battle with cancer.
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George & Son Unwell – A Big Doctor Bill
Monday, October 29, 1855: I am better today of my gravel complaint. This afternoon at or nearly four o’clock Geo P. starts to go up to Vermont after cattle and sheep and Edwin A. Carpenter with him, and pays fifty cts per day for his passage.
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Channel 13 Videos Awareness Talk At HFCS
by Bea Peterson
The boys in the HFCS Class of 2011 will soon be heading to college or the military or a job. Life is different outside the safety of family and school. This was one of the points Students Assistance Counselor Maryann Strauss, Mike Fonda and 2004 HFCS graduate Matt Harrington tried to make to the senior boys on Tuesday, May 31.
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Stephentown Motocross In Limbo
by David Flint
The Stephentown Zoning Board, continuing their deliberations on a Motocross track proposed by Howard Commander for a site adjoining New Lebanon off of Webster Hill Road, is not satisfied yet that the application for a zoning variance is complete. A revised plan for the track along with a noise study had been submitted to the Board since last month but not in time for sufficient review by Board members prior to this month’s meeting last Thursday, June 2. Also, a number of questions were raised by the attorney representing neighboring landowners regarding the noise study, the adequacy of the plan and changes made to it.
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High Street House Gone!
by Bea Peterson
Quick as a wink this week the house at 38 High Street/Route 22 in Hoosick Falls was demolished and removed. Large trees have also been taken down and run through a chipper. Work is underway to repair the west side of High Street where utility poles have been tilting, sidewalks sinking and the roadway crumbling.
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Mike Brewster One Of Eleven Honored By The National Football Foundation
by Bea Peterson
The 2010 Capital District Chapter of the National Football Foundation and the College Hall of Fame narrowed its field of candidates from 61 to 11 for its annual Scholar-Athlete Dinner at the Turf Inn on May 9. HFCS football team tri-captain and quarterback Mike Brewster was one of ten sectional players and one college program player honored that night. The event recognized the achievements of these athletes on and off the field.
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New Lebanon Supervisor Responds To Audit Report
by Thaddeus Flint
New Lebanon Town Supervisor Margaret Robertson has responded to a State Comptroller’s audit of the Town’s records, stating that “significant inaccuracies” existed in the released report.
As reported in the May 20 Eastwick Press, an audit of New Lebanon was done covering financial activities from the period of January 1, 2008 to July 1, 2009. The Comptroller’s Office was primarily looking to determine if internal controls over wire transfers, purchasing and information technology were appropriately designed to adequately safeguard Town assets.
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