by Bea Peterson
The weather was perfect this past weekend for the Second Annual Youth Softball Tournament held at the fields on Waterworks Road. Games started Friday afternoon and ended Sunday afternoon. [Read more…] about Hoosick Softball Tournament Is A Big Hit
The Berlin July 4th Parade
Berlin’s 2011 Independence Day parade will be held on Monday, July 4, at 11 am. This year, in celebration of Independence Day, the committee has chosen the theme “States On Parade.”
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No Square Tomato
by Thaddeus Flint
There are some who see retirement as a time in life to sit back, relax, reflect and maybe read a book or two. Then there are those like Claudette Lefebvre – not many of course – who feel the need to perhaps rebuild a farm, open a bed and breakfast, raise chickens, found an animal rescue, start an agricultural cooperative and – in her spare time – bake homemade bread for a country store which she manages as well.
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Berlin Student Inventors Head To MIT For Premier Invention Celebration, EurekaFest
submitted by Dawn Wetmore
A team of student inventors from Berlin High School, one of only 13 high schools nationwide selected to receive a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for $6,305 in the 2010-2011 school year, recently completed its Adaptive Sports Device (ASD) for the deaf or hearing impaired. This ASD will alert the user to traffic approaching from behind when participating in a sporting activity such as skiing or snowboarding.
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A Little Gladioli History
submitted by Sharon Klein
This year’s planting of gladioli is more than 7,000 bulbs in 15 beds along route 22 in Berlin. The display will be an outstanding explosion of colors in late July/early August.
Now in its fourth year, the Beautification of Berlin Committee has raised funds to recreate in a small, symbolic way the 200 acres of gladioli planted in Berlin in the late 1800s-early 1900s by Arthur Cowee. Berlin and Cowee were renowned throughout the world as the foremost producers of gladioli bulbs and flowers.
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Launching Awards Night At BCS
Letter To The Editor – Volunteerism In Berlin
To the Editor:
Due to the generosity and kindness of many people, the flower barrels in Berlin are placed and planted. Jim Winn and his crew, having stored the barrels all winter, placed them around town, Mara Murphy and Phil Riccardi donated all the flowers and Pastor Matt and Ellen Olson and many neighbors living near the barrels have volunteered to water and maintain them. Also thanks to Lou Goodermote for getting me some soil to fill the barrel at the post office in Cherry Plain. It takes a community…..
Sylvia Thompson, Berlin
Letter To The Editor – Opinions
To the Editor:
I am a BCS alumna. I have a master’s degree. I am a Berlin taxpayer. I am the mother of a BES student. I am a BHS teacher. It is in this complex capacity that I write today in order to address two concerns: the editorialized straight news articles and the unqualified and unquantified statements made in a recent letter to the editor.
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Letter To The Editor – Appalled?
Dear Editor,
I am responding to your article on the BCS District Vote under the “Accusations of Election Law Violations.” As I read the article I just couldn’t believe that the Acting School Board President, Bev Stewart, would discuss and share with Mr. Zlotnick (a candidate for a school board position) the information she had regarding a possible invalidation of the other school board position candidates’ nomination petitions. [Read more…] about Letter To The Editor – Appalled?
