Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
by Bea Peterson
Wednesday in Hoosick Falls was a tough day for visiting Granville (2-6 in league play) as they got clobbered 16-2 by an improving Panther baseball team. HF, now 6-3 in the WASAREN league, cracked the game open in the second inning 5-0. The final score was 16-2. [Read more…] about Panther Baseball Clobbers Granville
The next business meeting of the HFCS PTA will take place on Wednesday, May 18, in the Elementary School Library beginning at 6:30 pm.
As always, members and non-members are encouraged to join meetings to find out what the PTA is doing for our children and to share ideas for special programs and events to benefit the children and families of our school District.
To become a member, please attend this meeting or contact Membership Chair Andrea Lane at 686-0734.
The Poestenkill Historical Society will sponsor an Antique Appraisal Day in the Poestenkill Fire House on Saturday, May 14, from 10 am to 2 pm. Appraisers will be Mark Lawson, WMHT Antiques Road Show sponsor, Nancy Toomer of House of Rose Antiques in Niskayuna and Dennis Holzman of Holzman Antiques in Albany. [Read more…] about Antique Appraisal Day In Poestenkill
The Shaker Museum and Library will celebrate NY Heritage weekend (May 14 and 15) with the opening of the exhibit Freshet: Uncovering the Shaker Waterworks at Mount Lebanon.
Architectural plans for Mount Lebanon Shaker Village will be posted in the Granary, drawn up by the National Park Service’s Historic American Landscapes Survey. View the documentation of a National Treasure.
[Read more…] about Shaker Museum Opens Waterworks Exhibit
Harriet Tubman’s celebrated rescue of a fugitive slave in Rensselaer County and the operation of the local Underground Railroad will be the topic at the Taconic Valley Historical Society meeting on Monday, May 16, at 7:30 pm at the United Methodist Church, South Main Street, Berlin.
[Read more…] about The Underground Railway Is The Topic At The Taconic Valley Historical Society Meeting
On Saturday, May 14, at 10:30 am, Laine Crandall and AnnMarie Keenan, local dairy goat enthusiasts, will be on hand with a few of their newly born kids – baby goats recently born to their herds in Grafton. They will talk about the health benefits of goat milk, how to get started raising goats, and they will have information on hand for attendees. Crandall breeds the American LaMancha dairy goat, and Keenan raises the miniature Nigerian Dwarf. For anyone interested, books and goats will be available for sale.
Both women are members of the Southern Vermont Dairy Goat Association, which recently donated children’s books on goat farming to the Grafton Community Library. Other resources on dairy goat farming can be obtained for Library patrons through Upper Hudson Library System and nationwide interlibrary loan.
The Grafton Community Library is located at 2455 NY 2 near the Town center.
On Monday, May 16, the Lebanon Valley Historical Society will present a program on the Mennonites in the Lebanon Valley at 7 pm at the Church of Our Saviour, Friendship Hall in Lebanon Springs.
[Read more…] about The Mennonites In Lebanon Valley
Become a member of the largest patriotic women’s organization in the world. Members are needed for the American Legion Auxiliary Post 937. The meetings are the first Wednesday of each month at the Watipi building in Berlin. The only qualification is that a member must have had a veteran in her family who served during an active campaign. Contact Sue O’Neil at 658-9397 for further details.
[Read more…] about American Legion Auxiliary Post 937 Needs Members
The Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company, serving the East Nassau/Brainard area, will hold its final monthly breakfast of the season on Sunday, May 15, from 8 to 11 am at their fire house located on Firehouse Lane behind the post office near the intersection of Routes 20 and 66N.
[Read more…] about Tsatsawassa Fire Company Breakfast
The Rensselaer County Deputy Sheriff’s Police Benevolent Association will hold two fund-raisers in support of 10 year old Alexander Holcomb, a fifth-grader at Poestenkill Elementary School, son of County employee Cynthia Holcomb and Sgt. Shane Holcomb of the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office, who was recently diagnosed with lymphoma.
[Read more…] about Benefit For Brunswick Boy With Cancer
