The ordering date for May bundles from the Extra Helpings Community Food Buying Club in Stephentown was originally Thursday, April 28, from 3:30 to 6 pm at the Stephentown Federated Church on Garfield Road. Because the menu was only available late this month, orders will be accepted until May 9. Please call Paula Dibble to make late ordering arrangements at 518-733-0699.
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Cherry Plain Youth Gets First Jake On Youth Hunt Weekend; Spring Turkey Season Opens May 1
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens recently reminded hunters that the 2011 spring turkey season opens on May 1 in all of upstate New York lying north of the Bronx-Westchester County boundary. The annual Youth Turkey Hunting Weekend was April 23-24.
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Barbara M. Jones
Petersburgh – Barbara M. Wager Jones, 81, of 19647 NY Rt. 22, Petersburgh, NY, entered into eternal rest on April 22, 2011, after a short courageous fight with cancer, surrounded by her husband, two daughters and her sweet Becca.
She was born on July 10, 1929, at home in Berlin, NY, to the late Sidney E. and Eva (Alderman) Wager.
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Barbara J. Frisbie Baker
Hoosick – Barbara J. Frisbie Baker, 85, a resident of the Danforth Home in Hoosick Falls, NY, passed away unexpectedly on April 22, 2011, at the Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, MA. She was born on Valentine’s Day 1926, the only child of Jessie Pratt Frisbie and Gertrude Sweet Frisbie, and grew up at the family home in Johnsonville, NY. [Read more…] about Barbara J. Frisbie Baker
James A. Ayres
Berlin – James A. “Jay” Ayres, 41, of Route 22, Berlin, NY, died suddenly at his residence on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
Born April 23, 1969, in Newton, NJ, he was the son of the late William Ayres and Patricia Sinclair Ayres-Fackler and her husband Frank of Staplesville, NC. He was the husband of the former Patricia T. “Tish” Kaplafka, whom he married on August 7, 1994, in New Jersey.
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Finishing The Barn Foundation
Friday, July 6, 1855: Edward Hatch drew two loads slate stones from R. Jolls hill with ox team and Geo P. drew one load slate stones with the horse team and today John F. and Patrick Rafferty and the two Baileys and E. Hatch all worked to the barn. The rain stopped them two hours or more.
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The Berlin Municipal Center Is Dead
by Kieron Kramer
The divisive debate that has haunted the Town of Berlin is over. The grand plan for the use of the defunct Berlin Lumber property as a municipal center, beaten to death over the last 22 months, is now dead and buried. In spite of a referendum on July 19, 2010, that approved of the expenditure for the project out of the Capital Reserve fund by a vote of 186 to 137, three members of the Berlin Town Board, Jim Saunders, Sheila Hewitt and Becky Giumarra, voted against proceeding with the purchase at the decisive Town Board meeting on April 14. Town Supervisor Rob Jaeger, who conceived of the plan for the municipal center, voted to continue the purchase process. The only thing good about the vote is that the torturous arguing is finally over.
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Stephentown Town Board Action – Eyesores
by David Flint
Moving ahead on a priority to get the Town’s Land Use Regulations updated, the Stephentown Town Board at their meeting Monday officially established a citizens committee to get it done. At the same time they also heard more complaints about the seeming inability of the Town to do anything about certain places around town considered by some to be environmental hazards as well as horrific eyesores.
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BCS District Adopts Budget With No Tax Levy Increase; School Board Candidates Named
by Thaddeus Flint
The School Board of the Berlin Central School District unanimously adopted a budget for the 2011-2012 school year at the budget workshop meeting held last Thursday night, April 14.
The final budget is now $17,374,400. This is $907,316 less than last year’s budget. There is no increase to the local tax levy. The District’s savings, known as the Fund Balance, will finance $473,800 of the budget.
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Grafton Adopts Building Permit Amnesty Program
by Alex Brooks
At its regular April meeting, the Grafton Town Board introduced a resolution establishing an amnesty program for those who have built buildings or additions without getting a building permit. The preamble says that the Board has been informed that numerous structures have been built without permits and goes on to say that Grafton would like to “afford its citizens the opportunity to avoid penalties related to the past failure” and help them to come into compliance with the Town law.
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