Hancock – Robert W. Whitman, 79, of Main Street, Hancock, MA, died on Christmas Day, 2010, at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA.
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St. Mark’s Winter Concert
Musicians Susan Harwood, Will Hayes, J. Nixon McMillan and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church invite you to a winter afternoon concert on Sunday, January 16, at 4 pm. The concert will feature “three musical addicts” performing great tunes by great composers – the vocal Music of Bach-Gounod, Handel, Faurè and Cèsar Franck, the cello Music of Bach and Vivaldi and the organ Music of Georgi Mushel.
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Christmas: A Supper & A Temperance Lecture
Thursday: December 14, 1854: Today Russel Palmer came to Geo P. and butchered a cow for him and butchered a yearling bull for me. At night I went with my cutter and fetched the meat home. John F. agreed to pay said Palmer in turnips for butchering said bull, and this evening John F. returned from Albany, he got 88 cts per bushel for the potatoes he carried, and he paid three dollars and fifty cts for half a ton of ground plaster.
Friday: I went to Lebanon with my horse and cutter and my wife with me, I carried Patrick Rafferty a hind quarter of beef at six dollars per cwt, it weighed 101 pounds. I carried my bull’s hide 70 pounds and got 5 cts per and carried a cow hide for Geo P. 83 pounds at five cts per and got the cash for the whole. We ate dinner to the Shakers and visited a spell with cousin A. Potter. Today John F. drew two loads alder wood from the Rodgers swamp and Patrick Rafferty chopped alder wood in said swamp. Today Patrick begins to work by the month at 4 dollars per month.
Friday, Dec 22: My two sons rode to the Shakers with Geo P. horse and cutter and Geo P. bargained with the North Family to buy the nursery, all that was fit or large enough to set at 9 dollars per hundred and they agreed to take towards payment one hundred bushels of carrots and one hundred bushels turnips at his farm at 25 cts per bushel.
Saturday: I am quite lame, I did not do any chores.
Monday, Dec 25: Today I and my wife visited to Geo P. together with Wm McMurray and wife and Elick Ostrander and wife and Aaron Sackett and wife and we had a Crymas supper and this evening they all visited to my house. Today John F. and two sisters rode to the Baptist church to a temperance lecture, they rode in a sleigh of four horses with others.
Saturday: Today John F. bought one acre of timber of Geo P. and is to pay him 100 dollars for it.
Monday: Today my two sons chopped and drew chestnut timber from off Geo P. hill where John F. bought one acre of the timber of Geo P.
Tuesday: My two sons worked in the forenoon chopping and drawing chestnut timber from off Geo P. hill and in the afternoon Geo P. chopped a spell, John F. did not draw off for he was unwell.
Happy Holidays
The Eastwick Press will resume publication on January 7, 2011. In the meantime, comments on the website will be posted in a relatively timely manner.
Brainard Church Burns
by David Flint
Fire of undetermined origin pretty much destroyed the old United Methodist Church in Brainard early Wednesday morning. Mary Morris, who lives across Route 20 from the Church, said she heard her dog barking sometime around midnight and wondered why. Later she heard more commotion outside and when she went out to see what was going on she was horrified to see flames shooting out the side windows of the Church. [Read more…] about Brainard Church Burns
BCS Accepts Bid For Lead Stabilization Work
by Phillip Zema
The District accepted a bid to complete stabilization work at the BES. The bid encompasses work to stabilize and encapsulate lead in the building’s interior, remove lead paint from its entryways and scrape the interior of at least one rescue window in each classroom. The project will cost $274,350 and most, if not all, of the interior work will be done over Christmas break.
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Hoosick Farm Goes Solar
by Bea Peterson
On Friday, December 17, Beatrice Berle of Berle Farm on Beechwood Road in Hoosick welcomed Congressman-elect Chris Gibson, NYS Assemblyman Tony Jordan, Frank Murray, President and CEO, NYSERDA, Scott Collings, Rural Energy Coordinator for NY State, Rural Development Division of the US Dept. of Agriculture, Michael Stangl, Regional VP of Alteris Renewables, area farmers, HFCS students from the Government and Environmental Science classes and the media to the farm to view the pole mounted solar panel system that was recently installed. [Read more…] about Hoosick Farm Goes Solar
Fire At Saint-Gobain
by Bea Peterson
Hoosick Falls Fire Chief Robert Bornt said four departments responded to a fire call at Saint-Gobain on McCaffrey St. in Hoosick Falls at 4:30 am Friday, December 17. Two calls were received, said Bornt, one from the plant and another from a cell phone stating there was a fire on the roof of the building. Bornt said the fire was contained to the duct work above a coating line that manufactures adhesive tape. [Read more…] about Fire At Saint-Gobain
Major Highway Project Planned For Route 2 In Grafton
by Bea Peterson
Grafton Highway Superintendent Herb Hasbrouck and Town Supervisor Allison Kirchner reported they had received a letter from the NYS Department of Transportation informing the Town that the State will begin ditching and repairing 45 small culverts on Route 2 starting in Brunswick in the spring of 2011. Work that requires diverting traffic to County Route 84 and Route 7 will be done during the school summer break. At other times there will be lane shifts with only one traffic lane open. It is believed the work will go from Brunswick to the former Grafton Elementary School.
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Achievements Recognized At HFCS School Board Meeting
by Alex Brooks
The HFCS Board of Education meeting on Thursday, December 16, began with presentation of T-shirts and certificates for students who made the Principal’s list with a quarterly average of 95 or better, then to Drama Scholars, who had an average of 90 or above and participated in drama activities and then to Scholar Athletes, who achieved a 90 average and participated in a varsity sport. There were also awards for members of the four teams which were named “scholar teams.” A “scholar team” is one where the academic average over the whole team is 90 or better. The Football, Field Hockey and both Boys and Girls Soccer teams all achieved this distinction.
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