Berlin – Ruth Copping Strait of Guilderland, 90, went to be with the Lord on October 30, 2010, at the Teresian House nursing home in Albany, NY, with family by her side.
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Jack C. Felter
New Lebanon – Jack C. Felter, 73, of Route 22, New Lebanon, NY, died on Saturday morning, October 30, 2010, at the Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, MA.
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Morton F. Hoffman
Hoosick – Morton F. “Mike” Hoffman, 86, former resident of Tate Road in Hoosick, NY, died on Sunday evening, October 31, 2010, at the Bennington Health and Rehabilitation Center. He had resided at The Maples on Gage Street in Bennington, VT, for ten years.
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Think Spring!
A Good Price For Potatoes
Wednesday July 26, 1854: I and Michael Lynch and Thomas dug potatoes. John F. hand is lame, he does not work.
Thursday: I and Thomas plowed a little with my horse and I sowed turnip. John F. went with his two horse team to Pittsfield with 12 bushel potatoes at one dollar to Barker’s factory.
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BCS BOE Adopts Action Plan To Deal With Lead
by David Flint
At an emergency meeting of the Berlin School Board on Wednesday evening the Board approved an immediate action plan to deal with the problem of lead paint at Berlin Elementary School. Although there was much disagreement and uncertainty expressed about intermediate and long term solutions, the Board agreed that the plan for immediate action proposed by Interim Superintendent Brian Howard was necessary.
The plan includes the following:
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Berlin Saves $450k On Bridge Replacement
Resourcefulness Pays Off
by Kieron Kramer
Before the meltdown towards the end of the Berlin regular Town Board meeting on October 14 when the offer to purchase the Berlin Lumber property was raised [reported in last week’s issue of the Eastwick Press] the meeting was a recital of good news for the Town.
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Petersburgh And Berlin Families Visit Their Roots
by David Flint
Two hundred and forty years ago a church on the coast of Rhode Island, concerned about members who had migrated west, sent their pastor, John Burdick, along with Deacon Elisha Stillman, on a mission – to visit the departed members, first in Farmington, Connecticut, and from there “to Little Hoosick and places adjacent where our brethren and Sisters chiefly reside… and inform them that if they are United and established in the Faith of the Gospel, the Church hereby informs them that they have the Liberty to choose them an Elder and the Church is free and willing to lend them all necessary assistance in their power for their furtherance and Establishment in the Faith of the Gospel.”
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Profiles Of The Candidates For The Stephentown Town Council
BCSD Superintendent Search
by David Flint
The Berlin School Board has selected Orion Educational Consulting LLC of Rochester to conduct a search for a new Superintendent. Robert Heinkel representing this firm in a presentation to the Board at a special October 6 meeting, said it would be a 3 to 4 month process. The firm does only one search at a time and during that time he would be in regular communication with the Board. At their October 19 meeting the Board passed a resolution to appoint Board Member Beverly Stewart as contact person, and they set up a meeting for November 3 to meet again with Heinkel and get the search started. Interim Superintendent Brian Howard suggested that it be specified that the new Superintendent would come on board sometime in June following the budget vote.
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