Thursday, June 8, 1854: Today John F. rode to Berlin with one of his young horses in the wagon, he went to Mr. and bought a new two horse harness and paid 29 dollars and Geo P. went with him and paid 35 dollars for a cow and a calf to one Mr. Green.
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Hundreds Turn Out For Walk To Prevent Suicide
by Bea Peterson
On Sunday evening, October 3, the crowd of all ages, from families with youngsters in strollers, to teens, to seniors, kept growing and growing as people gathered for the first annual Community Walk to Prevent Suicide. This year the walk was in memory of two HFCS teens. Joe Sweeney took his life about six months ago. Tyler Marcoux’s death was very recent. [Read more…] about Hundreds Turn Out For Walk To Prevent Suicide
Cherry Plain Cell Tower On Schedule
by David Flint
“Everything is on target” with the Cherry Plain cell tower, according to landowner Doug Goodermote. Despite earlier reports that work on the project had ground to a halt because of a legal matter concerning the proposed source of gravel for the access road, Goodermote and the tower builder both say that the work has been and is proceeding on schedule. Goodermote noted that Tim Giumarra Logging & Excavating was busy on Wednesday, despite the rain, working on the access road and digging a foundation for the tower.
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BCS Drug Awareness Meeting
The Berlin Central School District in collaboration with TRACs (Together Reducing Alcohol and Drugs in our Communities) will hold a Family Drug Awareness Meeting and Dinner on Saturday, October 16. The dinner and information session will be held from 5 to 7 pm at the Berlin Middle High School.
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New York National Guard Honors President Chester Arthur On His Birthday
New York Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Renwick Payne honored Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States, in a wreath-laying ceremony at his gravesite in the Albany Rural Cemetery on his birthday, October 5.
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Semi-Pro Football Comes To Hoosick Falls
The Storm Rolls Through
by Bea Peterson
Sunday, October 3, a New England Football Semi-pro League playoff game between the Rampage of Central Vermont and the Southern Vermont Storm was held at the HFCS Ken Baker Field. The Storm is made up of players from Bennington, Fair Haven, Jacksonville, Manchester, Pownal and Sandgate, VT, Lanesborough, North Adams and Williamstown, MA, and Johnsonville, Troy, Shushan and Valley Falls, NY. It is also made up of Alex Hansen, Jeffery Hunt, Sean Lennon, Shawn Morrison, Warren O’Grady, Don Skott, Gregg Stroffoleno and Francis Tilley, III of Hoosick Falls and William Telford of White Creek.
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Lions Club Donates To Veterans Wall
submitted by Marilyn Douglas
The Town of Hoosick Lions Club recently presented a $500 donation to support the construction of the Veterans Memorial Wall in the Village Park in Hoosick Falls.
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Petersburgh’s Preliminary Budget
by Alex Brooks
The Petersburgh Town Board held a budget workshop on October 4 and took a first look at their 2011 budget. Supervisor Peter Schaaphok was there, along with Board Members Amy Manchester and Dick Snyder, but Ray Broadwell and Bill Seel were not present.
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Ella Earns A Diploma
by Bea Peterson
Ella Amidon has always wanted to be a nurse. “There was no money for it,” she said flatly last week. She quit Berlin High School in tenth grade to work in Reese’s Shirt Shop in Berlin assembling shirts. She was almost 18 when she married in 1948. She and her husband lived in Cherry Plain and raised two sons. Howard lives in Petersburgh and Charles lives in West Virginia. She has seven grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
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Murphy’s Congressional Field Offices
by Bea Peterson
On Tuesday, October 5, Congressman Scott Murphy’s staff hosted “Congressional Field Offices” in Castleton-on-Hudson, Averill Park, Nassau, Poestenkill, Brunswick, Pittstown, Schaghticoke, Petersburgh, Hoosick Falls, Stephentown, Berlin and Grafton.
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