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BCS Board Votes To Close Grafton Elementary School This Year

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Action Taken At Sparsely Attended Budget Workshop – Parents Were Notified By Handout At GES The Next Day

by Phillip Zema
A number of residents are vehemently displeased with the Berlin Central School Board of Education’s decision to close Grafton Elementary. In what was seemingly an ordinary budget workshop on Tuesday, March 9, the Board elected, 4-3, with Board Members Tom Morelli, Beverly Stewart and Paul Greene voting against the proposal, to close the Grafton Elementary School in June. While Superintendant of Schools Charlotte Gregory cited enrollment decline and economic issues as the reasons for consolidation, many residents believe the District should have considered other options.
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Lisa Ferrannini Is Channel 13’s Teacher Of The Year

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WASAREN MVP McMahon Also Recognized – A First For HFCS
by Bea Peterson
This Wednesday evening HFCS Physical Education teacher Lisa Ferrannini was recognized as one of 13 Channel 13 Top Teachers of the Year. Lisa Ferrannini said, “It is quite an honor to have been selected as a Channel 13 Teacher of the Year, and it was quite an experience when they filmed the class.” [Read more…] about Lisa Ferrannini Is Channel 13’s Teacher Of The Year

Berlin Town Board Action – Berlin Officials At Sixes And Sevens

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by Kieron Kramer
The depth of resentment between those who do the work and those who control the purse strings was the undercurrent of much of the discussion at the Berlin Town Board meeting on March 11. In this case those who do the work are the Town Clerk and the Highway Superintendent and his crew. Those who hold the purse strings are the Town Board members. [Read more…] about Berlin Town Board Action – Berlin Officials At Sixes And Sevens

Stephentown Town Board Action – Time For A New Grader

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by David Flint
Many of us are familiar with that tipping point when you make the hard decision to stop putting money into the aging family car, bite the bullet and go look for a new one. The Stephentown Town Board appears to have reached that point regarding the Highway Department’s 1986 road grader. [Read more…] about Stephentown Town Board Action – Time For A New Grader

An Ill Wind Blows In Stephentown

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Stephentown Hardest Hit In County
by David Flint
A number of people who have resided in this area for many many years have said they can’t remember such fierce winds blowing for such a long period of time as we had last Saturday night into Sunday. Fortunately the rain was not as heavy as predicted in this area, so flooding did not occur as it did in places further south and east. But many trees and wires came down.
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