by Ryan Mosher
Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
To the Berlin School Board and all Berlin Taxpayers:
As a property taxpayer in the [school] district since 1995 and also incidentally as an educator (including a position at SUNY-Potsdam coordinating student teaching and instructing grades 2-8 in its Campus School), I am deeply concerned over the recent description in the Eastwick Press of the 2009-10 [BCS] budget, [Read more…] about Letter To The Editor – BCS Budget
Celebrate the outdoors this season by attending the annual Yule Log Event at the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center, 475 Dyken Pond Road, Cropseyville, on Sunday, December 14. [Read more…] about Yule Log Tradition At The Dyken Pond Center
Hoosick Falls – William J. Bill “Bud” Greenwood Jr., 82, died Friday, December 5, 2008, at his residence after a long illness surrounded by his loving family. [Read more…] about William J. Greenwood Jr.
Berlin – Ann K. Oswald, 78, of Greene’s Brook Road in Berlin, NY, died on Saturday, December 6, 2008, at the Center for Living and Rehabilitation in Bennington, VT.
Hoosick Falls – Verne A. Conquest, 55, died Sunday, December 7, 2008, at the Hoosick Falls Health Center where he had resided since September. He formerly resided on Beckett Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, with his wife Margaret (Andrews) Conquest.
Thursday, November 14, 1850: I drove the ox team to plow sward on my Rodgers farm and John F. held plow. [Read more…] about John F. Agrees To Keep School This Winter
by David Flint
It was a busy weekend for the Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department and its Rescue Squad. On Saturday they responded to a hunting accident off of East Road up toward the Taconic Ridge. This call turned out to be a fatal accident in which a hunter from Pittsfield had his four-wheeler overturn and land on top of him. [Read more…] about A Weekend Of Accidents In Stephentown – One Fatal

by Bea Peterson
Hoosick Falls Veterans Memorial Committee Member Robert Becker, a former Trustee of the Village Board, said work on the expanded Veterans Memorial in Wood Park has had to overcome several hurdles to reach its present stage. Right now the ground has been excavated and the soil set aside to be filled in again. [Read more…] about Work On Expanded Veterans Memorial In Hoosick Falls Underway
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Submitted by GLSP Due to warmer than usual temperatures, the 38th annual ice fishing contest at Grafton Lakes State Park has been rescheduled for Saturday, Feb. 11, from 5:30 am to 2 pm. Join in on the fun as several-hundred anglers brave the cold temperatures for their chance to make a winning catch on several […]
On Tuesday, January 25, Cheney Library honored Ms. Deborah Tudor for her 12 years of service on the Cheney Library Board of Trustees. During her tenure as a trustee, Ms. Tudor made immense contributions to physical improvements of the library’s property. Some of these projects include the installation of a propane fireplace, creation of the […]
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At Inaugural NYSPHSAA Girls Wrestling Invitational Submitted by BNL Varsity Wrestling Coach Wade Prather Tallulah Powers was runner-up at 165 pounds in the inaugural NYSPHSAA Girls Wrestling Invitational held at Onondaga Community College. She was one of only three finalists from Section 2, and the only Runner Up. The meeting of 204 of the State’s top female […]
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