Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
by Alex Brooks
Hubbard Hall has opened a new show, Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor. Though not one of Simon’s best plays, it had a successful run on Broadway and has been prominently revived a number of times since. Clearly, the attraction for the Hubbard Hall crew is its connection to Chekhov. A fascination with Chekhov has been a hallmark of the Hubbard Hall oeuvre. [Read more…] about The Good Doctor At Hubbard Hall – A Review
Brandon Rathbun, 14 years old, got his first deer, a very nice eight-pointer, on the first day of this year’s deer hunting season. [Read more…] about Opening Day Of Deer Season
Wednesday, October 16, 1850: I pulled and cut turnips and this afternoon I went with one horse wagon to Geo W. Glass factory and carried him and his workmen six bushels turnips at 25 cents per bushel, and said G.W. Glass agreed to pay me for the whole in red flannel at 25 cts per yard, and I bargained to carry him and his workmen more turnips and take my pay in flannel. When I returned I took the one horse wagon that had the axletree broken to Lebanon up to Palmer Barnes and left to have a new axletree put in and he agreed to take carrots for pay
Thursday: I pulled and cut turnips. My two sons dug carrots and Geo P. carried ox wagon load of carrots to Pool Hill to Parsons and he carried one bushel turnips to Walker the blacksmith and he credits me 25 cents on account. I this afternoon took the one horse wagon and carried four bushel turnips to Wm. L. Brown’s store at 25 cents per and I got two gallons molasses 81 cents and five and a half pounds sugar 44 cents, which pays me up for five bushels of turnips. I rode up to Palmer Barnes, but he had not got my wagon mended.
Friday: This forenoon John F. took a horse and went after my wagon up to Palmer Barnes shop, I had a new axletree put in.
Saturday: I husked corn and helped John F. draw a load pumpkins.
Sunday: I took my one horse wagon and carried my wife to brother S. Beers but we returned home again, tonight sister was out of health. When I returned home from Samuel Beers he sent thirty dollars to Geo P. which pays him up for the young oxen that he gave fifty dollars for.
Monday: Today I and my son Geo P. went with one horse wagon and Geo P. horse to look for to buy sheep, we went through Hancock into Williamstown and home by the way of New Ashford but did not buy any. We called to Mr. Burrel’s shop in Hancock and got Sarah shoes.
Tuesday: On this forenoon or about ten o’clock Henry P. Wylie died. Today Geo P. took his one horse wagon and carried the wife of Simeon Wylie Jnr to Lebanon stores to buy mourning clothing for the family of H.P. Wylie.
Petersburgh – Martha C. Burgun, 84, of Lewis Hollow Road, Petersburgh, NY, died on Monday evening, November 17, 2008, at her home under the care of Community Hospice of Rensselaer County.
Hoosick Falls – Anthony J. Kovage, 86, formerly of Church Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, died on Sunday morning, November 16, 2008, at the Hoosick Falls Health Center where he had resided since July of 2005.
by Bea Peterson
A crowd gathered ’round to watch Rolland Hewitt and Roger LeMere cut the ribbon on Petersburgh’s reconstructed historic Observation Post Saturday afternoon, November 8. [Read more…] about Petersburgh Dedicates Observation Post
Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan – 1st Sgt. James Meltz, of Cropseyville, a New York Army National Guard Soldier, has been awarded the Bronze Star for Valor in Combat in a Veterans Day Ceremony in Afghanistan. Sgt. Meltz was recognized for his actions in combat on the night of May 25 and 26, 2008. [Read more…] about Cropseyville Resident Receives Bronze Star On Veterans Day
by Bea Peterson
The Sheffer family of Sheffer’s Grassland Dairy in Hoosick hosted a grazing land conservation farm workshop in conjunction with the Rensselaer County Soil & Water Conservation District and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service on Thursday, November 6. A lunch of local pastured beef hamburgers and hot dogs was enjoyed by everyone in the open under rainy skies.
[Read more…] about Sheffer’s Dairy Hosts Land Conservation Workshop
by Bea Peterson
On November 11, following the recommendation of the Development Committee, the Hoosick Area Church Association approved a motion to purchase the former Hoosick Falls Credit Union building at 26 John Street as the HACA Community Service Center. HACA has rented the building and has been using it for the HACA Food Closet and VITA Tax Services for the past year. [Read more…] about HACA To Buy Food Closet Space
by Bea Peterson
Jim Martinez who lives with his family in the Thorpe Block and has businesses in the same building on Church St. complained to the Village Board at Tuesday evening’s Board meeting about the noise and profanity coming from the recently opened Half Time bar across the street. The urinating and vomiting in the adjoining parking lot was extremely offensive, he said. “What is the law, and what can be done?” he asked. [Read more…] about New Bar Causes Problems
