Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
by Bea Peterson
Hoosick firefighters saw their dreams of a spacious new fire house go up in smoke last night when District voters reversed themselves and voted no on a proposal to secure bonds for the purchase of the former Haynes Ford property on Route 7. [Read more…] about Hoosick Fire District Voters Reject Bond For New Fire House Purchase
by Judith Radford
On a cool, crisp evening, October 20, at 6 pm, the Grafton Planning Board held its first public hearing on the proposed 27 lot major subdivision by Stonybrook Land, LLC now known as “The Lake at Sylvan Way.” [Read more…] about Grafton Holds Public Hearing On Stonybrook Dyken Pond Subdivision
by Alex Brooks
The major bone of contention at this month’s Petersburgh Town Board meeting was the question of whether the Seniors and the Summer Youth programs should pay rent for the use of the Veterans Memorial Hall. [Read more…] about Petersburgh Veterans Memorial Hall: A Bone Of Contention
by David Flint
At their meeting Monday evening, the Stephentown Town Board considered a tentative budget for 2009 that would call for no increase in the tax levy. They failed, however, to adopt it as some changes needed to be made. [Read more…] about October Stephentown Town Board Action
by David Flint
The Berlin School Board continues to wrestle with shaping a capital project that they had hoped to present to the voters in a referendum in December. [Read more…] about BCS Board Wrestles With Capital Project
by Alex Brooks
John Bryans, from the CPA firm of Bryans & Gramuglia, gave a presentation of the audit he did of the District’s finances for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008. The audit found no problems with the District’s financial practices and no weaknesses in its internal control of its finances. [Read more…] about Audit Report Gives HFCS District Thumbs Up
by Bea Peterson
No one attended the NYS mandated budget hearing held by the Hoosick Falls Joint Fire District on Wednesday, October 21. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Joint Fire District Budget To Increase By $36,000
by Bea Peterson
“It’s been almost three years!” said Andra Erickson. “I’d like to have done it sooner!” Erickson’s building suffered smoke and water damage in the fire that destroyed Dougherty’s Restaurant
on the corner of Main and John Streets in March 2006. Upsy Daisy and the adjoining cafe were repaired, but the corner lot remains a pile of rubble and the Main St. building has been vacant all this time.
“I didn’t expect repairs to the wall to take nine months,” said Erickson. Once that was finished, work began on the building. She is pleased with the work so far. “I’m so happy with how beautifully they brought the bay window back,” she said. She believes they have a couple more months of work to do. “They are doing a good job,” she added. When the building is finished it will have furnished apartments for rent on the second and third floors and “downstairs will be open to whatever it will be.”
Through it all, she said, the Village has been very cooperative. “We have applied for grants, but it takes time,” she added.
Erickson said she has no idea what is happening with the corner lot. “I am only interested in my property.”
by Ryan Mosher
In her fourth varsity season on the Berlin Cross Country team, junior Kelsey Demick claimed her third
straight Patroon Conference individual championship as she easily finished ahead of the pack on Tuesday. Behind Demick was Ashley Rokjer, Angie Longhi, Emily Olson, Liz Sheehy and Rachel Thomas. The Lady Mountaineers took second place at the meet, which was good enough to lock up their fourth straight overall conference championship.
For the boys, senior Casey Gilbert,
running his first season of cross country after switching over from soccer, took home the boys’ championship by a very large margin. Cody Blain, RJ Hebert, Connor Hoyt, Alex French, Lew Palmer and Mike Stankus followed Gilbert across the line. The team finished in third place. This weekend the teams run at the Troy Invitational in their final tune-up before next Friday’s Section 2 Championships at SPAC. Both the boys and girls teams will look to challenge for the top spot, as will both Gilbert and Demick, the two-time defending Sectional Champ.
