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Local Students Named To The Spring 2014 Dean’s List At The College Of Saint Rose

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The College of Saint Rose in Albany has announced that 779 students have been named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2014 semester. Full time students who complete a minimum of 12 credit hours and achieve a semester grade point average of at least 3.5 with no grades of D, F, Incomplete or Pass/Fail are eligible for the Dean’s List.

Students from this area who are on the Dean’s List are:

Katherine Bakaitis of Petersburgh;

Chantel Bink of Petersburgh;

Tyler Pomakoy of Stephentown, and

Sonja Stewart of Petersburgh.

Maryclare C. McGovern

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Hoosick Falls – Maryclare C. McGovern, 78, passed away on Saturday, August 9, 2014, at the Centers for Living & Rehabilitation in Bennington, VT. She had resided on Classic Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, with her husband, William McGovern. They moved to Hoosick Falls in 1978.

Born on March 6, 1936, in Queens, NY, Maryclare was the daughter of the late William and Clara (Stebe) Bowler. She was educated at the Katharine Gibbs School and received her Masters Degree in teaching from St. John’s University in New York City in 1968. Maryclare taught at Kings Park Elementary School on Long Island. She enjoyed playing piano, sewing, cooking and baking. She was a communicant of the Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls. Maryclare was proud of her German heritage and enjoyed the October Fest every year.

Survivors, other than her husband William, include their sons, James McGovern and his fiance Cathy Bucci of Latham, NY, John and wife Meagan McGovern of Rexford, NY, Lawrence McGovern of Rochester, NY, Daniel McGovern and Edward McGovern, both of Hoosick Falls, and three grandchildren, Declan and Riley McGovern and Anthony Bucci. She is pre-deceased by a sister, Dorothy Winters.

A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Thursday, August 14, at 10 am from the Immaculate Conception Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls. There were no calling hours. Burial followed the Mass at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Hoosick Falls.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hoosick Area Food Pantry through the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, which is handling the arrangements.

The Life Of George Holcomb – Sister Newton Dies

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Sunday, June 10, 1832: Sister Newton fails, I helped lift her off and on bed.

Monday: This morning I rode over after Doctor E. Graves.  He came to Mother, she was distressed at the stomach and puking and I did shoe my sled and put up a leach.

Tuesday: I went and helped sister Newton on to her bed. I returned home and got my loading ready for market.

(Wednesday George was in Troy selling his load of goods and buying supplies, returning about midnight)

Thursday: On this morning Sister Newton died about 4 o’clock, after 15 years sickness and lame and blind and at last with the dropsy.  I had the widow Wylie’s wagon and rode to Lebanon near Gilbert’s tavern to notify Mrs. Harrison of the death of sister Jerusha Newton.

Friday: This forenoon I attended a court betwixt Anthony Kerr plaintiff and Henry Hull, defendant, but I got released on account of the death of my sister, and this afternoon we tended the funeral at the Saturday meeting house, Elder Jones preached.

Saturday: This forenoon I tended the same want(?) betwixt said Kerr and Hull as is before mentioned, but my witness was not called for and I returned home.

July 4, 1832: I rode to the north part of the town up to the Arvin Wood Farm to see Joshua Carr, he was to work there.  I engaged him to come next Monday and pry up and sill my barn.

Thursday: We cut and drew timber and large prys to fix the barn, and we ground our scythes and began to mow round the barns, and took down the stalls on the barn floor.

Saturday: We hayed on said Rodgers Farm and tonight I took the double wagon and went to Lebanon. I got trusted to Tanner’s Store for one pound hyson tea, three gallons of N York rum and two gal molasses.

Monday: Today Mr. Joshua Carr came to new sill part of my barn.  We hewed and framed a cross sill and took up the thrashing floor and some boards off the side.

Tuesday: Today we cut and drew another stick and hewed it and spliced the south sill to the barn, and Amos Chapman went with the wagon and horses to the Shakers and got their jack to raise our barn, and he called on the way to Tanner’s Store and got me eight pounds nails.

Big Moose Gets Bigger

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by Bea Peterson

Call it garish, cluttered, distracting or whatever you like. The best words to describe it are tourist stop and moneymaker. Emil Baker’s Big Moose Deli and Country Store on NY Route 7 in Hoosick has won area newspaper awards for the best deli around and, most recently, made The New York Times Sunday, May 18, 2014, issue with a sketch of the building as part of a portrait of “Classic American Journeys By Road.”

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Behold! New Lebanon

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by Thaddeus Flint

A lot of people seem to think there isn’t too much going on in a small town. These little places along the road are seen as sleepy, quiet, even boring. And whatever is going on in them couldn’t be all that interesting, could it?

A new museum opening in New Lebanon at the end of August is going to try to show otherwise.

Behold! New Lebanon describes itself as “the nation’s first living museum of contemporary rural American life.”

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A Collaborative Petersburgh Youth Program

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submitted by Sherry Bowman-Kluck

The Petersburgh Youth Program ended on Friday, August 4. Many new, younger children attended this year making for a very high, energetic atmosphere.

The first three weeks involved a busy recreational program for 37 youth participants, this year slightly exceeding the typical previous years of 28 to 35 enrollees. [Read more…] about A Collaborative Petersburgh Youth Program

Berlin CSD To Collaborate With Community To Improve MS/HS Curb Appeal After Trees Are Cut Down By NYSEG

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submitted by Erin Clary, Communications Specialist, Berlin Central School District 

The Berlin Central School District will be collaborating with local businesses and community members to provide additional aesthetic improvements to the Middle School/High School. This comes after a row of trees along Route 22 in Cherry Plain were removed by New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) on August 6.

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