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A Day Of Healthy Outdoor Family Activities At Dyken Pond

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On June 21 “Let’s Move: A Day of Healthy Outdoor Family Activities” will be held at Dyken Pond from  10:30 am to 2:30 pm. All activities are free, family friendly and for the beginner. Activities will be held in two sessions. Come for one or both. Session 1 is from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Session 2 is from 12:30 to 2 pm. Each session will feature kayak lessons (ages 10 and older), fishing, geo-caching, a nature walk, a fox walk and other nature games.

Bring a picnic lunch. Healthy snacks will be available throughout the day.

Edward Hackett

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Hoosick Falls – Edward Hackett, 76, died suddenly Friday, May 23, 2014, after a long illness. Lifelong residents of Hoosick Falls, NY, he and his wife of 53 years, Barbara, were also winter residents of Naples, FL, since retirement.

Ed owned and operated several local bars and restaurants for many years. When Ed left the restaurant business he went to work for various milk processing companies as a dairy inspector. His personality was well suited for both of those careers, and he quickly gained the friendship and affection of most people he met, both young and old. He gained another new batch of loyal friends while living in Florida. Ed earned a reputation as one of the most consistently good shuffleboard players on his team.

Survivors, other than his wife, are his sons, Joseph Hackett and Kevin Button and wife Robin, and his daughter, Loreen Hackett, all of Hoosick Falls, his grandchildren, Nicole Aldrich and husband Josh, Tori Hackett and Victoria, Owen Hackett and Darcie Hackett, and his great-grandchildren, Alyssa and Corey Aldrich. Ed was also survived by cousins, nieces and nephews, including one cousin to whom he was a substitute dad, John Waitekus.

Relatives and friends may call at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Saturday, May 31, from 6 to 8 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rensselaer County Hospice through the funeral home.

Anna A. Winters

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Hoosick Falls – Anna A. Winters, 93, passed away on Thursday, May 22, 2014, at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Hoosick Falls, NY. She was the wife of the late August J. Winters Jr.

Born on March 22, 1921, in Sherbrook, Canada, Anna was the daughter of the late Joseph and Anna (Rousseau) Rivard. She attended schools in the Town of Hoosick, NY. Anna was a seamstress at CB Sports in Bennington, VT.

Survivors include her daughter, Beverly Burnham and husband Robert of Warrensburg, NY, her sons, Richard Winters and Sandra Singer of Massachusetts and August Winters of Center Brunswick, NY, her sister, Joan Baker of Troy, NY, her brother, Theodore Rivard of Maryland, and her eight grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Anna is pre-deceased by a grandson, David Winters, and a daughter-in-law, Ann Winters.

A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Wednesday, May 28, at 11 am from the Immaculate Conception Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls. Burial followed the Mass at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Hoosick Falls. Relatives and friends called at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Tuesday, May 27, from 5 to 7 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Jude’s Children Hospital through the funeral home.

The Life Of George Holcomb – The Cheese House Chimney

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Friday, November 11: Today Mr. John Smith came to build me a chimney in my cheese house. I tended mason, and took the wagon and horses to Doctor Cuyler Tanners and paid him one dol.

Saturday: I returned the mantle tree and got a shorter and smaller one

Monday: Today I went to Albany with a load of apples and a barrel of cider. I started in the night, it was dark and rainy. I went on the South Road. I called in Nassau to a temperate tavern and bated. I paid three cts for beer. Rensselaer Sheldon went with me and we called again to Brockways. We had brandy and coffee.

Tuesday: We started out of Albany at three this afternoon and came the way of Sand Lake. We got home about eleven this evening. Today Mr. John Smith returned to work masoning building my chimney in my cheese house. My hired boy Sylvester Swan tended mason.

Wednesday: I tended mason and said Smith worked at my chimney towards night I walked to Lebanon. I paid Luther Rich two cts for a handful hair for plastering. This evening I tended mason and said Smith plastered our bedroom in spots where it was off.

Thursday: I tended mason and this evening said Smith laid my hearth in my cheese house, and tonight I started for Pittsfield after brick and lime.

Friday: This morning I got to Pittsfield and I bought 450 bricks of one Mr. Morton and paid him 37 cts per hundred and on the way going over I called to Sylvester Smith and paid 25 cts for two bushels lime. I got home about eleven and I tended mason. Said Smith coated my oven this evening, and it makes out six days work said Smith did building my chimney. Four days he owed me and the other two days I paid him the cash, two dol and 50 cts and one dol I paid him for what he did evenings.

Saturday: I cleared out the cheese house where we built the chimney and I painted the foundation of my chimney and this evening I put up the stoves.

Sunday: on this evening I rode to Pittsfield and partly bargained with the drover Mr. Foot to buy my fat cattle. I agreed to drive my beef to Lebanon on Tuesday and we would try to bargain when he passed with his drove.

Tuesday: I drove my three beef cows to Lebanon and there I met Mr. Foot and bargained and sold them at 15 dol each and took my cash.

Thursday, December 8, 1831: Today I went to Richmond with the sleigh and horses visiting to brother F. Jay Wylie’s. My wife and Lucinda Morton and Eliza Wylie went with me. I paid said Wylie 21 dollars interest money on a three hundred dollar note and on the way I stopped to the Shaker village and sold a bull’s hide at six cts per pound, weight 75 pounds.  I bought in exchange a S— shoe leather at 25 cts per pound, weight 7 pounds.

Friday: I was unwell and sore eye. I stayed in the house and chopped sausage meat.

Bacon Businesses Get $1.235 Million USDA Financial Package

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by Bea Peterson

On Thursday, May 15, U.S. Congressman Chris Gibson joined Jim Bopp, Platinum Sales and Business Development Manager, Gary Pereira, U.S. Department of Agriculture Energy Specialist, Jim Morris, Kinderhook Bank Commercial Real Estate and Development Financing Vice President, and Jeff Stone, Kinderhook Bank Retail and Business Development Vice President, at the Hoosick headquarters of R.M. Bacon LLC and Rock Maple Farm LLC to celebrate the future growth of Mike Bacon’s businesses, thanks to a USDA guaranteed loan.

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The One That Didn’t Get Away – A State Record Bass

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The record for catching the largest inland striped bass in New York State was recently broken, State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens announced. Eric Lester of Campbell Hall caught a 60 pound female striped bass measuring 53.4 inches in length and 33 inches in girth from the Hudson River in Newburgh on May 14. The new record surpassed the former record of 55 pounds 6 ounces set in 2007.

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