HFCS Softball Wins 11 – 2, Off To 2 – 0 Start
by Steve Bradley
Last Thursday, in their first home game, the Lady Panthers played Cambridge on the HFCS diamond in an off and on rain. HF scored two runs in the bottom of the first on a sharp grounder off the bat of Chelsea Stevens. Cambridge came right back to score two runs of their own in the top of the second. The Panthers’ offense exploded in the third, scoring nine runs on losing Cambridge pitcher Amanda Brand. By the end of the third, the Panthers held a 11 – 2 advantage. That score held to the end of the game.
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Panther Baseball Opens With A Win
by Steve Bradley
After two weeks of Coach Mike Lilac rescheduling games because of weather and unusable field conditions at HFCS, the baseball team finally got to go outside and play a real game. The fact that it was raining was ignored; the boys were playing a baseball game.
HFCS Boys Lacrosse Gets First Ever Win
by Steve Bradley
The HFCS boys lacrosse team earned its first ever win last Thursday when they dominated the Voorheesville Blackbirds 16 – 0. The Panthers controlled the game from beginning to end, scoring almost at will and keeping the Blackbirds on their heels.
Berlin Seniors Introduce Trout To The Classroom
submitted by Erin Clary, Communications Specialist, Berlin Central School District
Berlin High School Seniors Cullen O’Brien and James Mayer pull out a clipboard and scribble “42” in a column under dozens of similar numbers. They’re recording the temperature of the water in a large fish tank located in one of the science lab classrooms at their school.
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Gasland Part II At HFCS
In celebration of Earth Day 2014, the Hoosick Falls High School Earth Club is sponsoring a community viewing of the award winning documentary Gasland Part II on Tuesday, April 22, at 6:30 pm in the High School Auditorium. Admission is free, and the community is invited to attend.
Gasland Part II, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, takes a broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level in 32 countries worldwide. Fracking is one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today.
Hoosick Falls High School is located at 21187 New York 22, Hoosick. For more information, please contact Deborah Mabey at 518-686-7321 x 2221.
Paint The Town Purple
On Friday, May 2, the Berlin FCCLA will join the Berlin Bears Relay for Life Team as they Paint the Town Purple! The festivities will be held at the Berlin Town Complex and are open to the public. There will be pulled pork and chili, a bake sale and purple ice cream floats, donated by Stewart’s. There will be a coffee can auction which will offer gift certificates and other nice prizes for children and adults. Food, music and raffles will occur from 6 to 9 pm. Drawing for the auction will begin at 8:30 pm. Donations are welcome.
Area residents are asked to show their support for the Relay for Life Team and for all those who have or are battling cancer. Fly a purple flag, hang some purple balloons or tie a purple bow on your mailbox! Purple bows are available from Tammy Osterhout, Dianne Mosher or at Berlin High School.
New members are always welcome on the Berlin Bears Relay Team. Sign up sheets for walkers will be available May 2. Luminaria bags will also be available at the Paint the Town Purple celebration. For $5 people may add names of cancer survivors or memorials to those who have lost their cancer battle. The bags can be decorated with photos, stickers, etc. Bring photos (or pictures on a flash drive) if you would like to add a photo to a luminaria bag.
Students are invited to “rock the night away.” From 9 pm Friday until 6 am Saturday, youth will rock in rocking chairs. They will be raising money for the American Cancer Society. Students are asked to pick up a permission form and then get sponsors for their hours of rocking. Students may qualify for special prizes depending on the amount of money they raise. The hours rocking can be used for community service. Interested students should pick up forms from Mrs. Mosher at Berlin HS or email nymoo@yahoo.com and forms can be emailed to you.
If anyone has questions or needs more information, email nymoo@yahoo.com – put RELAY in the subject line or call 658-2453.
Taconic Valley Historical Society Meeting
Barbara Chepaitis will be the guest speaker at the April 21 meeting of the Taconic Valley Historical Society. She will present her book, Saving Eagle Mitch, a story about an eagle wounded in Afghanistan, rescued by Navy SEALs and the difficulties encountered finding it a safe home in the United States. Mitch now lives at the Berkshire Bird Paradise in Grafton.
Our meetings are held at the Methodist Church, South Main Street, Berlin, on the third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm. The programs are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department Roast Beef Dinner
The Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department will hold an all you can eat Roast Beef Dinner on Saturday, April 26, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, 35 Grange Hall Road in Stephentown from 4 to 7 pm.
Adult all you can eat dinners cost $12, children age 6-10 dinners cost $7 and youth ages 5 and under eat free. Take-out dinners will be available for $10 each. Advance registration is not required.
Petersburgh Library News
Spring Foraging
The Vanishing Skills series of the Petersburgh Public Library kicks off with its first installment, “Spring Foraging,” on Saturday, May 3, at 10 am. The new series will offer instruction and knowledge sharing from local residents on country skills and self sufficiency that have been neglected in our fast moving digital age. However, more people are seeing that keeping the knowledge current will prove even more valuable in an uncertain future.
On May 3 from 10 am to noon Danny Schnoop and Mary Lou Walters will lead a spring foraging workshop. They will lead a group to places where baby dandelion greens, fiddlehead ferns and other spring plants can be foraged. Afterward, the group will return to the PVMCC for some pointers in preparing and preserving its finds. Please sign up at the Library if you will be attending since space in the kitchen is limited.
Book Discussion Group
The next book discussion will take place on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 pm. The book to be discussed is Savage Beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford. Copies of the book are available at the Library for everyone who would like to join in the book discussion.
Plant, Bake, Book And Tag Sale
The annual Plant, Bake, Book and Tag Sale will be held on Saturday, May 17, from 9 am to 1 pm. Donations of plants and baked goods would be greatly appreciated.