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Sign Up For Pre-Teen Fun Day Today

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submitted by Kandis Freer, Resource Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County

Cornell Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Youth Development prides itself on providing youth with exciting real world opportunities. On February 15 Rensselaer County’s 4-H Teen Council will hold Pre-Teen Fun Day at Brittonkill (Tamarac) Middle School which will focus on LEGO WeDo Robotics. Pre-Teen Fun Day is a day of STEM taught by the 4-H Teen Council.

We invite all youth, ages 8-12, to attend Pre-Teen Fun Day, but call soon since space is limited. This program is free to 4-H members and costs $10 for non 4-H youth. Lunch will be provided.

The day will begin at 9:30 am with age appropriate icebreaker activities led by teens to get to know each other and to set goals for the day. From there, youth will dive into a day of LEGO WeDo Robotics which engages youth in technology, engineering and literacy. We will conclude at 1:45 pm with a round up activity. Pick-up will be at 2 pm.

Sign Up Now

Please call Kandis Freer at 272-4210 ext. 106 to sign up by February 7. No one shall be denied the opportunity to participate or receive information based on his or her ability to pay. If you have special needs that we can accommodate, please let us know at the time of your call.

Hiland E. Main

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Petersburgh/Hoosick Falls – Hiland E. Main, 86, on Saturday, February 1, 2014, with his family at his side at the Center For Nursing and Rehabilitation at Hoosick Falls in Hoosick Falls, NY, left on his journey to be with his lifetime friend and wife Mary Louise Main, who left on her journey April 17, 1975. Also waiting for him was his great aunt and adoptive mother, Hattie L. Main, and his brother, Alfred Dingman.

Born February 18, 1927, in North Bennington, VT, Hiland was the son of the late Udine Rice and Robert Moon. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1943-1945. Farming was his lifelong passion, as well as hunting and fishing. He was a longtime member of and supporter of the NRA.

Hiland leaves behind his daughters, Georgia M. Main of Petersburgh, NY, and Autumn E. Main of Grafton, NY, his grandchildren, Kevin Buck of Manchester, NH, Jeffrey Buck and Amy Buckley of North Bennington, VT, Jessica Davis and David Pendleton of Sandgate, VT, Noel Corriveau and wife Haigouhi of Cranston, RI, Katie Dastoli of Petersburgh, Tabie Lajeunesse of Watervliet, NY, Hattie Richardson and husband Matt of Porter Corners, NY, and Mary Watkins and husband Jude of Selkirk, NY, his great-grandchildren, Kayla Bedford, Brittany Dickhaus, Danielle Dickhaus, Thomas Lajeunesse, Tashina Lajeunesse, Devon Smith, Philip Richardson, Abigail Richardson, Jude Watkins, II, Lauren Ely, Richard Davis, III, Hannah Buck, Julia Buck and Nyree Corriveau, a great-great-grandchild, Alliah Bedford, and several nieces and nephews of Winchester, NH.

The family wants to thank all of the staff at the Center For Nursing and Rehabilitation at Hoosick Falls for the kindness and loving care they gave Hiland. Per his request, there will be no calling hours or service. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Center For Nursing and Rehabilitation at Hoosick Falls or the Petersburgh Rescue Squad. To leave a message of condolence for the family, please visit www.HansFuneralHome.com.

The Life Of George Holcomb – George Turns 39

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Sunday, June 13, 1830: On this day I am thirty-nine years of age.  Today rainy.

Thursday: We came home from Sand Lake (after a trip to Troy to buy and sell). Mr. Rufus Withee’s wife came with us and fetched her child to wash in the pool for the salt rime.  On the way home we called to cousin Chancy Rowes and took dinner.  On this evening I rode to the pool and got a jug of pool water to wash Mrs. Withees child

Friday: Today brother Sylvester helped me at my Rodgers barn altering the stable and laying stable floor.  Today my wife took the single wagon and carried Mrs. Withee to the pool with her child.

Saturday: This forenoon I went to my Rodgers Farm and looked some time and found my two year old bull lay east, he was alive, weak and poor. I went and got Aseneth Newton and she doctored said bull.  I told her that if she would raise said bull half of him should be hers.  She agreed that she would try.

Tonight Mr. Rufus Withee came and stayed with us.  He came after his wife and child.  My wife paid Mrs. Withee one dol for a crepe handkerchief, a new one. Sylvester worked at the barn part of the day.

Sunday: Some rainy.  Today Mr. Withee and wife left here with their child for the pool and today I am quite unwell with a cold and diarea and bad pain in my head and eyes, breast and side.  I took phisic oil and put my feet in hot water.

Monday: Today rainy. I am some better.  This afternoon my cattle broke into my meadow on my Rodgers farm and we went with the ox team in the rain and drew stacks and rails and mended it.  I worked till some time after dark at said fence.

Tuesday: We chopped split rails and stacks and drew from home onto the Rodgers farm and mended fence.

Sunday, June 27: Today hard thunder shower.

Monday: this forenoon we hoed corn and at the middle of the day a hard hailstorm came within two miles of us. It came streaking through Lebanon and did thousands of dollars damage cutting down crops, gardens and breaking window glass, and especially the Shakers destroying their gardens.

Sunday, July 4: Towards night I rode over to I Newton’s and my wife with our babe. It is unwell.

Fire Destroys Two Family Hoosick Falls Home

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by Bea Peterson

According to Hoosick Falls Fire Chief Robert Bornt the two family house on Center Street was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived three minutes after the call came in at 2:50 am on Friday, January 24. The Hoosick Falls Police Department was already on the scene, a minute ahead of the Fire Department. “There were two families in the house and everyone got out safely,” said Bornt. The family dog was not so fortunate.

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Petersburgh Town Board Action – Highway Expenses Scrutinized

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by Alex Brooks

The Petersburgh Town Board meeting began with a presentation from Tom Berry, who lives on Canfield Road in Petersburgh. He said he has been a resident for eight years and he felt moved to get involved because of the big tax increase this year and because he felt there are ways to reduce the cost of the Town’s operations which are not being explored.

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