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Butchering Deer – A Primer For Hunters

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Butchering Deer – A Primer For Hunters will be held Saturday, October 12, from 9 am to noon, followed by a grilled venison lunch, at the Old Gray Barn on Route 30, Rupert, VT. Presenters are Chris Saunders, Vermont Fish & Wildlife hunter education coordinator, and Eric Nuse, retired Vermont Fish & Wildlife hunter education coordinator. They will give attendees a hands-on lesson in butchering deer – from skinning, to locating and producing chef-ready cuts, to boning, to packaging for the freezer.
Pre-registration by October 8 is required. The registration fee is $15. Space is limited to 25 people. For more information, contact the Bennington County Conservation District at 802-442-2275 or bccd@sover.net. Or send a check for $15 per attendee with your contact information to BCCD, P.O. Box 505, Bennington, VT, 05201, by October 8.
The event is sponsored by the Bennington County Conservation District and the Bennington County Sustainable Forest Consortium.

February 1829 – A Wild Steer And A Blizzard

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Friday, January 30, 1829: While I was in Troy there was a boy by the name of Harvey Holbrook and wanted a priviledge to ride into the country with me to get work.  I told him he might ride with me, and he found no place and he came home with me.  We got home about 11 this evening.  We stopped to Woodward’s Tavern in Nassau and bated.  I paid six cents for cider.
Saturday: Today I told the said boy by the name of Harvey Holbrook that he might work at present to pay for his board and he went to work.  Today I sledded wood with the oxen and we went with the horse team and got one load.
(He chopped wood all week with the boy)
Friday: I chopped wood in said swamp and we teamed home the wood, Samuel and Harvey Holbrook.
Saturday, February 14; Today brother Wm came and we divided the pine planks and boards and clapboards that were in the old house of brother Wm that Garret Hirse lives in, and I fetched my half home.  We divided all the timber plank and pieces of all descriptions whatever that was in my cider mill house excepting three sticks that we left to pay Francis Buten for the timber we borrowed of him a few years past.
Sunday: Tonight I sent over to and fetched sister Newton to our house to stay a spell on a visit.
Monday:  This morning I walked to Lebanon and bought a coming three year old steer of Old Squire Samuel Hand, and paid 17 dol for to match one I had.  I took breakfast at Mr. Rowland Danford.  I stayed all day to have brother Wm help get my steer home.  He was to Mr. Danford’s getting his oxen shod.  The said steer was quite wild and we roped him and hitched him to Wm’s oxen, but the rope broke and he followed on and went into Mr. Hazard Morey’s lot and I left him.  Tonight we came home.  This evening I spent the evening to Mother Spring’s with brother Jay Wylie and Sylvester Tracy.
Tuesday: This morning we took our oxen and cattle and went to Mr. Morey’s and got the odd steer home that I left last night.
Friday: We got wood from said swamp till noon and it snowed and we all came home and towards night I walked over to doctor Elijah Graves after him to come and doctor Mother Spring, but he did not come, for he was gone to Albany.  Tonight very stormy.
Saturday: Today we only tended to our chores and chopped a little wood to the door.  It was drifted up to the orads (eaves?) and the snow blowed bad.

Arrests Expected In Holloway Stephentown House Vandalism

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Twitter Blows The Whistle
by David Flint
Brian Holloway said he expects there will be arrests made following the vandalizing of his home in Stephentown on Saturday, August 31. The former New England Patriots football star said he is leaving that up to the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Department. He is more concerned that the community and especially the parents of those involved take a firm stand and see to it that responsibility is acknowledged so that the young lives of the miscreants can be turned around.
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Storm Over Hoosick Falls

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by Bea Peterson
The Hoosick Falls Fire Department responds to 120 calls a year on average. On Thursday, September 12, they responded to ten percent of the calls they receive all year. “We’ve been watching these (thunder and lightning) storms all summer,” said Hoosick Falls Fire Chief Carlton Coon. “Most of them went all around us, but Thursday it was right on top of us.” [Read more…] about Storm Over Hoosick Falls

Berlin Town Board Action – Offer To Buy The Cherry Plain Polling Place Accepted

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by Kieron Kramer
Berlin Town Supervisor Rob Jaeger announced at the Berlin Town Board meeting on Thursday, September 12, that he had received a signed offer and a $1,000 deposit for the Cherry Plain Polling Place. The Polling Place, at 110 Cherry Plain Square, had been appraised at $10,000 and that was the offer made by Cherry Plain residents Gary and Marie Hoffman. [Read more…] about Berlin Town Board Action – Offer To Buy The Cherry Plain Polling Place Accepted

Petersburgh Town Board Action – Road Repairs Cause Budget Woes

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by Alex Brooks
The Petersburgh Town Board scheduled budget workshops for September 23 and 30 at 7 pm, and Town Supervisor Krahforst warned the Board that it will be facing a very difficult budget situation this year. Charles Guntner, the Town Bookkeeper, has warned the Supervisor that he doesn’t expect to have much fund balance at the end of the year. [Read more…] about Petersburgh Town Board Action – Road Repairs Cause Budget Woes

Stephentown Town Board Action – It Doesn’t Just Rain Anymore

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by David Flint
At the Stephentown Town Board meeting on Monday evening Town Supervisor Larry Eckhardt reported that a massive amount of rainfall at about 4 pm on September 1 had taken out South Stephentown Road and a good bit of Andrew’s Lane and Wemple Road. “Just a bloody mess,” he said. [Read more…] about Stephentown Town Board Action – It Doesn’t Just Rain Anymore

The Emerald Ash Borer Comes To Stephentown

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by Trix Niernberger
The emerald ash borer, the beetle that has destroyed over 50 million ash trees in the United States, has been discovered in Stephentown. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) found the beetles in the purple cardboard traps hung in trees just south and west of Stephentown center. In this wood gathering season, DEC is urging area residents to identify ash wood and not move it. Residents should not purchase or accept ash from Stephentown
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