Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola will speak at the Berlin Rod & Gun Club, 2564 Plank Road, Berlin, on Monday, August 26, at 7:30 pm regarding the privacy of pistol permit records and the SAFE Act. You do not have to be a member to attend.
Hubbard Hall Opera Presents A Masterful Barber of Seville
review by Alex Brooks
The Hubbard Hall Opera Company’s production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is a pleasure on many levels.
The show is great fun just for the comic shenanigans drawn from the original Beaumarchais play (the same Figaro trilogy from which Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is drawn). The cast assembled here bring, in addition to their formidable vocal abilities, a remarkable acting ability, bringing out the drama and the laughs in the story.
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Marie A. Sweet
Grafton – Marie A. (Schermerhorn) Sweet of Grafton, NY, died on Saturday, August 17, 2013, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, NY, after a brief illness.
Born on July 28, 1930, Marie was the daughter of the late Mildred and Henry Schermerhorn and the wife of the late Rufus C. Sweet. She was a life long resident of Grafton, educated in Grafton’s Toad Point one room school, and she attended the Walter A. Wood High School in Hoosick Falls, NY.
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Helen Nichols Jacobs
Hoosick – Helen Nichols Jacobs died peacefully in her home in Paramus, NJ, on August 11, 2013. She had painted the Hoosick hills with her daughter, Hoosick, NY, resident and businesswoman Barbara Sussman, for over thirty years.
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The Life Of George Holcomb – Mother & Sister Take A Canal Boat West
by Alex Brooks
Tuesday, July 1, 1828: Today I paid sister Eleanor the interest on the note that Wm and I gave her, which was six dol and two cts, and then we gave her separate notes of eighty six dollars, and I gave Mother Holcomb five dollars to pay her expenses to the westward. I sent and got the horse and sixteen dollars of the widow Mary Clark as is mentioned yesterday, and today started for Troy to carry Mother and sister Eleanor to take the canal to go to the westward.
Wednesday: This morning we went from Mr. Withee’s into Troy and I found a canal boat that was going out immediately. I got them onto the boat for a dollar apiece to Utica and they started about eleven this forenoon.
Friday, July 4: Today I went to Independence to Dalton with a single wagon peddling cake and beer and cider. I cleared about seven dollars and 50 cts.
Sunday: Towards night I took the single wagon and carried Mary Tanner’s band box of clothes to Amos Broad’s as she directed when she left working at our house. My wife went with me to ride for her health today. A traveler stopped to my house by the name of Wm Jones and he stayed in order to work tomorrow. He is a stranger, out of money and poorly clothed.
Sunday, July 13: Today I took the single wagon and carried my wife to Doctor Right and we got some medicine to put into wine for her and then we came up to the pool. I borrowed a bottle to Mr. Haskett’s and my wife borrowed a mantle. It was some showry. I went on pool hill to Mr. Bailey’s store and paid 1/11 pence for one pint of wine to mix the medicine and I paid three cents for a card of cookies for my wife to eat, on the way home. Today we put up some of our hay in to tumbles and it is rainy.
The following week they spend Friday the same way again, going to the Doctor for George’ wife, then giving her wine with medicine in it, and cookies. She apparently gets better after that, as we hear no more of her illness.
All through July George cuts a lot of hay, and his narrative describes all of the ways he got people to help him mow, and what his deal was with each person.
Catching The Petersburgh Wave
Hoosick Town Board Action – Clashes
by Bea Peterson
The Town of Hoosick Board meeting on Monday, August 12, appeared at times to be more of a political event than a Board meeting. Shouting, innuendoes, name calling and catcalls from the crowded room were all part of the proceedings.
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Second Bite At The Berlin Bank
by David Flint
The bank building in Berlin has been sold at auction for a second time. This time the price was down to a paltry $55,000.
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Grafton Town Board Action – Tangled Finances
by Alex Brooks
Grafton Supervisor Frank Higgins had a lot of activity to report on this month.
He said the IRS had initiated a compliance check because they did not receive a quarterly report for the second quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013. He said the new bookkeeper had completed and sent the missing reports, but there is a possibility that the IRS will fine the Town for the tardy reports.
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Village of Hoosick Falls Board Action – Hoosick Falls Has Top Water System
by Bea Peterson
At the August 13 Village Board meeting Mayor David Borge displayed the 2013 Water System of the Year Award presented to the Mayor and Water Supervisor Jim Hurlburt on May 22 at the New York Rural Water Association’s Annual Technical Conference held in Lake Placid. [Read more…] about Village of Hoosick Falls Board Action – Hoosick Falls Has Top Water System