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Wild Edible Plant Program

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A Wild Edible Plant Program will be held on Sunday, May 12, from 10 am until 4 pm at the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center, 475 Dyken Pond Road, Cropseyville. Learn plant identification, foraging techniques and how to prepare many delicious native wild edible plants. This spring program will focus on seasonal availability of shoots and greens. Whether you’re a complete novice with wild plants or an experienced forager, you will gain something from this class.
The fee is $15 per person, $12 for members. Pre-registration is required and can be done by contacting the Center at 518-658-2055 or dykenpond@fairpoint.net. This program is limited to 15 people, so please register early. Contact the Center or visit www.dykenpond.org  for directions and a complete schedule of our spring and  summer events.

The Future Of New York’s Forests

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On Sunday, May 19, the New York Forest Owners Association, as part of their  “Restore New York’s Woodlands” initiative, will host a free woods walk to celebrate the many benefits forests provide and discuss solutions for the threats they face. Walter Kersch will lead the woods walk on the trails of the Pine Ridge XC Ski Area, 1463 Plank Road, Petersburgh, at 9 am. A band sawmill demonstration is included.
Wear sturdy shoes for hiking, dress for the weather and apply your preferred insect repellent.
Please register with Phil at 518-895-5346 so we can plan for parking and handout materials. Directions can be found at www.pineridgexc.com.

Volunteers Needed For National Trails Day

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National Trails Day is the perfect opportunity to help clean up local parks. On Saturday, June 1, the Friends of Grafton Lakes State Park and Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center will be hosting the 20th Annual National Trails Day – the nation’s annual celebration of trails. Both parks invite volunteers of all ages to help clean up and improve trails on Saturday morning and indulge in the trail activities they enjoy most in the afternoon.
Registration will begin at 9 am. at both parks; refreshments and snacks will be available. Cleanup and improvement of both trail systems will take place between 9:30 am and 12  pm and will be followed by a complimentary barbecue picnic for all volunteers.  After the barbecue, participants are encouraged to enjoy the trails and parks. Reservations must be made in advance for the barbecue by calling the Grafton Lakes State Park Office or Dyken Pond Office no later than May 30.
Please join park staff on June 1 to enjoy and celebrate public trails.  For more information about this event, please contact Grafton Lakes State Park at 518-279-1155 or Dyken Pond Center at 518-658-2055.  For more information about state parks and historic sites in New York, visit www.nysparks.com and for more information about Dyken Pond Center, visit www.dykenpond.org.

Funeral Service For Kathryn B. Page

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Hoosick Falls – Kathryn Bingham Page passed away on Thursday, January 31, 2013, at Crescent Manor Care Centers in Bennington, VT, following a long illness. She leaves her sister, Dianne Bingham Stevens of Hoosick Falls, along with two sons. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, May 18, at 2 pm in the First Baptist Church of Hoosick Falls, 80 Main Street, with a time of fellowship to follow. Arrangements are by the Thomas M. Barber Funeral Home of Petersburgh, NY.

The Life Of George Holcomb – Fixing The Barn

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Thursday, July 5, 1827: Today I took the cart and oxen and borrowed Mr. Hazard Morey’s screw to hoist the corner of our barn.
Friday: We underpinned the barn in a number of places and raised the corner with said screw, and sawed some posts and put under and brother Wm helped.  I had the posts of him, two long ones and one short one, and today brother Sylvester worked for me a laying over part of the barn floor, and for the same I credit him seventy five cents towards his rent.  On this day Philander P. Holcomb came on a visit from the City of New York on account of his health, on his way to his father’s to the westward.
Saturday: Garret Hires butchered a calf for me and I paid him in cider.  This forenoon I took the single wagon and carried the Shakers 36 feet hemlock bark.
Monday: This forenoon I hilled corn and in the afternoon I began to mow on my Rodgers farm on what is called the beaver meadow. This afternoon brother Wm took my mare and plowed out Amos Chapman’s potatoes, part of them, and I Newton’s corn that they do plant on my land on shares, and said Chapman pays Wm in making a pair of shoes for Mother and I find the leather to answer against Wm getting them made.
Tuesday: We hayed on my Rodgers farm and finished the beaver meadow.  I took the single wagon and carried my son George Pease to Doc Wos and had his foot measured for a pair of shoes, and to Wm Post’s and had his head measured for a hat.
Wednesday: Today we hayed on my Rodgers farm, and this afternoon Wm rode my mare to the west part of this town and hired a boy by the name of Cleveland to work for three dol and 50 cts and tonight I kept an Irish dry goods peddler and a Yankee peddler with books and print.

Sounds Of Spring In New Lebanon

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by David Flint
Parishioners of the Immaculate Conception Church in New Lebanon celebrated the installation of their new pipe organ last year with a concert dubbed “Sounds of Spring.” With spring busting out again in New Lebanon, what better way to welcome it than with a second annual “Sounds of Spring” concert. On May 5 the Church  was also participating in a global event. It being the 850th anniversary of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, there were 850 organ concerts around the world celebrating the occasion.
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A Plane Crashes In Hoosick Falls

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by Bea Peterson
Shortly before 1 pm on a beautiful, warm Sunday afternoon, April 28, several 911 calls were received reporting a plane crash in Hoosick Falls. The single engine Aeronica model airplane, piloted by Stanton Denis King of Bunker Hill Road, Valley Falls, was seen circling the Hoosick Falls Country Club and open land behind Rogers Avenue. [Read more…] about A Plane Crashes In Hoosick Falls