The Sullivan-Jones VFW Post 7466 will be holding its monthly breakfast on Sunday, April 14, from 8 to 11 am. The cost for adults is $7, $3 for children 6 to 12 years old and free for children 5 years old and under.
Come to Poestenkill and enjoy eggs, home fries, sausage, pancakes, French toast sticks, coffee, tea and juice.
Tsatsawassa Fire Company Breakfast
Members of the Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company, serving Brainard and East Nassau and surrounding area, will hold their monthly breakfast on Sunday, April 21, from 8 to 11:30 at the firehouse located on Firehouse Lane behind the post office near the intersection of Routes 20 and 66N in Brainard.
Breakfast offers your choice of pancakes or French toast served with bacon or sausage, eggs cooked to your order, applesauce and an assortment of breakfast beverages at a cost of $6, over the age of 12, children 5 to 12 are served for $3, and those under five are served free. Special thanks is expressed to the Hannaford Corporation for their generous donation toward our breakfast menu and to the Cub Scouts who help in the serving.
Earth Day Natural History Walks In Hoosick Falls
On Saturday, April 20, the Friends of the Hoosic River Greenway will lead guided walks focusing on the plants and animals of the Hoosic River Greenway in Hoosick Falls, NY. Meet at the old water works off Carey Avenue at 9 am for your own guided tour to early songbirds or waterfowl or common early wildflowers, shrubs and trees. The plant walk will include an introduction to wild edibles and samples of dishes made from one or two wild edible invasive species. Bring binoculars if you have them. Some hand lenses will be provided for would be botanists. The event is free and open to everyone.
For more information, contact the Hoosic River Watershed Association at 413-458-2742 or office@hoorwa.org.
Four Seasons, Four Years – “The Civil War: A Musical Journey” At SLCA
On Saturday, April 20, at 8 pm experience a unique musical journey as extraordinary musicians Greg Artzner, Dan Berggren, Betsy and Steve Fry, Reggie Harris, Terry Leonino, John Roberts, Bill Spence, Toby Stover, Susan Trump and George Wilson, perform at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts as part of its Squire Jacob concert series.
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Big City Jazz In Cambridge
a review by Alex Brooks
Hubbard Hall welcomed the Lande/Williamson Jazz Quartet to the Hall last Friday, which was attended by a very enthusiastic audience.
Art Lande and Bruce Williamson started their collaboration as young musicians in San Francisco in the 1970s, and they have played together regularly for 40 years. All four members of the current quartet have played with each other a lot, but never until this tour has this particular quartet played together. They are doing four dates. The first was at Bucknell in central Pennsylvania, the second in New Paltz, NY, then Hubbard Hall and a final date in New York City.
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Helen P. Willbrant
Petersburgh – Helen P. Knauer Willbrant, 85, of Willbrant Road, Petersburgh, NY, died on Monday, April 8, 2013, at the Center for Living and Rehabilitation in Bennington, VT, where she had been a resident for three years.
Born in Troy, NY, on January 5, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Nicholas and Anna Heinike Knauer. Helen was the loving wife of Robert F. Willbrant, whom she married on June 2, 1946, in St. Lawrence Church in Troy. She was a communicant of the Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls, NY.
Helen was raised and attended schools in Troy. In her earlier years she worked for Montgomery Ward in Menands, NY. She met her future husband, Bob, at a dance where their courtship started. After their marriage, they moved to Cherry Plain, NY, and in 1955 purchased the Maple Lane Farm in Petersburgh. She became a “farmer’s wife,” helping around the farm while raising their children. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt who will be dearly missed.
Survivors include her husband of 66 years, Bob, her three children, David R. and wife Diane Willbrant of Oklahoma City, OK, Nancy H. and husband Charles Stearns of Petersburgh, Anna M. Willbrant-Rice and husband Steven of East Nassau, NY, her sister, Celia, who was married to the late Arthur Allen of California, her brother, Lawrence and wife Dorothy Knauer of Troy, her grandchildren, William, Warren and Robert Willbrant, Steven Stearns, Audrey Kuhn and Dustin Rice, and her great-grandchildren, Lana Willbrant and Conner Kuhn, along with many nieces and nephews. She is pre-deceased by siblings, Theresa Cote and Nicholas, Henry and Anna Mary Knauer.
A Liturgy of Christian Death and Burial will be celebrated by Rev. Thomas Zelker at the Immaculate Conception Church, 67 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, on Saturday, April 13, at 10 am. Burial will follow in the Berlin Community Cemetery.
Relatives and friends are invited to the visitation on Friday, April 12, from 4 to 7 pm in the Thomas M. Barber Funeral Home, 66 Armsby Road, Petersburgh. Memorial contributions in Helen’s memory may be given to the Center for Living and Rehabilitation Activity Fund, 160 Hospital Drive, Bennington, VT, 05201.
Funeral Notice For John A. O’Dell
Berlin – John A. O’Dell of Brookside Park, Berlin, NY, died peacefully at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Hoosick Falls, NY, on Tuesday evening, April 9, 2013.
Funeral services will be on Tuesday, April 16, at 2 pm in the First Baptist Church of Berlin. Inurnment with full military honors will follow in the Berlin Baptist Cemetery. Relatives and friends may visit with family at the Church on Tuesday starting at noon. Memorial contributions may be made to the Church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Thomas M. Barber Funeral Home.
Thomas Moses
Glens Falls – Thomas G. Moses (Tommy), a very special young man, passed on to the Lord, Wednesday, April 3, 2013, surrounded by loving family and friends. He was born July 9, 1974, in Bennington, VT.
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Regina Hubbard
Hoosick – Regina (Jeanie) Hubbard, 81, passed away on Saturday, April 6, 2013, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, NY. She was the wife of the late Richard Hubbard, who died in 1994. Jeanie resided in the Town of Hoosick, NY.
Born on September 5, 1931, in Cambridge, NY, she was the daughter of the late John and Teresa (Rimkunas) Wirmusky. She graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in Hoosick Falls, NY. Jeanie and her husband Dick, along with her family, owned and operated the American House in Hoosick Falls for many years until its closing in 2001. It was there she welcomed, enjoyed and touched so many lives.
Survivors include her daughter, Teresa and husband Jim Brennan and grandson Christopher Brennan, all of Watervliet, NY, her nephews, A.J., Richard, Frank and Peter Wirmusky, and her dear friend, Nancy Martelle. She is pre-deceased by a sister, Helen Van Estline, a brother, Anthony Wirmusky, and a nephew, Stephen Wirmusky.
A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Wednesday, April 10, from the Immaculate Conception Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls. Burial followed the Mass in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Hoosick Falls.
Relatives and friends called at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Tuesday from 5 to 8 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary’s Academy through the funeral home.
The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the doctors and staff at St. Peters Hospital Cardiac and Vascular Center for their compassion and care for Jeanie.
The Life Of George Holcomb – George’s Wife Has a Bad Cough
Tuesday, April 10, 1827: This morning I walked over after doctor Graves, for my wife continues a pain in her side and a bad cough. He came and bled her. Today we plowed. Tonight I walked up to the Presbyterian meeting house and heard a young man that had been a Shaker deliver a discourse to tell what the rise of the Shakers was and their progress.
Wednesday: This morning Wm and I sold Gideon Barnhart our four year old oxen for fifty dollars. This afternoon I took the single wagon and went and fetched Cousin Amanda Green to nurse our babe for my wife has quite a fever.
Sunday: This morning I walked over to Adam Brown’s and got two quarts of milk, and today I walked down to Old Widow Booge’s and got two quarts of beer. She would not take any pay. I got it for my wife, for she continues quite sick. Tonight a snow storm.
Tuesday, April 17: Today I took the wagon and horses and plow and went over to my Rodgers farm, and I plowed brother Sylvester’s garden and for to pay me he beats and spreads the manure in the meadow, and I told Sylvester that he must pay me rent for the house and garden to begin this month, price 12 dol for a year, and further privileges such as pasturing and wood must be another bargain.
Wednesday: I mended fence on the hill, drew out manure and plowed sward. We had a calf die and we skinned it and Wm carried it to Elem Tilden’s and had it credit 58 cts on our account. On this day I paid my school bill to brother Wm, which was one dol and twenty seven cts, he stands one of the trustees.
Saturday, April 21, 1827: This morning I rode over and got some slippery elm bark in Mr. Solomon Carpenter’s lot for to make tea for my wife’s cough.
Monday: This forenoon we carted rails and stone and plowed sward land and this morning I took my wife into the cart and carried her to Mother Spring’s on a visit, but her cough continues to increase.
Tuesday: Today rainy. We fanned over rye and finished breaking sward land for corn, and I rode up to Elisha Morton’s and got a four ounce bottle of Hurlbert’s cough drops to give my wife for her cough, and for the same I stand indebted for 75 cts.
Wednesday: Today a snow storm.
Saturday, April 28: Today quite rainy. I tended to chores such as tending to the sheep and lambs, and this evening I went up to Garret Hirse for brother Wm to tell him that he would let his old house until the 3rd day of April next for 20 dol and said Hires must secure him for the pay and for no horn cattle to run on said premises on the account of the fruit trees, likewise to keep his hogs in a pen and to take no one in to his family now into the house without Wm consent, nor to burn up or destroy any fence nor boards, and furthermore said Hires must go to Lebanon and notify Archibold Simpson that he can’t let him have said house, and said Hires agreed to these proposals, and he is to have the same privileges of the house and yard as Mr. Rowland Danford last year did.
Sunday: Today I walked over to my Rodgers farm and I Newton went up into Simeon Wylie’s woods and got me some moose weed for to make my wife some drink for her cough, for it continues quite bad. I came home and got white pine bark and spignut and steeped it and sweetened it with molasses, which she is taking as medicine for said cough.