Buskirk – Charlotte A. Ellis, 90, passed away on Saturday, September 22, 2012, at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at Hoosick Falls. She had resided on Jay Harrington Road in Buskirk, NY, and was the wife of the late Robert T. Ellis.
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Deborah Springer
Hoosick – Deborah Lee (Kilton) Springer, 61, passed away from lung cancer on Thursday, September 20, 2012, at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, NY, surrounded by her loving family. Debbie leaves behind her husband and soul mate of 18 years, Robert Springer.
Debbie was born to the late Clarence and Millicent (Bryant) Kilton on December 14, 1950, in Caribou, ME. She is pre-deceased by her sisters, Maureen Roberts and Jean Roche, and her sisters-in-law, Lucy Mosley and Patricia McGarvin.
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Dyken Pond Bird Seed Sale
The Dyken Pond 20th Annual Bird Seed Sale is a fundraiser to benefit the Friends of the Dyken Pond Center. Order a premium bag of bird seed while supporting the programs of the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center. Proceeds from this fundraiser go towards scholarships for children to attend the Summer Nature Camp and land protection efforts. Stock up to last the winter!
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The Life Of George Holcomb – The Funeral of George’s Father Beriah Holcomb (1748 – 1827)
Wednesday, March 17, 1827: On this forenoon our connections and neighbors met at our house, and the Freemasons moved the corpse about twelve to the Meeting House, and the Episcopalian priest Humphrey in procession with them while the mourners followed in sleighs and more distant connections in wagons. Priest Hunter waited on the Episcopalian priest in to his pulpit and then he opened the meeting by reading Service, and prayer and Priest Hunter read a psalm and sung in the gallery. We then had a sermon from said Humphrey. His text was in Luke the 2nd chapter, 29th and 30th verses. We had a very entertaining discourse, and then he addressed the connections of the deceased and likewise addressed his Masonic Bretheren, and then Hunter read a psalm and singing in the gallery, and Humphrey closed with a prayer.
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Father Tom Zelker To Speak At HACA Brunch
Fr. Tom Zelker, pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls and parish priest at St. Patrick’s Church in Cambridge, will be the keynote speaker at the HACA Volunteer and Community Partners Appreciation Brunch to be held on October 20 from 10 am to noon at the First United Presbyterian Church. [Read more…] about Father Tom Zelker To Speak At HACA Brunch
Removal Of BCS Board Members Raised
by Thaddeus Flint
It was a dark and stormy night, outside and inside the aging Berlin Elementary School Tuesday night. But the storm over the Berlin School Board appeared even darker and stormier than the one blowing outside with the revelation that the Board might look into the removal of three of its own members.
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Hit And Run Investigation Ongoing
by Bea Peterson
An inquiry to the NYS Police Public Information Office regarding the status of the September 2 hit and run accident on Route 22 in Hoosick involving bicyclist Matthew Ratelle of Petersburgh received this response from Trooper Mark Cepiel. [Read more…] about Hit And Run Investigation Ongoing
And The Gun Range Shall Never Die – Grafton Planning Board Action
by Kieron Kramer
Les McDermott is resubmitting his application, with amendments, for a shooting range at 303 Old Siek Road in Grafton. He had withdrawn his application for a shooting range and gun shop at last month’s Grafton Planning Board meeting in the face of severe criticism from his neighbors. He had invested time and energy in landscaping his property with high berms to stop bullets and in filing a Long Form Environmental Impact Statement, which requires lots of documentation. Having no site plan registered meant that McDermott could invite friends and guests to come shoot as long as they were shooting 500 feet away from anybody else’s building structures, according to the NYS DEC regulations. No site plan review meant, essentially, that the Town had no control over the shooting activities on the McDermott property.
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Stephentown Town Board Action – Stephentown Buys Property Online
by David Flint
The Town of Stephentown was the successful bidder in an online auction to purchase a 1.2 acre property across the street from the Town Hall for $45,000. Two years ago the Town Board had offered $95,000 for the land and a house on it which together at that time were appraised at $115,000. The offer was refused. By 2012, with Fannie Mae now the owner following foreclosure, the asking price was down to $65,000.
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Flames At The Stephentown Muster
by David Flint and Samantha Bink
The Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department had its annual muster on Saturday and Sunday September 15 and 16. The event started with water polo on Saturday night. There were nineteen children who competed prior to the adults.
Water Polo Winners
Kid’s Water Polo – Lane Pelletier, Andrew Joyes, Haley Williams
Adult Men’s Water Polo – Hoags Corners
Adult Women’s Water Polo – Dalton
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