Emergency Session
The meeting took place on Tuesday evening, February 23 to address issues with the Town’s use of the Armory followed by an executive session to deal with a legal issue and a personnel issue. [Read more…] about Hoosick Town Board
Hoosick Falls
Four Arrested On Drug Charges
On Sunday, February 21 at approximately 9 pm, during a routine traffic stop, the Hoosick Falls Police Department arrested four individuals and charged them with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls Central School
Capital Project Bids Accepted
by Alex Brooks
At a short special meeting held virtually on February 23 at 6 pm, The Hoosick Falls School Board accepted bids totaling $12.5 million for work on the Second Phase of the District’s Capital Project, which will get underway in late spring of this year. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Central School
Nassau
Community Connections Incorporated Cares For The Community
by Denise Wright
Chaplain Michael Needham realized a need in the Nassau community several years ago when a transient man came into the Nassau Library during a snowy evening with nowhere else to go. [Read more…] about Nassau
The Life Of George Holcomb
A Month With An Irishman
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Tuesday, January 15, 1850: Today I met with an Irishman to Lebanon and bargained to pay him five dollars for a month’s work if we were both suited with each other, and he agreed to begin work tomorrow. [Read more…] about The Life Of George Holcomb
Hoosick Falls
Village Incumbents File For Re-election
by Doug La Rocque
When the time frame to file petitions for four Village Board Seats and Mayor came and past on February 9, only some very familiar faces submitted the paperwork to be on the March ballot. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls
Brunswick
Moratorium On Apartments And Multi-Family Housing Proposed
by Doug La Rocque
In his more than 20 years as Brunswick Town Supervisor, Phil Herrington has never supported a moratorium on any form of development in the town. Time, however, changes everything. [Read more…] about Brunswick
Hoosick Falls
More Than 3 Years After Flood, Repairs Are Underway At ICC
Fr. Tom Zelker talked a minute with Keith Potten who was busy smoothing over a portion of the test area of the newly installed ceiling board in some of the rounded sections of Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls
Troy
Rensselaer County Ready to Serve as a State Mass Vaccination Site
Submitted by the Office of County Executive McLaughlin
Rensselaer County is ready to further expand a county mass vaccination site and partner with the state to deliver vaccines on a county and regional basis, County Executive Steve McLaughlin announced Tuesday, February 16. [Read more…] about Troy
Petersburgh
A Bad Ending To The Day
by Doug La Rocque
A 28-year old Hoosick Falls man’s trip ended not as he planned, and with a different destination, the hospital. [Read more…] about Petersburgh