Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
Drug Take Back Day Around The County
County Executive Steve McLaughlin and Sheriff Pat Russo helped kick off Rensselaer County’s participation in the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, at the West Sand Lake Firehouse. [Read more…] about Rensselaer County
By Steve Bradley and Doug La Rocque
The blaze broke out shortly before 1 pm on Tuesday, April 30 in one of the oldest buildings on the Bennington College campus, called The Barn. [Read more…] about New York, Vermont Firefighters Combine To Fight Blaze At Bennington College
DEC Ruling Complicates Sewer Project
By Doug La Rocque
At a meeting last week between all parties involved with the sewer project at Superior, Lyman and Water Streets in the village, The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) informed Mayor Rob Allen, that any groundwater that is exposed due to the construction, must be considered as contaminated water, and properly treated, before it can be disposed off. The same applies to any soil saturated with groundwater. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls
Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) Foundation has renamed its annual Vision Award for Distinguished Community Service for Sean Casey, a member of the SVHC Board of Trustees, and a long-time pillar of the Hoosick Falls community, who passed away suddenly last month. [Read more…] about SVHC Award Named For Sean Casey
By Caroline Bassallo
Hoosick Falls’ Cheney Library has a new director, Sara Yetto, who participated in a friendly interview on Thursday, April 25. [Read more…] about Sara Yetto Takes the Reins At The Cheney Library
Farewell Miss Angela
By Doug La Rocque
For the last six years, Angela Kanser has been sort of an institution at the Grafton Community Library. Her smiling face and charming mannerisms behind the checkout desk will be missed. She worked with young children in some very special reading and activity groups, and was always ready to help out whenever she could. [Read more…] about Grafton
Berlin – Lorene Ranly Tanner, 94, of Berlin, peacefully passed away on April 25, 2019 at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Hoosick Falls, NY. In just 23 days, she would have been 95 years old. She was blessed with a good life all of those years. [Read more…] about Lorene R. Tanner
A Major Snow Storm
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Thursday, February 19, 1846: I took my one horse sleigh and my wife and we started to go to Hiram Newton’s but we met Rufus Withee and wife and we returned home and they with us on a visit. On this evening I took my one horse sleigh and carried my wife and Mr. Withee and his wife over to the Presbyterian meeting house and I paid 25 cts for my self and wife for admittance to hear Mr. Lessear lecture on electricity and phrenology and mesmerized his daughter and Geo P carried Charlotte E. and Belinda Pierce.
Friday: Today a snow storm and high wind and the roads drifted badly. Mr Withee and wife continued with us. Today I walked up to Mr. Russels to see how my son John F got through the drifts and storm going to school.
Saturday: I and my two sons shoveled snow on the highway, said Withee and wife continue with us.
Sunday: Today I walked up the road to inquire about roads being shoveled out.
Monday: On this morning Mr. Rufus Withee and wife started for home and I went with them one mile to see them over the drifts, and on this forenoon I and Geo P shoveled on the highway, and this afternoon we cleaned snow out of our buildings.
Tuesday: This afternoon I and my two sons walked over to the Presbyterian Church to an anti-rent meeting. Mr. Van Schooven, one of our senators, addressed the meeting.
Thursday: We chopped wood to the door, We have severe cold weather.
Saturday: Today I walked to the widow Anna Moffitt’s to appraise the property with Mr. Sylvester Webb to see the difference when Mr Everetts took the farm, the first day of March in 1842. I took dinner to Everett’s but I got no pay today.
Friday, March 6: I took my cutter and carried my wife to Hiram Newton’s on a visit, and after dinner I rode to Randal A. Brown’s store to see the trial go on between Mr. Simeon Wylie and Stephen S. Kittle concerning a note said Kittle refused to pay. I stayed but a short time.
Saturday: I and John F. drew a load of wood from the swamp but the oxen crowded. Today Geo P. took his cutter and H. P. Wylie with him and went to Lanesborough fishing.
Early Morning Fire Leaves Six Homeless
By Doug La Rocque and Steve Bradley
Flames broke out around 4 am on Tuesday morning, April 23 at the Cold Spring Road home of the Retell family. [Read more…] about Raymertown/Grafton
Delgado Holds Town Hall At HFCS
By Doug La Rocque
19th District Congressional Representative Antonio Delgado took questions from an audience of slightly more than 50 people on Monday evening, April 22, as he held his second Rensselaer County Town Hall session in the auditorium of the Hoosick Falls Central School. Mr. Delgado opened the meeting by expounding upon his reaction to the recently released Mueller report on Russian interference with the 2016 Presidential election. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls
