The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

steve bradley

Boys Basketball

By

Hoosick Falls 13 1 8 5 27

Hoosic Valley 14 6 14 16 50

Sat., 3/13. With leading scorer Jake Sparks out due to being near another person who tested Covid positive, the Hoosick Falls Panthers struggled to find points. After holding their own in the first quarter, the Panthers scored 14 points over the final three quarters. Isaiah Eckler scored 18 for Hoosic Valley, including four three-pointers, while Logan Reilly scored 14 points, including three three-pointers in the third quarter. Hoosic Valley won the JV game,  55-43.

Dylan Baker dribbles out of trouble and on to the hoop during play at Hoosic Valley Central on Saturday. Photo by Steve Bradley.

Tamarac 6 14 20 17 57

Fort Plain 11 16 15 23 65

Sat., 3/13. Zachary Rice scored 28 points to lead the way for the Bengals to grab this close game win. Robert Jordan scored 23 points for Fort Plain.

Tamarac 18 22 22 14 76

Greenwich 8 5 16 10 39

Sat., 3/11.Tamarac’s James Blake erupted for 25 points and Patrick Mainello added 18 to lead the Bengals to the win. Jesse Kuzmich scored 14 for the Witches.

The Life Of George Holcomb

By

School’s Out, And It’s Maple Syrup Season

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Monday March 11, 1850: This forenoon I and Geo P. went with oxen and sled over across by Philander Hatches on to West Hill to Mr. Horton’s to get a load rye straw and he would not let me have any unless I would take the short headings and I would not take it. We called to Mr. Ezekiel Knapp’s and got a load of eighty one bundles and paid one dollar and 62½ and this afternoon Geo P. took the one horse wagon and carried 4½ bushel ears corn to Hancock Village mill and left to be ground to feed his fat sheep and I sent 20 cts to buy book to put with 80 cts worth small books that we had bought to Pittsfield, all for John F. to give his scholars the last day of school. This afternoon I tended to carrying up hams to H.P. Wylie’s and put in his smoke house to be smoked, and fetched away some that was smoked.

Tuesday: This forenoon I and Geo P. went into my Rodgers swamp with the ox team and sled and chopped three small pine trees and drew home and this afternoon I dug out pine sap troughs.

Wednesday: I made pine sap troughs and began to soak barrels and pails for sap. Today John F. school is out.

Friday: I and John F. and Rensselaer Sheldon this forenoon tapped 31 sap trees and got a load of wood.

Saturday: I and John F. tapped sap trees and we gathered over three barrels of sap. Today Geo P. and his two sisters returned home from Sand Lake. While Geo P. was to Sand Lake he went to Troy and stayed to Orra Holcomb’s one night, he got his miniature taken and paid one dollar and 50 cents set in a frame, and he got boosums to Bennett’s and collars to Valkenburgh for our people and others to make.

Tuesday: We gathered two half barrels sap and boiled sap and John F. boiled sap all night. Tonight Geo P. taken quite unwell.

Monday: Today quite a snow storm. I and John F. boiled sap and we drew three loads of wood out of the meadow that Patrick chopped when he worked for us.  Today Geo P. is quite unwell and we sweat him and give him phisic.

This forenoon I and Geo P. went into my Rodgers swamp with the ox team and sled and chopped three small pine trees and drew home and this afternoon I dug out pine sap troughs.

Wednesday: I made pine sap troughs and began to soak barrels and pails for sap. Today John F. school is out.

Friday: I and John F. and Rensselaer Sheldon this forenoon tapped 31 sap trees and got a load of wood.

Saturday: I and John F. tapped sap trees and we gathered over three barrels of sap. Today Geo P. and his two sisters returned home from Sand Lake. While Geo P. was to Sand Lake he went to Troy and stayed to Orra Holcomb’s one night, he got his miniature taken and paid one dollar and 50 cents set in a frame, and he got boosums to Bennett’s and collars to Valkenburgh for our people and others to make.

Sunday: We gathered two half barrels sap and boiled sap and John F. boiled sap all night. Tonight Geo P. taken quite unwell.

Monday: Today quite a snow storm. I and John F. boiled sap and we drew three loads of wood out of the meadow that Patrick chopped when he worked for us.  Today Geo P. is quite unwell and we sweat him and give him phisic.

Stephentown

By

Renowned WII Educator to Teach Course at Stephentown Memorial Library

“The Battle of Britain” is free and open to the public

 Stephentown, NY, March 10, 2021 — On March 31 and April 7 at 6:30 p.m., renowned educator and World War II historian Greig Seidor will offer a two-part class on the Battle of Britain, a pivotal event in the war and the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. [Read more…] about Stephentown