Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
Board Refuses to Sign Consent Agreement With DEC On Landfill Cleanup
by Alex Brooks
The Petersburgh Town Board meeting began with one member missing, as Jack Barnhill had a “business emergency” which kept him from attending the meeting. [Read more…] about Petersburgh Town Board
First Draft Of Budget Is Out
by Alex Brooks
Hoosick Falls School Business Administrator Emily Sanders released a first draft of next year’s school budget at the School Board Meeting on February 13. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Central School
Native Moss
Fork-Mosses (Dicranum) is a genus of mosses with 27 species. Identifying the species requires a microscope and a moss expert. [Read more…] about Outdoors With Trix
Cambridge 21 2 13 6 42
Hoosick Falls 17 12 11 20 60 [Read more…] about Boys Basketball
Sweet Treats
By Amy Modesti
Valentine’s Day brings roses, chocolate candies, romantic dinners, and 50 cent ice cream cones from Stewart’s Shops – and – home-made chocolate covered strawberries from the Berlin Free Town Library. [Read more…] about Berlin
Hoosick Falls 10 11 14 7 42
Hoosic Valley 7 11 6 19 43 [Read more…] about Girls Basketball
An Olympian Performance By Berlin Students
Submitted by Amanda Hayes
On Saturday February 8, Berlin Middle-High School competed in the Capital Region Science Olympiad at Hudson Valley Community College. [Read more…] about Berlin High School
Town Board Approves Landfill Consent Order
By Doug La Rocque and Amy Modesti
For nearly two years the towns of Berlin and Petersburgh, through their environmental attorney Kevin Young, have been negotiating with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), over how to handle the PFOA contaminated leachate running out of the landfill the two towns shared until it was closed in the mid-1990s. [Read more…] about Berlin
Controversial Valley Avenue Apartment Proposal Withdrawn
DOT Says Yes To Another Traffic Light On Hoosick Road
By Doug La Rocque
When developer David Leon first proposed building a 202-unit apartment complex on land he owns behind Planet Fitness, and located off Hillcrest Avenue in Brunswick, it ignited a firestorm with residents in that area, and many others who were concerned about its impact on Hoosick Road (NYS Route 7) traffic, already described by many, including town officials, as a mess. [Read more…] about Brunswick
Cambridge Central junior Lilly Phillips, center, stands with her parents, Edith and Bob Phillips, after the game where she scored the 1,000th point of her career. [Read more…] about Lilly Phillips Joins 1,000 Point Club
