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Boys Basketball

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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

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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.

Hoosick Falls

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Review Of Village Police Department Is Complete

A Civilian Review And Reform Board Is Recommended

by Doug La Rocque

It is very important to note that even though the Police Review Committee is asking that a CRRB be established, their report found little to criticize with the Village Police Department; in fact the report had a very positive tone. The CRRB request is more in the line of helping to keep it that way. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls

Grafton

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New Tri-Town Ambulance Proposal Laid Out

Squad’s Board Of Directors Rejects Contract

by Doug La Rocque

Shortly after the Grafton Rescue Squad’s Board of Directors told the Monday, March 8 meeting of the Grafton Town Board they had decided to reject the proposed contract between the organization and the Towns of Grafton, Berlin and Petersburgh to provide a paid daytime ambulance service between 6 am and 6 pm Monday through Friday, Rescue Squad Captain Joe Allain rose to lay out a new plan. [Read more…] about Grafton

Berlin

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Berlin

Local TV News Has Nothing On These Kids

Submitted by the Berlin CSD Communications Department

Each month Berlin Elementary School (BES) Principal Tracy Kent and the school’s Character Education Committee choose a mindset theme for the students and staff. February’s mindset was “I am humble.” [Read more…] about Berlin