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Samantha Brewer Receives Girl Scout Gold Award

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by Bea Peterson
In a ceremony on Sunday, June 2, at the First Church United, Presbyterian, Samantha Brewer received the highest award in Girl Scouting, the coveted Gold Award. Only 5.49 percent of Girl Scouts achieve this honor. Samantha was congratulated by family and friends, officers of the Fremasonry-Van Rensselaer Star Lodge #400, Hoosick Grange #1127, the Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club, the West Hoosick Fire Department, the Town of Hoosick Lions Club, the Hoosick Falls Community Band, Rensselaer County Legislators Stan Brownell and Lester Goodermote and Hoosick Town Supervisor Keith Cipperly. She also received congratulatory letters from NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
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Top Ten Seniors Of The Class Of 2013 At HFCS

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submitted by Jessica Balch, 10-12 Guidance Counselor
Hoosick Falls Jr./Sr. High School is proud to announce the Top Ten Seniors of the Class of 2013. The Valedictorian is Jason Woods, son of Robert and Mary Beth Woods, of Eagle Bridge. In his years at Hoosick Falls, Jason was a member of National Honor Society, Varsity Soccer, Newspaper and Masterminds. In the fall, Jason will attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and major in Computer Science.
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BCS 2013 National Honor Society And Junior Honor Society Induction Ceremony

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submitted by Sherry Bowman-Kluck
On Monday evening, May 13, the Berlin Central School District recognized its current student members of the Taconic Valley National Honor Society/Junior Society and celebrated the new students being inducted into the Honor Society/Junior Society.
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Columbia County DA Declines To Prosecute SAFE Act Violation

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by David Flint
In New Lebanon Town Court on May 23 the Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka declined to prosecute a charge of violating New York’s new Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, known as the SAFE Act. Czajka told Judge Jessica Byrne he was not making any “blanket policy” but having reviewed the file and discussed the charges and surrounding circumstances with the arresting State Troopers, he had decided to “decline to prosecute the unlawful possession of the ammunition feeding device.”
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Tops Friendly Markets Grand Re-Opening

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by Bea Peterson
The former Grand Union in Hoosick Falls reopened on Tuesday, May 28, as Tops Friendly Markets. Tops, with markets in upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania and western Vermont, purchased 21 Grand Union stores in July 2012. The company has been making changes in each store to gradually transform them into Tops Markets. On Tuesday stores in Greenville, Hancock, Stamford, West Coxsackie and Tannersville, NY, held Grand Re-Opening celebrations similar to the one here.
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Two Stephentown Vets Nominated For Hall Of Fame

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by David Flint
At a ceremony at the Half Moon Town Hall on May 14 State Senator Kathleen Marchione recognized the service of 14 veterans from around the 43rd State Senate District. The occasion was to announce the Senator’s choice for induction into the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame. Nominated to represent the Veterans of Stephentown were World War II veterans Vincent Devlin and Franklyn Mooney.
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