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Stephentown Town Board Action – In Good Financial Shape

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by David Flint
The Town of Stephentown ended the year 2012 in pretty good shape financially. Some of that was due to the weather. As Highway Superintendent Aldie Goodermote pointed out at the Town Board meeting Monday, “We had no winter.” That meant there was almost no overtime for the road crew. Town Supervisor Larry Eckhardt noted that there was $87,000 in the budget for payroll for snow removal but only about $53,000 was spent. Also payments from FEMA turned out to be a good bit higher than expected. And in the General Fund, Eckhardt said, receipts from the sales tax and the mortgage tax were considerably more than what was budgeted. For sales tax $250,000 was budgeted but $304,000 was received. For the mortgage tax $57,000 was budgeted and close to $92,000 was taken in. [Read more…] about Stephentown Town Board Action – In Good Financial Shape

Town Of Hoosick Organizational Meeting 2013

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The Hoosick Town Board met before their regular meeting on Monday, January 14, to hold the Organizational Meeting. They adopted the following:
Meeting Date: second Monday of the month at 7 pm at the Armory
Depositories: Key Bank and Pioneer Commercial Bank
Official Newspaper: The Cambridge Eagle; Alternate: Troy
Record
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HFCS Champion Teams Honored Over Weekend

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by Bea Peterson
Girls Soccer
On Saturday, January 19, the Hoosick Falls Central School’s  2012 Girls Soccer team gathered to celebrate one last time. The Immaculate Conception Church hall was decorated with poster size photos of each of the team’s seniors. There were championship banners on display and plenty of blue and white. Each senior had framed photos of the season next to her place at the head table. The sign that carried them through the season was prominently displayed. It said, “Dream it Believe it Achieve it!” And, of course, they did!
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Cancer Blog For Teens Launched As Part Of A Berlin Student’s Project

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submitted by Michael McCagg
Teens fighting cancer or who have been affected by the dreaded illness in some way now have an online place to blog and share their experiences. The American Cancer Society HopeClub blog was launched this week by the local chapter of the HopeClub and Tech Valley High School senior Ashley Moon, who created the blog as part of her senior project. The blog is available by going to http://teenstouchedbycancer.tumblr.com/.
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Harold S. Ford Jr.

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Petersburgh – Harold S. “Fordy” Ford Jr., 82, of Lower Newtown Road, Waterford, NY, died on Sunday, January 6, 2013, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, NY, surrounded by his loving family.  Born in Troy, he was the son of the late Harold S. Ford Sr. and Rosa M. Wright Ford.  Harold was educated in Berlin Schools and was a 1947 graduate of Berlin High School.
Harold had been employed as a truck driver for 21 years by the former Grand Union Co. in Waterford and retired due to disability in 1975. He was a member of the I.T.E.A. at the Grand Union. Harold was also a member of the Waterford United Methodist Church.
Harold struggled with MS for over 40 years, but his perpetual smile and positive attitude were noted by everyone who met him.
He was the husband of the late Carolyn Church Ford, who died in 1992. He is father of Camilla Goering and husband Robert of Fort Edward, NY, Jennifer Jessica Grozis and husband Chris of Waterford and the late Edward and Allison Ford. He is the brother of Jessie Deyoe of Tucson, AZ, Jeanette Ford of Roanoke, IN, Kathleen Lee Pinches and husband Warren of Stoughton, MA, and the late Roberta Cummings.  Other survivors include his grandchildren, Carolyn and James Goering and Cory, Cloé and Tanner Grozis, and his great-grandson, Xhanderr, as well as several nieces and nephews.  Harold was a patient for 14 years at the Rubin Dialysis Centers in Clifton Park, NY, and Troy and appreciated the loving care given to him by the staff.
Funeral services were held at Waterford United Methodist Church, Waterford, on Thursday, January 10.  Relatives and friends visited at the Philip J. Brendese Funeral Home on Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm. Interment followed in the Meadowlawn Cemetery in Petersburgh, NY.
Those who wish may make contributions to the Memorial Fund at the Waterford United Methodist Church or to the Rubin Dialysis Center in Clifton Park in care of the Philip J. Brendese Funeral Home, 133 Broad Street, Waterford, NY, 12188. To express your sympathy or share a treasured memory visit Brendesefuneralhome.com.

Elizabeth L. Wells

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Petersburgh – Elizabeth L. Wells, 91, of South Lake Avenue, Troy, NY, died Monday, January 21, 2013, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy after a brief illness.
Born in Petersburgh, NY, Mrs. Wells was the daughter of the late Ralph Babcock and the late Bessie Weaver Babcock and the wife of the late William Wayne Wells. A 1939 graduate of Hoosick Falls High School, she resided in Schenectady, NY, and Watervliet, NY, before moving to Troy in 1950.
Mrs. Wells was a homemaker and a member of Hope United Methodist Church in Eagle Mills, NY.
Survivors include a son, Glenn Wells of Waterford and his wife Susan Milstrey Wells, and two grandchildren, Victoria Lass of New Orleans, LA, and Raymond Milstrey of Scotia, NY. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Wells’s daughter, Lorraine Wells Lass, preceded her in death in 2001.
The funeral service is at the Bryce Funeral Home, Inc., 276 Pawling Avenue, Troy, on Friday, January 25, at 10 am with Rev. David Martin, pastor of Hope United Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will follow in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Petersburgh. Relatives and friends called at the funeral home on Thursday from 4 to 7 pm. For the guest book and service directions, visit www.brycefh.com.

Sheralyn C. Riggs

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Stephentown – Sherri Riggs, 61, passed away in the company of friends in Edgewood, NM, on Friday, January 11, 2013, after a valiant, three year struggle against cancer.
Sherri was born in Burlington, VT. She grew up in Williston, VT, and graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in Marine Biology. She participated in research in oyster farming in Maine while a UVM student.
After graduation, she returned to Maine to teach in the far north coastal area. Eventually she moved to Portland, OR, and worked there for a company that made medical testing equipment doing promotions and advertising before deciding she needed a little more sunshine in her life. She found the sun in New Mexico, where she designed and built her home and business in Edgewood.
Sherri loved photography, nature and creating something from nothing. She described herself as an artist rather than a scientist and indeed she was. Many landscapes and businesses bear witness to her artistry in metal with the myriad of gates, signs and landscape installations, each with her Chickadee signature hidden in the design. Sherri was featured in a book, Passion and Power: Metal Artists in the Western U.S., celebrating metal artists in 2010.
Sherri is survived by her mother, Christine Moffatt Riggs of South Burlington, VT, and two brothers, Terry and his wife Mary Lynn Conant Riggs of Fletcher, VT, and Gary and his wife Susan Bundy Riggs of Bakersfield VT. She is also survived by her sister, Dale Ila Riggs and her husband Don Miles of Stephentown, NY, as well as by numerous nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins around the country.
It was her wish to have her friends remember her with a joyous, life- celebrating gathering at her home and to consign her ashes to the winds. Her effervescent and free spirit should not be contained in just one place. We are confident that everywhere her essence comes back to earth will always be a place of peace, harmony and beauty.
A family gathering took place at the home of her brother Terry and his wife Mary Lynn on Sunday, January 13.
If one wishes to, remembrances may be made to an animal shelter of one’s choice. Her three dogs and two donkeys would surely appreciate it

Berlin Town Board Action – Gone South, Death On Bly Hollow Road And A Dog Law With Bite

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by Kieron Kramer
At the Berlin Town Board meeting on Thursday, January 10, Town Supervisor Rob Jaeger said that in “the next week or so” a sign will be posted on the door of the Town Hall on Main Street saying “Gone South.” All the Town officials seemed pretty excited on Thursday because the Town government is in the process of moving south into the former Berlin Lumber property on Route 22 in Cherry Plain which “in a week or so” will serve as the Berlin Municipal Center. “It’s exciting – the keys have been distributed to the department chairs,” Jaeger said. He announced that the Town Board workshop on January 24 will be held in the new complex at 7 pm; tables and chairs will be set up.
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