The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

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Berlin Youth 2 Youth Looking For Sponsors

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by Jordan Cahill
Berlin youth involved in the organization Youth 2 Youth Berlin hosted an event called Messy Games on Saturday, August 18, at the Berlin Middle/High School. Thirty-five teens from the surrounding community participated in this day full of fun events which all had the intention of getting them messy! The TRACs coalition sponsored this event and also sponsors the Youth 2 Youth Berlin organization in everything they do.
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Cheryl Roberts Candidate For NYS Assembly

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by Bea Peterson
On Sunday, August 26, more than three dozen people had an opportunity to visit with Cheryl Roberts at a “meet and greet” in West Hoosick. Roberts is an attorney with 20 years of experience in environmental law and nearly a decade in municipal law, and she is a former Town Court Justice.
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Jean M. Wheeler

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West Lebanon – Jean M. Drowne Wheeler, 66, of Schoolhouse Road, West Lebanon, NY, died early Monday morning August 27, 2012, surrounded by her loving family under the care of Community Hospice of Columbia-Greene.
Born January 27, 1946, in Troy, NY, she was the daughter of Molly Seaman Drowne of Chatham, NY, and the late Roland Drowne. She was the loving wife of Russell  I. Wheeler, whom she married on May 25, 1968, in the Brainard Methodist Church.
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Stephentown Town Board Action – Serious Complaints About The Music Festival

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by Thaddeus Flint
Monday was the first day after the Bella Terra music festival in Stephentown, but as the Stephentown Town Board heard at their monthly meeting that night, not all residents are feeling all that festive in its wake.
Town Supervisor Larry Eckhardt said that he had heard some complaints that the music continued until around 4:30 am Monday morning. He was under the impression that the festival was going to end around 10 pm Sunday night.
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Hoosick Planning Board Approves Recycling Facility And Dollar General Store

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by Bea Peterson
The Board reviewed the materials it had received from the Hoosick Zoning Board of Appeals regarding a scrap metal recycling facility planned for two of the original Bennington Paperboard buildings and the one mobile unit office located on Route 67 in Walloomsac.
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Grafton Planning Board Dodges A Bullet

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by Kieron Kramer
The expected brouhaha concerning Les McDermott’s proposal for a shooting range and gun store on his property at 303 Old Siek Road did not materialize at the Grafton Planning Board meeting on Monday, August 20. Only two of the people who spoke so vociferously at the public hearing last month were present, and there was no discussion about the shooting range. The reason for this turn of events was made clear at the beginning of the regular meeting when Planning Board Chairman Tom Withcuskey read a letter from McDermott withdrawing his site plan application “due to the recent personal and unfounded attacks on my character from my neighbors, or should I say, property owners.”
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