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St. Rose Champion Coach Is Speaker At HF Girls Soccer Banquet

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by Bea Peterson
NCAA Division II 2011 Coach of the Year Laurie Darling Gutheil was the guest speaker at the HFCS Girls Soccer banquet on Sunday, January 29. This year Gutheil coached her St. Rose women’s soccer team to the school’s first ever National Championship in Division 2. Their record was 24-1-1. She said her team was focused from day one.
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Troop 65 Sells Chili To Raise Money For The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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Once again Boy Scouts from Troop 65 will be selling their homemade chili in front of the Grand Union in Hoosick from 10 am to 2 pm on Super Bowl Sunday, February 5. Treat yourself to a fresh bowl of chili complete with cornbread and all the fixin’s for only $7. All proceeds will be donated to the Northeastern NY Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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Nancy L. Mroz

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Berlin – Nancy L. Saunders Church Mroz, 56, of Park Avenue, Berlin, NY, died on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at Albany Medical Center after a long illness.
Born July 7, 1955, in Troy, NY, she was the daughter of the late Murry R. and Edna Weaver Saunders Sr. She was the wife of Michael R. Mroz, whom she married in Adams, MA, on Valentine’s Day 1998. A 1973 graduate of Berlin Central High School, she was a former member of the Petersburgh United Methodist Church.
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Gregory E. Stevens

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Grafton Stephentown – Gregory E. Stevens, 54, of Middle Way, Grafton Stephentown, NY, died on Tuesday morning, January 31, 2012, at his residence, under the care of Community Hospice of Rensselaer County.
Born in Ayer, MA, on October 8, 1957, he was the son of the late Earl A. Stevens and Luanne James Stevens of Petersburgh, NY. He was the loving husband of Cheryl A. Gundrum Stevens, whom he married on December 19, 1987, in Grafton.
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Nicole St. Onge Goes To Washington DC

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by Aelish Nealon and Bea Peterson
“It’s important that the voices of today’s teens are heard, and it’s even more important that we are given a chance to make a change in the world that we will eventually be taking care of. Beginning with Project Ignition and other youth-led programs, we are given an opportunity to improve our hometowns and the issues we can all relate to in one way or another, as well as a chance of making life safer for future generations, not just for our lives today.”
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