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Petersburgh Stolen Blind

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by Alex Brooks
Petersburgh Town Highway Superintendent Ray Harrison told the Town Board that someone has been stealing the Town blind of its emergency road markers. Four large “Road Closed” signs have been taken. It costs $340 each to replace them, and, in addition to that, hazardous roads are suddenly unmarked when someone takes away the “Road Closed” signs. The orange emergency marker cones have also been disappearing. Harrison said he has lost at least 50 of those since Hurricane Irene. These cost $38 apiece, and the special tall ones cost over a hundred. He has also lost 4 to 5 barrels which cost $150 each to replace.
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Grafton Planning Board Action – A Full House

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by Kieron Kramer
The agenda for the Grafton Planning Board meeting on Monday, November 21, was packed with four new subdivision applications to be considered and one application to be approved. Perhaps the extreme activity at this meeting was prompted just by the desire to tidy up these projects in the current fiscal year. Perhaps the applicants wanted to deal with this Board before the changing of the guard in January. In any event all four new applications were accepted for review and public hearings were scheduled for them.
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Hoosick Veterans Memorial Wall Dedicated

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by Bea Peterson
On Friday, November 11 (11/11/11) American Legion Post #40 and the members of the Veterans Wall Committee dedicated the new Veterans Memorial Wall in Wood Park. The event started at 11 am with the placing of wreaths in front of the new bronze plaques by veterans Ike Powers, Ed Gorman, Ben Nowik Frank Wilwol, Harold Bowen and Jim Cutler.
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Gallivan Buys Hoosick River Hardwoods

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by David Flint
Just a month after the sale of W.J. Cowee, LLC, the floral products company, to a Georgia firm, it has now been announced that the other Cowee company, that had become Hoosick River Hardwoods, has been acquired by Green Renewable, Inc. Green Renewable, according to their press release, is “a company focused on producing products for the heat and energy industries derived from renewable resources for a more sustainable future.”
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2011 Lady Panthers Are Regional Soccer Champions

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Hoosick Falls Takes Regional Title With a 5-0 Win Over Tupper Lake

by Gail Delurey and Bea Peterson

With the Regional Championship victory against Section X’s Tupper Lake on Friday, November 11, the Hoosick Falls Girls Soccer Team heads for the final four State championship this weekend in Cortland. The neat part about winning the Regional 5-0 was that every player on the Hoosick Falls team had time in that game.
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The Stealth BCS Capital Project

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by Thaddeus Flint
With a $6.8 million Capital Project coming up for referendum on December 13, the fact that not a word of it appeared on the agenda of the Berlin School District’s Board of Education meeting Wednesday, the last meeting before the vote, seemed a glaring omission.
Just as the meeting was coming to a close, resident and parent Julie Harrell took it upon herself to try to bring the plan’s existence into the realm of public consciousness. “Half the people in this valley don’t even know this is going on,” stated Harrell.
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Berlin Town Board Action – To Stop Or Not To Stop

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by Kieron Kramer
A petition with 121 signatures was presented to the Town Board at the Berlin Town Board meeting on Thursday, November 10. That’s a lot of signatures for a town as small as Berlin. According to Doug Goodermote, who presented the petition in a somewhat dramatic fashion during Highway Superintendent Jim Winn’s report, all the signatories are in favor of putting a stop sign on Watson Road where it intersects with Bly Hollow Road. Goodermote had brought up the issue of the stop sign at the last four meetings and finally decided to take matters into his own hands. [Read more…] about Berlin Town Board Action – To Stop Or Not To Stop