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Stephentown Town Board Action – Special Meetings, Action On Budget Postponed

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by David Flint
The Stephentown Town Board has appointed Bill Jennings to serve out the term of a Board seat left vacant last year after Larry Eckhardt was elected Town Supervisor. Learning that Board Members Mark Prescott and PJ Roder would not be available to participate in the regular November Board meeting scheduled for this past Monday, which would mean no quorum, the Board called a special meeting on Sunday and appointed Jennings to serve until the end of the year. In January he will begin serving the term to which he was elected on November 2.
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Pittstown Historical Society Receives Grant For National Register Farmstead Documentation

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by Bea Peterson
On Monday afternoon, November 8, Erin Tobin, the Preservation League Regional Director of Technical and Grant Programs in western New York presented the Pittstown Historical Society with a Grant for $7,500. This grant will support the preparation of a National Register Multiple Resource Documentation Form for historic Pittstown farmsteads and may get recognized buildings on the National Historic Register. A majority of the documented farmstead owners attended the meeting in the Historic Barns of Nipmoose in Buskirk.
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Lillis J. Bunce

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Grafton – Lillis J. Bunce died Wednesday, November 3, 2010, at Crofton Care and Rehabilitation Center in Crofton, MD, at the age of 90. Born Lillis Adele Jackson on August 5, 1920, in Greene, NY, she was the daughter of Harold Wallace Jackson and Theo Preston Jackson. She graduated from Auburn East High School, Auburn, NY, in 1938 and from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, in 1942 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology. She worked in a hospital laboratory in East Orange, NJ, until her marriage to Stanley Chalmers Bunce in 1944.
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Liesel Nussbaum Gottschalk

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Hoosick Falls – Liesel Nussbaum Gottschalk, age 90, of Niskayuna, NY, succumbed to cancer on Friday, November 5, 2010.
Born in Germany during November 1919, Liesel Gottschalk grew up living above the retail fabric and clothing store owned and operated by her parents in Neustadt, Germany. In 1938, Liesel fled alone to Manchester, England, to live with relatives and escape from the Nazis until she was allowed to immigrate to the US in 1940.
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