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Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

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Buy Your Raffle Tickets For The 10th Annual HFCS PTA Fall Festival!

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The HFCS PTA Fall Festival 2010 is just around the corner! Come spend time with your family playing games and doing craft activities while shopping for all kinds of great gifts – from pies to puppets, from jams to jewelry, from soaps to sweets, from T-shirts to toys! You’ll also have great fun at our cake walk, the Haunted Hall, build-your-own Animaland buddy and much more!
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Hundreds Turn Out For Walk To Prevent Suicide

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by Bea Peterson
On Sunday evening, October 3, the crowd of all ages, from families with youngsters in strollers, to teens, to seniors, kept growing and growing as people gathered for the first annual Community Walk to Prevent Suicide. This year the walk was in memory of two HFCS teens. Joe Sweeney took his life about six months ago. Tyler Marcoux’s death was very recent. [Read more…] about Hundreds Turn Out For Walk To Prevent Suicide

Cherry Plain Cell Tower On Schedule

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by David Flint
“Everything is on target” with the Cherry Plain cell tower, according to landowner Doug Goodermote. Despite earlier reports that work on the project had ground to a halt because of a legal matter concerning the proposed source of gravel for the access road, Goodermote and the tower builder both say that the work has been and is proceeding on schedule. Goodermote noted that Tim Giumarra Logging & Excavating was busy on Wednesday, despite the rain, working on the access road and digging a foundation for the tower.
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Semi-Pro Football Comes To Hoosick Falls

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The Storm Rolls Through
by Bea Peterson
Sunday, October 3, a New England Football Semi-pro League playoff game between the Rampage of Central Vermont and the Southern Vermont Storm was held at the HFCS Ken Baker Field. The Storm is made up of players from Bennington, Fair Haven, Jacksonville, Manchester, Pownal and Sandgate, VT, Lanesborough, North Adams and Williamstown,  MA, and Johnsonville, Troy, Shushan and Valley Falls, NY. It is also made up of Alex Hansen, Jeffery Hunt, Sean Lennon, Shawn Morrison, Warren O’Grady, Don Skott, Gregg Stroffoleno and Francis Tilley, III of Hoosick Falls and William Telford of White Creek.
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