Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
by Kieron Kramer
Experience can empower or it can enslave. It keeps you from repeating your mistakes, it guides you when approaching a new task and it informs you of what can be done or it can wall you in. So breadth of experience is most important. Without breadth of experience one can be locked into a narrow solution of a problem and not be able to, as the saying goes, think outside the box. [Read more…] about New Lebanon Wants New Municipal Building
Exercise Your Right To Vote
by Bea Peterson
The candidates for election in Hoosick Falls on Wednesday, March 18, are a shoo-in. They are all Progressive Party candidates, and they are running unopposed. The Taxpayer Party did not put up a slate this year. That is no reason not to go to the polls. [Read more…] about Four Run Unopposed In Hoosick Falls Election
by Alex Brooks
The Town of Berlin Comprehensive Plan Committee held its kickoff public meeting on March 9, at which it introduced itself and the consultants from C.T. Male Associates who will be working on the project and gave a general overview of the process that will lead to a formal comprehensive plan being written and adopted by the Town.
Stephentown – Richard Frederick Brown, 64, a lifelong resident of Stephentown, NY, died on Sunday, March 8, 2009, at the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Philadelphia, PA, due to complications from pancreatic cancer.
Berlin – Ralph Otis Oakes, Jr., 46, of Satterlee Hollow Road in Berlin, NY, died on Thursday, March 5, 2009, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, NY, after being stricken on his way to the hospital.
New Lebanon – Donald A. Quinn, Jr., 66, formerly of New Lebanon, NY, died on Monday at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, NY, after a long illness. He had been residing at Evergreen Nursing in Plattsburgh and at Green Manor Nursing in Ghent, NY.
Stephentown – Freling S. Smith died peacefully at home on March 4, 2009. Born on November 30, 1915, in New York City, he was the son of Freling H. and Minnie Allen Smith. Mr. Smith attended the Collegiate School in Manhattan and Rollins College. As a young man, he moved to Stephentown, NY, where he farmed and where he raised his family.
by Alex Brooks
The Berlin Volunteer Fire Company held its Annual Installation Banquet on Saturday evening, February 28, celebrating 105 years of service since its inception in 1904.
by Bea Peterson
On Saturday, February 28, the Hoosick Falls Fire Department held its Annual Banquet and Installation of Officers at the firehouse. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Fire Dept. Installation
by Bea Peterson
On Tuesday evening, March 3, the Town of Hoosick Board met for a workshop to review the Town of Hoosick Land Use proposal. They began at 6:30 pm and reviewed the document page by page, clarifying passages among themselves and making minor changes until 8 o’clock. They then moved on to other Town business until 9:15.
Seven people, unhappy with the entire proposal, occasionally offered comments. [Read more…] about Hoosick Town Board To Vote On Land Use Regulations Monday
