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Taconic Valley Youth Basketball Awards Night

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by Sherry Bowman-Kluck
On Tuesday, March 5, the Petersburgh Veteran’s Memorial Community Center was alive with excitement. Approximately 80 young basketball players of the area, along with their families, were geared up for their annual awards night. There wasn’t an empty seat in the place, and there was plenty of jovial chatter besides.
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Berlin Free Town Library Plant Sale

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The Berlin Free Town Library announces its spring plant sale.  Support the Library by purchasing Shamrock plants (oxalis) in four and a half inch pots. The sale will run the week of March 11- 16, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.

Local Students To Travel To China

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Several students from Tech Valley High School will travel to China later this year as the school continues its partnership with a high school there.
The TVHS students will travel to Beijing and Tianjin, China with their counterparts from the Schoharie Central School. The delegation will leave the U.S. on March 29 and return April 6. While in Tianjin, the students will visit TVHS sister school Tianjin High School No. 41 as well as Schoharie sister school Tianjin High School No. 13.
“The students will undertake the most authentic way of learning the Chinese language and culture that China has to offer – by experiencing it,” said TVHS Mandarin Chinese teacher Sophia Hsia.
They will also visit the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and other cultural landmarks in Beijing and surrounding areas.
It’s the fourth year TVHS students have traveled to China. TVHS also hosts a delegation from Tianjin each year.
Local students traveling to China for TVHS are junior Elizabeth Cass from Berlin and sophomore Madeleine Welty from Averill Park.

Woods And Wildlife Workshop

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“Caring for Your Woods and Wildlife” is a day long workshop for forest owners held at Tamarac High School in Brunswick, on Saturday, March 16. There will be seven presentations on a variety of topics in the morning, followed by a woods walk in the afternoon. The talks will be geared toward issues and concerns of woodland owners in the Rensselaer Plateau area. Speakers from the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, the Hudson River Estuary Program and the Cornell Cooperative Extension will cover topics including wildlife ecology, forest regeneration, streamside management, woodland transfer and how to develop a forest management plan.
The afternoon walk in a nearby forest will give attendees the opportunity to see how some of the management topics can be applied in their woods. The workshop is sponsored by the Hudson River Estuary Program and the Cornell Cooperative Extension Biodiversity Program Work Team, with endorsement by the Rensselaer Plateau Alliance, Greene and Rensselaer County Cooperative Extension and the Capital District Chapter of the NY Forest Owners Association.
The $15 fee covers refreshments, lunch and an information packet. To register by March 9 online or to print a mail-in registration form, go to www2.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/pwt/bio/.   For more information, email Kristi Sullivan at kls20@cornell.edu.

Celebrating BCS High School Artists

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In March At The Berlin Free Town Library
The Berlin High School Art Department is proud to present a sample of student artwork to the Berlin Community. The Second Annual Student Art Show at the Berlin Free Town Library will run from March 6 to the 28th. The media featured will be drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and graphic arts.
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New Hours At The Berlin Community Food Closet

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Effective March 1, the Berlin Community Food Closet (BCFC) will operate during new hours. The BCFC will be open from 11 am until 12 pm on the first Friday and the last Monday of each month. People in need of food assistance other times throughout the month should phone BCFC Coordinator Trisha Gerstel at 658-3769 to make arrangements for a pick up.
Housed at the Berlin Seventh Day Baptist Church’s Maxson Fellowship Hall on North Main Street, the BCFC provides in-need individuals and families with complete meals of breakfast, lunch and dinner for three days. More information about the Food Closet is available on the Church’s website at http://www.berlinsdb.org/.

Berlin Town Board Action – Berlin Receives $30k Grant

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by Kieron Kramer
Near the end of the Berlin Town Board meeting on Thursday, February 14, Town Justice Joe Rechen announced, on his behalf and on behalf of Town Justice Don Sweet, that Berlin will receive $30,000 from the Office of Court Administration for renovations to the Justice Court area of the new municipal facility in Cherry Plain. The Berlin Justices had just received the notice. “The “check is in the mail,” Rechen said. He went on to say that this amount was the maximum entitlement Berlin could receive and was the full amount for which the Justices had applied.
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