To the Editor:
More people should make an attempt to go to the Berlin Town Board meetings. I admit that I was one of those people who voted people into office and assumed that they would do what was best for the town. I kept up with what was happening through the Eastwick Press. Then I decided it was time to go and support our town supervisor. He has put his whole heart into trying to improve the quality of this town. The other board members seem to want to keep everything the way it has been for years.
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Capital District Friday Field Group Outings
The Capital District Friday Field Group is a mix of amateur and professional naturalists formed in 1994 that meets weekly on Fridays at 5:30 pm between April and September to explore natural features of sites in the Capital Region. The trips are free and all are welcome. Upcoming trips of the group in Rensselaer County planned for the 2011 season, all on the Rensselaer Plateau, include:
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Berlin Seventh Day Baptist Church – Where’s Waldo?
submitted by Sherry Bowman-Kluck
A group of adolescents with the Berlin Seventh Day Baptist Church’s Youth Group had the opportunity to spend the afternoon of March 26 at the Crossgates Mall in Albany. But it was no ordinary trip to the mall. The excursion involved playing the game Where’s Waldo? The game book series stars Waldo, a curious little guy wearing glasses, dressed in a red and white striped shirt with a matching hat, who uses a walking stick and backpack to travel everywhere.
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Berlin Town Board Action, Part Two – The Rest Of The Story
by Kieron Kramer
The Berlin Town Board held its April regular meeting on April 14 in the Berlin Fire House. Overflow attendance caused the move from the Town Hall because it only has an official capacity of 50. Aside from the important decision the Board took to disapprove the contract to purchase the Berlin Lumber property for use as a municipal center, plenty of less controversial business took place. Here is the rest of the story.
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Letter To The Editor – Berlin Lumber – A Reflection
To the Editor:
I offer my apologies to the voters of the Town of Berlin.
How naive I was to think that after the majority of the voters on the 19th of July 2010 voted to purchase the Berlin Lumber property that the Board would not follow their decision.
Instead my fellow Board members banded together to follow their own vision of what the Town should be. This was driven by their desire to prevent the Highway Superintendent from having a better facility from which to provide service to the townspeople.
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Two Locals On TVHS Teams In Regional Envirothon
Two Tech Valley High School teams competed in the regional Envirothon competition on April 28.
Twelve students divided equally on the teams will head to the New York State Power Authority’s Visitor Center at Lansing Manor in Blenheim to compete against other schools from throughout the region.
If they win – as they have done in each of the last three years – they will advance to the state competition in June at Keuka College. The results were not known by press time.
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Cherry Plain Youth Gets First Jake On Youth Hunt Weekend; Spring Turkey Season Opens May 1
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens recently reminded hunters that the 2011 spring turkey season opens on May 1 in all of upstate New York lying north of the Bronx-Westchester County boundary. The annual Youth Turkey Hunting Weekend was April 23-24.
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James A. Ayres
Berlin – James A. “Jay” Ayres, 41, of Route 22, Berlin, NY, died suddenly at his residence on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
Born April 23, 1969, in Newton, NJ, he was the son of the late William Ayres and Patricia Sinclair Ayres-Fackler and her husband Frank of Staplesville, NC. He was the husband of the former Patricia T. “Tish” Kaplafka, whom he married on August 7, 1994, in New Jersey.
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The Berlin Municipal Center Is Dead
by Kieron Kramer
The divisive debate that has haunted the Town of Berlin is over. The grand plan for the use of the defunct Berlin Lumber property as a municipal center, beaten to death over the last 22 months, is now dead and buried. In spite of a referendum on July 19, 2010, that approved of the expenditure for the project out of the Capital Reserve fund by a vote of 186 to 137, three members of the Berlin Town Board, Jim Saunders, Sheila Hewitt and Becky Giumarra, voted against proceeding with the purchase at the decisive Town Board meeting on April 14. Town Supervisor Rob Jaeger, who conceived of the plan for the municipal center, voted to continue the purchase process. The only thing good about the vote is that the torturous arguing is finally over.
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Community Farmers Market Meeting
The first vendor meeting of Our Valley Community Farmers Market (OVCFM) will be held on April 29 at 6:30 pm at the Seventh Day Baptist Church on North Main Street, Berlin. Open to all interested vendors, the meeting will include an overview of OVCFM’s handbook and marketing efforts as well as location and layout, the finalization of market hours, a look at “Opening Day” activities and any questions from vendors.
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