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The Berlin Free Town Library will host area musicians Karen Webster, Leslie Green and Martha von Schilgen for a special holiday concert on Sunday, December 14, at 3 pm at the Seventh Day Baptist Church on Main Street in Berlin.
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On Sunday, December 7, from 7 to 11 am, the Berlin Fire Department will be holding its monthly breakfast. [Read more…] about Berlin Fire Department Breakfast And Tree Lighting
On Wednesday, October 8, the Berlin Volunteer Fire Company visited Berlin Elementary School to present their annual Fire Prevention Program. [Read more…] about Fire Prevention Program At Berlin Elementary School
Jim Martinez, President of Hoosick Federal Credit Union, presented a donation to Isabel McGuire and Mary Donohue of the Hoosick Falls Central School Honor Society last week. [Read more…] about Hoosick Federal Credit Union Jump-Starts Christmas Wish
Registration for the 2009 Shatford Little League baseball season has begun! You can now register your child to play at our website, www.shatford.org. Please register your child soon as we hope to have teams set up as soon as possible. These will be the final walk-up registrations without a late registration fee.
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To the Editor,
Our class is doing a project. We live in Berlin, NH, and are wondering about other cities in the United States that are also called Berlin. [Read more…] about Letter To The Editor – From Berlin, NH
Berlin Elementary: An Unsafe Building?
Dear Editor,
I am a longtime resident of this area and a one-time School Board member for the Berlin School District. [Read more…] about Letter To The Editor – BCS Consolidation
Petersburgh Boy Scout Troop 222 will be selling wooden reindeer and sleighs on Sunday, November 30, and Sunday, December 7 from 10 am to 2 pm at the Bank of America parking lot in Berlin.
by Kieron Kramer
In a ceremony on Veterans Day in Afghanistan 1st Sergeant James Meltz of Cropseyville received a Bronze Star. The news hit the wires on Veterans Day here in the States. On Wednesday evening, November 12, at the meeting of the Rensselaer County Legislature, the Democrat Legislator who the Republican Legislators love to hate, Kevin Harrington of Averill Park, introduced a resolution as a late filing that honored Sgt. Meltz.
[Read more…] about County Legislature Delays Recognition Of Bronze Star Recipient
by Kieron Kramer
At its regular meeting on Thursday, November 13, the Berlin Town Board adopted the Berlin 2009 budget with $574,783 to be raised by taxes, a figure that includes the Fire District. This represents a 1.297% increase in the tax levy over last year. Without the Berlin Fire District appropriations the amount to be raised by taxes for the Town’s services alone would have represented a .3% decrease in property taxes.
