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Fill the Bus Food Drive October 7 -13

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by Samantha Brewer
The third annual Fill the Bus Food Drive, benefiting the Hoosick Area Church Association (HACA) Food Pantry will take place in Hoosick Falls from October 7 to the 13th. The students of Hoosick Falls Central School and St. Mary’s Academy are encouraged to bring food throughout the week. On Friday, October 11, at the HFCS Homecoming football game the bus will be open for the public to fill up. A raffle will be held this year at the football game for a 32” flat screen T.V.
On Sunday, October 13, from 9 am to 12 pm a truck will be parked on Main Street near the Baptist Church to collect food. Meanwhile the school bus will be at the Cow Plop Giveaway & Car Show being held at the Town of Hoosick Athletic Fields from 9 am to 3 pm.
The HACA Food Pantry serves the greater Hoosick Falls community by supplying food and toiletries to over 1,697 households per year. In 2012 42,273 meals were given to those in need, and that number keeps growing. This year the Food Pantry has served over 23,000 meals thus far and the holidays are quickly approaching. Please come celebrate Homecoming and support those in need at the same time by helping to Fill the Bus.

North Bennington Master Printmaker To Show at 120Gallery90

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The 120Gallery90 at The Armory in Hoosick Falls is proud to present a new exhibition featuring Recent Prints by Bennington printmaker Alexandra Eckhardt and new work by the Hoosick Artist Guild.
Eckhardt is the Design Director and full time artist at the Engraved Papers Collections for Cartier, North America. She has also worked with Cartier for many years as an engraving specialist.
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June I. McInerney

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Hoosick Falls – June I. McInerney, 91, of 27 Mechanic Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, passed away on Thursday, September 19, 2013, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, NY. Born June 7, 1922, in Vly Summit, NY, she was the daughter of Raymond and Emma O. (Brown) Allen. June was the wife of the late Gerard V. McInerney of Cambridge, NY.
Survivors include a son, Terry A. Kelley of Troy, a sister Dolores (Skiff) Grover of Troy, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren as well as nephews and nieces.
Services were held Monday, September 23, at the Stump Church Cemetery in Cambridge with the Rev. George H. Orlemann of Cambridge officiating.
Arrangements were under the guidance of the New Comer Cannon Funeral Home in Colonie, NY.

Storm Over Hoosick Falls

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by Bea Peterson
The Hoosick Falls Fire Department responds to 120 calls a year on average. On Thursday, September 12, they responded to ten percent of the calls they receive all year. “We’ve been watching these (thunder and lightning) storms all summer,” said Hoosick Falls Fire Chief Carlton Coon. “Most of them went all around us, but Thursday it was right on top of us.” [Read more…] about Storm Over Hoosick Falls