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Rose Hewitt Celebrates 100 Years

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by Bea Peterson
Nineteen twelve was a leap year. It was the year the Titanic sank and the year Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. It was the year the fifth renewed Olympic Games opened in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the year Danny Thomas, Jose Ferrer, Jackson Pollock, Brian Nelson, David Astor, Pat Nixon, Sonja Henie, Foster Brooks, Perry Como, Sam Snead, Woody Guthrie, Julia Child, Gene Kelly, Pope John Paul I, Barbara Hutton, Lady Bird Johnson and Rose Hewitt were born.
And on Tuesday Rose celebrated her 100th birthday!
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Roy Hand Is Grand Marshal Of The Hoosick Falls St. Patrick’s Parade

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Roy Hand of East Hoosick was chosen to be the 2012 Grand Marshal of The Hoosick Falls St. Patrick’s Parade. Roy will lead the parade and will be honored at the Irish Festival after the parade.
Roy was born to Elizabeth Boose Hand and George Hand. Roy’s father George was the youngest of 9 children born to James and Mary Fitzpatrick Hand, who immigrated to the United States in the 1860s from the area of Kilkenny, Ireland.
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Hoosick Falls Seniors Hear About The Rescue Squad And Health Warning Signs

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by Bea Peterson
On Saturday, March 3, Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad President Bill Gaillard spent part of his afternoon talking with residents of the Wood Bridge and Wood Park apartments about the Squad and about stroke and heart attack warning signs.
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Hoosick Falls Police Blotter – February 19 to February 25, 2012

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Sunday, February 19 – Alarm drop Oak Mitsui, Mechanic Street
Open door on Lyman Street
Monday, February 20 – Assist Pittsfield, MA, Police Dept. with a reported larceny that occurred at WalMart in Pittsfield. They requested that Hoosick Falls PD check a residence on Hall Street
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St. Mary’s Academy Students Recognized For Cystic Fibrosis Work

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On Thursday, February 16, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Northeastern New York held its annual banquet to award outstanding volunteers within the region.
St. Mary’s Academy is proud to announce that two of their students, Jake Restino and Jonathan Kempf, were chosen for Outstanding Student Leadership.  [Read more…] about St. Mary’s Academy Students Recognized For Cystic Fibrosis Work

Spring Story Time At The Cheney Library

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The Cheney Library in Hoosick Falls will begin Spring Story Times on March 13 at 10 am in the Library. The Story Times are for pre-school children and their caregivers. This Spring the theme will be “Dream Big, Read!” It is taken from the 2012 New York State Summer Library Program for Early Literacy and includes such great favorites as Papa, Please Get the Moon For Me by Eric Carle and Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman. We will be doing related crafts and, of course, there will be snack time. Be sure to come and welcome Spring with some great stories.
The Cheney Library is open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 8 pm, Tuesday from 10 am to 5 pm, Friday from 11 am to 4 pm and Saturday from 8 am to 1 pm.