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Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Hoosick Falls

Do Good; Have Fun; Go For A Spin!

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The HFCS PTA invites you and your family to join them “as they put the ‘fun’ back in fund raising” with The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom Annual SPRING SPIN: One Good Turn to Benefit Another. For each ticket sold, the PTA earns $5 and that allows you to attend any opening day in May – 12 in all.
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New Life For The Elks Club Building In Hoosick Falls

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by Bea Peterson
Terry McGuire, owner of Artistic Hair Designs has always wanted to open a spa in Hoosick Falls. “It’s been a dream for a long time,” she said. “And when opportunity knocks, you take advantage of it, because it doesn’t knock twice in the same spot.” Business partner Kimberly Revet began operating Nirvana Day Spa from Terry’s building a year ago. The atmosphere at the neat brick Elm St. location is warm, friendly… and crowded. The two women had been talking for some time about finding a new location. “I’m tired of looking out my window and seeing crumbling buildings with broken windows and graffiti,” said Terry. So, when the two learned the price of the Elks Club on Church St. had been drastically reduced, they jumped at the chance to purchase it. The purchase price was $38,500.
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Ward Stone Featured At Outdoor Expo

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by Bea Peterson
Hoosick Falls Central School held its Second Annual Outdoor Expo March 26 and 27. On Friday elementary students, armed with colorful questionnaires asking them to find birds, animals and information, scrambled past the many exhibits that filled the high school gymnasium. For every correct answer they checked off, they received a stamp on their paper at that exhibit. [Read more…] about Ward Stone Featured At Outdoor Expo

Sunny Skies For Lions Club Penny Hunt

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by Bea Peterson
The air was chilly, but the bright sun sparkled on the new pennies tossed in the air by members of the Hoosick Lions Club on Saturday, March 27. The Easter Bunny attended the event and was greeted with lots of hugs, posing for pictures with several youngsters. This was the 53rd annual Penny Hunt sponsored by the Club. Grandparents remember bringing their children to the event and now they watch their grandchildren participate in it. Great fun!
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First Place Winners From St. Mary’s Meet Odyssey Founder Sam Micklus

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St. Mary’s Academy’s eighth grade Odyssey of the Mind team competed in the state finals at SUNY Binghamton last weekend after winning first place in the Division II balsa wood engineering regional competition last month. The St. Mary’s team scored a shared third place in the spontaneous problem solving portion of the state competition. The winning eighth grade team includes Libby Cass, Maggie Murdock and Erin Murdock of Stephentown, Anthony Chapones, Alyssa Giordano and Alex LaBarge of Hoosick Falls and Nate Winchester of Cambridge, NY.
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