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The Hoosick Falls Soccer Club has opened registration for the Spring 2009 Travel Season. The cost for early registration is $55. Registration can be completed online at www.hoosickfallssoccer.org. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Soccer Club News
The Chris’ Wish Committee is planning a Spaghetti Dinner to benefit Chris Luciano on Saturday, November 15, at the Immaculate Conception Church Hall. Chris was paralyzed from the waist down [Read more…] about Chris’ Wish Spaghetti Dinner
Legislators Stan Brownell and Lester Goodermote visited with 98 year old Marion Lohnes and presented her with a Proclamation from the Rensselaer County Legislature for receiving the Capital District Senior Issues Forum Lifetime Achievement Award. [Read more…] about Legislators Visit Lohnes
Hoosick Falls – Norma Brownell, 72, died Wednesday, October 29, 2008, at her residence on Saratoga Street in Hoosick Falls, NY. She had resided there with her husband Malcolm. [Read more…] about Norma Brownell
by Bea Peterson
No one attended the NYS mandated budget hearing held by the Hoosick Falls Joint Fire District on Wednesday, October 21. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Joint Fire District Budget To Increase By $36,000
by Bea Peterson
“It’s been almost three years!” said Andra Erickson. “I’d like to have done it sooner!” Erickson’s building suffered smoke and water damage in the fire that destroyed Dougherty’s Restaurant
on the corner of Main and John Streets in March 2006. Upsy Daisy and the adjoining cafe were repaired, but the corner lot remains a pile of rubble and the Main St. building has been vacant all this time.
“I didn’t expect repairs to the wall to take nine months,” said Erickson. Once that was finished, work began on the building. She is pleased with the work so far. “I’m so happy with how beautifully they brought the bay window back,” she said. She believes they have a couple more months of work to do. “They are doing a good job,” she added. When the building is finished it will have furnished apartments for rent on the second and third floors and “downstairs will be open to whatever it will be.”
Through it all, she said, the Village has been very cooperative. “We have applied for grants, but it takes time,” she added.
Erickson said she has no idea what is happening with the corner lot. “I am only interested in my property.”
The Hoosick Falls Police Explorer Post 5 is looking to increase the size of the Post with new members. Any young person, age 14 to 21, interested in a future career in law enforcement should attend an informational meeting on Tuesday, October 28, from 7 to 9 pm at the North Hoosick Fire Department on Route 22. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Police Explorer Post 5 Informational Meeting
Robert (Ski) and Phyllis Zakrzewski of Hoosick Falls celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Troy followed by a reception given by their children Karen and her husband Joseph Curran of Shaftsbury, VT, and Robert and Christine Zakrzewski, Jr. of Stillwater, NY, at the Elks Club in Troy.
Mr. and Mrs. Zakrzewski were married on October 25, 1958. 
They have five grandsons. Mr. Zakrzewski retired from the U.S. Navy in 1977 and the U.S. Postal Service in 2002. Mrs. Zakrzewski retired as a legal secretary from Holbrook and Johnston Law Office in Hoosick Falls in 2002.
