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Walter A. Wood High School Alumni Assn. Annual Dinner

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The Walter A. Wood High School Alumni Association will hold its annual dinner on Saturday, June 12, at the Pittstown Volunteer Emergency Corps building on Parker Road, Pittstown off Route 7.  Dinner will be served at 12:30 pm.  Reservations are due by June 2.  If you did not receive a letter, and would like to attend, please call Marge George at 686-7283 or Janice Tate at 686-7036.

HFCS PTA Book Fair

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The Hoosick Falls Central School PTA will host a Scholastic Book Fair and ice cream social on June 2 from 6 to 8 pm in the elementary school cafeteria. The annual event is intended to increase literacy among students and raise funds to purchase books for the elementary school library.  Families, teachers and the community are invited to attend the Book Fair, featuring a fun theme – Book Fair Diner: All You Can Read!
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Carwash To Raise Money For The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life

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The members of Team Hathaway’s Electric of the Bennington County Relay for Life will be sponsoring a car wash for $ 5 per vehicle at the Stewart’s Store in Hoosick at the intersection of Rtes. 7 and 22 on Saturday, May 29, from 9 am to 1 pm.  They will also be selling handmade blue bird houses made by Richard Okerman.
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26th Annual Hoosick Lions Club 5k Road Race

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by Bea Peterson
The weather Saturday morning, May 22, was perfect for the 26th Annual Hoosick Lions Club 5K Road Race. About 50 runners and walkers took off from Munsell St., across Abbott, down Classic, through Harter Lane to Wilder and then onto Main St. up to the Cemetery and back down Main. [Read more…] about 26th Annual Hoosick Lions Club 5k Road Race

HACA Receives Appreciation Award

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by Bea Peterson
HACA Volunteer Coordinator Dianne Hosterman and HACA itself received a very pleasant surprise at their Volunteer Appreciation Brunch on Saturday, May 15. Lorraine Brownell and Nortica Scholis of the Hoosick Falls First Baptist Church presented a check to Dianne and HACA for $9,845 to be used toward the mortgage on the HACA building on lower John St. [Read more…] about HACA Receives Appreciation Award

Support Needed For Veterans Memorial Wall

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The Hoosick Falls Veterans Memorial Wall Committee announced recently that the second phase to raise funds for completion of the Veterans Memorial Wall in Wood Park is now underway.
The projected cost for the Wall is $45,000. The first phase of the project has been completed at a cost of $10,000 which was funded by donations and in-kind services. Efforts are now underway to raise the remaining $35,000 which will cover the cost of six bronze plaques listing the names of all Hoosick area Veterans, installation and landscaping.  [Read more…] about Support Needed For Veterans Memorial Wall