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Food For Fines At The New Lebanon Library

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Put your library fines to work for the community. During National Library Week, April 11-16, the New Lebanon Library will exchange food for fines.  Fines for overdue materials (regardless of amount) will be cleared from your record at a rate of one fine for one food item donated. Only overdue items – not lost or damaged items – are eligible.
Unopened and unexpired cans, jars, boxed and packaged foods are welcome. Perishable items cannot be accepted.
All food donations will be forwarded to Charlie’s Pantry for distribution to needy families in and around New Lebanon. So celebrate Thanksgiving by clearing your conscience and benefiting your community at the same time.

Reading And Book Signing At The New Lebanon Library

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On Thursday, April 14, at 7 pm New Lebanon author I. Alexander Olchowski will read from his book, The Commodity of Love, at the New Lebanon Library. The reading will be followed by Q&A, discussion and a book signing.
The novel is about a poet turned heart surgeon who convinces himself he has given all his love away, so he makes one desperate and extreme attempt to get it all back.
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Hannaford’s Hits DOT Roadblock; May Pull Out Of New Lebanon

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by Thaddeus Flint
This past week has been a troubling one for the concerned people of New Lebanon who have been struggling diligently these last fifteen months to lead their town out of the desert. Desert, in this case, not meaning a place of sand and camels, but “food desert,” a term somebody somewhere coined to aptly describe an all too common phenomenon these days in the United States – towns with little or no access to fresh healthy food such as fruit and vegetables. New Lebanon found itself listed among the great American food deserts of Detroit, Memphis and Newark when the New Lebanon Supermarket closed in December of 2009.
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Going Solar In Columbia County

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by Thaddeus Flint
New York State wants to give you $10,000. What’s the catch? The catch is that you will also have electric bills that are around 80% less than what you pay now. You just have to go solar.
A few years back solar electric systems for homes and small businesses didn’t make economic sense to those choosing to live in cloudy upstate New York, a land of endless winters and fleeting summers.  Our limited sunlight could not provide enough days of power to justify the expense of solar. It would have taken twenty years or more before a solar system could have paid for itself. That was then. [Read more…] about Going Solar In Columbia County

One Woman’s Story: Hiking the Appalachian Trail

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Local resident Joanna Ezinga of Canaan will present a travelogue about her solo hike of the entire Appalachian Trail on Thursday, April 7, at 7 pm at the New Lebanon Library. The presentation will be followed by discussion and Q&A.
Last March, Ezinga flew to Georgia for what she thought was going to be a month’s hike on the Appalachian Trail. Six months later she had walked to Maine.
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April Events At The New Lebanon Library

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All of these events are free and will take place at the Library which is located at 550 State Route 20.
• April 1 – Coffeehouse Night – 6 pm.  Features the music of singer/songwriter Linda Worster. Light refreshments will be served.
• April 2 – Paws-to-Read – 9 am. Therapy dogs come to the library and children read to their furry friends. And, of course, the dogs listen! Please call 518-794-8844 to register.
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A. Warren Church

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New Lebanon – A. Warren Church, 76, passed away peacefully at home on Monday, March 28, 2011, surrounded by his family.
Warren was a 1953 graduate of the New Lebanon High School where he excelled in sports. Upon graduation he served his country proudly in the United States Marine Corps. For 32 years, he was employed by the New Lebanon School District. He was a member of the LVPA and the American Legion Post #1236.
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Plugged Aqueduct Causes Washout Of Shaker Road

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by Thaddeus Flint
“I have explained it to everybody,” said New Lebanon Highway Superintendent Jeff Winestock, “One of these days we are going to lose Shaker Road.” And last Sunday night Winestock’s dark prediction came true. After a heavy rainfall, which combined with snow-melt runoff, a portion of Shaker Road below the Brethren’s Workshop building at the Mt. Lebanon Shaker Museum was severely damaged, forcing the road to be closed and repaired.
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New Lebanon Town Board Action – The Robert Mittnight Jr. Court Case

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by Thaddeus Flint
When the New Lebanon Town Board meeting was called to order on March 14 and the privilege of the floor turned over to the public Robert  Mittnight Jr. addressed the Town Board in regard to his seemingly endless saga of zoning problems which began in 2004.  Mittnight Jr. stated that his attorney advised him to come to the Board meeting to see if there was any possibility that reasonable reconciliation could be worked out between him and the Town of New Lebanon without the two parties incurring even more legal fees. [Read more…] about New Lebanon Town Board Action – The Robert Mittnight Jr. Court Case