Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
by Colleen Teal, New Lebanon Clerk
It has come to my attention that there is an aggressive phone scam going on involving people posing as IRS tax collection representatives.
The IRS and NYS tax departments will always contact you by mail. Please never respond to phone calls or emails that claim to be from either of those departments. Do not give personal information over the phone and be careful with these threatening phone calls.
Please share this information with family and friends.
The Lebanon Valley Heritage Center invites the public to celebrate its first anniversary. The celebration will be held on Saturday, December 6, from 10 am to noon at the Valley Plaza Mall in New Lebanon.
Refreshments will be served.
submitted by Tistrya Hamilton
The New Lebanon Country Market at Windswept Farm will be hosting a holiday farmer’s market. The market will be held on Sunday, December 7 from 11 am to 3 pm. Join us inside at Windswept Farm for our second holiday farmer’s market; it is a great time to stock up for Christmas while supporting your local farmers, bakers and artisans.
This market will feature pasture raised meats by Artemis Farm and Climbing Tree Farm, handmade body care products by Old Log Inn Naturals, free range eggs, fudge, soap and pickled products by Mountain Girl Farm, New Lebanon baloney, pies and jams by Terra Firma, Caroline’s shortbread, maple syrup from the Hand Hollow Sugar House, fresh produce by the Abode Farm and Ellen Poggi and fresh made garlic fudge and candy by Willowtree Organic Farm.
The market will also feature a surprise visit from Kobe the Alligator, an appearance by Santa Claus and a singing performance by the Mountain Road School Ensemble. We hope you can join us.
Do you need outside tools sharpened before putting them away for the season or a knife made ready to carve that holiday ham? Come to the Malden Bridge Community Center at 1087 Albany Turnpike on Saturday, December 6, when the services of the Delmar Knife Sharpener will be available to handle the sharpening for you.
Rates range from $3 and up for knives and other kitchen cutters while garden items range from $5 and up and includes pruning clippers, hedge trimmers, etc.
You may bring your possessions starting at 10 am and leave them with an approximate time in the afternoon for pick up and cost given before you leave. No items will be taken after 2 pm in order to allow time for all items to be sharpened and picked up. In the event of a storm the event will be postponed until Saturday, December 13. For further information contact the Center via email at maldenbridgecc@gmail.com.
by Thaddeus Flint
Reporters covering meetings in small towns often come to realize most of the way through a meeting that there will be nothing to report.
And then there is New Lebanon.
[Read more…] about New Lebanon Town Board Action – Supervisor Takes A Flyer
During the week of November 17 through November 22, 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!
All of these events are free and will take place at the Library which is located at 550 State Route 20. Call 518-794-8844 for more information.
• November 17 – Study the Constitution – 7 pm – biweekly discussion group focusing on the study of the Constitution. Interested participants should bring their questions and be ready to share their opinions.
• November 18 – Block Party: Legos in the Library! – 4 to 5:30 pm – a Lego club for kids. We provide the Legos and will display all creations in the Library until the next club.
• November 20 – Teen Movie Night – 6:30 pm. Call for title. Popcorn and juice provided.
• November 21 – Family Movie Night – 6:30 pm. Call for title. Popcorn and juice provided.
Have you ever wanted your favorite cookie recipe published in a book? Well here is your chance! The Village of East Nassau is holding a Cookie Contest and Celebration at the Hoags Corners Firehouse on Sunday, November 16, at 2 pm. A highlight of the afternoon will be sharing the cookies that are submitted as well as your chance to win items in the Chinese Auction that will be held during the “judging” of the cookies.
Details of the Cookie Contest and the official entry form may be obtained from the website villageofeastnassau.org/cookie. The $10 per recipe entry fee includes a ticket to the celebration. Applications are also available at the Country Store on Route 20 in Brainard. All recipes submitted to the contest will be published in a cookie cookbook, which will be available before the holidays.
Event tickets cost $5 and proceeds will support the construction of the Bell Park in Brainard, including the installation of the bell from the former United Methodist Church. Refreshments (cookies!) and good humor will be served during the celebration which will culminate with the naming of the Official 2015 Cookie of the Village of East Nassau.
West Lebanon – Robert W. Jones, 92, passed away on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, at his home with his family at his side. He was the beloved husband of Alice L. Cole Jones.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, on October 8, 1922, Bob was the son of the late Herbert F. and Madeline Goeler Jones. He was a graduate of Haaren High School in New York City, Oswego State College with a Bachelor’s Degree and Albany State College with a Master’s Degree. He was employed from 1948 to 1978 as an Industrial Arts teacher at the Berkshire Farm Union Free School in Canaan, NY, and later at Bethlehem High School in Delmar, NY. He was also employed at Ceramaseal in New Lebanon, NY. At one time, Bob was responsible for patiently teaching most of the women in the Lebanon Valley how to drive a car.
Bob served his country as a First Lieutenant during World War II as a bomber pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was a member of the Church of Our Savior in Lebanon Springs, NY, the Lenox Club and the Old Chatham Hunt Club. Bob enjoyed playing golf, reading the newspaper, entertaining, traveling and doing crossword puzzles. He will be truly missed.
In addition to his wife Alice, he is survived by his children, Eunice J. and husband John Young of Timonium, MD, Barbara A. Graham of San Jose, CA, Donna J. and husband Michael Gillen of Magnolia, MA, Karen E. and husband Thomas Coleman of Falcon, CO, Herbert F. and wife Darlene Jones of Brainard, NY, and Patricia E. and husband Jeffrey Gardner of Feura Bush, NY, 24 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. He is pre-deceased by his first wife, Eunice M. Smith Jones, his son, Robert W. Jones, Jr., and his siblings, Jean Jones and Edward F. Jones.
A Memorial Service was held on Saturday, November 8, at 12 noon at the Church of Our Savior, 14660 Route 22, Lebanon Springs, with Rev. Canon Clinton Dugger officiating. A calling hour preceded the service from 11 am to 12 noon and a reception followed the service, both occurring in the Fellowship Hall adjoining the Church. Burial of cremains will be in a family plot in Lawrence Brook Cemetery in South Royalston, MA, at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Community Hospice of Columbia/Greene, the Berkshire Humane Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation or to the Alzheimer’s Association in memory of Robert W. Jones.
Arrangements are by the Hall & Higgins Funeral Home in Stephentown, NY. A condolence book can be accessed at ParkerBrosMemorial.com.
by Thaddeus Flint
It was standing room only at the New Lebanon fire house last Thursday as representatives of Kinder Morgan – the company that wants to put a new high pressure gas pipeline through the area – met publicly with residents for the first time since the project has come to light.
