On Sunday, January 2, from 7 to 11 am, the Berlin Fire Department will be holding its fresh, hot off the griddle monthly breakfast. For your eating pleasure we include all-you-can-eat pancakes and newly added French toast or biscuits for our homemade sausage gravy, your choice of sausage or newly added bacon, toast, home fries, and eggs (scrambled, sunny side, over easy or over hard). Beverage choices include coffee, tea, (both decaf available), hot chocolate, milk and orange juice. Prices are $6 for adults, $3 for kids 5-12, and free for kids under 5. [Read more…] about The Berlin Fire Department Breakfast Has New Menu Items
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Brunswick Golf Season Pass Raffle
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Brunswick Lodge of Elks is sponsoring a raffle for a 2011 Golf Season Pass at the Brunswick Greens Golf Course on Hoosick Road in Troy. Tickets costs $5, and only 100 will be sold. They are on sale now!
This fund-raiser will help support the Ladies’ major functions including Cerebral Palsy, Clothe a Child and a host of other charities.
Call Debbey at 813-5964 to reserve your tickets. The drawing will be in March.
The pass is not applicable to league or tournament play.
Hoosick Falls Extra Helpings!
Join Extra Helpings and save money on your food bill. Extra Helpings is a community food buying club with no age limits or income limits. Now there are more choices and better quality.
The January choices which can be ordered then are: $21 basic bundle – 6-7 lb. roasting chicken, 1 lb. mild bulk sausage roll, 1 lb. pkg. Canadian bacon, 2 lbs. boneless pork chops, a 2 lb. bag of onions and a 5 lb. bag of potatoes.
Special #1 at $14.25 is 6 lbs. of sweet Italian rope sausage (2/3-lb. boxes).
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Animal Tracking Classes
Tamakoce Wilderness Programs and the Friends of Dyken Pond have put together a series of classes on animal tracking with the goals of educating the public and furthering conservation efforts on the Rensselaer Plateau. [Read more…] about Animal Tracking Classes
Angela Jean Burke
Petersburgh – Angela Jean Burke, 26, a former resident of Petersburgh, NY, died after being struck by a drunk driver in Portland, OR, while walking her bicycle in the bike lane on her way home from work on Wednesday, December 15, 2010.
Born March 8, 1984, in Silver Spring, MD, she was the daughter of Michael J. Burke and Linda Santoro and step-daughter of Athena Burke. She graduated from Berlin High School, Class of 2002. She continued her education and graduated in 2009 from SUNY Albany with a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology.
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Rev. Dr. N. Gordon Luther
Hoosick Falls – Rev. Dr. N. Gordon Luther, 78, formerly of Hoosick Falls, NY, passed away suddenly on November 28, 2010, in Goose Creek, SC.
Rev. Luther served the First Baptist Church of Hoosick Falls as pastor of that congregation from September 1975 to May 1999. His leadership was not only instrumental in the growth of that Church but he was also a huge part of the Hoosick Falls community.
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Cynthia Tilley
Hoosick Falls – Cynthia Tilley. 53, passed away on Friday. December 17, 2010, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, NY. She had resided on Railroad Avenue in Hoosick Falls, NY.
Born on August 7, 1957, in Bennington, VT, Cynthia was the daughter of Ann (Mulready) Decker of North Bennington, VT, and the late Francis Tilley. [Read more…] about Cynthia Tilley
Lurana Parker
Johnsonville – Lurana (Corbin) Parker, 81, passed away on December 17, 2010, at her residence on River Road in Johnsonville, NY. She had resided there with her husband Daniel T. Parker.
Born on June 2, 1929, in Troy, NY, Lurana was the daughter of the late Percil and Mary (Smith) Corbin. She graduated from Troy High School and Mary McClellan Hospital School of Nursing in Cambridge, NY. She worked at the hospital for many years. Lurana enjoyed reading and was a member of the Christ United Methodist Church in Johnsonville and the D.A.V. Auxiliary.
Survivors, other than her husband, include two daughters, Janice Malo of Hoosick Falls, NY, and Patricia Parker Jones of Fairhaven, VT, a son, Daniel P. Parker of Johnsonville, a sister, Mary Catherine O’Dell of Grafton, NY, and a brother, Paul Corbin of Potter Hill, Hoosick, NY. She is also survived by eleven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Lurana is pre-deceased by a sister, Alice Fitzgerald.
Funeral services will be private and at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are under the care of the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls. Memorial contributions may be made to your local Rescue Squad or your local Fire Department in memory of Lurana.
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Berlin Grad Killed On Bly Hollow Road; BCS On Lockdown Wednesday
by David Flint
Anthony J. Hindes of Berlin was killed in a one car accident Monday evening on Bly Hollow Road in the Cherry Plain area of the Town of Berlin. Sgt. Marc St. Germain of the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office said the call was received at 8:38 pm on Monday, December 13, and the accident occurred on Bly Hollow Road near Brook Road. There were snow squalls in the area Monday evening and that section of Bly Hollow Road is very steep. It appeared, St. Germain said, that Hindes lost control of his car due to bad road conditions and struck a tree. He was taken to Albany Medical Center where he passed away about 4 am. Hindes was 18 years old and was a graduate of Berlin High School just this past June. He was currently attending Hudson Valley Community College.
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