The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Local News

Letter To The Editor – This Used To Be Done With A Handshake

By

To the Editor: (submitted August 3, 2010)
We were pleased to receive the Judgment and Order by the Town of Petersburgh Court dismissing all of the allegations against us by the Petersburgh Planning Board. At the advice of legal counsel we have not commented publicly regarding the private matter of Star Ridge Way, but the Town Court’s recent ruling affords us the opportunity to clarify a number of facts surrounding this issue.
[Read more…] about Letter To The Editor – This Used To Be Done With A Handshake

Eberly Brothers At The Grafton Historical Society

By

The Grafton Historical Society’s September meeting will be held at the Grafton Town Hall on September 15 at 7 pm.
The Society will host Charles Filkens, Curator of the Lewis Miller Museum in the Town of Hoosick. Filkens will present a DVD video program on the Eberly Brothers, big band era singers who sang with the Glen Miller Orchestra and the Dorsey Brothers and who hailed from Hoosick Falls.
For more information contact Dorothy Surprise at historicgrafton@aol.com or 641-9660.

Interested In Joining Girl Scouts?

By

There will be an open house for girls and families interested in Girl Scouting on Thursday, September 16, at 6:30 pm at the Seventh Day Baptist Church in Berlin. Leaders will be available to talk about Girl Scouting and register new girls. Activities and light refreshments will be available. For more information, please call Sue Cass at 733-6488.

Brunswick Library News

By

September events at the Brunswick Community Library at 4118 State Rt. 2 are:
• Storytime for ages up to 5 is held every Saturday at 11 am.
• Old Daley Chicken BBQ is on Friday, September 10, to benefit the Library. The BBQ will be held at the Wal-Mart Plaza on Route 7 from 4 to 7 pm. Dinner is $10 and includes potato, coleslaw and dessert. Buy your tickets at the Library now!
• The Friends of the Brunswick Community Library will  meet at the Library on Saturday, September 11, at 10 am.
[Read more…] about Brunswick Library News

Learn To Clog

By

Come, have fun and learn clogging with the Hill Country Cloggers of Hoosick, NY Inc. beginning September 14  at 7 pm at the Hoosick Falls Central School. For information call Margaret Pine at 518-686-7767.
Clogging classes will begin at the Brittonkill School on September 21 at 7 pm. For information call Linda Schroeder at 518-674-2943.

Afghanistan Is Topic At Stephentown Book Group

By

Learn more about life in Afghanistan at the Stephentown Memorial Library Book Club meeting on Tuesday, September 7, at 7 pm featuring guest speaker J. Thalia Cunningham, M.D., FACEP. Dr. Cunningham, an emergency physician, travel writer and playwright, will discuss her experiences in Afghanistan, which she has visited seven times. She will join the group in discussing Back to Afghanistan: My Journey from California to Kabul by Said Hyder Akbar, which provides some background for the discussion. The public is cordially invited to attend the meeting.
[Read more…] about Afghanistan Is Topic At Stephentown Book Group