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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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Stephentown Book Group

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The Stephentown Library Book Discussion Group will read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides for its meeting on Thursday, June 3.  This Pulitzer Prize winner tells the story of three generations of a Greek-American family as they travel from a tiny village in Turkey to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and then the race riots of 1967 and finally fleeing to suburban Grosse Pointe. They carry with them a guilty family secret and astonishing genetic history.
Meetings are held in the Community Room at the Stephentown Memorial Library, Main Street, Stephentown, from noon to 1 pm.  Bring a lunch if you like.  Copies of the book are available at the Library desk. New readers are always welcome.
For more information, call 518-733-5750.

Animal Advocate At The New Lebanon Library

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Author and animal advocate Elise Lufkin will discuss her new book, To the Rescue: Found Dogs With a Mission, on Thursday, June 3, at 7 pm at the New Lebanon Library. A book signing and reception will follow the discussion. Special guests will include Cydney Cross, founder of Out of the Pits, and therapy dog Grace, who is featured in the book. Illustrated with photographs by Diana Walker, To the Rescue tells the story of people who give their rescued dogs much more than just a good home – they train them to be certified service animals.
For further information on this free event, please call the Library at 518-94-8844. The Library is located at 550 State Route 20, ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20 and 22.

FCCLA Breakfast

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The Berlin FCCLA will be holding a Pancake & Sausage Breakfast on Saturday, June 5, from 7 to 10 am at the Broken Wheel Campground in Petersburgh.
The menu consists of pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee. The cost is $6 for adults, $4 for children 5-12 and free for those under 5. We’re also offering a family (parents and their children) price of just $20.
Proceeds will help support attendance at the National FCCLA Leadership Conference in Chicago this July.  Come and enjoy a scrumptious breakfast!

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