There will be a roadside chicken bbq to benefit CP at the Brunswick Elks, 665 Brunswick Rd., Eagle Mills, on May 25 from 11:30 am to 3 pm. Dinners include chicken, sides, dessert and beverage. Price is $10 adults, children under 10 – $5 ( chicken). Call Kim at 283-9806 for reservations.
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Garfield Cemetery Assn. Meeting
The next meeting of the Garfield Cemetery Association will be on Thursday, May 21, at 6:30 pm at the cemetery. In case of inclement weather it will be held in Pierce Hall of the Stephentown Federated Church. All plot owners or their family members are invited to attend.
Tsatsawassa Fire Company Breakfast
The Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company Inc. will hold it’s regular monthly breakfast on Sunday, May 17, from 8 am until noon at their firehouse behind the post office located near the intersection of Routes 20 and 66 north in Brainard.
Breakfast offers your choice of pancakes or French toast together with bacon or sausage, eggs cooked to your order, applesauce and assortment of breakfast beverages.
County’s Annual Drinking Water Taste Test Contest
County Executive Kathleen M. Jimino recently announced Wednesday, May 20, as the date of the County’s Annual Water Taste Test Contest. [Read more…] about County’s Annual Drinking Water Taste Test Contest
Giffy’s Chicken BBQ
The Town of Hoosick Republican Committee will host a Giffy’s Chicken BBQ on Thursday, May 21, serving from 4 to 6 pm at the Grand Union parking lot in Hoosick Falls. The menu will consist of a baked chicken, baked potato, coleslaw, roll and cookie.
Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased from any Committee person or by calling 518-322-8685 or 686-5992. There will be a very limited number of meals sold at the door, so please call in your reservation today.
Skilled Youth Hunters Bag Turkeys
Auditions For On Golden Pond
Auditions are being held June 1 and 2 with callbacks on June 4 for Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond to be presented by the award winning Circle Theatre Players. Production will be held in mid-October. Auditions will take place at 7 pm at Sand Lake Center for the Arts, 2880 NY 43, Averill Park, NY.
The roles to be filled are a man and a woman 60+, two men and one woman, 30s-40s, and a male, 11-15 years old. For information, contact Director Joan Fuess 674-2154.
Noel And Cole And McGuire At Hubbard Hall
Vocalist Kevin McGuire, The Richard Cherry Trio and special guests will perform the songs of Noel Coward and Cole Porter in a cabaret evening at Hubbard Hall this Saturday, May 16 at 8 pm.
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Joseph J. Dugan
Babcock Lake – Joseph “Joe” J. Dugan, 62, died May 9, 2009, at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, VT, after being stricken at his home at Babcock Lake, NY. He resided at Babcock Lake with his wife Jane (Mulvihill) Dugan.
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Star Party At Grafton Lakes
The Albany Area Amateur Astronomers will hold a free, public Star Watch on Saturday, May 16, at the Deerfield Pavilion of the Grafton Lakes State Park beginning at 8 pm, weather permitting.
Please use the winter entrance off North Long Pond Road. Visitors can enjoy a guided tour of the night sky and see Saturn through telescopes provided by the Albany Area Amateur Astronomers. The rings of the planet, Saturn, will become thinner in appearance throughout the summer. Come see them before they disappear completely on September 4. If it is very cloudy, the Star Watch will be cancelled. To inquire about cancellation, call Bernard Cognon at 658-9144 or Ray Bogucki at 658-3138.