Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
by Bea Peterson
Charles Niles, 27, of Buskirk is in serious condition in Albany Medical Center Hospital after a train ran over his lower legs at 5:45 Sunday afternoon, March 15. One foot was severed, the other severely injured. [Read more…] about Man Loses Legs In Hoosick Falls Train Accident
by David Flint
With word having leaked out over the weekend that the Stephentown revaluation project had been scrapped, a good size crowd came out to attend the Town Board meeting on Monday evening. [Read more…] about Stephentown Town Board – Reval “Tabled”
by Kieron Kramer
Toward the end of the Berlin Town Board meeting on Thursday, March 12, Richard VonSchilgen thanked the Town for its response to his complaint about rats in his rental units on Main Street across from the Town Hall, a problem, he says, that is caused by a neighbor who dumps refuse and garbage in the lot behind VonSchilgen’s building. [Read more…] about Berlin Town Board – You Dirty Rat!
by Bea Peterson
Twenty-first District U.S. Congressman Paul Tonko (D-Amsterdam), Twentieth District Democratic Congressional Candidate Scott Murphy and Hoosick Town Supervisor Marilyn Douglas were at the Barnett House on Saturday, March 14, to announce that the long anticipated single lane Caretaker’s bridge across the Walloomsac will be built this year with Federal stimulus funds.
[Read more…] about Caretaker Bridge To Be Built With Stimulus Money
by Alex Brooks
A second Public Hearing was held March 16 on proposed amendments to Petersburgh’s 1992 Right To Farm Life Law. [Read more…] about Petersburgh Town Board – The Difficulty of Regulating Farm Practices
by Kieron Kramer
State of the County
Before the Rensselaer County Legislative session on Tuesday, March 10, County Executive Kathleen Jimino gave her annual State of the County address. It is basically the same address every year. [Read more…] about Rensselaer County Legislature: State of the County and Local Recognitions
by Gary Danforth
The Town of Hoosick Planning Board meeting took place this past Monday evening, March 16, in the Hoosick Falls Armory with Interim Chairman Jim Dunigan calling the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. [Read more…] about Public Hearing On Bovie Hill Windmill Scheduled
A Charter Day celebration marking the 225th anniversary of the official beginning of Stephentown, will be held at Stephentown Elementary School on Sunday, March 29, at 2 pm, hosted by the Stephentown Historical Society and the students at Stephentown Elementary School. The Town of Stephentown was established in 1784 by an Act of the New York State Legislature.
[Read more…] about Stephentown Marks 225th With Celebration At Elementary School
by Bea Peterson
On Wednesday, March 18, Hoosick Falls voters went to the polls to elect a Mayor and three Village Trustees. All of the candidates were unopposed.
