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Irish Jam Party At The Berlin Library

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Come to our Irish Jam Party at the Berlin Free Town Library on Saturday, March 21, from 7 to 9 pm. Our acoustic jam will feature musicians from the Saturday morning jam at Mass MoCA for a mostly Irish jam. Bring your instrument to join in for an unplugged evening or just come to listen and enjoy some traditional music from the Emerald Isle. Brush up on your St. Paddy’s Day facts for a game or two of trivia.

Admission is free; refreshments will be sold to benefit the Library. Please remember our goal this year is to raise $7,000 for our “Love Your Library” campaign.

Family Fun Math Night

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The Berlin Elementary School is hosting a Family Fun Math Night on Thursday, March 19, at 6:30 pm. It is a great opportunity for families to come together and play games that will strengthen math skills. Activities and games will be available for pre-k through fifth grade levels.  We will have board games, card games, dice games, bowling games, play dough, technology, movies, dancing and so much more! The popcorn machine will be making our favorite snack and each family will receive a gift to play with at home. Please join us for a fun night! We look forward to seeing you!

Youth 2 Youth Berlin Spring Fling

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Youth 2 Youth Berlin will be hosting its Spring Fling on Friday, March 20, at the Berlin Middle School/High School from 7 to 9:30 pm. Berlin teens are invited to a night of games, music, dancing, Wii, prizes and raffles. Tickets can be pre-ordered through the Y2Y Berlin Group, Biffy Cahill or the Main Office at the Berlin Middle/High School. They are $3 in advance or $5 at the door and include snacks and beverage.

Contact Biffy Cahill (BiffyCahill@gmail.com or 518-791-2001) for more information.

Find us on Facebook: Youth 2 Youth Berlin.

Upcoming Stephentown Memorial Library Events

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Family Movie Night – On Friday, March 13 at 6:30 pm we will show a recently released movie. Bring the family for a free movie at the library. Popcorn and juice will be served. This month the movie is “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1,” rated PG-13. Running time for this movie is 123 minutes. Popcorn and juice will be served.  Family Movie Night is free and all are welcome!

Computers for Beginners Classes – On Thursday, March 26 at 2 pm  and  Wednesday, April 29 at 6:30 pm, Farid Gruber will help new computer users understand how to use a computer and get connected to the internet.  This class is for anyone just beginning to learn how to use a computer. We will briefly go over the physical computer parts, how to turn the computer on and off, the desktop, Start menu, and how ‘Windows’ works. We will also spend time learning how to use the mouse.  Depending on time and interest, the class may move forward to internet use and email.  If you know someone who will benefit from this class, help spread the word and invite them to join.  Laptops provided for use, or bring your own.

Monthly Lego Club – Friday, April 3 at 6 pm.  Do you have a Lego enthusiast who could spend hours and hours every day engrossed with creative building? Do you have so many Legos in your house that you never know when you’ll suck one up with your vacuum cleaner? Do you sometimes get down on the floor with your clever builders and create something of your own? Well, this club is for you and your family! The Lego Club meets on a Friday night each month for an hour of building fun. There is no sign-up or charge.  Donations of Lego blocks are most welcome at the library desk.

Seals Of The Industrial Revolution

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Local author Marvin Bubie will discuss in Poestenkill the history of seals of various states and cities as they relate to the Industrial Revolution. Marvin has stories to go with each seal from his most recent book due to be published shortly.

The train was a very important part of industry and Marvin said you would be surprised at how many towns have a locomotive on their seal. According to his web site, “Over the years Marvin has collected and decoded the official seals and municipal symbols from various cities, towns, counties, boroughs and villages in this country as well as those in Europe. Each seal is a mini-history lesson and a collection all relating to a common heritage that tells of a reverence for that heritage.”

Copies of his previous books on the Dutch in New York (which includes Poestenkill) and the American Revolution will be available for purchase at $19.95.

Come join us on Tuesday, March 24, and get more facts and information at 7 pm at the Poestenkill Town Hall, Route 351 in the meeting room downstairs. Refreshments will be served. For more information on Marvin Bubie’s publications please visit his web site at mnobooks.com.

Acclaimed Author Lydia Davis To Speak At New Lebanon Library

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In observance of Women’s History Month, acclaimed short story author Lydia Davis will speak at the New Lebanon Library on Tuesday, March 31. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Davis, a MacArthur fellow and winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany. She was a Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University in 2012. The “extremely short short stories” she is known for were described by The New Yorker as “probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom.” Davis’s most recent collection, “Can’t and Won’t: Stories,” features stories in miniature — complaint letters, reflections on dreams, and small dilemmas. Davis is also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics.

All are welcome at this event. For more information, please call the Library at 518-794-8844. The Library is located at 550 State Route 20, 1/4 mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20/22.

Garrison And Palmer On Dean’s List

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Paul Garrison of Petersburgh, who is majoring in Environmental Studies, and  Llewellyn Palmer of Berlin, who is majoring in Parks, Recreation and Facilities Management, were named to the Dean’s List at Paul Smith’s College during the fall 2014 semester. They earned semester averages of 3.3 or higher to receive this distinction.