The Rensselaer Land Trust is sponsoring a Wild Flower Walk with Tom Phillips at the Bear’s Den Preserve in Cherry Plain on Saturday, May 24, from 10 am to 1 pm. Enjoy both well known and less common spring wildflowers. We’ll also hike to a rock shelter cave. Tom Phillips, a well versed botanist, will help us find and identify the area’s wide variety of flowers. There will be only a couple of miles of walking but with one steep hill. Register in advance; space is limited. Contact Francille Egbert at 518-674-3214 or fran.egbert@gmail.com. The cost is $5, free for RLT members.
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Great Strides Walk At GLSP
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will be holding its annual Great Strides Walk at Grafton Lakes State Park on Sunday, May 18, at 12 noon, registration begins at 11 am. The Kempf Family will be walking in honor of their son Mathew on the team “Miles 4 Mathew.” Call 518-573-9790 for more information. Please come out and support the walk or consider making a donation. Checks made out to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation can be mailed to 26 Snow Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090.
Insect Day At The Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center
The Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center is offering an Insect Program on May 25 from 1 to 3 pm. This program for all ages will take you throughout the fields and forests of Dyken Pond Center in search of interesting insects. We will also make bug hotels for your gardens at home. A $1 suggested donation is asked to cover the cost of materials. A complete list of programs can be found at www.dykenpond.org. Pre-registration is encouraged to help with planning, but not required and can be done by contacting the Center at dykenpond@fairpoint.net or 658-2055.
Lisa Ann Barnhart
Hoosick Falls – Lisa Ann Barnhart, 51, daughter of Linda (Siemens) McClellan and the late Bernard L. Barnhart, Jr. was born in North Adams, MA, on December 28, 1962. She passed away at home at Pathfinder Village, Edmeston, NY, on May 13, 2014, surrounded by her family, following a long illness.
Lisa received her education in Shaftsbury, VT, and Bennington, VT, and began her working career at the Ramada Inn in Bennington prior to moving from her home in Hoosick Falls, NY, to Edmeston in 1991. She worked in Oneonta, NY, while living in the very special community of Pathfinder Village, Edmeston.
Lisa was an avid sportswoman and enjoyed many sporting achievements through her participation in Vermont and New York Special Olympics at local, national and international levels winning many medals for track and field, swimming and cross country skiing. Lisa enjoyed bowling, music, dancing, motorcycle rides, travel, celebrations with her family and her many friends.
In addition to her mother, Lisa is survived by her step-father, Harold McClellan of Hoosick Falls, her sister, April Maxwell and partner Stuart Murdoch of England, her nieces, Brittany DeWitt and partner Daniel Boyland of Hoosick Falls and Lydia Maxwell of England, her great-nephew, Nathaniel Boyland of Hoosick Falls, her aunts, Marion Cipperly and Wilma Gutermuth of Hoosick Falls, and several wonderful cousins from across the United States. Lisa is pre-deceased by her step-father, R. Gordon Russell, who held a very special place in her heart for the love and care he provided.
Funeral services will be Saturday, May 17, at 11 am from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls. Burial will follow the service at the Hoosick Rural Cemetery, Hoosick, NY. A reception will follow committal services at St. Mark’s Church Hall.
Relatives and friends may call at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Friday, May 16, from 4 to 7 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to either the Pathfinder Village Incorporated or the Bennington Area Special Olympics through the funeral home.
Special thanks to the loving staff at Pathfinder Village who took such great care of Lisa in her time of need, especially Jamie Miner, Robin and Sherry.
The Medicinal Blue Cohosh And The Love Tree
Love Your Village Spring Clean Up Shows Community Spirit In Hoosick Falls
submitted by Deb Alter
HAYC3 and the Village of Hoosick Falls would like to thank everyone who pitched in to make Love Your Village Spring Clean Up Day this past Saturday another huge success.
It was pretty cold for a May day, and drizzly off-and-on, but about 200 volunteers came out anyway to help spruce up the Village. They got 50 Church Street, the Kid’s Community Garden, ready for planting, cleaned up and weeded in Wood Park and at The Wood Block, around our churches and more. They also helped out some of our senior residents.
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Solar Panels Start Going Up At The Petersburgh Town Hall
The Patriot Flight Is This Saturday
submitted by Tyler Sawyer
The Patriot Flight, Inc. is a local organization that flies local WW II and Korean War Veterans free of charge to visit the respective war memorials in Washington, D.C. The cost for the Guardians who accompany the Veterans is covered by the Guardians themselves. The cost is $350 per Guardian. The flight departs the Albany Airport this coming Saturday, May 10. There will be over 50 Veterans on the flight.
Joint Meeting Of Hoosick Planning Board And ZBA
by Bea Peterson
On Thursday, April 17, members of the Town of Hoosick Zoning Board of Appeals and Planning Board and their attorneys met jointly at the request of Town Supervisor Mark Surdam. At the March Town Board meeting Surdam said the two Boards were running smoothly but there were some hiccups and he wanted to see everyone working together with open lines of communication so that the application process runs smoothly. [Read more…] about Joint Meeting Of Hoosick Planning Board And ZBA
Hoosical Furnishings At The HAYC3 Armory This Saturday Promises Art And Auction Excitement
submitted by Deb Alter
Looking for a special piece of furniture for that special spot in your house? Want to get your mother something different for Mother’s Day? Looking for something out of the ordinary to do this Saturday evening? Then come to the Hoosical Furnishings Auction, a celebration of community and art, this Saturday, May 10, at the HAYC3 Armory in Hoosick Falls. [Read more…] about Hoosical Furnishings At The HAYC3 Armory This Saturday Promises Art And Auction Excitement