To the editor,
I am writing this to express the benefit it is to have our Library in Stephentown. The Stephentown Memorial Library is very important to the community. The resources and services they offer create opportunities for learning and support education. The library is needed now and especially for our future generations. Our library welcomes the growing community with its family programs.
In order for the Stephentown Memorial Library to keep operating, we need the library to become a public library. This will allow and offer more funding that is needed for funding basic operations, (open hours) at the library.
Andrew Schrump
Route 43, Stephentown
Small Business Owner
Local News
Letter To The Editor – Supporting The Legislative District Public Library
To the Eastwick Press Editor:
I wish could vote Yes on March 19th.
The library is the most important part of the village of Stephentown. It honors our history and our veterans. Stephentown is a community. The idea of community is right there in the library. It is has the tradition of a village kind of library with everything you need from a big city library right there. When you ask a question, you receive a polite and articulate answer. People are genuinely friendly. It is a place to go for some.
Our family has owned land in Stephentown for three generations. We return every summer for vacation and make many visits to the library. The letter and information you sent about your special district initiative was so well done and clearly written. I wish I could help the library become a district library. It is time. It is right. I truly wish I could vote Yes on March 19th .
Claudia Hodder
410 Manitoba
Playa del Rey, CA
Petersburgh Public Library News
The Petersburgh Public Library book discussion group will meet Tuesday, March 12, at 7:30 pm to discuss the book, The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht. Copies of the book are available at the Library. If you have already read the book you are welcome to join us for the discussion. Refreshments will be served and new members are always welcome.
Story Time
Pre-school story hour continues on Tuesday mornings at 11 am. On March 12 stories will focus on the letter “M.” March 19 will feature the letter “N,” and March 26 the letter “O.” Pre-schoolers are invited to join us for stories, songs, activities, crafts and snacks.
Images Of Women In Norman Rockwell’s Paintings
In recognition of Women’s History Month, Norman Rockwell Museum Curator of Education Thomas Daly will present “Positive Images of Women in the Work of Norman Rockwell” on Thursday, March 14, at 7 pm at the New Lebanon Library.
The presentation will explore the positive images of women that Norman Rockwell created during his long career as an illustrator for books and magazines. Daly will share images that tell the story of the importance of women’s roles during the 20th century in such paintings as “The Problem We All Live With,” “Rosie the Riveter,” and “Political Opponents,” as well as many other Rockwell images, and will connect these images to national and local figures to illustrate the current events of those times.
Thomas Daly is the Curator of Education for The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge. His programs have served tens of thousands of visitors, and he has traveled to many parts of the country to speak on Rockwell’s work. During his 14 years with the Norman Rockwell Museum he has taken on a number of different roles and authored many articles about the work that Rockwell created during his nearly 70 year career as an illustrator.
This program is free and open to the public. The New Lebanon Library is located at 550 State Route 20, ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20/22.
Hoosick Falls Youth Lacrosse Registration
Hoosick Falls youth lacrosse registration will be held on March 12 at 6 pm in the HFCS Elementary School gym.
Berlin Free Town Library Plant Sale
The Berlin Free Town Library announces its spring plant sale. Support the Library by purchasing Shamrock plants (oxalis) in four and a half inch pots. The sale will run the week of March 11- 16, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.
Healers From Here Relay For Life Team Sponsors
The first annual 5k run/walk for a cure is on April 20 at 9 am in Wood Memorial Park.
Early registration by March 15 costs $15, by April 15 – $20, anytime after April 15 and day of the race – $25. We encourage early registration as it will save time the day of the race. The first 50 registrants will receive a free T-shirt. Following the race there will be a Kids Fun Race with a $5 entry fee. The first 25 kids registered will receive a free T-shirt.Registration forms are available at Village Primary Care or Charity’s Hair Studio or email Gretchen at gyonconish@ roadrunner.com.
Local Students To Travel To China
Several students from Tech Valley High School will travel to China later this year as the school continues its partnership with a high school there.
The TVHS students will travel to Beijing and Tianjin, China with their counterparts from the Schoharie Central School. The delegation will leave the U.S. on March 29 and return April 6. While in Tianjin, the students will visit TVHS sister school Tianjin High School No. 41 as well as Schoharie sister school Tianjin High School No. 13.
“The students will undertake the most authentic way of learning the Chinese language and culture that China has to offer – by experiencing it,” said TVHS Mandarin Chinese teacher Sophia Hsia.
They will also visit the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and other cultural landmarks in Beijing and surrounding areas.
It’s the fourth year TVHS students have traveled to China. TVHS also hosts a delegation from Tianjin each year.
Local students traveling to China for TVHS are junior Elizabeth Cass from Berlin and sophomore Madeleine Welty from Averill Park.
Cheney Library Story Time – Dig Into Reading
The Cheney Library in Hoosick Falls will begin a Spring story time, “Dig Into Reading,” for preschool children and their caregivers. We will have stories, activities and snacks at 10 am in the Library on March 12, 19, 26 and continue into April on the 9th, 16th and 23rd. We will investigate gardens, dinosaurs, rabbits, underground animals, construction equipment that digs and mud. Please be sure to come and have a wonderful time.
Library Story Correction
by David Flint
In the story last week on the Stephentown Library’s proposal to become a Special Legislative District, I included data on the budgets and funding of the libraries in our area. I have been informed that the funding that the Grafton Community Library receives from the Town of Grafton is $24,250, not $28,600 as was reported. The data came from the Upper Hudson Library System’s Annual Report and was based on the year 2011, but the local funding in the report included funds also from the County and from the Brittonkill School District. In addition I was informed that 2011, with a budget of $37,086, was not a typical year and that a more representative budget would be that of the year 2010 in the amount of $42,602.
Therefore, using those figures, the percentage of funding coming from the Town of Grafton would be 57%, not the 77% that was reported. That is still more than, but much more comparable to, the 54% and 50% funding from the Towns of Hoosick and Stephentown respectively.