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Veterans of Stephentown Texas Hold’em

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The Veterans of Stephentown will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, March 2, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located at 35 Grange Hall Road in Stephentown. The doors will open at 5 pm and close at 6 pm. Play begins at 6:15 sharp.
A free buffet will be served at the first break.
No advance registration is required, and a donation of $35 per player will be accepted. Players can make an additional $10 donation at the door for 1,000 extra chips. This tournament will pay one place for every ten players with a minimum of four places and a maximum of nine places.
For further information, please call Tom McVeigh at 518-658 2448.

Women’s Journaling Circle At The HAYC3 Armory

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Explore yourself through writing. Examine your issues in a freshly rational light, not rehearsing, regurgitating and repeating but shifting perspective. We’ll share if we like in a no-pressure atmosphere. We’ll also discuss writing tips and work on writing exercises. Whatever your genre, be it poetry, memoir or fiction, journaling can be its backbone. We aim to discover what out writing tells about our inmost selves.
This experience will be run by Megan Randall (P.S. MFA in Creative Writing). This six week class will start on March 6 at 6 pm. The cost for HAYC3 members is $30, $75 for non-members.  Please contact HAYC3 for more information at 686-9050.

Ruth Marie Riley

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Hoosick Falls – Ruth Marie Riley, 81, passed away on Monday, February 25, 2013, at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, VT. She was the wife of the late John Riley, who died in 2006.
Born on May 20, 1931, in Hoosick Falls, NY, Ruth was the daughter of the late Paul and Catherine (Fennessey) Lavin. She was educated at schools in Troy, NY, and Hoosick Falls. Ruth had been employed at Stanley Tools in Shaftsbury, VT. She enjoyed spending time with her family, her grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Ruth liked cooking, baking and knitting, and she also loved her home in Groveside.
Survivors include her daughters, Kathy Riley of Bennington, VT, Trish Bossong and husband Jim of North Bennington, VT, her sons, Jack Riley and wife Laurie of South Lima, NY, and Tom Riley and wife Kristee of Groveside, NY. Ruth is also survived by her sister, Margaret Cottrell, her grandchildren, Meghann Rose, Patrick Riley, Nancy Mock, Melissa and Adam Frechette, John Riley, Jenna Green, Jamie and Meredith Lampman and Brendon, Brody, McKendrick and Abriel Bossong, her ten great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Ruth is pre-deceased by a sister, Vi Carelli, and brothers, John and Robert Ellis, Paul, George, Ned and Bill Lavin.
A Mass of Christian Burial is being offered on Friday, March 1, at 10 am from the Immaculate Conception Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls. Burial will follow the Mass at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hoosick Falls.
Relatives and friends may call at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Thursday evening from 6 to 8 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to either the Activity Center at the Danforth Adult Home or the Hoosick Falls Senior Citizen Center through the funeral home.

Catherine Relihan

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Eagle Bridge – Catherine Relihan, 99, of Eagle Bridge, NY, died on February 22, 2013, at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, VT, after a brief illness.
Born on October 31, 1913, she was the youngest child of Sarah McAllen Relihan and Edward Relihan. She is pre-deceased by her parents, her brothers, Tom and Neil and his wife Margaret, her sisters, Agnes Relihan and Sara Relihan Meagher and husband Jack, and her niece, Margaret (Marie) Relihan.
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Erika Bain

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Hoosick – Erika Bain, 68, passed away on Sunday, February 24, 2013, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, NY. She had resided on South Street in Hoosick, NY, with her husband Paul Bain.
Erika was born on January 18, 1945, in Munich, Germany. She was educated at schools in Germany. Erika was employed at the St. Dominic Home in the Bronx, NY, as a social services coordinator. Erika was a people person; she enjoyed helping people at the Hoosick Falls Health Center and making people laugh. She was a communicant of the Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls, NY.
Survivors, other than her husband Paul, include her daughters, Lisa Mendez of Hoosick and Kimberly Dooley and husband William of Hoosick Falls, and her son, Christopher Edgar and wife Elizabeth of Newburgh, NY. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Ariel, Kayla, Alissa, Mitchell, Alex, Erika, Christopher Jr. and Christiana, her great-grandchildren, Alyanna and Aurora, and her dog, Bear. She is pre-deceased by a brother, Henry Migdal.
Funeral services will be Saturday, March 2, at 2 pm from the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090. Burial will follow at Hoosick Rural Cemetery in Hoosick. Relatives and friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from 1 to 2 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to the Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad through the funeral home.

DEC Clean-Up Of Shingle Hollow Brook

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by Bea Peterson
On Wednesday, February 13, an enormous black cloud filled the sky along Route 7, about one mile west the Routes 7 and 22 intersection. A fuel truck had crashed through guardrails, destroyed a utility pole and plunged down an embankment, bursting into flames. The driver, Shawn Disley of Agawam, MA, was first taken to Albany Medical Center and then airlifted to the Westchester County Medical Center Burn Unit.
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Brendan Hoffman Indicted In Christopher Baker Death

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by David Flint
The driver in the accident that killed Christopher Baker on June 28 last year has been indicted on charges of Vehicular Homicide and other related offenses. A Grand Jury in Rensselaer County Court on Friday, February 8, handed down an 11-count indictment against Brendan Hoffman of Stephentown. The indictment came two days after Hoffman’s 21st birthday.
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