by Thaddeus Flint
“We are really interested, definitely,” said Stephentown Town Supervisor Larry Eckhardt to the Berlin School Board at Tuesday’s School Board meeting.
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Rose Hewitt Celebrates 100 Years
by Bea Peterson
Nineteen twelve was a leap year. It was the year the Titanic sank and the year Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. It was the year the fifth renewed Olympic Games opened in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the year Danny Thomas, Jose Ferrer, Jackson Pollock, Brian Nelson, David Astor, Pat Nixon, Sonja Henie, Foster Brooks, Perry Como, Sam Snead, Woody Guthrie, Julia Child, Gene Kelly, Pope John Paul I, Barbara Hutton, Lady Bird Johnson and Rose Hewitt were born.
And on Tuesday Rose celebrated her 100th birthday!
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Taconic Valley Basketball Awards Night
by Sherry Bowman-Kluck
The Petersburgh Veterans Memorial Community Center was overflowing with the area’s aspiring basketball youth and their families on Tuesday night, March 6. It was the Awards Night and Pizza Party for the Taconic Valley Basketball Program. Approximately 90 young players were presented with trophies and pizza, not an easy task considering the PVMCC was packed with energetic and talkative families!
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Pre-School Presidents In An Election Year
Lori Christoffersen’s pre-school class at St. Mary’s Academy honored American Presidents in February. [Read more…] about Pre-School Presidents In An Election Year
Roy Hand Is Grand Marshal Of The Hoosick Falls St. Patrick’s Parade
Roy Hand of East Hoosick was chosen to be the 2012 Grand Marshal of The Hoosick Falls St. Patrick’s Parade. Roy will lead the parade and will be honored at the Irish Festival after the parade.
Roy was born to Elizabeth Boose Hand and George Hand. Roy’s father George was the youngest of 9 children born to James and Mary Fitzpatrick Hand, who immigrated to the United States in the 1860s from the area of Kilkenny, Ireland.
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Hoosick Falls Police Blotter – February 26 to March 4, 2012
Sunday, February 26 – Request from NY State Police to assist on Pine Valley Road for Burglary in Progress
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Hoosick Falls Seniors Hear About The Rescue Squad And Health Warning Signs
by Bea Peterson
On Saturday, March 3, Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad President Bill Gaillard spent part of his afternoon talking with residents of the Wood Bridge and Wood Park apartments about the Squad and about stroke and heart attack warning signs.
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Locks Of Love In Grafton
submitted by Amy Reger
Every inch that grows…every day that passes helps to remind us of loved ones that have gone before us….
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Tree Club Moss In Snow
Shaker Swamp Conservancy Granted Tax Exempt Status
The Shaker Swamp Conservancy, a nonprofit community based organization in New Lebanon, has recently been granted tax-exempt status by the IRS. Now a 501c3 entity, the Conservancy can seek tax-deductible donations to continue work on research into Shaker Swamp history and ecology and its potential for recreation and tourism. The mission of the Shaker Swamp Conservancy is “to preserve the Shaker Swamp as a unique and defining asset of the Lebanon Valley, to promote understanding of this natural resource and its human heritage and to create related opportunities for public access, education and recreation.”
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