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Early Start On Syrup Season In Hoosick

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by Bea Peterson
On Monday, February 27, smoke was coming from the Running Brook Sugar Shack in Hoosick. Dick Ogden and his brother Walter were boiling maple syrup. Dick said they have boiled sap at least a dozen times in February, which is rare. Last year, he said, he doesn’t think they boiled twice in February. “We’ve been getting a nice light amber syrup up to this point,” he said. “It’s only now we’re getting the medium amber.” He expects the season will go on for a while yet… it all depends, of course, on the weather.
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Richard J. Blood

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New Lebanon – Former New York Daily News City Editor Richard J. Blood, who nurtured young writers in the newsroom and the classroom during a long journalistic career, has died of respiratory failure.
Mr. Blood, 83, passed away on Friday, February 17, 2012, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. He spent 28 years in the newspaper business, including a dozen at The News – first as night city editor then as day city editor – when it was the nation’s largest circulation newspaper.
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Court Clerk Sues New Lebanon For $139k

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by Thaddeus Flint
A former Court Clerk with the Town of New Lebanon has initiated a lawsuit against the Town, the Town Board, Town Board Member Douglas Clark and two Town Justices and is demanding $139,000 as a settlement for what she believes was “unlawful termination from employment.”
Diane Reynolds-Brown was a Court Clerk with the New Lebanon courts from December 2007 until January 19, 2012, at which time her two year appointment was terminated in a letter signed by Town Justices Jessica Byrne and Jack Nevers. According to the Claim, Reynolds-Brown was “terminated without any due process.”
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Hoosick Rescue Squad Volunteers Answer The Call

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by Bea Peterson
In a time when the country is woefully lacking in volunteers, the Town of Hoosick Volunteer Rescue Squad managed to respond to 687 calls in 2011. That is 1.88 calls a day! With just two dozen members and extra volunteer drivers, they were called away on Sundays and holidays, at dinner time and in the middle of the night. [Read more…] about Hoosick Rescue Squad Volunteers Answer The Call

Stephentown To Present Plan To Take Over Elementary School

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by David Flint
The Stephentown Town Board has accepted the offer from the Berlin School Board to present a proposal for assuming ownership of the now vacant Stephentown Elementary School property. The School Board last month voted to request both the Stephentown Board and the Grafton Fire District to submit tentative plans by March 6 for the properties of the vacant elementary school properties in their respective towns. [Read more…] about Stephentown To Present Plan To Take Over Elementary School

Petersburgh Town Board Action – To Secede Or Not To Secede

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by Alex Brooks
At the Petersburgh Town Board Meeting this week, Kurt Klein presented a petition signed by about 75 Petersburgh residents asking to have a referendum on whether the Town should secede from the Berlin School District. He said he had not been able to talk with everyone by any means but he had spent a few Saturdays going door to door to talk with people about the School District. He said about 80% of the people he talked to signed the petition.
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