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Rose McEckron Waytkus

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Hoosick Falls – Rose McEckron Waytkus was called home on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, at the Hoosick Falls Health Center. Born on March 21, l921, to Harold and Harriet (West)  McEckron, she had resided in Manchester, VT, with her 12 siblings. With her sharp mind and keen intellect, she graduated at the top of her class from Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester in l939.
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Eleanor J. Greenwood

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Hoosick Falls – Eleanor J. (Couch) Greenwood, 83, passed away on Saturday, November 26, at her residence on Rensselaer Street in Hoosick Falls, NY.  She was the wife of the late William J. Greenwood Jr.
Born on November 22, 1928, in Manchester, VT, Eleanor was the daughter of Albert Duncan and Flora (Streeter) Couch. She graduated from Burr & Burton High School in Manchester.  Eleanor worked at the Ben Franklin’s Store in Hoosick Falls before retiring from Woolworth’s in Bennington, VT, after many years of service.
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Stephentown Town Board Action – 2012 Budget Set At 2% Tax Levy Increase

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by David Flint
The Stephentown Town Board adopted a budget for 2012 on Monday evening that calls for exactly a 2% increase in the tax levy. The budget includes projected expenditures of $583,345 from the General Fund, $663,645 from the Highway Fund and $137,000 from the Fire District, for a total of $1,383,990. This is a decrease in spending of close to 1% from the current year’s budget. With revenue expected to be down by about $26,000, and $20,000 to be taken from the unexpended fund balance, the tax levy comes to $795,990, a 2% increase. As Councilman Bill Jennings put it at a budget hearing the week before, the Board could easily override the State’s new 2% tax cap with a simple majority Board vote, but they felt they should make every effort to stay within the spirit of the law.
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Young In Grafton

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by Thaddeus Flint
One of the first of many problems the Berlin School District’s new Superintendent, Dr. Stephen Young, wanted to address when he started work this fall was communication. “We have to sell BCS to the community, each community,” said Young in an interview with the Eastwick Press on September 30. At that time he envisioned visiting each town in the District to outline his new ideas, and in the past few weeks he has been doing just that.
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Petersburgh Stolen Blind

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by Alex Brooks
Petersburgh Town Highway Superintendent Ray Harrison told the Town Board that someone has been stealing the Town blind of its emergency road markers. Four large “Road Closed” signs have been taken. It costs $340 each to replace them, and, in addition to that, hazardous roads are suddenly unmarked when someone takes away the “Road Closed” signs. The orange emergency marker cones have also been disappearing. Harrison said he has lost at least 50 of those since Hurricane Irene. These cost $38 apiece, and the special tall ones cost over a hundred. He has also lost 4 to 5 barrels which cost $150 each to replace.
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Grafton Planning Board Action – A Full House

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by Kieron Kramer
The agenda for the Grafton Planning Board meeting on Monday, November 21, was packed with four new subdivision applications to be considered and one application to be approved. Perhaps the extreme activity at this meeting was prompted just by the desire to tidy up these projects in the current fiscal year. Perhaps the applicants wanted to deal with this Board before the changing of the guard in January. In any event all four new applications were accepted for review and public hearings were scheduled for them.
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