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Berlin Fire Department Breakfast

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On Sunday, December 4, from 7 to 11 am, the Berlin Fire Department will be holding its fresh, hot off the griddle monthly breakfast. For your eating pleasure we include all-you-can-eat pancakes, French toast, biscuits for our homemade sausage gravy, sausage and bacon, toast, home fries and eggs (scrambled, sunny side, over easy or over hard).  Beverage choices include coffee, tea, (both decaf available), hot chocolate, milk and orange juice.
Prices are $7 for adults, $4 for kids 5-10 and free for kids under 5. Please join us before church, grocery run or what you are doing for the day and have a great start to the morning.
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Cans For Cancer

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Please donate your cans and bottles to a great cause!  Terri Burdick, of the Hoosier Hopefuls Relay For Life team will pick up your donations if you call 518-686-7851. Or you can simply bring them to Nickelback Redemption Center on lower Carey Avenue in Hoosick Falls and add them to our account. It’s an easy way to donate to the American Cancer Society!

Megan Myers Of Petersburgh Bags Deer On First Day Of Hunting Season

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The 2011 regular deer and bear hunting seasons opened at sunrise on Saturday, November 19, in New York’s Southern Zone. The two big game seasons close at sunset on Sunday, December 11.
The Southern Zone regular deer season is New York’s most popular hunting season, with participation from about 85 percent of New York’s 560,000 licensed deer hunters. Harvest during this season accounts for nearly 60 percent of the total statewide deer harvest. The remainder occurs in the Northern Zone, on Long Island and during special seasons when only archery or muzzleloading firearms may be used.
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Commemorating The 150th Anniversary Of The Civil War – Letters From A Local Soldier

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Calvin A. Haynes of East Nassau, NY at the age of 24 enlisted in August 1862 at Troy in the 125th New York Infantry Regiment. His letters home to his wife Lucy have been transcribed by John Minitti of Winchester, MA and are here reproduced, with some editing, courtesy of the New York State Library, Manuscripts and Special Collections.

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Hoosick Veterans Memorial Wall Dedicated

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by Bea Peterson
On Friday, November 11 (11/11/11) American Legion Post #40 and the members of the Veterans Wall Committee dedicated the new Veterans Memorial Wall in Wood Park. The event started at 11 am with the placing of wreaths in front of the new bronze plaques by veterans Ike Powers, Ed Gorman, Ben Nowik Frank Wilwol, Harold Bowen and Jim Cutler.
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Gallivan Buys Hoosick River Hardwoods

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by David Flint
Just a month after the sale of W.J. Cowee, LLC, the floral products company, to a Georgia firm, it has now been announced that the other Cowee company, that had become Hoosick River Hardwoods, has been acquired by Green Renewable, Inc. Green Renewable, according to their press release, is “a company focused on producing products for the heat and energy industries derived from renewable resources for a more sustainable future.”
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