The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Petersburgh

Twenty Years And Still Kicking

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by Bea Peterson
The Eastwick Press begins its 20th year of publication with this first issue of 2012. Over that time it has grown from an 8½ by 11 inch monthly news sheet to the 16 page weekly tabloid size newspaper it is today. Circulation has grown from less than 100 to near 2,000. Begun 20 years ago as the Petersburgh Poop (a military term meaning inside information) the name was soon changed to The Petersburgh Press. When the coverage area expanded to Grafton it became The Press and remained that as the coverage area grew. Ten years ago the name was changed again as The Press didn’t really describe who we were. So, using the old Dutch suffix, “wick” meaning area, the paper became The Eastwick Press. The name was chosen because we cover the eastern portion of Rensselaer County, once known as Rensselaerswyck, and it appears to have caught on – we get few references to the witches.
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Petersburgh Organizational Meeting 2012

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by Alex Brooks
Incoming Petersburgh Town Supervisor Siegfried Krahforst said he would like to set up some committees to move the Town forward. He hopes that interested citizens will join these committees. He suggests that each committee have two citizens and one Town Board member on it. He would like to appoint a committee to look into economic development and attracting business into town,  one to go over Town Laws, to revise and reconcile them to create a unified set of Town laws, one to look into the feasibility of using alternative energy to light and power the Town Buildings and an ethics committee to revise and update the Town’s ethics policy.
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A Healing Trip To Vietnam

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Are you looking for an opportunity to have a great meal, enjoy music, get rid of those unwanted Christmas presents and support a great cause? The Taconic Valley Post of American Legion Auxiliary has the answer for you. It is sponsoring a fund raising dinner and Chinese auction to help send its Commander, Wally O’Neill, and his wife, Sue, on a healing trip to Vietnam.
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PVMCC Play Reading Series Is Back

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PVMCC is offering a four week Play Reading Series for adults, led by Director Barb Smith. It is slated to run for consecutive Sunday afternoons from  2:30 to 4:30 pm, beginning Sunday, January 22. The tentative fee  for the series will be about $50, based on enrollment. Scripts will be provided and no  experience is necessary to participate.
If you’re interested in this or future sessions, please call Jeanne  at 518-658-3953.

Petersburgh Ambulance Saves A Young Life

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Family Travels From Rhode Island To Thank Squad Members
by Alex Brooks
On Sunday September 4, 17 year old Nathan Therien was driving through Petersburgh when he suddenly and very unexpectedly went into cardiac arrest. This was on Route 22 near the intersection with Prosser Hollow Road. Nathan’s 20 year old sister, Paige, was in the passenger seat and managed to bring the car to a stop by the side of the road. Their parents were in another car ahead of them, and when they realized their children’s car was not behind them they returned to where Nathan and Paige’s car had stopped. [Read more…] about Petersburgh Ambulance Saves A Young Life

Petersburgh Town Board Action – Duane Goodermote Jr. Appointed to Town Board

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by Alex Brooks
The Petersburgh Town Board accepted with regret the resignation of Amy Manchester. She is giving up her position on the Town Council to take up her duties as the new Town Justice. Amy recently attended a training course for new Town Justices at SUNY. She said it was hard, but she got a 98 on the concluding test and is ready to take up her duties. Amy passed around her father’s certificate of completion from the same course, which he completed just about 50 years ago, in February of 1962, when he started his service as Town Justice in Petersburgh. Amy’s father, Neil Manchester, passed away the afternoon after she got back from her Justice training course.
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Kelsey O’Dell – VFW Voice Of Democracy

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by David Flint
Kelsey O’Dell, daughter of Lecia and Larry O’Dell of Petersburgh, has been selected as the winner of the Berlin High School Voice of Democracy Essay Contest. Since 1947 the Voice of Democracy has been the  premier scholarship program of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Each year more than 50,000 high school students compete for more than $2.3 million in scholarships and incentives. Students compete by writing and recording a broadcast script on an annual patriotic theme. This year’s theme is, “Is there pride in serving in our military?”
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Letter To The Editor – Focus On Christ During The Holiday Season

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To the Editor:
Two things drive me crazy during this season: the focus on the secular and (ashamedly) the never ending requests for donations. The latter changed Saturday when I visited my sister. She is schizophrenic and in a nursing home. She has been crazy for 51 of her 69 years, yet she is a better Christian than I could ever be. She had one of those little plastic wrapped Kleenex packages. This was a gift from the Salvation Army. She was so excited that they came to visit her and gave her a gift. Then she gave it to me and asked me to wrap to give to our mother, saying, “It is not much but it is all I have to give her.”
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