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Yankees/Red Sox Dream Package Raffle

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The Shaker Museum and Library is raffling off a spectacular Yankees/Red Sox dream baseball package. The package includes Champions Suite Seating at Yankee Stadium, four front row seats in Section 12 – next to the ball boy, between first and right field – bring your glove, access to the Ketel One Bar with free food, soft beverages and snack bar (alcohol not included) and access to the Audi Yankee Club/Mohegan Sun Sports Bar.
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Youth 2 Youth Offers Valuable Raffle Prize

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Youth 2 Youth Berlin is collaborating with the Bridgeway Restaurant to plan a Teen Night for Friday, May 18, from 6 to 9 pm at the Bridgeway Ballroom in Cherry Plain. There will be a DJ, contests, games, prizes, raffles and more.
We will be raffling off a free registration to the Youth to Youth Eastern States Conference (no application/selection process required). [Read more…] about Youth 2 Youth Offers Valuable Raffle Prize

Graveside Service For Ruth Koepp

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Stephentown – Ruth H. Avery Koepp, 84, a 70 year resident of Stephentown, NY, died on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at her residence after a long illness.  A graveside service will be held on Saturday, May 26, at 1 pm in the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Lebanon Springs, NY. A reception will follow at the New Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department’s hall on Route 20. Contributions in her memory may be given to the Veterans of Stephentown, in care of the Hall & Higgins Funeral Home, P.O. Box 9, Stephentown, NY, 12168.

Clara Barton And Civil War Medicine

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by David Flint
Speaking at the Stephentown Heritage Center on Monday evening, Clara Barton (alias historic interpreter Phyllis Chapman) gave a riveting and entertaining talk about her battlefield experience in the “late Great War of the Rebellion.” Born and raised near Worcester, MA, Barton was drafted as a teacher at the age of 15. Having learned to deal successfully and non-violently with unruly boys, she much later took a job in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Patent Office just before rebel guns fired on Fort Sumter.
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Richard W. Jones

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Stephentown – Richard W. Jones, 80, of Route 22, Stephentown, NY, died on Tuesday evening, May 8, 2012, at Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY, after a long illness.
Born April 26, 1932, in Needham, MA, he was the son of the late Amos W. and Ruth D. Colburn Jones. He was the loving husband of the former Glena Kemp, whom he married on May 1, 1953, in San Antonio, TX.
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Capital District Friday Field Group Outings

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The Capital District Friday Field Group, formed in 1993, is a mix of amateur and professional naturalists that meets weekly on Fridays at 5:30 pm between April and September to explore the natural features of sites in the Capital Region.  The trips are free, and the public is welcome.  Upcoming Trips:
May 11 – spring wildflowers in a rich hardwood forest at Pittstown State Forest
May 18 – marsh and swamp at Tamarac Wetlands in Brunswick
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