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BCS Board Votes To Close Grafton Elementary School This Year

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Action Taken At Sparsely Attended Budget Workshop – Parents Were Notified By Handout At GES The Next Day

by Phillip Zema
A number of residents are vehemently displeased with the Berlin Central School Board of Education’s decision to close Grafton Elementary. In what was seemingly an ordinary budget workshop on Tuesday, March 9, the Board elected, 4-3, with Board Members Tom Morelli, Beverly Stewart and Paul Greene voting against the proposal, to close the Grafton Elementary School in June. While Superintendant of Schools Charlotte Gregory cited enrollment decline and economic issues as the reasons for consolidation, many residents believe the District should have considered other options.
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Stephentown Town Board Action – Time For A New Grader

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by David Flint
Many of us are familiar with that tipping point when you make the hard decision to stop putting money into the aging family car, bite the bullet and go look for a new one. The Stephentown Town Board appears to have reached that point regarding the Highway Department’s 1986 road grader. [Read more…] about Stephentown Town Board Action – Time For A New Grader

An Ill Wind Blows In Stephentown

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Stephentown Hardest Hit In County
by David Flint
A number of people who have resided in this area for many many years have said they can’t remember such fierce winds blowing for such a long period of time as we had last Saturday night into Sunday. Fortunately the rain was not as heavy as predicted in this area, so flooding did not occur as it did in places further south and east. But many trees and wires came down.
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Last Chance To Register For Shatford Little League

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Shatford Little League will be conducting its final registration for the 2010 season Saturday, March 20, from 10 am to noon at the Shatford Park Little League field in New Lebanon. Children living in Eastern Rensselaer and Columbia Counties who will be between the ages of 5 and 14 as of May 1 are eligible to play.
For more information call Joe Shupe at 518-658-9321 or Mark Van Zandt at 518-794-9055. You can also register online at www.shatford.org.

TRACs Is Moving Ahead

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by David Flint
The community coalition to combat alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse among youth in the Berlin school district is taking shape and moving ahead. Following a breakfast meeting on February 4 at which John Underwood gave a rousing call to action, The TRACs (Together Reducing Alcohol and Drugs in our Communities) group has continued to meet on the second Tuesday of the month. About 20 persons attended the meeting this week at the Seventh Day Baptist Church Hall in Berlin. [Read more…] about TRACs Is Moving Ahead

Stephentown Library To Offer Grant Seeking Services

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The Stephentown Memorial Library is pleased to announce its designation as a cooperating collection of the Foundation Center, the national clearinghouse for grant funding information. SML joins only about 400 other libraries across the United States selected to offer grant research capabilities through the Foundation’s online database.
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