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Second Annual Stephentown Memorial Library Plant Swap

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Saturday May 23, 10 am to 2 pm

Did you start a few too many veggie or flower seeds? Have divisions of perennials you want a home for?  Have a few extra cuttings you don’t want to compost?  Bring them to the side porch of the Stephentown Memorial Library, preferably before 10 am on Saturday, May 23 and share them with your neighbors.

Please label what you bring!

Are you looking to add a tomato, herb or flower to your garden?  Stop by and help yourself. It’s self-serve, although a gardener may be around to encourage and advise.

Although we call this a swap, you don’t need to bring a plant to take a plant.  And don’t forget to bring your extra seeds in to the Seed Exchange. You can drop them off at the desk.

Questions? Call Joan-Claire at 733-0237

Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company Breakfast

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The Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company, serving Brainard and East Nassau and surrounding community, will hold its final monthly Breakfast of the Season on Sunday, May 17, from 8 to 11:30 am at their firehouse on Firehouse Lane behind the post office near Routes 20 and 66N, in the hamlet of Brainard.

A delicious breakfast is offered for your donation of $7 for adults, $4 children 5 to 11, under five free.

Brandi Hoffman Honored At Buffalo State Honors Convocation

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Brandi Hoffman of Stephentown was among a select group of Buffalo State students whose academic achievements were recognized at the college’s annual Honors Convocation held on April 16. Hoffman is majoring in psychology, one of more than 60 major programs represented at the ceremony. Each student received an honors pin.

Buffalo State belongs to the State University of New York. It offers more than 170 undergraduate programs in the arts, education, professional studies, and science on a 125-acre campus.

Veterans of Stephentown Texas Hold’Em

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The Veterans of Stephentown will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday May 9 in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located at 35 Grange Road in Stephentown, NY. The doors will open at 5:30 pm and close at 6 pm. Play begins at 6:15 sharp.

A free buffet will be served at the first break and refreshments will be available.

No advance registration is required. A donation of $35 will be accepted and give the player 7,500 in chip value. Players can make an additional $10 donation at the door for 2,500 extra in chip. This tournament will pay one place for every 10 players with a minimum of four places and a maximum of 9 places.

The next three Texas Hold’em tournaments will be held on Saturday May 30th and June 20th.

For further information, please call Tom MacVeigh at 518-658-2448

Bing Futch Is Back On Stage At SLCA, Workshops Also Offered

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Sand Lake Center for the Arts once again presents Bing Futch back on stage, May 16 at 7:30 pm.

Using Appalachian mountain dulcimer, Native American flute, ukulele, drums and electronic effects, Futch deftly navigates the varied waters of traditional and modern Americana with passion, wit and a genuinely huge heart for sharing music with a crowd.

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Fire Department Community-Wide Recruiting Day Was A Success

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submitted by Bob Adler

For the first time, Stephentown, Berlin and Grafton fire departments combined efforts in their annual April recruitment drive.

Since the recruitment target is the generation now coming of age, the firemen focused their publicity efforts on Berlin High School, in addition to publicity in The Eastwick Press.  [Read more…] about Fire Department Community-Wide Recruiting Day Was A Success

A Talk On Stephentown Cemeteries

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Pat Flint, Stephentown Town Historian, will give an illustrated talk on Stephentown cemeteries on Monday, May 4, 7:30 pm, at the Stephentown Historical Society’s Heritage Center, Garfield Road (County Route 26),  Stephentown, New York.  The program is free and the building is handicapped accessible.  For directions, telephone (518) 733-0010.

The Stephentown Historical Society’s Cemetery Committee has made some interesting discoveries in recent research on the over seventy burial spots in town;  Pat Flint, Marilyn Osgood, Linda Sullivan and Dave Cummings have contributed to this work.  Flint will highlight some of the customs of long ago and tell of those memorialized.  In addition to local doctors and innkeepers, even abolitionist John Brown gets some mention.

BCS Alumni Association 75th Reunion

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Please help us celebrate the 75th Alumni Reunion on Saturday, June 6, 2015 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Troy, NY.

All alumni, staff, faculty and retirees of Berlin Central School are cordially invited.  We will be honoring the classes of 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015.

Join us for an evening of good food, friends and entertainment.  There will be several retired teachers in attendance this year including Joanne Pederson, former choir teacher.

For more information visit www.berlincentral.org and click on  District and Alumni. To update your mailing address, please like us on Facebook or email BerlinCentralalumni@yahoo.com.

Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline To Present Public Forum In Schodack May 5

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On Tuesday, May 5 at 6:30 p.m., Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline (SNYFGP), an all-volunteer group of concerned Rensselaer County citizens opposed to the proposed Northeast Energy Direct (NED) pipeline, will present a free public forum at Maple Hill High School in Schodack/Castleton-on-Hudson.

This event, SNYFGP’s fourth such public forum in 2015, will offer local residents information about the large, high-pressure fracked gas pipeline being planned for the area by Texas-based energy giant, Kinder Morgan, including the many health and safety risks presented by the immense 90,000 horsepower compressor station to be located near the Schodack/Nassau border.

Public opposition to this pipeline, which offers no benefits to any of the towns it would impact in New York State, has grown steadily over the past few months. Hundreds of people, including local officials, have turned out at previous events to voice their many concerns, and resolutions strongly opposing the project were passed this month by both the Town of Stephentown and the Rensselaer County Legislature. In addition, more than 50 other communities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire have also passed similar measures.

Governor Cuomo banned high volume hydraulic fracturing (better known as fracking) in New York last December, citing the significant risks to public health as detailed in a 186-page report by the Department of Health. Although groundbreaking, this move does not prohibit the transport of this same dangerous fracked gas—along with its hundreds of associated chemicals, including multiple known carcinogens—at very high pressure through our communities, major bodies of water such as the Hudson River and fertile farmland and wildlife habitats.

In addition to the numerous health and environmental concerns associated with this project, NED would also bring with it the risks of catastrophic explosion, damage to local infrastructure, the taking of private land through eminent domain, disruption of local groundwater and homeowner wells, and a significant decline in local property values and potential for future economic growth.

For more information about Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline and its efforts, please visit http://stopnypipeline.org.