by Bea Peterson
In a very close game Hoosick Falls won the first round of the Class B Sectionals. Ninth seed HF defeated eighth seed Greenville Tuesday night, February 22, by a score of 43-41. In the first quarter the score was 11-10 HF. The Panthers led 21-17 at the half. The game was tied up 28 all at the end of the third and very close all through the fourth quarter. A three-pointer by Nicole Marmillo with under two minutes remaining cinched the deal for HF. High scorer for HF was Frankie Pearson with 16 points. The team is now 9-10 for the season.
On Friday they will play number one seed Maple Hill.
School News
Letter To The Editor – BCSD Teacher Contracts Up For Renewal
BCSD Teacher Contracts Up For Renewal: Need Our Awareness And Input
To the Editor:
Why is it that the Berlin School Board and the Eastwick Press, although being most aggressive in communicating to the public about relatively peripheral Berlin School District issues like lead paint and the periodic Kabuki dance over the school budget votes, why is it that they utterly fail to communicate with the voters about the one issue that vastly more significantly affects the taxes we pay, namely the impending contract negotiations with the Berlin Teachers Association?
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D.A.R.E. Graduation At BES
submitted by Toni Dolan
Berlin Elementary fifth grade students recently celebrated their involvement in the D.A.R.E. Program with a special graduation ceremony. The D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a program for teaching kids the skills necessary to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs and violence. The program was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles and has been part of our elementary program for about 18 years.
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Berlin High School Teachers Take Biotechnology Workshop At HVCC
Berlin High School teachers Steve Mellor and Matthew Christian were among 19 high school science teachers from around the Capital District who participated in a two day biotechnology training workshop sponsored by Hudson Valley Community College on January 26-27 at Averill Park High School.
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Panther Wrestlers Burns And Weierbach Win Sectionals; Head to States
by Ryan Mosher
Hoosick Falls wrestlers Brad Burns and Luis Weierbach entered the Section II State Qualifier tournament at the Glens Falls Civic Center with hopes of extending their season by two more weeks to reach the State championship meet. The sophomore and freshman were seeded first and second heading into the meet.
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HFCS Bowlers Win Sectionals
On Tuesday, February 15, the Hoosick Falls bowling team won the Section II C-D Tournament for the third time in five years. With a six game total for five bowlers of 5,930 pins they beat Mechanicville with a pin total of 5,531 and Fort Plain with a pin total of 5,524 on a difficult oil pattern. Hoosick Falls had the third highest total of all A, B and C-D schools, only being outscored by eventual winner Class A Colonie with 6,486 and Class A Guilderland with 6,007.
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Panthers Spoil Indians Senior Night
by Ryan Mosher
The Hoosick Falls boys basketball team took to the road for one of their final contests of the year. Playing at Hoosic Valley on their senior night drew a large crowd for the Indians. The brief ceremony before the game didn’t seem to bring the inspiration to the home team, in fact it only seemed to delay the inevitable by five or ten minutes. From the beginning, the Panthers showed who was in charge.
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Lady Panthers Senior Night
by Bea Peterson
Last Friday night, February 11, was Senior Night for the HFCS girls basketball team. Their opponent was WASAREN league first place team Hoosic Valley.
The Hoosick Falls gals couldn’t put it together in the first quarter and Hoosic Valley led them 15-5. Then in the second quarter HF came alive, including two interceptions and four points in the final minute. At the half it was 17-18 with HF behind by only one point.
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BCS Trip To The Lion King
Plans are in the works for BCS MS/HS students to attend the March 17 2 pm matinee of the musical The Lion King at Proctor’s Theatre in Schenectady. We will be leaving school at 10:30 am and returning by 7 pm. The cost is $38 for students and adults/chaperones. If you are interested in going permission slips can be picked up in the Berlin HS main office. Space is limited.
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Darrow School Open House
Darrow School, an independent, college-preparatory boarding and day school in New Lebanon, will host an Open House on Monday, February 21, from 10 am to 2:30 pm. The event includes a full information session, an in-depth discussion with faculty, lunch with students and faculty, a Q&A with current students and tours of Darrow’s historic Shaker campus.
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