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Hoosick Falls Bowling Team Season Preview 2014-2015

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by Coach Bob Lang

The Hoosick Falls bowling team has both experienced and upcoming young bowlers who are ready to defend their Adirondack League title.  There are five starters back from last year’s championship team – Ken Marbot, Senior Co-Captain, Josh McCart Junior Co-Captain, Jennifer Sargood, Junior, Kyla Day, Junior, and A.J. Hurlburt, Freshman.  The bowlers who are ready to bowl at the varsity level are  Senior Eric Bloomer, Senior William Charbonneau, Sophomore Jonathan Bossoni, Sophomore Tyler Lindsey, Sophomore Matthew Bulson, Sophomore Dan Suite and ninth-grader Lilli Williams.

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Berlin Central School Hosted The County-Wide Student Music Festival

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submitted by Erin Clary, Communications Specialist, Berlin Central School District

On November 15, Berlin Middle School/High School hosted the Rensselaer County School Music Association (RCSMA) All-County Ensemble Festival with four musical performances comprised of select ensembles from 14 school districts within the county.

This Festival’s program featured an elementary school chorus, a senior chorus, a jazz ensemble and a junior band. Each ensemble also featured local and renowned conductors including Katie Gardiner, elementary school chorus, Christina Pizzino-Catalano, senior chorus, Brian Carucci, jazz ensemble, and Michael Graves, junior band.

Ensembles are comprised of each school district’s most outstanding and committed student-musicians, with the intent that they will bring the music ensembles and lessons they have learned back to their schools to  positively influence their school district’s music program.

Students enjoy working with peers from other schools and benefit from the expertise of their guest conductors.

“I really enjoyed working with our conductor Michal Graves, as well as with all the other students,” said Brett Harris, tenor saxophone player in the junior band. “He definitely pushed us to our full extent, and we worked together like a well-oiled machine.”

The RCSMA holds two ensemble festivals a year as well as a scholarship festival in the spring. The participating school districts take turns hosting the event. According to Berlin High School Choral Director Leslie Eliashuk, hosting allows the district to showcase their facility and it gives a chance for the whole school to be involved.

“It’s good for bigger school districts to be able to come to Berlin to see what we bring to the event,” she said. “We utilize the entire school, from our food service to student tour guides. Even our student musicians not selected for the event participate through ensemble assistance and light operation – it’s a community effort.”

The next festival will be held February 1 at Troy CSD, featuring the County’s junior choir, elementary school band, jazz choir and senior high school band.

Pizza Night At Berlin MS/HS

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On Friday, December 12, from 4 to 7 pm, students, parents and teachers will be working together at the Berlin MS/HS to make and sell hot fresh pizzas to help students raise money for their trip to Spain in April. You can order online by emailing Karen Day at kday@berlincentral.org before 2 pm on Friday the 12th or by telephone after 3 pm at 658-2515 ext 1042.

Red or white pizzas start at $8 and toppings cost $1 each. Toppings include pepperoni, sausage, ham, bacon, mushrooms, green and yellow peppers, black olives, onions, jalapeños, pineapple, broccoli and starting this month, meatball.

We’re Going To The Dome!

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Panthers Stop Millbrook In Their Tracks, 29 – 0

by Steve Bradley

The Hoosick Falls Panthers headed down the Thruway last Saturday with the thoughts of a real struggle to earn the right to advance to the State championship game in Syracuse. This year they were playing a new opponent, the Millbrook Blazers, in the semifinal game at Kingston. [Read more…] about We’re Going To The Dome!

New Pellet Boiler At HFCS Almost Ready

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by Alex Brooks

The Hoosick Falls School Board held a relatively brief meeting on Monday, November 24. Neither Superintendent Ken Facin nor the two principals were present.

Board President Greg Laurin happily announced that all five of the fall sports teams had achieved “Scholar-Athlete” status, keeping grade point averages above 90.

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HFCS Bowlers Win First Match

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by Coach Bob Lang

The Hoosick Falls bowling team defeated Schuylerville, 3-1, in a non-league match for their first match of the season. Hoosick Falls had total match pins of 3,215, and Schuylerville had total match pins of 2,906. Schuylerville is now a member of the Foothills League and has an overall record of 5-7.

Top bowler for Schuylerville was Carter Fritch with a 266-640. Top bowlers for Hoosick Falls were Josh McCart 256-676, Ken Marbot 201-584, Jennifer Sargood 193-556 and Kyla Day 186-519. Other good scores from JV and Exhibition bowlers were William Charbonneau 184-464, Matt Bulson 160-462, James Hynd 152-440 and Meghan Backes 156-426.

“This was a good warmup match to get ready for league play which starts Tuesday, December 2, home, against Hoosic Valley. We won the first two games and then had trouble making spares in the third game and ended up losing that game by 23 pins. The team knows that we have a lot of work to do over the weeks to come, and making spares is one thing that we will have to improve on if we are to be successful,” said Coach Lang.

Bennington Elks Scholarships

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Terri Burdick, Scholarship Chair of  Bennington Elks 567, announced that the Elks are offering scholarships to area high school seniors.  The “Most Valuable Student Scholarship” applications are now available but can only be obtained online.  The deadline for returning these completed applications to the Bennington Elks or your  high school guidance office is December 5, so now is the time to act!

These scholarships are open to any U.S. high school senior and the online forms are also used to judge local scholarships given by the Elks.  Don’t delay!  Go to www.elks.org/ENF/scholars and begin the process.  Deadlines are critical.

Once the application has been downloaded, return the completed applications as soon as possible!

Students may also obtain information about the Legacy Awards (for children and grandchildren of Elks members) and the emergency grants (for children of deceased or totally disabled Elks).

HFCS Ski/Board Club Registration

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Terri Burdick, HFCS Ski/Board Club Advisor, is registering Hoosick Falls Central School District students in grades 5-8 for the Wednesday Willard Mountain Club.  Beginning January 7 and continuing for six weeks, students will be transported from HFCS to nearby Willard Mountain for evenings of snow and fun.  Lift and lessons cost only $130 or can include rental equipment for $165 (before November 25).  Helmets are a must and can also be rented for the season for an additional $30.

Students ski/board from 4:30 to 8:30 pm then return to HFCS by 9:30 pm. Willard also allows the students to continue in the Wednesday fun after the Club ends for no additional charge to continue to enjoy the winter.

Can’t beat it! Join us! Call Terri at 518-686-9492 x1034 for more information!  It’s “sno’ much fun!”