Each year during the months of April and November a general cleanup is conducted within the St. Mary’s Cemetery. We wish to remind lot owners and visitors of their responsibility for removing any and all decorations on the lot, especially any they may wish to save, prior to Monday, November 5.
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New Lebanon Library November Events
The New Lebanon Library announces the following November events. All of these events are free and will take place at the Library which is located at 550 State Route 20.
• November 7, 14, 21, 28 (event is on Wednesdays) – Kid’s Stuff – Tales for Tots Story Hour – 10:30 am. Story hour includes crafts, songs and movement activities.
• November 7, 14, 21, 28 (event is on Wednesdays) – Kid’s Stuff – Hug-A-Bye Babies – Noon. Age appropriate stories, songs, and movement activities for our youngest patrons and their caregivers.
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PVMCC Holiday Craft And Gift Fair
On Saturday, December 8, from 9 am to 1 pm there will be a holiday craft and gift fair at the Petersburgh Veterans memorial Community Center. Save the date.
Crafters, there is still space available for you!
For information, please call Joan at 518-478-3611 or email starryridgetimberframes@gmail.com.
North Chatham Library Presents Wildlife
On Sunday, November 4, at 3 pm, Brian Robinson, biologist and teacher, will bring some of the wild birds and reptiles he raises for a presentation at the North Chatham Library. This program is for all ages. The Library is located at 4287 Route 203 in the hamlet of North Chatham. For more information, phone 766-3211.
Berlin Fire Department Breakfast
On Sunday, November 4, from 7 to 11 am, the Berlin Fire Department will be holding its fresh, hot off the griddle monthly breakfast. For your eating pleasure we include all-you-can-eat pancakes, French toast, biscuits for our homemade sausage gravy, sausage and bacon, toast, home fries and eggs (scrambled, sunny side, over easy or over hard). Beverage choices include coffee, tea (both decaf available), hot chocolate, milk and orange juice. The cost is $7 for adults, $4 for kids 5-10 and free for kids under 5.
Please join us before church, grocery run or what you are doing for the day and have a great start to the morning.
Patrick Adrion Named To The President’s List At MVCC
Mohawk Valley Community College, located in Utica and Rome, NY, is proud to announce that Patrick Adrion from Petersburgh, completed the Spring 2012 semester with academic excellence and qualified for the President’s List.
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Grafton Lakes State Park Events
• Wednesday, November 7, 14, 21 and 28 – Wandering Wednesdays with Friends member Dorothy Surprise. Come explore the Park with the open views allowed in the month of November’s forest. To register, visit www.meetup.com/friendsofgraftonlakesstatepark.
• Monday, November 12 at 10 am – Lost in the Woods. Developed by an avid outdoorsman and search and rescue volunteer, this program gives your children the tools and basic instruction to know what to do if they ever find themselves lost in the outdoors. The program is free, and it may save your child’s life! Meet at the Park Office. Call 279-1155 to register.
• Saturday, December 1 – 8:15 am to 4:30 pm – Snowmobile Safety Course. Sponsored by the Grafton Trail Blazers, this free snowmobile safety course for youth 10 and older is approved by NYS Parks. To register, call 279-1155. Free lunch will be offered to all attendees.The course will be held at the Grafton VFW on South Road.
J. Douglas Goodermote
Berlin – Doug (John Douglas) Goodermote of Echo Park, Berlin, NY, let go of this life on October 30, 2012, just 5½ hours shy of his 94th Halloween Birthday. He was at home alone with his beloved son, Kent, and daughter-in-law, Lilly, by his side, just as he had wanted.
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Anna LaFlure
Hoosick Falls – Anna Philips Slocum LaFlure, 94, died peacefully on October 28, 2012, at her daughter’s home in Wauseon, OH, after a brief illness. She was a popular resident at the Fulton Suites in Wauseon, where she had resided since 2007. Prior to her move north she resided in Largo, FL.
Ann was born on October 22, 1918, at home in Easton, NY, the second of three girls born to Alex and Lillian Surdam Slocum. After graduating from the Walter A. Wood High School in Hoosick Falls, NY, she attended Green Mountain College, Class of ’39, in Poultney, VT, and studied business. Ann married William (Bill) R. LaFlure at her parents’ home in Hoosick Falls on April 19, 1941, and they remained happily married for 47 years until his death in 1989.
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The Life Of George Holcomb – A Trip On The Newly Constructed Erie Canal
by Alex Brooks
Holcomb is in Madison County, NY to consult with his sister Miriam and other relations about settling his father’s will. Although the Erie Canal was not completed until 1825, Holcomb came back to Albany by boat in June of 1824.
Saturday, June 5, 1824: This morning sister Miriam filled my pack with victuals and my bottle with whiskey and she sends one shilling to sister Newton and her husband’s little girl Rosanna sends some small presents to my children and to brother Wm’s and I left there.
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