The Johnsonville Rescue Squad located at 4 River Road is holding its monthly breakfast on Sunday, November 4, from 7:30 to 11:30 am. The cost for adults is $6, children $3. The menu consists of eggs, French toast, pancakes, sausage, omelets, hash browns, juice, fruit and coffee. For more information, call 753-9549.
Stephentown Texas Hold’em
The Volunteer Fire Department will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, October 22, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located at 35 Grange Hall Road in Stephentown. 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, and a donation of $35 per player will be accepted. Players can make an additional $10 donation at the door for 1,000 extra chips. This tournament will pay one place for every ten players with a minimum of four places and a maximum of 9 places.
For more information, please call John Linton at 518-733-0469.
Holiday Dried Flower Designs To Benefit Scholarship Fund
by Gail Turi
Members of the Cambridge Area Branch of the Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association held a floral design workshop on Thursday, October 11. Several members gathered at the Wood Park meeting room to create designs using dried plant material. These arrangements, created for the fall and winter holiday season, will be sold at a Silent Auction at the Cambridge Branch of the Glens Falls National Bank. The proceeds will benefit the Branch’s Scholarship Fund.
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Travels With A Masked Man – A Look Behind The Curtain Of The 1960s CIA
Hubbard Hall Theater Company Artistic Director John Hadden brings us a new version of his solo theater piece, Travels with a Masked Man, based upon interviews with his father who was the CIA station chief in Israel during the 1967 Six Day War. It is a play about deception, “the game” of espionage and rough filial love.
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Friends Of Grafton Lakes Annual Dinner Meeting
The Friends of Grafton Lakes State Park invite neighbors and newcomers to their Annual Dinner Meeting featuring Animal Tracks & Tales, a lecture by local animal tracker Dan Yacobellis of Tamakoce Wilderness Programs. The dinner and lecture will be on Thursday, November 1, at 6 pm at the Grafton Inn, and reservations are required through the Park by calling 279-1155.
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Volunteer Day And Annual Meeting Of The Friends Of The Dyken Pond Center
The Friends Of The Dyken Pond Center will hold its Volunteer Day And Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 27, at the Dyken Pond Center.
Schedule of Events
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Rev. Ken Webster Installed As Pastor Of The Hoosick Falls First Baptist Church
by Bea Peterson
In a beautiful Installation Service on Sunday, October 21, Rev. Ken Webster was installed as Pastor of the Hoosick Falls First Baptist Church. Master of ceremonies for the service was Carol Gaillard. Kendal Baker welcomed everyone to the event.
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Mary R. Gorton
Berlin – Mary R. Gorton, 68, of Southeast Hollow Road in Berlin, NY, died suddenly on Monday, October 22, 2012, at Berkshire Medical Center after being stricken at her home.
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The Life Of George Holcomb – A Journey To The West
Sunday May 30, 1824: This morning I started for the westward and brother Sylvester put his horse to my wagon and carried me to Nassau at the gate near Dunham’s tavern. I then walked on to Bath. I crossed the ferry in a small boat in company with some that was going over. It cost me nothing. I passed through Albany on to Guilderland on the Cherry Valley turnpike, and put up to a Dutch tavern thirteen miles from Albany. Tonight I had tea and my own victuals.
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BCSD Drops Threat Of Board Member Removal
by Thaddeus Flint
A request in the cover letter of a petition from residents of the Berlin School District to have three members of the School Board who continue to block a Capitol Project bond authorization removed by the other four members will not be acted on. The matter was left for the residents to deal with themselves come the next election.
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