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HFCS PTA is proud to announce its featured raffle items for the Sixteenth annual Fall Festival being held on Saturday, October 22 from 9 am to 3 pm, at Hoosick Falls Central School.
[Read more…] about HFCS PTA Fall Festival Celebrates Its 16th Year
The Panthers defeated Greenwich 3-0 on Thursday, October 6. [Read more…] about Ladies Continue To Add Wins
Thursday, April 4, 1839: I plowed corn hills. Today my plow hitched to a fast stone and the plow handle struck partly in my side and then I stumbled and hurt my back.
Friday: Today I was quite lame with my side and back.
Monday: Today I remain quite unwell with my back and side and I took physic, but this afternoon we plowed corn hills and this afternoon Stephen Van Rensselaer Wheeler came to board with me and work at shoe making and agrees to work two days out of each week to pay for his board.
Tuesday: This afternoon I took the single wagon and rode up to Birt’s tavern and was qualified with the other three assessors for that office and I paid three cents for bitters. Today said Stephen Wheeler mended my harness and mended shoes for me.
Wednesday: Today I walked to John Smith near the pool to see Mrs. Sophia Crocker if she had sold the shoe maker tools that her husband left, but she had sold them.
Thursday: I took my covered wagon and carried my wife and two oldest daughters to the Union Meeting house near Alps on the line of this town. Mr. Wilcox the Universalist minister was married to the daughter of Juni Chittendon, her name is Sarah.
Saturday: I walked to Hancock to Mr. Amos Delanie’s and hired a watch for this season for my daughter Angeline to keep the time in school, and I called to old Deacon Edward Carr’s to have him come and pay up the back rent I paid for his daughter to Stephen Van Rensselaer’s office. I called to Hiram Brown’s and helped elect Elijah Graves as a trustee for Old Stephentown to draw towns money.
submitted by Chief Robert Ashe
A Bennington man is facing charges after police found marijuana and a large sum of money in his vehicle during a traffic stop. [Read more…] about Hoosick Falls Police Find $117,500 In Car After Traffic Stop
[private]By Doug La Rocque
Following more than a year in the planning stages, state and local officials gathered last Thursday morning to mark the construction of the center that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office said will provide a year-round public gathering place for enhanced educational, recreational and volunteer programming in the heart of the park. [Read more…] about Ground Is Broken For The New 3.2 Million Dollar Grafton Lakes State Park Center
Over 60 runners and walkers entered the event, a race run as a remembrance.
[Read more…] about Entrants Enjoy Colvin Race
New York State Department of Health has offered blood testing for several months for people with concerns about exposures to PFOA from having lived or worked in the Hoosick and Petersburgh areas. [Read more…] about NYS DOH Announces Additional First-round Biomonitoring Dates
submitted by EPA
As part of its on-going work in Hoosick Falls, NY, in May 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sampled soil at a number of residential properties near the Saint-Gobain McCaffrey Street facility to determine if soil in the area has been impacted by past operations at the facility. [Read more…] about EPA Study of Soils Near Saint Gobain McCaffrey Street Plant Finds Nothing Dangerous
by Alex Brooks
The possibility of including a timber harvest in the management plan for a 1200 acre parcel of land in Mattison Hollow has some local folks up in arms. [Read more…] about DEC Plan To Harvest Timber In Mattison Hollow Provokes Opposition
By Doug La Rocque
With visitors from as far away as Maine, Ontario, Tennessee and South Dakota, more than 100 people gathered at the site of the Pagoda on Grafton’s Crandall Road last Saturday to mark the anniversary of its opening in the fall of 1993. [Read more…] about Grafton Peace Pagoda Celebrates 23rd Anniversary With Prayer And Reflection
