Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper
by Bea Peterson
People began to gather in front of St. Mark’s Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls about 5:30 Sunday evening. Some lit luminaries. Others carried candles. Many carried photos of loved ones lost to suicide. They gathered as a reminder that there is help out there for those contemplating the taking of his or her own life.
by Thaddeus Flint
Members of the group Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline (SNYFGP), which is advocating against a new high pressure gas pipeline planned to run through parts of Columbia County, are done waiting for pipeline officials to schedule a public meeting on the subject in New Lebanon and have gone ahead and scheduled their own.
“We are taking the initiative,” said SNYFGP member Bruce Shenker Tuesday. The meeting will take place at the New Lebanon Town Hall on October 29 at 6:30 pm.
[Read more…] about Anti Gas Pipeline Advocates Schedule A Public Meeting
by Alex Brooks
On Monday, October 6, the Hoosick Zoning Board met to consider two proposed projects, and approved them both.
The first to present was Duane Greenawalt, the owner of Hathaway’s Drive-in movie theatre, who is seeking permission to erect a second screen so that he can show two movies simultaneously.
by Bea Peterson
On Sunday evening, October 4, residents of Wood Park and Woodbridge Heights had an opportunity to step back in time with Phyllis Chapman. Chapman, in period dress, has been portraying historic figures for 16 years, starting at the Bennington Museum. Sunday she appeared as Lucy Larcom, a nineteenth century textile mill worker, author, poet and teacher. According to Chapman Lucy was the second youngest of eight children whose widowed mother came to Lowell, MA, with her younger children to supervise a boarding house for mill workers. Lucy went to school at first but began working at the textile mill in 1837, at age 11, to help support the family.
by David Flint
Cries of “Appeal! Appeal!” and “Collusion of witnesses!” erupted from the audience following the re-enactment of the trial of Whiting Sweeting at the Stephentown Heritage Center last Monday evening.
Whiting Sweeting of Stephentown, son of a prominent local doctor, was convicted of murder in July of 1791 and was later hanged in Albany. [Read more…] about The Trial Of Whiting Sweeting Of Stephentown – July 1791
$50 Fills A Basket
Higher prices, reductions in Food Stamp allocations and fewer cash donations could make for skimpy Holiday food baskets this year, according to HACA Director Dianne Hosterman. The organization has distributed free baskets of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner ingredients to income eligible Hoosick area residents for the past 35 years. [Read more…] about HACA Prepares For Holiday Food Distribution
submitted by Ed Bride
BEHOLD! New Lebanon is a new type of living museum that celebrates and explores contemporary rural American life. Over the course of four weekends between Labor Day and early November, more than 50 country guides invite visitors into their homes and work spaces, where they practice cooking, farming, cattle raising, automobile racing and mechanics, furniture-making, and much more. The guides are not costumed docents recalling old-world skills, they are actual townspeople.
[Read more…] about BEHOLD! New Lebanon Columbus Day Weekend Activities
A Masquerade Cabaret will be held Saturday evening, November 1, at the HAYC3 Armory in Hoosick Falls. The show will begin at 7 pm. Headlining this event will be Hoosick Falls’ own Broadway luminary, Kevin McGuire, with accompanist Richard Cherry. [Read more…] about A Masquerade Cabaret In Hoosick Falls
The Grafton Historical Society will meet at 7 pm in the Grafton Town Hall on Wednesday, October 15. This month’s topic will be “America’s Volunteer Lifesavers: 75 Years of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.”
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the uniformed volunteer component of the U.S. Coast Guard. The USCG Auxiliary has evolved from its beginnings in 1939, when it taught boating safety and guarded the beaches from invaders, to being a critical force multiplier for the Coast Guard.
The speaker, Charles Poltenson, is USCG Division Vice Commander and Chief of Staff for Division 15, which is responsible for an area from Saugerties to the Canadian Border. He is also a member of the United States Coast Guard Pipe Band.
This program is free, and the public is welcome. Refreshments will be served.
