Healing Trip To Vietnam Fund-Raiser Draws Large Crowd

by Mary Lou Walters The Taconic Valley American Legion Auxiliary’s Fund-raiser  to support Wally O’Neil’s healing trip to Vietnam was a nice success. On Saturday over 100 people came out in frigid weather to enjoy a wonderful variety of food, great music and an awesome eclectic Chinese auction. Kathy Jaeger donated the door prize of [...]

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Petersburgh Town Board Discusses Water District Finances

by Alex Brooks The Petersburgh Town Board held a meeting on Tuesday, January 17, to discuss the finances of the Water District. Only four citizens attended the meeting, along with Supervisor Krahforst, Councilmen Snyder and Goodermote and Town Clerk Callie Crisp. The problem currently is that the District is in deficit by about $5,000. Although [...]

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Former BCS Board Member Urges Petersburgh Secession From School District

by Alex Brooks At this month’s Petersburgh Town Board meeting the Town Board heard a presentation from Kurt Klein asking the Petersburgh Town Board to consider seceding from the Berlin Central School District and affiliating with another District. Klein said he was a member of the Berlin Board of Education for 15 years, so he [...]

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VPS Control Systems Achieves SHARP Status

by Alex Brooks A ceremony was held at VPS Control Systems, Inc., this week to acknowledge the company’s achievement of SHARP status. The Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) is an OSHA program that recognizes small businesses which operate an exemplary safety and health management system.

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Twenty Years And Still Kicking

by Bea Peterson The Eastwick Press begins its 20th year of publication with this first issue of 2012. Over that time it has grown from an 8½ by 11 inch monthly news sheet to the 16 page weekly tabloid size newspaper it is today. Circulation has grown from less than 100 to near 2,000. Begun [...]

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Petersburgh Organizational Meeting 2012

by Alex Brooks Incoming Petersburgh Town Supervisor Siegfried Krahforst said he would like to set up some committees to move the Town forward. He hopes that interested citizens will join these committees. He suggests that each committee have two citizens and one Town Board member on it. He would like to appoint a committee to [...]

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Petersburgh Ambulance Saves A Young Life

Family Travels From Rhode Island To Thank Squad Members by Alex Brooks On Sunday September 4, 17 year old Nathan Therien was driving through Petersburgh when he suddenly and very unexpectedly went into cardiac arrest. This was on Route 22 near the intersection with Prosser Hollow Road. Nathan’s 20 year old sister, Paige, was in [...]

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Petersburgh Town Board Action – Duane Goodermote Jr. Appointed to Town Board

by Alex Brooks The Petersburgh Town Board accepted with regret the resignation of Amy Manchester. She is giving up her position on the Town Council to take up her duties as the new Town Justice. Amy recently attended a training course for new Town Justices at SUNY. She said it was hard, but she got [...]

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Kelsey O’Dell – VFW Voice Of Democracy

by David Flint Kelsey O’Dell, daughter of Lecia and Larry O’Dell of Petersburgh, has been selected as the winner of the Berlin High School Voice of Democracy Essay Contest. Since 1947 the Voice of Democracy has been the  premier scholarship program of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Each year more than 50,000 high school students [...]

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Letter To The Editor – Focus On Christ During The Holiday Season

To the Editor: Two things drive me crazy during this season: the focus on the secular and (ashamedly) the never ending requests for donations. The latter changed Saturday when I visited my sister. She is schizophrenic and in a nursing home. She has been crazy for 51 of her 69 years, yet she is a [...]

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