Petersburgh Fire Truck Vote Is Tuesday

by Alex Brooks The Petersburgh Fire Department is holding a vote this Tuesday, March 27, at the fire house from 6 to 9 pm for approval of the purchase of a new fire truck. The truck they are replacing is a 1956 pumper which they call “the Maxin” after the company which made it. That [...]

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Petersburgh Town Board Action – Town Hall Fixes Proposed

by Alex Brooks Supervisor Siegfried Krahforst arrived at this month’s Petersburgh Town Board meeting with estimates in hand for work on the Town Hall amounting to almost $10,000. He said a drainage pipe had already been laid to carry the water away from the building, and he proposed to put up gutters to catch the [...]

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Rensselaer County Legislature – Prominent Grafton And Babcock Lake Resident Honored

by Kieron Kramer The family of Charles Hamill of Grafton entered the well of the Rensselaer County Legislature on Tuesday night to receive copies of the resolution passed last month that memorialized him. Charles J. “Charlie” Hamill died on January 23, 2012.

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Rose Hewitt Celebrates 100 Years

by Bea Peterson Nineteen twelve was a leap year. It was the year the Titanic sank and the year Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. It was the year the fifth renewed Olympic Games opened in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the year Danny Thomas, Jose Ferrer, Jackson Pollock, Brian [...]

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Taconic Valley Basketball Awards Night

by Sherry Bowman-Kluck The Petersburgh Veterans Memorial Community Center was overflowing with the area’s aspiring basketball youth and their families on Tuesday night, March 6. It was the Awards Night and Pizza Party for the Taconic Valley Basketball Program. Approximately 90 young players were presented with trophies and pizza, not an easy task considering the [...]

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Petersburgh Town Board Action – To Secede Or Not To Secede

by Alex Brooks At the Petersburgh Town Board Meeting this week, Kurt Klein presented a petition signed by about 75 Petersburgh residents asking to have a referendum on whether the Town should secede from the Berlin School District. He said he had not been able to talk with everyone by any means but he had [...]

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Rensselaer County Legislature Honors Neil Manchester

by Kieron Kramer During the presentation period of the Rensselaer County Legislature’s regular meeting on Tuesday, February 14, the family of Neil Manchester of Petersburgh came to the podium in the well of the Legislature to be presented with the resolution passed at a special session on December 20 honoring their patriarch.

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Missing Petersburgh Woman Found After A Major Search

by Alex Brooks New York State Police were coordinating a major search for a missing woman from Petersburgh on Tuesday and Wednesday. Jessica Clyde, 28 years old, left her home in Petersburgh early Monday morning and no one knew where she went or if she was OK. Her family called police on Tuesday morning and [...]

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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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