At Special Meeting BCSD Board Votes To Accept Barter Proposals For Empty Buildings
February 3, 2012 Leave a Comment
by David Flint The Berlin School District has decided to seek specific proposals from the Grafton Fire District and the Stephentown Town Board for taking over ownership of the closed elementary school properties in those towns. School Board President Gina Goodermote, having failed to get approval two weeks ago to hold a referendum in March [...]
Read more of this articleSt. Rose Champion Coach Is Speaker At HF Girls Soccer Banquet
February 3, 2012 Leave a Comment
by Bea Peterson NCAA Division II 2011 Coach of the Year Laurie Darling Gutheil was the guest speaker at the HFCS Girls Soccer banquet on Sunday, January 29. This year Gutheil coached her St. Rose women’s soccer team to the school’s first ever National Championship in Division 2. Their record was 24-1-1. She said her [...]
Read more of this articleNicole St. Onge Goes To Washington DC
January 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
by Aelish Nealon and Bea Peterson “It’s important that the voices of today’s teens are heard, and it’s even more important that we are given a chance to make a change in the world that we will eventually be taking care of. Beginning with Project Ignition and other youth-led programs, we are given an opportunity [...]
Read more of this articleHFCS Budget May Suffer From Evaporating State Money
January 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
by Alex Brooks The Hoosick Falls School District has been informed that under the Governor’s recently released budget, State operating aid for the District would go up by about $200,000. This is about 1% of the District’s total budget. It would be an increase in State operating aid of a little over 2%. If the [...]
Read more of this articleBCS Plan To Give Away School Buildings Is Tabled
January 20, 2012 2 Comments
by Thaddeus Flint A vote by the Berlin School Board on whether to offer its vacant elementary schools to the Town of Stephentown and to the Grafton Fire District failed to pass Wednesday at the monthly School Board meeting in Cherry Plain. Board President Gina Goodermote has been leading the charge to rid the District [...]
Read more of this articleHFCS Considers Accepting Non-Resident Students
January 13, 2012 Leave a Comment
by Alex Brooks At their December meeting the Hoosick Falls School Board discussed the possibility of accepting non-resident students on a tuition basis. Superintendent Ken Facin said he has been contacted by families from outside the District who are interested in sending their children to the Hoosick Falls Schools. He suggested to the Board that [...]
Read more of this articleEmergency Service Concerns Brought To The BCS Board
December 22, 2011 7 Comments
by Thaddeus Flint First responders from the Berlin Rescue Squad and the Berlin Volunteer Fire Company were present at the Berlin Central School District’s December Board meeting Tuesday in response to a lack of response from the Board on whether to allow responders who also work at the schools to respond to emergency calls in [...]
Read more of this articleHFCS’s Varsity Club Kicks Off Fundraiser With Cumberland Farms
December 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
by Bea Peterson Cumberland Farms customers received a special treat Friday afternoon, December 16, when they entered the store on Church Street. They were greeted with trays of hot sandwiches and pizza to sample. It was the company’s celebration of the reopening of the updated store. Cumberland Farms Regional Director Brian VanBuren said the company [...]
Read more of this articleNotice Of BCS Vote Count Correction
December 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
from Superintendent Young’s Office It has come to our attention that there was a clerical error in reporting the results of the December 13, 2011, referendum on the capital project for the schools of the Berlin Central School District. This inadvertent error does not affect the outcome of the vote – we are pleased that [...]
Read more of this articleFree Throws Push Panthers To Victory In Triple OT
December 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
by Ryan Mosher After watching the first quarter of Tuesday night’s Hoosick Falls versus Stillwater matchup, you would not think a close game was a possibility, let alone a triple overtime nail-biter. That’s what happened though as the Warriors battled back from an early double digit deficit to give the spectators in Hoosick Falls a [...]
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