At Special Meeting BCSD Board Votes To Accept Barter Proposals For Empty Buildings

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 [...]

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St. Rose Champion Coach Is Speaker At HF Girls Soccer Banquet

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 [...]

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Nicole St. Onge Goes To Washington DC

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 [...]

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HFCS Budget May Suffer From Evaporating State Money

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 [...]

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BCS Plan To Give Away School Buildings Is Tabled

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 [...]

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HFCS Considers Accepting Non-Resident Students

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 [...]

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Emergency Service Concerns Brought To The BCS Board

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 [...]

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HFCS’s Varsity Club Kicks Off Fundraiser With Cumberland Farms

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 [...]

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Notice Of BCS Vote Count Correction

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 [...]

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Free Throws Push Panthers To Victory In Triple OT

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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