HFCS Presents First Draft Of Budget

by Alex Brooks The first draft of the Hoosick Falls School District budget was presented last week. Superintendent Ken Facin called the situation “challenging,” but he set a goal of developing a budget that does not exceed a 2% tax levy increase, with minimal impact on staffing and student programming. He said, “We have some [...]

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HFCS Bowling Team To Represent Section II In State Finals

On Friday, February 10, the Hoosick Falls bowling team successfully defended its Section II C-D title with a great win at Boulevard Lanes in Schenectady. They won the title in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012 and placed second in 2008 and 2010. They finished with a six-game total of 6,060 pins. Hoosick Falls beat the Class [...]

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Panthers Runners-Up As Burns, Weierbach Retain Section II Titles

by Ryan Mosher The Panther wrestling team has already this year won the Wasaren League title, the Ken Baker Classic title and the Class C Championship. The Panthers had four individual champions at the Ken Baker Classic and the Class C Championships as well and qualified ten wrestlers to compete this past weekend at the [...]

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Panther Wrestlers Win Class C Section II Championship

by Ryan Mosher The Hoosick Falls wrestling team went 4-0 in the finals of the Class C Tournament on Saturday to clinch its first sectional title in over a decade. The Panthers scored 197.5 points to beat second place Galway (174 points) and third place Corinth (169 points).

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Panthers Clinch Wasaren League Boys Basketball Title With Win Over Granville

by Ryan Mosher Playing in their final home game at Hoosick Falls against Granville, the Panthers’ five senior basketball players clinched another Wasaren League championship. Tanner Williams, Ryan Hyde, Matt Gormley, Aaron Perkins and Alex Lilac were honored prior to the game, as was Jenni Steller, Emily Hoag and Stephany Bradley, the team scorekeeper and [...]

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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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