Leslie Whitcomb, the Principal of New Lebanon Jr./Sr. High School announced on September 30 that Geneva Furlano has been named a Commended Student in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to this scholastically talented senior. Furlano is also a star athlete on the Tiger girls varsity soccer team.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2010 competition for National Merit Scholarships, Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2010 competition by taking the 2008 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).
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Tree and Shrub Seedling Sale
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar today announced that the Colonel William F. Fox Memorial Saratoga Tree Nursery’s annual spring seedling sale is now open and will run until May 14th. Each year, the nursery offers low-cost, New York-grown tree and shrub species for sale to encourage plantings that help […]
Narcotics Investigation Arrest
Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office Press Release On January 7th, Kandie L. Stowell, a 40-year-old resident of Hoosick Falls, was arrested for the second time in a year following a three-month-long narcotics investigation. Stowell, who was scheduled to appear in Rensselaer County Court on January 8th for sentencing to probation in a prior felony case, was […]
School News
Man Facing Charges Following Sexual Exploitation Investigation
Berlin Central School District Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office Press Release A Cropseyville man is facing charges following a sexual exploitation investigation by the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Unit. Justin K. Covell, 31, is being charged in connection with four separate incidents involving the sexual exploitation of four minors. In the Town of Petersburgh, […]
Varsity Swim Meet
Berlin-New Lebanon Swim by Tim Christiansen, Berlin Varsity Swim Coach Berlin/New Lebanon took their first loss of the season to a talented Mt. Anthony team. Mt. Anthony took a commanding 16-2 lead to start the meet by placing 1st and 2nd in the first two races. Berlin-New Lebanon would bounce back with George Lamphere-Webster winning […]
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Hoosick Falls Girls Basketball by Jeffrey Bernstein Meg Barber, now the head coach at NYU, is one of the best basketball players to come out of Hoosick Falls High School. The 1998 graduate’s 1,643 career points were the most scored by a female Panther when she left the program. Barber held that record until 2020, […]