The Petersburgh Public Library Story Hour will be held Tuesdays at 10 am on November 30, December 7 and December 14. There will be no Story Hour on December 21 or 28 but they will resume on January 4.
Book Group
The Book Discussion Group will meet on Tuesday, December 14, at 7:30 pm. The book being discussed is The European Dream – How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Visitors and new members are always invited to attend.
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Archives for November 2010
Mountain Road School Annual Holiday Fair
The Mountain Road School invites the public to its Annual Holiday Fair! Come join us on December 11 from 10: am to 3 pm when we turn the cozy classrooms of our historic Shaker building into a wintry wonderland of artistry and crafts and fun children’s activities.
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Spanish Language Fun At The Grafton Library
The Grafton Community Library will be sponsoring a new monthly program for school age children and their families entitled “Spanish Language Fun for Families.” The program will be held on the first Friday of each month at 6:30 pm beginning on December 3. The program will be led by Grafton resident Angela Jimenez, a native of Bogota, Colombia. Basic vocabulary will be taught through the use of interactive activities and music.
For more information, please contact the Library at 279-0580 or visit the Library’s website at graftoncommunitylibrary.org.
Stephentown Book Group To read About War And The Post Office
The Stephentown Library Book Discussion Group will read The Postmistress by Sarah Blake for its meeting on Thursday, December 2.
In 1940, radio gal Frankie Bard, reporting on the Blitz from London, wants to bring the war home to Americans and urge them to action. The other half of the tale features some of Frankie’s listeners – Iris, the postmaster in a small Cape Cod town, and Emma Fitch, the bride of the young local doctor. Lives cross paths when Dr. Fitch volunteers to work at a London hospital. Both small town American life and war ravaged Europe are vividly brought to the reader.
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Boy Scout Troop #65 Sell Fresh Balsam Wreaths
Boy Scout Troop 65 of Hoosick Falls will be selling their fresh 14 inch balsam wreaths. Plain wreaths cost $12, wreaths with bows cost $14 and decorated wreaths cost $16. To order your wreath, contact Cheryl Downing at 686-4664.
New Lebanon Book Group To Discuss Tinkers
The New Lebanon Book Group will meet Sunday, December 5, at 11 am at the New Lebanon Library to discuss Tinkers by Paul Harding. This debut novel received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Grafton Library Launches Annual Appeal
The Grafton Community Library’s annual appeal is underway, with letters recently sent to Grafton property owners asking for their support of this local gem. Use of the Library has been growing steadily every year for the past 15 years with 2009 circulation reaching a record of 27,809 items lent.
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Hoosick Falls Extra Helpings!
Join Extra Helpings and save money on your food bill. Extra Helpings is a community food buying club with no age limits or income limits. Now there are more choices and better quality.
The December choices which can be ordered then are: $21 basic bundle: 3.75 lb. avg. wt. Bavarian holiday ham half, 1 lb. pkg. chicken patties, 1 lb. pkg. hamburger (90/10), 1 lb. pkg. all beef hot dogs, a 20 oz. bag of peeled butternut squash and a 1 lb. bag of baby carrots.
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Texas Hold’em
The Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, December 4, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located on Grange Hall Road in Stephentown. The doors will open at 5 pm and close at 6 pm. Play begins at 6:15 sharp.
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Tsatsawassa Fire Co. Calendar Drive
Members of the Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company Inc. serving the Brainard and East Nassau area wish to extend their thanks for the support the residents in the district have given during their recent calendar drive. Together with the calendar we offered a news letter outlining events for the ensuing year as well as a list of officers and a self-addressed envelope for mailing donations which will aid your fire company in providing the service that we so proudly offer.
Special thanks to member Tom Carroll, who delivered the calendars to the district homes, and we are most appreciative to the Thomas P. Mooney Funeral Home in Nassau for supplying the calendar.