Lady Panthers Are Co-Champs After Tough 0-0 Marathon
by Bea Peterson
After sailing to victory in the NYS Class C semi-final match on Saturday against Tully High School the Hoosick Falls girls soccer team, ranked #2 in the State, faced a formidable foe on Sunday. On Saturday Long Island’s Friends Academy, ranked #4, knocked off #1 Keshequa High School 3-2 to meet HF in the Championship game.
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Archives for November 2011
Panther Football Falls In Semi-Final Heartbreaker
by Ryan Mosher
The Hoosick Falls football team’s great 2011 season came to a sudden halt on Saturday at Dietz Stadium in Kingston, NY. The Panthers took on Dobbs Ferry in the State semifinal game, with a ticket to the State Championship at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse on the line.
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Fly Like An Eagle
Beacon Power To Sell Stephentown Plant
by David Flint
Beacon Power will put the Stephentown frequency regulation plant up for sale. The company, which filed for bankruptcy three weeks ago, reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) to conduct the sale of the facility by January 30, 2012.
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Stephentown Town Board Action – 2012 Budget Set At 2% Tax Levy Increase
by David Flint
The Stephentown Town Board adopted a budget for 2012 on Monday evening that calls for exactly a 2% increase in the tax levy. The budget includes projected expenditures of $583,345 from the General Fund, $663,645 from the Highway Fund and $137,000 from the Fire District, for a total of $1,383,990. This is a decrease in spending of close to 1% from the current year’s budget. With revenue expected to be down by about $26,000, and $20,000 to be taken from the unexpended fund balance, the tax levy comes to $795,990, a 2% increase. As Councilman Bill Jennings put it at a budget hearing the week before, the Board could easily override the State’s new 2% tax cap with a simple majority Board vote, but they felt they should make every effort to stay within the spirit of the law.
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Young In Grafton
by Thaddeus Flint
One of the first of many problems the Berlin School District’s new Superintendent, Dr. Stephen Young, wanted to address when he started work this fall was communication. “We have to sell BCS to the community, each community,” said Young in an interview with the Eastwick Press on September 30. At that time he envisioned visiting each town in the District to outline his new ideas, and in the past few weeks he has been doing just that.
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HFCS Implements Teacher Evaluation System
by Alex Brooks
Hoosick Falls Schools Superintendent Ken Facin said at the School Board meeting this month that the District has a signed agreement with the Hoosick Falls teachers union on how the new teacher evaluations will be done.
A State requirement for an annual performance review of teachers in public schools is being phased in starting this year. There are some requirements imposed by the State on how these are to be done, but a lot of the details of how the evaluations are done is under local control, and these are negotiated between the District and the Union.
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Petersburgh Stolen Blind
by Alex Brooks
Petersburgh Town Highway Superintendent Ray Harrison told the Town Board that someone has been stealing the Town blind of its emergency road markers. Four large “Road Closed” signs have been taken. It costs $340 each to replace them, and, in addition to that, hazardous roads are suddenly unmarked when someone takes away the “Road Closed” signs. The orange emergency marker cones have also been disappearing. Harrison said he has lost at least 50 of those since Hurricane Irene. These cost $38 apiece, and the special tall ones cost over a hundred. He has also lost 4 to 5 barrels which cost $150 each to replace.
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Grafton Planning Board Action – A Full House
by Kieron Kramer
The agenda for the Grafton Planning Board meeting on Monday, November 21, was packed with four new subdivision applications to be considered and one application to be approved. Perhaps the extreme activity at this meeting was prompted just by the desire to tidy up these projects in the current fiscal year. Perhaps the applicants wanted to deal with this Board before the changing of the guard in January. In any event all four new applications were accepted for review and public hearings were scheduled for them.
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