On Sunday, December 4, from 7 to 11 am, the Berlin Fire Department will be holding its fresh, hot off the griddle monthly breakfast. For your eating pleasure we include all-you-can-eat pancakes, French toast, biscuits for our homemade sausage gravy, sausage and bacon, toast, home fries and eggs (scrambled, sunny side, over easy or over hard). Beverage choices include coffee, tea, (both decaf available), hot chocolate, milk and orange juice.
Prices are $7 for adults, $4 for kids 5-10 and free for kids under 5. Please join us before church, grocery run or what you are doing for the day and have a great start to the morning.
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Archives for November 2011
Cans For Cancer
Please donate your cans and bottles to a great cause! Terri Burdick, of the Hoosier Hopefuls Relay For Life team will pick up your donations if you call 518-686-7851. Or you can simply bring them to Nickelback Redemption Center on lower Carey Avenue in Hoosick Falls and add them to our account. It’s an easy way to donate to the American Cancer Society!
Texas Hold’em In Stephentown
The Veterans of Stephentown will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, December 3, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located at 35 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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Megan Myers Of Petersburgh Bags Deer On First Day Of Hunting Season
The 2011 regular deer and bear hunting seasons opened at sunrise on Saturday, November 19, in New York’s Southern Zone. The two big game seasons close at sunset on Sunday, December 11.
The Southern Zone regular deer season is New York’s most popular hunting season, with participation from about 85 percent of New York’s 560,000 licensed deer hunters. Harvest during this season accounts for nearly 60 percent of the total statewide deer harvest. The remainder occurs in the Northern Zone, on Long Island and during special seasons when only archery or muzzleloading firearms may be used.
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Club Moss
Nutcracker And Sweets
Ballet students from The School of Creative Arts, located at The Sand Lake Center for the Arts, along with special guests from The Saratoga City Ballet will perform excerpts from The Nutcracker ballet. [Read more…] about Nutcracker And Sweets
Commemorating The 150th Anniversary Of The Civil War – Letters From A Local Soldier
Calvin A. Haynes of East Nassau, NY at the age of 24 enlisted in August 1862 at Troy in the 125th New York Infantry Regiment. His letters home to his wife Lucy have been transcribed by John Minitti of Winchester, MA and are here reproduced, with some editing, courtesy of the New York State Library, Manuscripts and Special Collections.
The Life Of George Holcomb – A Summer As A Hired Laborer
In the last episode, George bargained with his uncle Levi Pease about his wages, and Pease assured George he would be satisfied. But George was not happy with the reckoning:
“when we brought in our accounts, mine was only 55 dollars, for he would not allow me for what I did in September last, he thought my work only paid my board, and his account against me is 28 dollars and 86 cents, of which he makes this debt against me, is the money he has paid me in the time and things to stores when sick, likewise the doctor bill he has agreed to settle and the shoemaker bill likewise – of which he stands indebted to me now 26 dollars 14 cents, if no mistakes. One thing more he makes up the debt before-mentioned against me, that is my board, when sick, of which he charged two dollars a week.”
Holcomb clearly was unsatisfied by these reckonings and immediately set out to find work: “Set out to look me a place for a home and to work. I went from this town to Worcester.” He inquired for work all over Worcester in divers establishments. Finding only one offer, of 5 dollars a month, he set out for the cotton factory at Northbridge but found that no hands were wanted. On the evening of the third day he met up with a man named Levi Lincoln who offered to pay him 95 dollars for six months work. Holcomb accepted and returned to Shrewsbury that evening. The next day he packed up his clothes and carried his belongings to Levi Lincoln’s farm near Worcester, beginning work the next morning.
On June 19 Holcomb’s father and sister arrived to visit him, and they all went over to Uncle Levi Pease’s farm in Shrewsbury to spend the Sunday together. “Father wishes me to come home as quick as the times will do, for he says to me he wants to put his farm under my care, if not part or all in my hands.”
He rose early Monday morning and walked to Worcester, so as to be back at work by six in the morning as usual. On Tuesday his father and sister came by on their way back to Stephentown, bringing presents of clothing for George.
He worked steadily all through the summer, though he was bothered on several occasions by “disentery symptoms,” even missing one day of work because he was “so out of health.”
At the end of September he secured another Certificate (he has now learned to spell the word correctly) which will discharge him from military duty if he is called on. The reason for the discharge was “hard of hearing.”
Nov 2, 1813: “Tuesday I worked for Lieut Governor Lincoln on his son Levi account.”
On Nov. 8, Levi Lincoln paid him 97 dollars for his work over the summer and fall, and Levi Pease paid him the remainder of the wages owed him for work done the previous fall and winter. He settled all his debts with local merchants and set out to go home to Stephentown on November 12. He arrived home at 4 o’clock November 17, after six days of traveling. Two days later he began work for his father.
Propane Truck Accident In Stephentown
by David Flint
A propane truck that went out of control, rolled over and ended up in a ditch had fire and emergency units scrambling and nerves on edge Monday. The accident happened shortly after noon on November 14 on South Stephentown Road just north of the New Lebanon line. [Read more…] about Propane Truck Accident In Stephentown
Hoosick Veterans Memorial Wall Dedicated
by Bea Peterson
On Friday, November 11 (11/11/11) American Legion Post #40 and the members of the Veterans Wall Committee dedicated the new Veterans Memorial Wall in Wood Park. The event started at 11 am with the placing of wreaths in front of the new bronze plaques by veterans Ike Powers, Ed Gorman, Ben Nowik Frank Wilwol, Harold Bowen and Jim Cutler.
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