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Taconic Valley Soccer Club Looking For Players

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The TVSC is looking for boys and girls from New Lebanon, grades kindergarten to fifth, who want to learn to play soccer! We play at Berlin Elementary School on Saturdays starting on April 26. Play begins at 9 am.

Registration costs $35. This fee includes uniforms, socks and insurance. Our club participates in the John Warner Youth Soccer League in Southern Vermont.

Forms for registration can be picked up at the local libraries as well as online at taconicvalley.sportssignup.com.

For further information, please contact Jen Burhans at 658-2096.

Students To Spend Sunday In School Solving Math Challenge

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A group of Tech Valley High School students will report to school on Sunday to spend the day engrossed in math. And they are doing so willingly!

The students are competing in the Moody’s Mega Math Challenge, during which they have 14 hours to complete an open-ended, applied math modeling problem based on a real world issue.

Panels of Ph.D. level applied mathematicians will serve as judges during three rounds of judging in the international contest.

A Tech Valley math teacher said TVHS is fielding two teams to compete in the competition. Included on the all-junior teams is Erin Wilder of New Lebanon.

Vegetable Gardening For Beginners At The New Lebanon Library

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John Senger, New Lebanon resident and proprietor of Windswept Farms, will conduct a workshop on vegetable gardening at the New Lebanon Library on Thursday, March 6, at 6:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Gardening topics discussed will include benefits and rewards of starting plants from seed, how to select plants when seeds are not an option, necessary equipment and soil and site requirements. This workshop will help both novice and experienced gardeners start planning their best gardens ever.

A graduate of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, John Senger has amassed more than forty years of experience in gardening. Since 1986, he has run Windswept Farms in New Lebanon with his wife, Amy, and before that managed Senger’s Nursery in Pittsfield.

For further information on this free event, please call the New Lebanon Library at 518-794-8844. The Library is located at 550 State Route 20, ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20/22.

Patricia Jean Sherman

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Stephentown/New Lebanon – On February 5, 2014, Pat Sherman of Stephentown, NY, left the earth she loved so well. Born downstate, daughter of the late Lucille and Maury Medwick, she always knew there must be a place where she could live freely and unpretentiously, and once she found that place, she never left. She was an idealist and a realist who understood that the wilderness where she made her home had to be respected and fought for – she was a fighter through and through. She had little use for the things most people worried about – possessions, luxuries, even conveniences like electricity – but could love a tree to distraction and would go to any lengths to protect the creatures of the woods, many of which she rescued during her many years as a wildlife rehabilitator. It was not unusual for her to call a wild raccoon by name and see it come to her door. Her grandchildren remember how much fun it was to be with her; she had a wicked sense of humor.

In recent years she ran her antique shop in New Lebanon, NY, with the honest warmth, courtesy and cheerfulness she brought to her family, friends and the community that meant so much to her. Pat was too unsentimental to want to hear compliments like these, but those who loved her can’t hold them back now.

She leaves behind her children, Kelly Striefler of New Hampton, Bill Smith, of Stephentown and Kevin Smith of New Lebanon, her sisters, Sue Egen of Tucson, AZ, and Cathy Medwick of Somers, NY, and her grandchildren, Katelyn, Kimberly, Martin and M.J., Freling, Jessica, Candy, Linda, Michelle, William Jr., Jeanie and Kevin Jr.

Friends are invited to gather for refreshments and to celebrate Pat’s life at Smitty’s Pizza and Subs, Route 20, New Lebanon on Saturday, February 22, between 1 and 3 pm.

 

New Lebanon Town Board Action – Noise Begets Noise

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by Thaddeus Flint

The February Town Board meeting Tuesday night in New Lebanon was a full house. Was it the proposed noise ordinance? Was it the latest sequel of Covenant Road? Or maybe it was just February cabin fever and there was nothing else happening in town. It’s difficult to say.

The proposed noise ordinance is starting to make a lot of noise. [Read more…] about New Lebanon Town Board Action – Noise Begets Noise

Informational Meeting On A Recreational Trail For Eastern Rensselaer County

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by Bev McClave

Trails can be great assets to communities. They can provide recreational and exercise opportunities for residents, enhance local businesses by bringing more and new customers and spur local business development. The Friends of the Corkscrew Rail Trail invite the public to join them at an informational meeting to learn about the possibility for creating a superb recreational trail for the communities of eastern Rensselaer County.  If you are interested in the possibility of a multi-use recreational trail which could ultimately run from Chatham, NY, to Bennington, VT, passing through New Lebanon, Stephentown, Berlin and Petersburgh, please join us to hear about this exciting proposed project. There will be an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions and offer comment.

The meeting will be held on February 27 at 6:30 pm at the Stephentown Fire Hall, Grange Hall Road, Stephentown.  For more information, please visit http://corkscrewtrail.org//CorkScrewTrail/default.aspx or email info@corkscrewtrail.org.

February Events At The New Lebanon Library

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The New Lebanon Library announces its February events. All of these events are free and will take place at the Library which is located at 550 State Route 20.

• February  12, 19, 26 (event is on Wednesdays) – Small Wonders Lapsit Storytime – 10 am,  age appropriate stories, songs and movement activities for our youngest patrons and their caregivers.

• February 12, 19, 26 (event is on Wednesdays) – Tales for Tots Story Hour – 11  am. Story hour includes crafts, songs and movement activities.

• February 7 – Coffeehouse Night with Linda Worster –  6 pm. This is an evening of acoustic music with this Berkshire favorite. Donations for the performer are appreciated.

• February 11 – Family Crafts Night – 6:30 pm. Join us and learn to make a Valentine mobile and flip book. All materials will be provided. This is for ages 5 and up.

• February 13 – How to download eBooks and audiobooks with your library card – 6:30 pm.

• February 14 – Valentine Movie Night – 7 pm. Join us for a screening of the 1970 classic Love Story.

• February 15 – Paws-to-Read – 9 am. Therapy dogs come to the Library and children read to their furry friends. And, of course, the dogs listen! Please call to register at 518-794-8844.

• February 18 – Animal Tracks – 2 pm. Learn to identify animal tracks, follow their trails in the woods and discover how tracking can help humans and animals alike. This is best suited for school aged children. Please call to register at 518-794-8844.

• February 20 – Loom Band bracelets – 1 pm. Bring your loom and learn to make dragonscale bracelets. Rubber bands will be provided. This is for ages 5 and up.

• February 21 – Afternoon Movie for Kids – 2 pm. This is a showing of a current film suitable for the whole family. Call for title, 518- 794-8844. Popcorn and juice will be provided.

• February 21 – The Great Stone Barn Project: Past, Present, Future – 6 pm, presented by the Shaker Museum and Library. Discover more about the Great Stone Barn Project with the exhibit creator; Peter Watson. Learn about the Shaker’s innovative farming methods, construction techniques and how we are stabilizing the structure today after a devastating fire in the 1970s.

• February 27 – Tor Krautter in concert – 6:30 pm. Enjoy an evening of unplugged originals and folk/rock covers with Rev Tor. Donations for the performer are appreciated.

• February 28 – Family Movie Night – 6:30 pm. A current film suitable for the whole family will be shown. Call 518-794-8844 for the title. Popcorn and juice will be provided.

For further information on any of these events, please contact Jeannie Bogino at 518-794-8844.

United Way Catfish Derby And Baseball Tickets

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submitted by Brad Poster, Executive Director, United Way of Columbia and Greene Counties

The United Way of Columbia and Greene Counties has announced that early registration for the Fourth Annual Leo Lasher Catfish Derby is now open. Again this year registration is $15 per fisherman and again first prize for the longest catfish of the day is $500, cash on the spot, with more prizes for children, teens and adults.  This family event will be held on July 19 at Dutchman’s Landing and hosted by Riverview Marine Services at the Point in Catskill.

Currently, an Early Registration Contest is for two box seat tickets at Fenway Park to a Friday night regular season game of the Boston Red Sox. The tickets will be awarded to an early registrant between January 1 and March 31. More surprises and prizes will be announced for our local summertime family fun day and fishing contest

To register online visit www.uwcg.org. For more information, call Brad at 518-755-2155.

Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company Breakfast

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The Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company will serve its monthly breakfast at the firehouse on Sunday, February 16, from 8 until 11:30 am. Breakfast consists of your choice of French toast or pancakes together with bacon or sausage, toast, orange juice, beverages and eggs prepared to your order for a cost of $6 with children under five served free.

Support your local fire company while visiting with friends and neighbors and enjoying a hearty breakfast to start your day. The firehouse is located behind the post office near the intersection of Routes 20 and 66 North in the hamlet of Brainard and is handicap accessible. For more information call 518-766-3815.