Petersburg Fire Department Receives Donated Oil Painting
Artist Joseph Barber donates an oil painting showing Petersburg mountain from Old Route 22 to the Petersburg Fire Department. Proceeds from a fundraising sale April 30 support the new fire station and associated improvements. The department, funded by volunteers, reports the station is nearly complete with electrical and cement work done.
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Petersburg
Petersburg Fire Department
Joseph Barber
Petersburg Mountain
Taconic Plastics
Rutland Railroad
Nias
Barber
Rolland Hewitt
Hoosick Falls
Berlin
Battle of Bennington
Ticonderoga Museum
Fire Department
Hewitt
Civil Defense
Petersburg Fire Départment
Glens Falls Man Charged With Theft At Aviation Mall
Richard Lee Hoag 21 of Glens Falls was arrested Saturday at 1 p.m. by state police in connection with stealing steel pipe from the Aviation Mall the previous Thursday night or Friday. He was arraigned before Town Judge John Carusone on third degree grand larceny and remanded to Warren County Jail in $1000 bail with a court date set.
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Queensbury
Glens Falls
Aviation
South Glens Falls
Richard Lee Hoag
Thunderbird Drive
John Carusone
Hoag
Warren County
Taxi Driver Reunites With 25 Dollar Loan
In Manchester New Hampshire George Lajoie a taxi driver recalls lending 25 to Ann Marie Thombs from Glens Falls New York who promised repayment but misplaced the address. She found him a year later at the police station and returned the money saying she drove back to Manchester to settle the debt.
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Manchester
N.H
George Lajoie
Lajoie
New York
Ann Marie Thombs
Glens Falls
N. Y
Nassau plans flood control after state hearing set
Nassau Town Board schedules a March 29 public hearing on a local flood control plan ahead of an April 6 state hearing. The plan, if approved federally, would let property owners buy cheaper flood insurance and impose construction rules including bans on basements and required raising of some buildings. Local officials say most residents won’t be affected. The meeting also discusses fire protection district options for Hoag’s Corners and road repairs, retirement benefits talks, snowplow repairs, and speed limits near Nassau Lake.
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Nassau Town Board
Town Hall
John Middelkopp
State Department of Environmental Conservation
Floyd Hitchcock
Frank Konisky
Kinderhook Creek
Nassau Lake
Blizzard mementos rise from Buffalo’s blizzard memory
In Buffalo, sales of The Blizzard of 77 items bloom as residents buy tees, gold snow shovels, certificates, mugs, and postcards to remember a winter that shut schools for weeks and caused widespread losses. Local stores report strong demand and view the trend as fleeting.
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Buffalo (Ap
Carter
New York
Louis L. Berger
Desbecker
Blizzard
J.C. Penney
Paul Grzybowski
Buffalo
Peter Levin
Levin
Maizie Wagner
Buffalo State College
Fire damages Nassau home amid flood road washout
A wood frame house at Sherwood Acres in Nassau was gutted by fire shortly after 1 10 a.m. Firefighters faced an hour and a half delay as the road was washed out by flooding. The fire, owned by Robert Sayers, remains under investigation. Deputies and Nassau Fire Department personnel were on scene until about 3 a.m.
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Nassau
Sherwood Acres
Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department
Robert Sayers
Sheriff's Department
Nassau Fire Department
Cleaner position open with Stillwater School District
Stillwater Board of Education invites applications for the cleaner role. Application forms available at the central business office on North Hudson Avenue between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on school days in session.
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Stillwater
Stillwater Board of Education
Hudson Avenue
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First Street
Larry Roberts
Hudson
Tina Camproni
Jean Hubbard
Odel
Route 22
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Hitchcock
Hoag's Corners
Hitchock
Hoag’s Corners Department
Hoag’s Corners
Rensselaer County
Millers Road
Lyons Lake
Walters
Lake Shore Drive
Hugh Carey
State Division of Youth Services
Stephen Cooper
Berger
Bob Desbecker
Florida
New York City
Stillwater Cleaner
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