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Chicken BBQ

A Chicken BBQ will be held on Friday, June 2nd from 4:30 pm to 6 pm (or until sold out) at the First Reformed Church in Wynantskill.

The menu will include 1/2 chicken (featuring Clements’ Old Fashion BBQ Sauce), Baked Potato, Homemade Coleslaw, Roll & Dessert for $15. The church is located at the corner of Church St and Main Ave. (Rt 66) and the BBQ is a Drive Thru Take Out Only dinner.

Ham and Strawberry Shortcake Dinner at the Pittstown Methodist Church Hall

Ham and Strawberry Shortcake Dinner at the Pittstown United Methodist Church Hall located just off NY Route 7 in village of Pittstown, NY on Saturday, June 3 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Eat In or Take Out. Menu: ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables, applesauce, rolls, strawberry shortcake. Price: adults - $14, children 5-12 - $6, under 5 free. Reservations suggested. Call Bev at 518-663-5607.

Chicken BBQ at Center Brunswick Fire Company

The Volunteer Fire Company of Center Brunswick, Inc. is hosting a Chicken BBQ on Saturday, June 17, 2023 from 4:00pm–6:00pm. Dinner includes half chicken, macaroni salad, corn on the cob, roll and a drink. Cost is $15.00/dinner. Curbside pickup only. For more information or for tickets call Renie at 518-810-2438 or the station at 518279-3878. Come in person Monday nights to the firehouse between 7:00-8:00pm or all members have tickets to sell. Tickets also available through our Facebook page. Firehouse is located at 1045 Hoosick Road, Troy, NY 12180.

Schodack Valley Pizza & Wings Night

Don’t miss us Saturday, May 20th for our last pizza night until next September. That’s a long time to go without our delicious pizza, jumbo wings, mozzarella sticks amazing antipasto salads as well as a vast array of beverages.

This fundraiser is a dine in or take out family friendly event from 4 to 7 pm. For takeout orders please call 518477-4215. This month’s special pie is our mouth watering Chicken Parm pizza. Our firehouse is located at 1553 Schodack Valley Rd., Castleton NY.

VFW Pancake Breakfast

Help Support your local Veterans! The Public is welcome!

VFW Post 7338, East Greenbush, 100 Hayes Road . Sunday May 21, 2023, 9 am to 11 am. Eat in or take-out.

Breakfast includes Buttermilk Pancakes, French Toast, Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Sausages, Home Fries, Corned Beef Hash, Toast, Coffee, Tea, Water and Assorted Juices.

Adults - $12.00, Children 6 to 12 - $5.00, Children

Under 6 – Free

We will have a drawing, for over $1000 worth of prizes! There is about 15 items in all and chance to win one of 5 prizes for $5. Of course, donations are always welcome and very much appreciated!

Please order in advance before Sunday’s Breakfast for take-out by emailing us at VFWpost7338@gmail.com or calling 518-477-7770 and leave a message with your name, number and the desired pickup time. There is no one at the Post to return your call. Your message is forwarded to another number which is checked the day before the breakfast.

Thank you for your support!

Eat Good & Do Good

That’s right, you are going to have a unique opportunity to enjoy a great chicken BAR-B-Q and do good for your community.

On Thursday, May 18th Hope Lutheran Church is sponsoring a Giuliano’s of Troy Chicken BAR-B-Q. Not only will you be able to enjoy good food, but you’ll be able

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The report predicts this will also lead to business closures, especially among small businesses, not only because of a lack of employees, but a lack of consumers. The region will also be unable to attract new business investment for the same reason. Available employees may benefit, according to the report, as an intense demand for employees forces businesses to raise wages.

Changes in population would also have a deleterious effect on the Hudson Valley’s health care systems. Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress Executive Director Adam Bosch, who presented the report to reporters Thursday morning, said hospitals already must hire many temporary employees from other parts of the country to fill gaps in their workforce, and the hospitals would be dealing with more patients in the future as the population grows older. These patients would largely be insured through Medicare, which pays out far less than private insurers, a situation that “could signal (a) tough time for our medical centers and hospitals,” according to the report.

The report also considers something that would make the Hudson Valley’s population fall far faster — what if the trendy region falls out of favor? The great number of short-term rentals, such as Airbnbs, in the region would dry up, and second homeowners, more fickle and mobile than permanent residents, could move to the newest chic spot.

This, among other problems, could cause the local property-tax base to collapse, “affect(ing) the long-term fiscal health and solvency of local governments,” according to the report.

The report makes several policy recommendations to avoid these problems. The most prominent? More housing.

The problem is not only a general lack of housing — the region has only created 0.45 new housing units for every new job its created over the past 15 years, according to the report — but a lack of housing residents can afford. This issue is especially prominent in Columbia County, where the average resident can afford the average home in only three of the county’s 19 municipalities.

Here’s how it works: the full dinner, including half a chicken, potatoes, corn on the cob & coleslaw is $15.00, the Do Good part is that 100% of the profits will be divided equally between Doors of Hope, and Concerns U Food Pantries. So you see, you will Eat Good, and Do Good.

All meals are take out, access to Hope’s parking lot is an easy in and out off of 470 Winter Street Extension, near Blooming Grove. Advance orders can be made through the web site, WWW.Hopelc.org.

The date is Thursday May 18th, running from 3pm to 6pm, a great mid-week meal without any of the work. So plan now to “Eat Good & Do Good” See you there! www. hopelc.org.

First Reformed Church Community Dinners

The First Reformed Church (corner of NYS Route 66 and Church St in Wynantskill) will be providing free pasta dinners once again.

The dinners will be available every Wednesday evening from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm and will be drive-thru take out only event No reservations are needed.

Taborton Turkey Supper is Back

Zion’s United Church of Christ, 741 Taborton Road, Sand Lake, NY will be having our famous turkey dinner on Saturday, June 3rd Dine in or take out. Seatings will be at 4:30 and 5:30.

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The menu will include turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, coleslaw, rolls, drinks, and apple pie for dessert.

For reservations call Diane Hoffman (518) 674-2746 to text (518) 649-5141 or Jane Weber at (518) 258-4307. If you leave a message, you will be called back to confirm.

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New housing was hindered by “our local codes and review processes,” which “make it very difficult to build more of the housing we direly need,” according to the report.

The report also suggested lowering property taxes, which it found to be a legitimate reason for people leaving the region.

“The high cost of living, driven in large part by taxes, has already caused too many people to vote with their feet and leave New York,” according to the report.

The report also suggests state marketing geared toward getting people to live in the Hudson Valley, not just visit it, and an effort to get students from the many colleges in the region to stay here after graduation.

The final recommendation encapsulates an issue currently in the headlines: migration from other countries.

Every expert from every field interviewed for the report mentioned immigration as a possible solution to the Hudson Valley’s woes.

“Forget the politics for a moment, and just think of our demographics like a mathematical problem,” the report states. “Our region needs people. There are lots of hardworking people who want a place to live in our country. A rational immigration policy at the federal level could help regions like the Hudson Valley, whose significant labor shortages could be allayed by the next wave of new Americans.”

From the Desk of Janice Hannigan Kerwin, North Greenbush Town Clerk

The Town of North Greenbush would like to announce our Wreath Placing Ceremonies on this Memorial Day morning, May 29, 2023. We will honor the heroes who have served our country by continuing the tradition of laying wreaths at the various memorial sites in town.

The Wreath Placing Ceremonies will begin at 9:45 a.m. at the Bloomingrove Cemetery on Route 4 in Defreestville. To follow at the Bloomingrove Monument at the intersection of Winter Street Extension and Bloomingrove Drive, the Donald “Bucky” Egan Monument at the entrance to Twin Town Little League on Williams Road, at St. Jude’s on Brookside Avenue, at the American Legion on Main Avenue, and at the Evergreen Cemetery on Main Avenue.

Our final ceremony will be immediately following the North Greenbush Memorial Day Parade at Town Hall on Main Avenue. We would be most honored if you could join us in showing respect for those who so bravely served our country.

If you should have any questions pertaining to the Wreath Placing Ceremony, please do not hesitate to call the Town Clerk’s office @ #518-283-4306 or email me directly at townclerk@northgreenbush.org and I would be happy to assist in any way that I can.