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Volunteer TODAY For Fun Weekends This Summer

STRIDE Adaptive Sports seeks fun-loving camping volunteers for SCORE tent-camping programs!“STRIDE Center for Outdoor Recreation & Education” facility located in Chatham, NY offers unique themed summer weekends to youth with special needs/disabilities.
For more information: Email: info@stride.org Website: www.stride.org

Author Maya Angelou dies at 86 in North Carolina

Angelou, a renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86.

Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, she was unforgettable whether encountered in person, through sound or the printed word.

She called herself a poet, in love with the "sound of language," ''the music in language," as she explained to the AP in 2013. But she lived so many lives.

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Memorial Day Parade

This year's Memorial Day Parade in Castleton will step off on Monday, May 26, at 10:00 a.m. The parade will begin at the corner of Boltwood and Seaman Avenues, and will conclude with ceremonies at the Mountain View Cemetery. The parade will include five divisions with participants from our churches, schools, community volunteer organizations, politicians, and a lot more. The VFW color guard will lead the parade. 

For more information, see 2014 Memorial Day Parade.

TIME FOR SPRING CLEANING!

Anxious to to start your Spring cleaning? 

Have some items to get rid of but not enough for your own Garage Sale? St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 751 County Route 7 (directly off Route 150), East Schodack, NY is accepting donations for its Spring Tag Sale, Saturday, May 31st. The sale will run from 9 am - 4 pm. Homemade baked goods will also be available for purchase.

Sale Proceeds will go to steeple repairs at the church. For information or to make a donation, call: 477-6950 or 438-1109. Clean, unbroken, gently used items only please. No large appliances or clothing.

Join us on May 31st for the sale in our Fellowship Hall in the basement of the church.

New state rule complicates path for East Greenbush casino developers

The East Greenbush Town Board will have to vote a second time on whether to support a proposed $300 million casino, creating a new wrinkle in the intensely competitive process to win a gaming license in upstate New York.

Strawberry Festival

Tuesday, May 20 from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m.

The CES PTO will hold its annual Strawberry Festival on Tuesday, May 20 from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Maple Hill High School.