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Schuylerville Public Library Hosts Repair Café
What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a lamp that won’t work? Or with a favorite shirt that is ripped? Toss it? No way! Schuylerville Public Library is organizing a Repair Café on Saturday, March 1st from 10am until 12pm.
At Schuylerville Public Library (52 Ferry Street) on Saturday March 1 everything centers on making repairs. Starting at 10am and ending at 12pm, various volunteer repair experts will be available to help make all possible repairs free of charge. Most tools and materials will also be on hand. People visiting the Repair Café will bring along their broken items from home. Limit of two items per person. Small appliances, lamps, hair dryers, radios, clothes, toys... anything that is broken and small enough to carry is welcome and can more than likely be repaired. The Repair Café specialists almost always have the know-how.
By promoting repairs, the Library wants to help reduce mountains of waste. According to Library Director Caitlin Johnson, "By repairing instead of tossing, we lessen the strain on our environment.”
Interested in volunteering for this event, as a repairer? Simply contact Caitlin Johnson at cjohnson@sals.edu. Schuylerville Public Library wishes to organize a Repair Café on a regular basis. News about dates of up-and-coming editions will follow as soon as possible!
Reading Buddies
Greenwich Free Library will host Reading Buddies, a new weekly program which will pair young readers with teen volunteers who will support their progress as emerging readers and share in the love of stories. Young participants from grades 1–4 will be matched with a teen reading buddy from grades 9–12 to meet at the library once a week for ten weeks to play reading games and enjoy books and read together. Reading buddies will have their choice of library books to enjoy at the library and to borrow, and all registered young readers will receive free books to keep. Lola the therapy dog will also be present to hear stories and look at pictures, and children who are not signed up for the program are welcome to drop in to read with Lola.
This will take place Thursdays, February 27–May 8, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, at Greenwich Free Library.
Young readers and teen volunteers are asked to sign up for all ten sessions, beginning on February 28 and concluding on May 8th (no meeting during the week of April school break). Teens will be contacted about volunteer training to occur earlier in February. Young participants can register on the library’s online calendar and teen volunteers can apply through the library website.
This program is made possible with funds from a grant from the Glens Falls Foundation, a community foundation supporting local non-profit organizations that address the community’s human, social, cultural and educational needs. Funds from the grant will also enable the library to add Wonderbooks to its children’s collection. Wonderbooks are print books with an accompanying read-along audio function, so young readers can hear and read stories at the same time. Several Wonderbooks have already been added to the collection and are already very popular; the Wonderbooks collection will be further expanded throughout the coming year.
Make Valentine’s Cards
Here’s another event at the Greenwich Free Library (for all ages):
Genealogy and Local History
Heritage Hunters meet Saturday, February 15th, at 1 pm at the Town of Saratoga Town Hall, 12 Spring St. in Schuylerville. “The Kathans of Saratoga County” will be presented by John Scherer, Town of Clifton Park Historian. Learn about Captain John Kathan (1702-1787), a Scotch Irish settler and Indian trader, who settled with his family in the Sacandaga Valley in 1820. Many offspring of the Kathan families still thrive in Saratoga County today.
John Scherer is also Senior Historian Emeritus at the New York State Museum, and author of numerous books related to area history. He is descended from the Kathans. Public is welcome. For info call 518-885-9309.
Lenten Fish Fries
Centenary UMC has scheduled its annual Fish Fries. These greatly anticipated annual dinners will be held March 7, March 21 and April 4. The cost is $16 per meal. Meals include fried fish sandwich, baked beans, potato salad and a dessert. These are drive-thru only at their location at the corner of Church and Gray in Greenwich. Pickup is 4:30-6 p.m. To reserve, call or text 603-770-3906.
Cambridge School Play
The Cambridge Elementary Drama Club will present their two productions of The Principal’s New Clothes, written by Melanie Whitesides and will feature our 3rd and 4th grade students. Our fifth and sixth grade students will present The Lion King Kids, based on the Broadway production directed by Julie Taymor. Both productions will be presented on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. in the CCS Auditorium. The cost of admission will be $5 for adults and $2 for students. Senior citizens and children 5 and under are free. Refreshments and flowers for our cast will be available for purchase at the door.
Cambridge UPK
On Thursday, Feb. 6 at 5:30 p.m., the Cambridge Central School District is hosting a Universal Pre-K (UPK) Open House for prospective families and students for the 2025-26 school year. Children residing in the Cambridge Central School District who will be 4 years old on or before Dec. 1, 2025 may be eligible for the program.
The program is fully staffed by Cambridge CSD teachers and support staff. The program day is 8 a.m. - 2:20 p.m. The school district provides bus transportation for children aged four and older. All students at Cambridge are eligible for free breakfast and lunch daily. Join them on Feb. 6 to meet the teachers and visit the classrooms! They are excited to meet the incoming CCS Class of 2039!
That evening, families will be provided with information about the program and individuals will answer any questions that you may have. Families will also complete the registration process for their student(s).
In the event of inclement weather on Feb. 6, the Open House will take place Feb. 11.
Additionally, the program has two openings for the remainder of this school year. If you or anyone you know has an eligible student, please contact the Elementary Office at 518-677-8527, ext. 1416.
A Look at the Northrups
Washington County Historical Society’s Local History Book Club will meet from 12:30 to 1:30 PM on Wednesday, February 12, at the historical society headquarters, the Wing-Northup House, 167 Broadway, Fort Edward. Historical society membership is not required for the book club. Attendees will discuss The Autobiography of an American Familyby Edith Hay Wyckoff. Ten generations of the Northup family are chronicled from 1788 in Rhode Island through their residence in Washington County. It includes the story of the rescue of Solomon Northup from slavery on a plantation near New Orleans through the efforts of Sandy Hill attorney Henry B Northup. Solomon was returned to his wife and children in Glens Falls in 1853.
Edith Wyckoff was a newspaper reporter and editor. The 242-page book, published by the society in 2000, is available at the Washington Co. Historical Society book shop.
Future sessions of the club will include books about the larger Adirondack area as well as works by local authors. Upcoming topics include William Miller and the origin of the Seventh Day Adventists in Hampton; local area Freemasonry during and after the Revolution; and the early life of Chester Arthur, 21st President. For additional information, email Connie Harris Farrington at connieandlee@roadrunner.com.
And Now for the Comics — ‘The Middletons’ by Dana Summers
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