Hoosick Falls Village Board to hold budget hearing and bids on garbage contract
The Hoosick Falls Village Board will hold a public hearing on the tentative budget Tuesday April 13 at 7 p.m. After the hearing the board will meet at 7:30 for its regular monthly session during which bids on the garbage contract will be opened. The Town of Hoosick Board meets tonight for its regular monthly session in the Senior Citizens rooms on Church Street. The Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks Ladies Auxiliary will hold its regular meeting Wednesday night with nomination of officers. Members should call the nominating committee before the meeting to state choices for vice president secretary treasurer and three Hoosick Falls year trustee. To vote all members must have dues paid by April 14 with May date noted.
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Hoosick Falls
Town of Hoosick Board
Church Street
Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks
Charles Frazier
Gary Albowicz
Hoolick Falls
N.Y
Grace Gardner
Main St
Malcolm Hamilton
Wilson Pratt
John Underwood
Ernest Trinkle
Alfred Stannard
Burton Welling
Kenneth Aiken
Walter McNall
Mary Aiken
Margaret Aiken
United Methodist Women
Gary Brownell
Council On Ministries
Welling
Pratt
Trinkle
Rodney Brownell
Hamilton
Aiken
Brownell
McNall
Ruth Perry
Welling and
Underwood, Pratt and Welling
Hoosick Falls group shifts meeting date to May 5
The Greater Hoosick Association moves its meeting to Wednesday May 5 to hear annual reports and install new officers on the following Saturday. The group plans a year ahead with a membership drive, projects downtown beautification, a potential River Street trail, ecology center study, and village square pedestrian mall ideas. A Youth Advisory Council dance is set for April 23, and a first child was born Friday to Donald and Elizabeth Decker of 72 Main Street.
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River Street
Wood Memorial Park
Village Square
Grand Union
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Donald
Elizabeth Decker
Main St
Hoosac School Names Beckford as Eighth Headmaster
James P. Beckford of Providence Rhode Island has been named the eighth headmaster of Hoosac School. The unanimous board selection cites his background at St Marks Amherst College Seton Hall and leadership roles at Mary C Wheeler School. Beckford and his wife Barbara Bacon are Hopkinton natives with two children Peter and W Randolph. They will reside on the Home Farm campus this summer as he aims to strengthen academics and finances.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
James P. Beckford
Providence
R.I
Hoosac School
Joel W. Egerer
Beckford
St. Marks School
Amherst College
Seton Hall University
History Department
Mary C. Wheeler
Barbara Bacon
Hopkinton
Mass
Mercersburg Academy
Mercersburg
Institute of Far Eastern Studies
Seton Hall
Peter
W. Randolph
Hoosac
Egerer
United Methodist Charge Conference Held in North Hoosick
The annual charge conference for North Hoosick Eagle Bridge and South Cambridge met at the North Hoosick church on March 11 after a covered dish supper. Rev Kenneth Beatty attended and the 1976 budget was set at 5935 dollars.
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United Methodist Churches of
North Hoosick
Eagle Bridge
South Cambridge
North Hoosick Church
Kenneth Beatty
Bennington-Troy
Harry Burdess
Pownal Area Groups Schedule Tonight Meetings
Pownal Fire Protective Association convenes at 7 at the firehouse for monthly business. North Pownal Congregational Church Cabinet meets at 7 at Rev. Lorenz home. North Pownal Fire Auxiliary at 7:30 at their firehouse. Pownal Center Fire Protective Association at 7:30 at their firehouse. Wednesday luncheon reservations for Pownal Senior Citizens due by calling Rose Mattison at 823-7282. Pownal Center Community Church Youth Fellowship and Youth Choir meet 5:30 to 7:30 at Town Hall with music lessons to 8:30. Planning Commission meets Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the town office. Solomon Wright Library open Tuesday and Thursday 7–9 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to noon.
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Pownal
North Pownal
Pownal Center
Rose Mattison
Solomon Wright
Williams College Secures $7000 Grant for Solar Research
Williams College in Williamstown, Mass receives a $7,000 grant from Research Corporation to fund chromospheric studies using the Orbiting Solar Observatory launched in June 1975. Jay M. Pasachoff will direct the project with data processed in Paris and Williamstown to better understand solar chromosphere temperatures.
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Williamstown
Mass
Research Corporation
Williams College
Orbiting Solar Observatory
Jay M. Pasachoff
Co.s.o
Laboratoire de Physique Planetaire Et Solaire
Paris
Pasachoff
Williams
New York City
The
Foundation For the Advancement of Science
Shaftsbury Garden Club plans spring greening efforts
Shaftsbury members meet in April as Greg Burke briefs on Vermont streams and a film Vermont Rivers Heritage and Promise. Clare Timmerman outlines bicentennial beautification around the post office Gulf Station Cole Hall and the Route 7 67 junction traffic island. John Nyquist to lead plantings. Funds from the Christmas Green Show support summer projects.
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Shaftsbury
Shaftsbury Garden Club
Greg Burke
Bennington
Gulf Station
Cole Hall
John Nyquist
Vermont man faces first degree murder trial in Windsor County
Gerald Max Ryan, 33, of Fletcher, resumes first degree murder case after opening statements. Charged with inciting his former girlfriend Bonnie Lee King to kill Lawrence Juaie Jr. with a shotgun in October 1974. Trial transfers due to fears of prejudicial pre trial publicity. previous Rutland County trial ended in a hung jury.
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Woodstock
UPI
Gerald Max Ryan
Fletcher
Windsor County Superior Court
Ryan
Bonnie Lee King
Lawrence Juaie Jr
Vermont
Rutland County
Franklin County
Fairfield
Windsor County
Hartland Fire Kills Man From Cigarette Blaze Next Door
State police say a carelessly discarded cigarette caused a fire near James Colburn's home in Hartland. Colburn, 51, died of asphyxiation in the blaze that began on a couch in his former store, with damage estimated at about $40,000 and residents reporting an explosion. Fire officials cited possible heat pressure as a blast source and noted a shattered front window.
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Hartland
UPI
James Colburn
Colburn
William Riley
Burns urges Vermont Electric Power Co. takeover in campaign
Springfield reports Lt. Gov. Brian Burns repeats a call for a state takeover of Velco, saying Vermont would be mired if not acted. He voiced the stance to Windsor County Democrats, noting a 1973 bill to seize Velco failed. The remark marks his first push on the issue in the primary against Stella Hackel.
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Springfield
UPI
Brian Burns
Vermont Electric Power Co
Windsor County
Velco
Burns
Vermont House
House
Stella Hackel
Vermont GOP names Baker as keynote for October dinner
Vermont Republican Committee Chairman Walter Kennedy says Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee will be the featured speaker at the party fund raising dinner in October. The party still seeks a venue after learning the Barre auditorium is unavailable. Baker spoke at last year’s dinner? the committee chose John Connally instead.
Vermont Board Urges Faculty Vote Against Union
The University of Vermont Board of Trustees urged faculty to vote against joining a union in the April 28 election. After a secret board meeting, Chairman Robert Boardman said the collegial process better serves the university than collective bargaining. The NLRB ordered the faculty election last week.
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Burlington
UPI
University of Vermont Board of Trustees
Robert Boardman
National Labor Relations Board
Urban renewal chief to reorganize agency after two weeks
Troy city urban renewal director John J. Quinlan Jr says he will draft job descriptions by week’s end and may hire from outside the agency if staff do not fit. He denies firing rumors as demolition work begins on Front Street.
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Troy
City Urban Renewal Agency
John J. Quinlan Jr
Regan Washer and Appliance Co
Front Street
Urban Renewal Agency
Louis G. Bianchi Inc
Williamstown man arraigned on murder in Berkshire case
In Berkshire Superior Court today Kristin Eric Asmussen 19 is arraigned on murder charges stemming from the Jan 22 armed robbery and stabbing death of Bennington horse trainer Reginald Rockwell. Another murder indictment targets Earl Gary Blake for the Dec 14 death of his stepsister Dawn Wells Smith. WILLIAMSTOWN building contractor Robert Coons 42 faces embezzlement charges over diverting more than 2700 from a local high school scholarship fund.
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Pittsfield
Williamstown
Bennington
Reginald Rockwell
Berkshire
Kristin Eric Asmussen
Grand Jury
Earl Gary Blake
North Adams
Dawn Wells Smith
Robert Coons
North Hoosac Road
James Scullary
Anthony Roberto
Coons
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