Relocation of Route 22 debated in Hoosick Falls
Falls businessmen heard regional planner Clarence Fosdick outline five relocation ideas for Route 22 with Elm Street the only workable option. Howard Taub reported on a downtown study to curb truck traffic while John Street renovations loom. Fosdick cautioned cost, time, and local support, with a 15 to 18 month timeline projected.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Clarence Fosdick
State Department of Transportation
Falls
Howard Taub
Rensselaer County Planning Bureau
Taub
Fosdick
Elm Street
Donald Bogardus
John Street
Michael Rider
Haynes Bros. Inc
Eisenmenger
Rocco Verrastro
North Bennington School Board to discuss absentee ballots
The North Bennington School Board will hold a special informational meeting on Thursday April 28 at 7 30 p m in the school library. The session covers absentee balloting for local and union directors at the June annual meeting and includes legal counsel John P Williams II. If interest is insufficient, the issue may be dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
State Department of Education
John P. Williams II
Selectmen weigh private road sign on McCarthy Acres
Shaftsbury officials discussed Dennis McCarthy's request to erect a Private Do Not Enter sign at the hilltop of McCarthy Acres Road claiming the road is privately owned and not a town route. They also reviewed firehouse addition costs tied to Davis Bacon wage increases raising plumbing costs by about 1500.
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Shaftsbury
Dennis McCarthy
McCarthy Acres
McCarthy
Bernard McCarthy
Dennis
Bernard
Surdam
BRSU Annual Meeting Sets 1978 Budget in Dorset
The Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union will present its 1978 fiscal budget at the annual meeting this Thursday at 7 30 p m at Dorset School Morse Hill Road Dorset The meeting will include election of supervisory union officers appointments personnel policies federal Local Education Act programs Title I programs the 1977 78 school calendar and other business with all board members present and the public invited.
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Manchester
Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union
BRSU
Dorset
Morse Hill Road
Officials weigh adding energy waste rules to Act 250
Vermont officials discuss expanding Act 250 with energy conservation and solid waste provisions. Bartlett and Jackson urge updating land use policy to address changes in housing, development, and agricultural land loss, with calls for a possible combined environmental law and a study group to reassess land resource use.
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Act
Montpelier
William Bartlett
Vermont Environmental Report
Bartlett
Schuyler Jackson
State Environmental Board
The
Vermont Natural
Jackson
Ver
District Environmental Commissions
Williston
From peanuts to whodun its at Williamstown book sale
Smith College alumnae sponsor the 16th Berkshire County Smith Club scholarship sale at First Congregational Church Williamstown. Hours Thursday 10 am to 9 pm and Friday 10 am to 4 pm. Proceeds fund local student aid. catalog includes out of print volumes, magazines, pictures, records, games, puzzles, and books from the 17th century. A notable item is First American Peanut Growing Book by Kathy Mandry.
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Williamstown
Mass
Smith College
Frederick G. Crane Jr
Dalton
Freeman Foote
Berkshire County Smith Club
First Congregational Church
Berkshire
Kathy Mandry
Arlington groups schedule meetings and events
On Wednesday FOE No. 2551 meets at the Eagles rooms in Manchester at 8 p.m. The Arlington Park and Recreation Committee convenes Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the high school. The Arlington Fire Co sponsors Bingo Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the East Arlington fire hall. AMHS students perform My Fair Lady Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
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FOE
Eagles Rooms
Manchester
Arlington Park and Recreation Committee
East Arlington
AMHS
Military and local event notes from Hoosick Falls area
Marine Pvt Vincent M Conway Jr completed Basic Aviation Structural Mechanic Course at Millington Tennessee with instruction on aircraft frames skins blueprint reading corrosion control and metalworking. Hoosick Falls native Judith Ann Nason plans SUNY Albany study in liberal arts with music major and honors including Regents scholarship and multiple club memberships. Army Pvt George A Brott completed eight week tracked vehicle mechanic course at Ft Knox Kentucky learning engine transmission fuel electrical hydraulic systems and recovery ops. La Leche League to sponsor tag and bake sale April 30 in Hoosick Falls from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Judith Ann Nason
Elsie Nason
Dundee Ave
Hoosick Falls
SUNY
Albany
Judith
New York State
Bausch & Lamb
RPI
Yorker Club
Organ Club
Co— Army
George A. Brott
Robert P. Brott
Snow St
U.S. Army Armor School
Ft. Knox
Army
Brett
la Leche League of
Valley Falls
Stacey Gaugher
Main St
Juvenile arrested after Warm Brook chase near Arlington
A 1963 Dodge sedan driven by juveniles went off the road at Warm Brook and East Arlington, flipped over, and totaled. The operator fled but was later found. two passengers were uninjured. The juvenile was lodged at Weeks School and faces juvenile court.
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Arlington
Weeks
Warm Brook
Carol Kostelnik
East Arlington Roads
Arlington Town
Charles Farrell
Cambridge Social News Highlights
South Cambridge residents Mr and Mrs Casper Pearson return home after months in Florida. Miss Carol Ann MacNeil of Rexleigh visits grandparents Mr and Mrs Kenneth E Aiken. Mrs Etta Sawtell of Argyle and her daughter Mrs James Aguilar of San Diego call on Mrs Gertrude Aiken. Susan Quillio among four Cambridge swimmers representing the area.
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Mrs. Casper Pearson
Florida
Carol Ann MacNeil
Rexleigh
Kenneth E. Aiken
Etta Sawtell
Argyle
James Aguilar
San Diego
Calif
Gertrude Aiken
Susan Quillio
Cambridge
Taconic Grange Meets With White Elephant Sale Planned
Taconic Grange 491 of Shaftsbury meets tonight at 8 at the hall. Members bring items for the White Elephant sale to aid the home economics and youth committee. First and second degrees will be conferred. The YMCA pool in Glens Falls hosted the Central School swim marathon to aid the Cancer Society. The combined church service in the circuit is set for May 1 at 10 30 a.m. at South Cambridge United Methodist Church with Rev Harry Burdess. Sunday school starts at 9 a.m. Guests included Mr and Mrs Lincoln Spink of Schenectady and Mr and Mrs Jack Norray and sons of Berne visiting Mr and Mrs Malcolm Hamilton and sons.
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Taconic Grange
Shaftsbury
Central School
The
Cancer Society
YMCA
Glens Falls
Cambridge United
Lincoln Spink
Schenectady
Jack Norray
Theft of $180 under investigation in Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls Police investigate theft of $180 from Michael Rose 25 of Mechanicville during a party at Valerie Stevens Main Street apartment. Police also report Thomas Malone 31 of North Adams arrested for driving while intoxicated on River Street. A separate hit and run damaged Joseph Smith 97 Center Street car in the Specialty Insulation Co. lot.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Michael Rose
Mechanicville
Rose
Main Street
Valerie Stevens
Ms. Steven
Thomas Malone
North Adams
Mass
River Street
Falls
Joseph Smith
Center St
Smith
Specialty Insulation Co
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Church Street
Dot
North Village
Shaftsbury Selectmen
Selectmen
Tim Smith
Edwin Colvin
Washington
Colvin
United Counseling Service
First Vermont Bank
FDIC
Arlington Fire Co
Hoosick Falls Central High School
Conway
Marine Corps
King and Johnson
Judson Brown
Fred Grout
Arlington Fire
Harry Pickering
South Cambridge
Grange
Margaret Aiken
Methodist Church
Harry Burdess
Greenberg
H. Greenberg Son
Bennington and
Bennington
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