Hoosick Falls honors sculptor Jose de Creeft with memorial plaza
The Hoosick Falls village board approves a memorial plaza in Wood Memorial Park to honor Jose de Creeft, who summered in the village for 31 years. The sculpture The Guardian, carved in 1916, will be placed on a pedestal with a four sided bench, and the site will include eventual burial space. A fundraising committee of family, friends, and local art leaders will raise funds for the memorial. de Creeft, born November 1884 in Guadalajara, Spain, studied in Madrid and Barcelona before moving to Paris and later New York, known for massive stone and wood works and his Central Park Alice in Wonderland statue. He has exhibited at Kennedy Galleries, the Whitney, the Met, and MoMA among others. He recently stopped sculpting in stone at age 92.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Jose de Creeft
Wood Memorial Park
de Creeft
the Guardian
Paris
Hoosic
Guadalajara
Spain
Barcelona
Madrid
Auguste Rodin
Academie Julien
Maison Greber
la Forteleza
Mallorca
United States
New York City
Central Park
Kennedy Galleries
New York
New School For Social Research
Whitney Museum of American Art
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
Memphis
Tenn
Metropolitan Museum
Museum of Modern Art
Yugoslavia
Arlington Fire Co 1 Ladies Auxiliary Meets May 2
The Arlington Fire Co 1 Ladies Auxiliary will meet at 7 30 p m on Monday May 2 at the East Arlington Fire House. Agenda items include bylaws the July 4 celebration and the annual lawn party. Wives mothers and girlfriends of firefighters are invited.
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Arlington Fire Co. 1 Ladies Auxiliary
East Arlington Fire House
Deadly dog caper shocks Hoosick Falls area
Police probe a deadly dog caper after three decomposed dogs were found shot on Ralph Heist’s Ehmler Estate south of the village. Reports of missing pets rise as investigators cite possible dognapping in the region, with no link yet between cases and deaths remaining unexplained.
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Anne Eisenmenger
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Jack Griffin
Ralph Heist
Ehmler
Griffin
Albert J. Goodwin
Burchard Ave
Silas Kimball
Carey Ave
James Johnson
Ren
Sselaer County Sheriff's Department
Hoosick
Stephentown
Johnson
Seven charged in Arco theft at Manchester station
Manchester police cited four adults and three juveniles after a 6 p.m. theft of 40 dollars from the Arco station near Highland Avenue and Routes 11 and 30. Keith Atkins, John Walsh III, Marjorie Shortt, Robert Phillips and three unnamed juveniles face petty larceny charges and will appear in Bennington District Court May 16.
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Manchester
Paul M. Lacoste
Arco Station
Highland Ave
Morris A. Beauregard
Keith Atkins
Bondville
John Walsh III
Marjorie Shortt
Bennington
Robert Phillips
Arlington
Bennington District Court
Beauregard
Walsh
Garlic John’s
Energy topic shapes Aiken Lectures at UVM
The third annual George D. Aiken Lectures at the University of Vermont on May 3 will explore energy research use and supply amid President Carter energy proposals. Prominent speakers include Robert Seamans Milton Shaw Irwin Stelzer with sessions on energy alternatives nuclear energy electric power and societal impacts. All talks are free public, with meals arranged in campus dining halls.
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Burlington
Carter
George D. Aiken
University of Vermont
Robert Seamans
Energy Research and Development Administration
Milton Shaw
Atomic Energy Commission
Irwin Stelzer
National Economic Research Associates
New York City
Ira Allen Chapel
UVM
Seamans
Elmer Gaden
UVM College of Engineering, Mathematics and Business Administration
Ira Allen
Shaw
David Goldberg
Vermont Tomorrow
Alan Green
Garden Way Manufacturing Co
Andrew Shapiro
Wood Energy Institute
Scott Skinner
VPIRG
Lloyd Lambert
UVM Electrical Engineering
Carter Energy
Stelzer
Robert Sinclair
UVM Agricultural and Resource Economics
Benedict Auditorium
Marsh Life Sciences Building
Electric
James Fitzpatrick
Chargyman
The
Power Authority
State of New York
James Griffin
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Lawrence Hobart
American Public Power Association
Peter McTague
Green Mountain Power Corp
Gene Laber
AVM Business Administration
Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Aiken
University
U.S
Vermont
Waterman
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National Academy of Design
Art Students League
Sculptors Guild
Hirschhorn Museum
Washington, D.C
Helft
Arco
North Bennington
Chester
Lacoste
Dorset
Gene Saluzzo
John Street
Albany
Main ST
Bennington Monthruthurs
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Filic
Bennington, VT
Martin Johnson
Grand Union
Spermarke
H. Greenberg
Bennington and
North Adams
Syac
TALS
Faulkner
Green Mountain
Union Street
Rich
Howie" Lederer
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