Mt Anthony Board Backs In Concept Shaftsbury 7th Grade Return
Mt Anthony Union School Board approved in concept a plan to again enroll Shaftsbury seventh graders. debate centered on who pays and how to organize. Shaftsbury directors will draft a detailed plan while the union weighs costs and logistics for possible mid term or next year start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rob Woolmington
Mt. Anthony Union School Board
Shaftsbury
Joseph Crossman
Crossman
Irving Adler
Mt. Anthony
Barth Vander Els
Robert J. Dimke
Vander Els
Lawrence E. Harrngton
Harrington
Samuel G. Carrara
Durand
Edwin Colvin
Bennington
Carrara
Hurricane closes several Vermont recreation areas
The U S Army Corps of Engineers announced closures of Winhall Brook camping ground at Ball Mountain Lake and the Townshend Lake recreation area for the rest of the season. Col John Mason cited flood storage reservoirs performing well during Hurricane Belle as justification. Access road damage and silt cover the sites while debris at Stoughton Pond will take a week to clear.
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Waltham
Mass
Winhall Brook
Ball Mountain Lake
Townshend Lake
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
John Mason
Vermont
Connecticut
Ball Mountain
Stoughton Pond
Springfield
Last covered bridge in New Hampshire burned in Goffstown
Fire at 11 15 a m Monday destroyed the 117 foot span in downtown Goffstown, the last NH covered bridge still in railroad use. The Piscataquog River flood caused collapse within 20 minutes. Fire Chief called origin suspicious, with flames scorching an insurance building and threatening a nearby gas station.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Goffstown
Piscataquag River
Richard Fletcher
Police report covers DW I D charges and stolen car case
Hoosick Falls village police arrested Earl E. Rifenburgh for driving while intoxicated after a 12 30 am stop on Oak Street. Richard C. Myers was jailed for unlawfully dealing with a minor in Wood Memorial Park. State police recovered a stolen Datsun tied to Richard LaPorte. Abandoned bicycle found at St Marys school to be claimed by Donald Sargood. Additional local arrests include Bennett Barber for unregistered vehicle and wrong way driving. The report blends with notes on New Hampshire covered bridges and local lore.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Earl E. Rifenburgh
Johnsonville
Rifenburgh
Oak Street
Village Court
Richard C. Myers
Dundee Avenue
Myers
Wood Memorial Park
Richard LaPorte
Church St
North Petersburg
St. Mary’s School
Donald F. Sargood
Bennington
Church Street
Willard J. Barber
Hoosick Falls School Board Meets For Budget And Bids
Hoosick Falls Central School Board meets at 8 PM to set four town tax rates and review bids for milk bread rolls ice cream and fuel oil for the coming year. They will discuss driver routes resignations leaves hiring new teachers and an elementary secretary and review adult driver education and yearbook portrait plans. A state law on handicapped transportation expands required service to a 50 mile radius. Village and town officials join a Rensselaer County clerk’s rep to consider a once weekly Hoosick Falls Motor Vehicles Bureau office in the village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
George H. Holbrook
Rensselaer County Clerk’s Office
County
Edward A. Wielkind
Town to hold informal hearing on floodplain district
White Creek town board will host an informal hearing at 7:30 p.m. on August 30 at the town shed to gauge sentiment of property owners affected by proposed floodplain regulations along Owl Kill. The board plans to let affected owners decide whether to adopt the rules. Michael Karaffa returns from visits abroad. Elton Sandow family moves into Walter Greenwood home. Perry Heslink and Terry from Jamestown visit Gordon Byars. Raymond Taber back from Cambridge hospital. Anthony Raimo family from New Jersey stays briefly at their local home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owl Kill
James L. Nolan
Overcrowding Threatens U S Forest Service Lands
A U S Forest Service report details growing crowds in Monongahela and across 186 million acres of forests. Guidelines shift toward dispersed wilderness, increased hiking and camping facilities, and stricter trash removal while timber sales face legal limits and replanting backlogs.
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Monongahela National Forest
W. Va
U.S
U.S. Park Service
U.S. Forest Service
Whitmever
Monongahela Forest
West Virginia
America
National Park System
Department of Agriculture
The
Forest Service
Department of Interior
Shenandoah
Yellowstone
Congress
Zane G. Smith
Monkeys and More in a Midwestern Home Domicile
Times Beach resident Hunt Bushnell and choreographer Tom Ray share a cramped one story house with a menagerie including three pigtail macaque monkeys, two cinnamon capuchin monkeys, 30 cockateels and 70 zebra finches. They use the animals in children’s theatre as puppeteers and entertainers while acknowledging the headaches and risks of keeping exotic pets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times Beach
UPI
Hunt Bushnell
Bushnell
Tom Ray
Adam
Simian Society of America
Worker lives like a king
TAPLOW England UPI reports laborer Max Quarterman drove to a building site Monday in his new 35100 Rolls Royce a gift to himself on his 35th birthday. He owns a 90000 house with circular bath and gold taps in an exclusive Buckinghamshire estate. He works up to 70 hours a week and uses a homemade superbod to carry extra materials and boost his wages to pay for his lifestyle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taplow
England
UPI
Max Quarterman
Buckinghamshire
Quarterman
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MAU
Jonathan B. Durand
Tony Altobell
George A. Sleeman
Dimke
Bennington Recreation
Hoosick Police
Barber
Kennedy Lane
Cheney Library
Lawrence Putnam
Grain Exchange
Goffstown Bridge
New Hampshire Central Railroad
Putnam
Boston & Maine Railroad
State Public Utilities Commission
Conway
Smith- Eastman
Melvin
Winchester
Cious
Merrimack
Fields Bridge
Turkey Hill
Woodstock
Richard Roy
Manchester
New Hamshire
Division of Economic Development
Chesterfield
New York
Highway Department
John Brennan
Office of Vacation Travel
Michael Karaffa
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Elton Sandow
West Hoosick
Walter Greenwood
Perry Heslink
Terry
Jamestown
Gordon Byars
Raymond Taber
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Anthony Raimo
New Jersey
Casamount National Bank
DAC
Arm & Hammer Detergent
By Clayton Jones
Christian Science Publishing Society
Geraldine
Bissell
Is ‘Furniture CO
Main ST
Fienberg
Bennington, VT
United Counseling Service
H. Greenberg
Main Street
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