Hoosic River clean-up draws 30 volunteers
About 30 volunteers from Hoosick Falls joined the Hoosic River Basin CEPA and Hoosick Bicentennial Committee for a Saturday clean-up. Groups worked along Route 22 river banks, the abandoned B and M rail bed from Water Works to River Street bridge, and the area behind The Park on Church Street. Debris included washing machines and car doors as two canoes patrolled the river. a spring River Walk is planned.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosic River Basin
Hrbcepa
Hoosac School
B&m
River Street
Church Street
Lower High Street
Hoosick
Noble & Wood
Kiwanis Club
Lions Club
SVC summer program enrollment hits high in Manchester Extension
Southern Vermont College reports the Manchester Extension Summer Program had its largest enrollment, with over 40 students taking up to five courses. The program expands access for Manchester-area residents, reducing commuting to Bennington, and features courses in Human Growth and Development, Advertising, Communications, Art, Library Science, and Reading taught by a roster of faculty.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont College
Manchester Extension
Bennington
David G. Buckley
The
Atlantic and Pacific Appraisals
Buckley
Pamela Marron
Stamford University
Parsons School of Design
Kent Moore
Moore
Mark Skinner
Yale
Columbia
Southern Illinois University
University of Vermont
Miss Dunican
University of Vermont, Windham
Georgetown
Dean Junior College
University of Connecticut
Castleton
Williams
Southern Vermont
Canning lid shortage worsens as federal plan rolls out
The Commerce Department began Aug 7 a project to buy repackage and sell 2.8 million canning lids through Goodwill Industries of Minneapolis. The Vermont Retail Grocers Association calls the initiative a disservice to consumers warning it will reduce lid supply and confuse shoppers while offering little apparent benefit to Vermont residents.
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U.S. Department of Commerce
Secretary of Commerce
Rogers C.B. Morton
Goodwill Industries
Minneapolis
Minn
Vermont Retail Grocers Association
Association
Commerce Department
Vermont
Man Charged After Falls Police Chase and Crash
Michael Sherman 24 of North Pownal faces four charges in Hoosick Falls after a high speed chase ending in a rollover near the North Hoosick Firehouse at 3 30 a m He was hospitalized at Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge with non serious injuries The incident involved speeding 80 mph in a 30 mph zone failure to stop reckless driving license suspension and related offenses The North Hoosick Fire Department responded to extinguish a car fire and water down the engine Also note school board meetings in Pawlet and Rupert scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Michael Sherman
North Pownal
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Sherman
Town of
High Street
Vermont
North Hoosick
Vandalism, bomb threat hit Rutland EEI offices
Police investigate extensive vandalism at Entertainment Enterprises Inc. offices in Rutland with damage spanning basement to second floor. A 7 p.m. bomb threat prompted evacuation of a neighboring theater. no bomb found. EEI offers 1,000 reward for information. Damage likely tens of thousands of dollars.
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Entertainment Enterprises
Rutland
Vermont
Shannon
Three towns eye shared landfill in bid to resolve access
In New York, officials from North Greenbush East Greenbush and Rensselaer plan a meeting to settle a cooperative landfill project behind Holy Sepulchure Cemetery in North Greenbush. Disputes center on access with Mink saying only North Greenbush trucks could use a city route and East Greenbush to find its own path. North Greenbush Councilman Jack Kelley, who has pushed the plan for 18 months, cites a cost range of 280 000 to 196 000 dollars for a 77 acre site and suggests federal aid may be available.
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Rensselaer
North Greenbush
East Greenbush
Holy Sepulchure Cemetery
Joseph P. Mink
Jack Kelley
Averill Park Board-Teachers Offer 1974-75 Salary Pause
Negotiations continue between the Averill Park board of education and the teachers association over salaries for the upcoming school year. Last year teachers received a 9.8 percent across the board increase. The board will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night and is expected to recommend keeping salaries at the 1974-75 level until final agreement on new scales is reached.
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Averill Park
Board of Education
Teachers Association
Pollution hits Pittsfield air standards in 1974 report
EPA findings show Pittsfield exceeded the 160 micrograms per cubic meter oxidant limit 200 times in 1974 across 30 monitoring stations in five New England states. The report cites automobile exhaust as the main cause and warns of broader health risks in developed and less developed areas alike.
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Pittsfield
Environmental Protection Agency
New England
EPA
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Maine
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Simon and Schuster Inc
Oxford University Press
Crestwood Publications
Dianne Dunican
College of Our Lady of the Elms
University of Louvain
Leuven
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St. Lawrence University
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Richard Langan
New Jersey College of Medicine
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BRSA
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Rupert School Board
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UPI
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New York
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Burlington
Ferris Rock
U.S. Coast Guard
Montpelier
Agency of Environmental Protection
State Environmental Board
VPI
Vermont Maid
New Jersey
R. J. Reynolds Foods Inc
Windsor
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Brandon
Richard Raymond
Brattleboro
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