Hoosick board accepts bids for landfill crawler repair
Hoosick Falls village board at a special meeting accepted the $5900 bid from Grey Truck & Equipment Co for repairing the six year old crawler at the sanitary landfill with a $250 weekly bulldozer lease during repair, estimated three weeks. Two other bids were rejected including an $8000 bid from Contractor Sales Co. Albany.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Arnold Brogue
North Petersburg
Grey Truck & Equipment Company
Glens Falls
Contractor Sales Co
Albany
Ken Smith Machinery Co
Michigan
Arlington Alumna Leads Record College Campaign
Miss Margaret M. Farmer of East Arlington, a Wellesley College alumna, served as district fund chairman and worked on leadership gifts for a record breaking campaign that netted $5,125,776 in gifts and bequests in fiscal year 1970 71. Of this amount $1,028,000 was unrestricted gifts in response to the college appeal for $1,000,000 for the 1970 71 operating budget.
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Arlington
Margaret M. Farmer
East Arlington
Wellesley College
Wellesley
Mass
Signature of Shakespeare may be authenticated by ultraviolet study
Henry Raymont reports that Wesleyan University professor W Nicholas Knight argues a Folger Library law book bears a genuine Wm Shakespeare signature. Using UV examination, Knight links the mark to the Deposition signature and suggests Shakespeare knew legal doctrine, dating a 1596 meeting at the Court of Chancery with Lambarde.
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Henry Raymont
N.Y. Times News Service
New York
Wesleyan University
England
William Shakespeare
Wm. Shakespere
Folger Shakespeare’ Library
Washington
W. Nicholas Knight
Folger Library
Sotheby’s
London
W. Slater
Shakespeare
Giles E. Dawson
Dawson
Knight
Leticia Yeandle
Shakespeare Newsletter
University of Illinois
Louis Marder
Vancouver
British Columbia
William Lambarde
Chancery
Aeup
Lambarde
Lombarde
Cape Cod
Mass
Court of Chancery
William Gardner
Shallow
Lobdells feted at 20th anniversary party
Mrs and Mrs George Lobdell of White Creek were honored at Jermain Hall by more than 100 relatives and friends for their fiftieth wedding anniversary. The event featured a guarded surprise, open house, a three layer anniversary cake, and gifts including a money tree and a portrait frame. The couple, married in 1921, reside in White Creek and he formerly worked for the New York State Department of Public Works.
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White Creek
George Lobdell
Jermain Hall
Women’s Society For Christian Service
Jermain Church
Margaret Perry
Lobdells
Chloe Marian Sisson
Lobdell
Plattsburgh
N.Y
New York State Department of Public Works
Sisson
White Creek Village
Dyer Sisson
B. and J. Merrit
Charges filed against crash victim in Readsboro
A Readsboro woman Elsie Ann Moore faces charges in Bennington District Court after a one car crash at routes 8 and 100. Police say her car left the road traveled 240 feet along a grassy shoulder then struck a guard rail near the West Branch Deerfield River. Also noted is a public hearing set for Aug 31 on Readsboro water supply with options costing 400000 for pond improvements or 100000 for new wells and potential river water treatment. The hearing, at 7 30 p m in Readsboro Central School, follows earlier voter turnout and water safety concerns.
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Readsboro
Bennington
Elsie Ann Moore
Alpenwald
Deerfield
Vermont Public Health Department
Dist
Kenalene J. Collins
Howe Pond
Readsboro Central School
Burr and Burton schedules set for fall semester start
Manchester Burr and Burton Seminary announces the fall and spring schedules. Students report to the gym Monday August 30 as classes begin, with homeroom assignments and daily sessions 8 25 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunches priced 35 cents begin August 30 except Fridays. Bus routes include Dorset Danby Londonderry Weston Peru and activity buses after 5 30 p.m.
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Manchester
Burr and Burton Seminary
Dorset
Williams
East Rupert
Manchester West Road
Burr and Burton
Dorset Village
Dorset West Road
Morse Hills
Manchester North Road
Porth
Danby
Danby Village
Burr
Burton
Londonderry-Weston-Peru
Weston
Weston Island
North Londonderry
South Londonderry
Adams Market
Flood Brook School
Peru
East Dorset
Morse Hill Road
Burr and
Peru Village
Flood Brook School Londonderry
Adams
Bridge
TV personality to appear at Arlington Country Auction ’71
TV host David Allan will attend the Arlington Garden Club sponsored Country Auction on The Village Green in West Arlington Route 313 on Sept 4. He will meet fans and draw 3 p.m. raffle prizes including a limited edition Luigi Lucioni etching, an autographed Norman Rockwell book, and a Garland Camper Lantern. Auctioneer Bus Mars leads the sale starting 10 a.m. under a tent despite weather. Lunch and take home foods, a boutique, and chair seating planned.
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Arlington
David Allan
WRGB
Arlington Garden Club
Gerald Raftery
Sunderland
John B. deBrun
Luigi Lucioni
Norman Rockwell
Hoosick Falls Scouts Head to Little Notch Camp
About 21 members from two Hoosick Falls girl scout troops led by Mrs. Edwin Brenenstuhl will depart Sunday for Troop Camp at Little Notch West Fort Ann New York. The group totals 364 cadets 150 seniors with leaders Mrs Brenenstuhl Mrs John Mancini and Miss Margaret Farrara assisting.
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Edwin Brenenstuhl
Little Notch
West Fort Ann
N.Y
Hudson Valley
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Town of
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Little League
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Pittsfield
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Three Rivers
Rensselaer County Department of Health
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Berkshires
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