Dover Fun Day at Mount Snow Airport in West Dover
Dover Fun Day on Saturday August 30 sponsored by the Dover bicentennial committee and the Civil Air Patrol features a parade on Route 100 at 10 a.m. followed by an open house at Mount Snow Airport until 4 p.m. Activities include barbeque air ambulance demonstration hang glider model airplanes and more with airplane rides priced at three cents per pound. Evening events on Route 100 include a spaghetti dinner merry-go-round and square dancing. Cadets aged 13 to 18 meet Saturdays at Mount Snow Airport at 9 a.m.
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Dover
Dover Bicentennial Committee
Civil Air Patrol
Mount Snow
Deerfield
Arlington Public Schools Set Sept 3 Start for Grades 1-12
Arlington schools reopen September 3 with 8:05 a.m. start for grades 1-12 and 11:45 a.m. dismissal. Elementary dismisses at 2:30 p.m. and Junior-Senior High at 2:40 p.m. Kindergarten starts September 4 with bus meeting details. Lunch begins September 4 at 40 cents. milk available Sept 4-5. Bus routes and times listed with multiple pickups and afternoon runs.
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Arlington
Arlington Public Schools
West Arlington
Red Mountain Road
Townshends Corner
Water Street
Two car crash on River Road leaves one dead
Five people were injured in a head on collision on River Road south of Hoosick Falls. Driver Ziegried Lotz, 77, of Pawlet died later at Albany Medical Center. Four others, including Retta Dunlop, 45, of Petersburg, and Clifford Gundrum, 34, were treated at Putnam Memorial Hospital with injuries ranging from head lacerations to broken limbs. The crash occurred around 9:30 a.m. when Lotz’s southbound vehicle crossed the double line and collided with Dunlop’s northbound car. Police cited Lotz as a retired taxi driver with a Pawlet summer residence.
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N.Y
New York
Hoosick
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Town of
Ziegried Lotz
Pawlet
Albany Medical Center
Dunlop
Lotz
Deerfield Valley CC elects 1975 76 officers at Old Red Mill
Deerfield Valley Chamber of Commerce announces its 1975 1976 slate led by President Al Wurzberger of the 1836 Country Store. Peter Gebauer, Bob Olden, Tom Politano and Robert Boyd named officers. Five directors elected Elaine Belba Larry Jensen Lou Beaudette Jerry Caler Mike Bauman. Installation Sept 12 with Gov. Salmon as speaker.
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Old Red Mill
Mike Bauman
N.J. Bauman and Co
Gov
Thomas Salmon
Walloomsac residents return from farm and fair prep
Walloomsac David Barringer returns home Labor Day after August at Hoacre Farm where he helped with farm work and cattle prep for Schaghticoke Fair. Mrs. Roscoe Austin hosts a visit from Pittstown. Alan and David Hoag return from Texas. Linda Horan visits Hoag with Mary Ellen Hoag before the fall semester at SUNY Cobleskill where Ms. Hoag will serve as advisor counselor.
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Hoacre Farm
Schaghticoke Fair
Linda Horan
Long Island
Mary Ellen Hoag
SUNY
Cobleskill
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Burlington innkeepers ride Olympic boom in Montreal
Burlington area innkeepers say tickets to the Summer Games in Montreal are nearly unavailable and that accommodations nearby will be scarce for ticketholders. Reservations may surge in towns near the Canadian border, with limited rooms in St. Albans and Jay Peak but overall demand rising rapidly.
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Burlington
UPI
Montreal
Greater
Postal rate hike could cost Vermont up to 240000
Vermont Finance Department says a U S Postal Service first class rate increase could cost state government as much as 240000 annually. Last year the state spent about 1.5 million on postage, with roughly 80 percent on first class mail. The increase would lift first class rates from 10 cents to up to 13 cents per ounce, needing absorption in 1976 agency budgets.
Vermont board trims list for transportation secretary post
Vermont Transportation Board Chairman Robert Gensburg said the panel narrowed 278 candidates for the cabinet level transportation secretary to a few names. The board will meet next Thursday to vote on finalists to present to Gov. Salmon for the $35 000 a year post after the Transportation Agency merged motor vehicle highway aeronautics and railroad divisions.
Officials seek rule change to ease drought aid for farmers
North Hero UPI reports state Agriculture Commissioner Leo O'Brien and Almon Heald will press the U.S. Department of Agriculture to loosen eligibility rules for the emergency feed grain program. A delegation toured Franklin and Grand Isle counties and planned visits to Chittenden and Addison Counties to aid drought-stricken farmers.
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North Hero
UPI
U.S. Agriculture Department
Leo O’brien
Almon Heald
U.S. Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Franklin
Grand Isle
Chittenden
Addison
Vermont College system courted potential strikebreakers
Administrators at Johnson State College sought teaching strikebreakers for a possible fall walkout while President Edward Elmendorf declined to discuss a strikebreaker list. Castleton Lyndon and Vermont Technical colleges denied having such plans and said they would operate if faculty struck.
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Johnson State
Edward Elmendorf
Castleton State
Lyndon State
Vermont Technical Colleges
Rensselaer Manpower probe to review hiring
In Rensselaer County New York an investigation into the Manpower program will begin next Tuesday. It will be run by two county legislature committees led by budget and finance chairman Robert A. Stierer. He says indications show some Manpower jobs were given to undeserving people though the program aimed to hire the hard-core unemployed. The Manpower Advisory Board will meet Tuesday night with the budget and finance committee and the social services Manpower committee to review the situation.
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Troy
Rensselaer County
Robert A. Stierer
Social Services
Insurance bids gain support for county contracts plan
Rensselaer County Executive William J. Murphy backs a proposal to require bidding on all county insurance contracts and urges consolidation of insurance deals. He says bidding would save several thousands of dollars. Under the present system contracts are awarded to vendors named by the legislature.
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Troy
Rensselaer County
William J. Murphy
Murphy
Berkshire Community College to hire staff despite budget gaps
In Pittsfield, Berkshire Community College will retain about 225 faculty and staff and use federal grant funds and college trust money to hire three full time nursing instructors and eight part time faculty after positions emptied under the new interim budget. The college plans an ad hoc committee to cut costs, especially energy use, if needed. In the same city, the state Department of Youth Services faced criticism as a 17 year old runaway led to dismissal of felony charges against three defendants in a stolen checks case, with prosecutors blaming the DYS for failing to custody her. they allege the girl ran away from hospitals and programs during DYS supervision.
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Berkshire Community College
BCC
Thomas E. O’connell
State Department of Youth Services
DYS
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