Somerville man wired jaw after aiding officer at softball melee
Edmund Keefe of Somerville rushed to help a police officer knocked down during a heated softball game melee. He was punched, jaw broken in three places, and spent weeks in hospital with his jaw wired shut. Keefe lost 60 pounds, endured surgeries, and later returned to work on light duty, saying he would help again with a helmet next time.
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New England Telephone Co
Melrose-Wakefield Hospital
Logan
Maine liquor surcharge funds alcoholism prevention
Maine proposes a liquor surcharge to finance new alcoholism prevention programs. Acting director Michael Fulton predicts the measure will raise beer by two cents per six pack and liquor by one cent per fifth, and generate about 1.7 million dollars in the first year. Fulton says the policy targets middle class drinkers after addressing lower income alcohol issues.
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Augusta
Maine
UPI
Fulton
Abrams Nomination Would Make First Female Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice
Gov Dukakis nominated Superior Court Judge Ruth I Abrams a Cambridge resident and Radcliffe Harvard Law School graduate for the Massachusetts Supreme Court. If confirmed she would replace retiring Judge Paul C Reardon and bring decades of appellate, district attorney, and state attorney general experience.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Superior Court
Ruth I. Abrams
Michael S. Dukakis
Cambridge
Executive Council
Miss Abrams
Paul C. Reardon
Judge Abrams
Radcliffe
Harvard Law School
Bromley Ski Area Busy With Winter Events And Upgrades
Bromley, despite limited skiing, hosts EP SIA Fall Rally and EPSIA Instructor Training. Through March, events include Christmas Race Camps, Bromley Slalom Derby, Louise Orvis Senior Race, Capital District Giant Slalom, Washington's Birthday Race Camps, Guy Greeley Cup, and Jack Jump Revival Derby. A 51-room luxury Bromley Sun Lodge opens near Summit Chairlift with shorter lift lines, 10 percent higher chair capacity, 40 percent more rental gear, and doubled rental shop floor space.
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Peru
Bromley
Eastern Professional Ski Instructors Association
EPSIA
Louise Orvis
Capital District Ski Council
Washington
Guy Greeley
Summit
Pownal Christmas Program and New Year Party Details
Tonight at 7:30 in Pownal Elementary School gym third grade led by William Jones and second grade led by Gracemary Keith perform with a Friday 1 p.m. show. Also tonight choir rehearsal at Pownal United Methodist Church and a 7:30 work night at Pownal Center Fire Department. A New Year’s Eve party at North Pownal firehouse runs 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. with New Wheel, buffet, hats, noisemakers. tickets $20 per couple, sales through Dec. 26, call Jackie Buck at 823-7762. limit 50 couples. sponsored by North Pownal Fire Auxiliary.
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Gracemary Keith
Pownal
Pownal Center
North Pownal Firehouse
Jackie Buck
North Pownal
Office On
Putnam Hotel
Manchester
Christmas Happening at Zion Church in Manchester
Green Mountain Music Club presents its annual Christmas Happening on Sunday December 19 at 3 PM in Manchester at Zion Episcopal Church Parish House. The program features soloists and groups including Jane Davis Ellen Wilcox Joan Bort IV Phil Elwell and the Patchwork Trio with commentary by Rev. David Bort and readings by poets such as Chesterton McGinley and Wilbur.
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Green Mountain Music Club
Zion Episcopal Church
David and
Joan Bort
Sunderland
Jane Davis
Ellen Wilcox
David Bort IV
Phil Elwell
East Arlington
Carol McClure
Pat Dupree
David Bort
G.K. Chesterton
Phyllis McGinley
Richard Wilbur
Phyllis Beatty
God
Manchester Center
Vermont Adoptions Rise Sharply in 1975 Report
Vermont officials report a 17 percent rise in adoptions in 1975 with 502 total, led by a 28 percent jump in step-parent adoptions. Among adoptees 243 were from broken homes and 184 born outside wedlock. The state found homes for a higher share of older children than three private agencies.
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SRS
Seven arrested in Vermont marijuana bust
In East Dover Vermont seven out of state suspects face charges tied to a large marijuana seizure. Police reported 300 pounds of processed Mexican marijuana with an estimated street value of 100000 dollars. George Senner III of Phoenix Arizona and David Villandry of Chelmsford were arraigned after warrants for fugitives from justice. All seven defendants pleaded innocent.
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Chelmsford
Mass
Villandry
Vermont
State Board to pay Pike $86,000 for repaving costs
Transportation Board grants payment to Pike Industries Inc for tearing up and repaving a section of I-89 in Williston and Bolton. The contractor argued the earlier pavement failed due to material used in the experimental stage, and the board found no fault with Pike and approved reimbursement of the $86,000 cost.
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Morrisville
UPI
State Transportation Board
Chittenden
Pike Industries Inc
Williston
Bolton
Pike
Dunkerly seeks release over allegedly illegal confinement
Scott Dunkerly 22 of Walden faces first degree murder charges in the April shooting of George Downer 35 at a Walden trailer. His trial in Orleans County ended in a mistrial when he was hospitalized. Defender General Morse says confinement and a proposed new trial violate constitutional rights and could permit double jeopardy. Arguments set for next week in Chittenden County Superior Court after the state Supreme Court declined a similar petition earlier.
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Burlington
UPI
Scott Dunkerry
Walden
Chittenden County Superior Court
James Morse
Dunkerly
George Downer
Orleans County Superior Court
Morse
State Supreme Court
Chittenden County
Colonie plant fumes hospitalize ten after carbon monoxide leak
An overheated compressor at Adirondack Steel Casting in Colonie released carbon monoxide on Wednesday. Ten people collapsed, one in serious condition at Albany Medical Center, others at Memorial Hospital Albany and Samaritan Troy in fair or satisfactory condition. Riverside Ambulance Squad arrived at 7 11 a.m. to find several unconscious workers. the plant nurse was later overcome by fumes.
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Adirondack
Albany Medical Center
Memorial Hospital
Albany
Samaritan Hospital
Troy
Dave Plouff
Riverside Ambulance Squad
Ice time on the Hudson slows traffic and dredge work
A 300-foot hydraulic dredge working to pump out PCBs from the dam below Fort Edward has been frozen since Friday at Champlain Canal Lock 4. Ice blocks formed at the Hoosic River mouth, stalling traffic as a tug and a 12-foot deep slush jam hamper river operations.
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Champlain Canal
Lock 7
Fort Edward
Hoosic River
Missing Carol Ann Todd Abduction Sought in Berkshire Case
Police hunted two suspects after two men with access to the Sheraton North Adams Inn area were questioned in the Carol Ann Todd disappearance case. A helicopter scouted hilly woods west of the hotel while investigators probed for blood traces, with a polygraph and chemical tests on a potential witness.
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Carol Ann Todd
Falmouth
Sheraton
North Adams Inn
Milo F. Brown
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