Oil spill drift projected toward New England shores
URI researchers model oil from the Argo Merchant spill moving southeast toward the Rhode Island and Massachusetts coast. Officials prepare shoreline protection and cleanup plans while tracking surface slicks and subsurface plumes. Predictions remain sketchy, with potential hits including Nantucket and Long Island within weeks to months.
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University of Rhode Island
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Nashua Blue Laws Case Weighs City Sunday Sales
Nashua District Court Judge Aaron Harkaway took under advisement complaints that 35 Nashua stores stayed open last Sunday in violation of local blue laws. A decision is expected in two or three weeks, with potential referral to the state Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of New Hampshire Sunday sales law, which lets communities decide on general merchandise sales but imposes no penalties for violators.
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Nashua
N.H
UPI
Aaron Harkaway
Harkaway
State Supreme Court
Pownal Community Activities Tonight and New Year Party
The Pownal Center Fire Department meets at 7 30 tonight at the firehouse for a work night. Choir rehearsal at Pownal United Methodist Church also at 7 30 tonight. A New Year’s Eve party runs from 8 pm to 1 am at the North Pownal firehouse with music by the New Wheels, buffet, mixers, hats and noisemakers. tickets 20 dollars a couple on sale through December 26. reservations to Jackie Buck at 823 7762. sponsored by the North Pownal Fire Auxiliary. The Pownal Fire Protective Association was called to a smoldering mattress fire at the Community Care Home Tuesday morning. no injuries. The Pownal and North Pownal Post Offices close at noon Friday December 24.
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Pownal Center
North Pownal Firehouse
Jackie Buck
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Vermont Labor Council Aides Leader to Step Down
AFL-CIO lobbyist Mark Stechbart says he will resign at year’s end possibly to take a similar post in California. He has led the Vermont Labor Council COPE since 1974, the political arm of the federation, organizing labor political action in Vermont.
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Montpelier
UPI
Afl-Cio
Mark Stechbart
California
Stechbart
Vermont Labor Council
New rail owners press Vermont for track upgrades
The Vermont Northern Railroad owners warn they may leave unless the state funds track repairs. They demand speeds of at least 25 mph on the 99-mile line, currently limited to about eight mph. Estimated upgrade cost is 4 to 7 million, state proposes 1.4 million. Vermont has spent 3.5 million since 1973. Morrison-Knudsen manages the line after a fall contract collapse.
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Morrisville
UPI
Vermont Northern Railroad
St. Johnsbury
Lamoille County
Gene Tonda
Vermont
Idaho
Morrison-Knudeson
Honor Roll Highlights From Hoosick Falls Central Fall Term
Hoosick Falls Central School releases its fall term honor roll. The list includes 12th grade students such as Judy Nason Diane Walter Denise Martinez Anne Leeseman and others with top scores like 97.75 and 95.0. 10th grade names Penny Armstrong Susan Shelton Donna Reynolds and more appear with grades around the 90s. 9th grade Julie Rodak Wendy Liporace Daniel Magarza and several others achieve high marks. 8th grade Tracy Petersen Brent Griffin Elizabeth Springer and additional students are listed. Merit list includes Bruce Mosely Peggy Bass Laura DeLuca and many more named students across grades.
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Judy Nason
Diane Walter
Denise Martinez
Anne Leeseman
Barbara Sanders
Francis Kyer
Karol Pokines
Cindy Griffin
Beth Brownell
Deborah Baldwin
Wilbur Foshay
Marcie O’brien
Ron LaPorte
John Thurber
Larry Baker
George Colegrove
Kathy McNeilly
Jeff Norton
Gracie Diana Rodak
Lynn Brenenstuh
Kirk Brewster
Robert Reinfurt
Robert Frazier
Kim Benson
Mark Sheffer
David Ryder
Katryn Miller
Kelly Jean Thompson
Chris Petersen
Julie Rodak
Judy Yager
Wendy Liporace
Daniel Magarza
Kenneth Benson
Mary Robinson
Glynda Gray
Brenda Hunt
James Martinez
Frances Caron
Tracy Petersen
Brent Griffin
Elizabeth Springer
Linda Benson
North Adams professor listed in World’s Who’s Who of Women
North Adams State College faculty member Dr Patricia Prendergast associate professor in Education and Director of Professional Education has been selected for the 1976 edition of The World’s Who’s Who of Women Her biography joins other women of achievement from around the world A North Adams State College graduate she earned a master’s from Columbia University and a PhD from SUNY Albany before joining the college in 1969 She formerly taught in North Adams public schools and at Mark Hopkins Campus School recently completed research on teacher personality and classroom structure She frequently presents papers at professional societies.
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Mass
North Adams State College
Patricia Prendergast
Department of Education
Prendergast
Columbia University
The
College
Dr. Prendergast
Mark Hopkins
Burr and Burton Profiles Latin Teacher Elizabeth Dooley
Elizabeth Dooley joined Burr and Burton Seminary as a part time Latin teacher in Manchester last September. A long time resident with four children, she aims to emphasize word meaning spelling composition and appreciation of classical literature through Latin. She is active in St Pauls Parish Catholic Daughters of America and local clubs and enjoys golf bridge and sewing.
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Manchester
Elizabeth Dooley
Ticonderoga
N.Y
Mount St. Mary
Burlington
College of New Rochelle
New York State
University of Vermont
Dooley
St. Paul’s Parish
Court of Saint Rita — Catholic Daughters of America
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Green Mountain Girls
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Burton
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Patricia
Michael
James
Dunkerley avoids Jan trial in Windsor County murder case
In Windsor County Court Scott Dunkerley 22 of Walden faces a first degree murder charge for the April killing of his stepfather George Downer 35. Judge Silvio Valente postponed the January trial due to defense motions and double jeopardy concerns after a prior mistrial when Dunkerley was hospitalized for a lung issue.
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UPI
Scott Dunkerley
Walden
Windsor County Court
Silvio Valente
Dunkerley
George Downer
Valente
Albany Mayors Fight Arbitration Awards Over Firemen Pay
Albany Mayor Erastus Corning II plans local legislation to remove Albany from Taylor law provisions after a Court of Appeals upholding an arbitration award granting 1.5 million to Albany firemen. He says he would prefer a strike to costly arbitration. In Bethlehem, a federal judge approved a Job Corps center at the former Glenmont seminary, blocking Bethlehem residents from demanding an environmental impact statement.
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Erastus Corning II
Court of Appeals
Corning
Bethlehem
Glenmont Seminary
James T. Foley
Missing Falmouth teacher Carol Todd searched for in Berkshire
In Berkshire, police and 40 civilian volunteers searched a remote western Berkshire area and the Williamstown Reservoir for 28 year old Carol Ann Todd, the Falmouth teacher missing since December 12 from the North Adams Sheraton Inn. Investigators deemed the chance of finding her alive negligible.
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Falmouth
Carol Ann Todd
Williamstown
North Adams Sheraton Inn
Pownal
Eileen Gillooly
Ashford and Jiminy Peak Ski Areas Forge Yuletide Truce
Brodie and Jiminy Peak end two months of vandalism over a lone directional sign on Route 7 by joining in a Christmas ad campaign in a Colorado paper. Daniel O Connell of Waterford NY, a Brodie consultant, was arrested for theft of the sign and pleads not guilty with case continued to Jan 6.
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