Classroom charity saves Christmas for Eddie Velasquez
Milford area fifth graders donated Christmas gifts after a fire at Boys Village destroyed Eddie Velasquez’s presents. Eddie listed baseball and train gifts. community support funded replacements from locals, scouts, and a bank. Other notes cover Pownal United Methodist Church programs and Arlington senior meals.
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Milford, Conn
UPI
James Santa Barbara
Orchard Hills School
Eddie Velasquez
Eddie
Boys Village
Santa Barbara
Judith Nason Wins Hoosick Falls Science Award
Judith Ann Nason of Hoosick Falls High receives the annual Bausch & Lamb Science Award, a bronze medal assigned to the top science student at 8600 schools. She will get the medal at June graduation and is eligible for a four year Bausch & Lamb Scholarship at the University of Rochester.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Judith Ann Nason
Elsie Nason
Dundee Ave
Bausch & Lamb
Hoosick Falls High School
United States
Canada
Judith
William c. Waterhouse
University of Rochester
Hunting Licenses Available in Searsburg Town Clerk Office
Town Clerk Mildred Marchegiani announced 1977 hunting and fishing licenses are now on sale at the Searsburg office. Hours are Wednesday Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. Prices range from resident fishing four dollars to non resident hunting and fishing combo forty five fifty, with several other licenses listed.
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Searsburg
Mildred Marchegiani
BU President asks IRS not to tax faculty tuition aid
Boston University President John R. Silber urged the IRS to withdraw plans to tax tuition remission scholarships for faculty and their families. He argued the rule change would be retroactive, clash with the statute, and could harm higher education and students nationwide.
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Boston
UPI
Boston University
John R. Silber
IRS
Silber
Congress
Vermont stories mix of jail escape and lawsuits
Richard Newman 21 of Marshfield Vermont escaped from Community Correctional Center Woodstock VI while awaiting trial for burglary and car theft. Keith Luther 28 of Forestdale died after a one car crash in Chittenden. Vermont hospitals sue state over welfare payments. South Burlington High School denies ninth grader Marla Pecor a soccer tryout over gender. Lawyers anticipate a girls program.
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Medford
Ore
UPI
Richard Newman
Marshfield
Vermont
Newman
Community Correctional Center
Woodstock
Rutland
Keith Luther
Forestdale
Rutland Hospital
Luther
Chittenden
South Burlington
UPS
South Burlington High School
Marla Pecor
Pecors
James Suskin
Marla
New York Firefighters Authorize Strike Over Arbitration Award
Albany firefighters voted to take any action including a strike to pressure Mayor Erastus Corning II to comply with a $1.5 million arbitration award. It would be the union's first strike, though it would violate the Taylor Law prohibiting public employee strikes. Corning refused to comply despite the state high court ordering enforcement.
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Albany
Erastus Corning II
Corning
Carey grants clemency to eight felons in New York
Governor Hugh Carey gave Christmas clemency to eight felons in New York. The group included a 22 year old convict for drug possession a Pittsfield Massachusetts man jailed for postal theft a Poughkeepsie man convicted of income tax evasion and youths involved in crimes including a double murder a woman on parole who was pardoned to avert deportation to Jamaica.
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Albany
New York
Hugh Carey
Pittsfield
Mass
Poughkeepsie
Jamaica
Two Western Mass residents contract Guillain-Barre after swine flu shot
Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports two western Massachusetts residents who received swine flu inoculations developed Guillain-Barre syndrome, a third case also reported in the western part of the state but not linked to vaccination. Names, hospitalization details, and exact locations withheld for privacy. North Adams plans a Christmas Eve anti abortion demonstration at 7 p.m. on Main Street coordinated by Massachusetts Citizens for Life with John T. McNulty of Stamford, Vermont, as local chair.
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Pittsfield
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Pert
Commonwealth
North Adams
Main Street
Citizens For Life
John T. McNulty
Stamford
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Citizens Band
Milford
WFIF
Cub Scouts of
West Haven
Milford Little League
Winchester Community School
New Haven
Bergeron
Pownal Methodist Church
Pownal
Methodist Hospital
Brooklyn
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Arlington
Bailey Hall
Virginia Andrews
Nellie Hayden
Judith Nason
Rochester
Caslin’s Store
Putnam Hospital
Katherine Luther
Joan Young
R.N
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Melissa Harrington
Renee Harrington
Kristen Peat
Heather Gowan
Jodi Congdon
Bennington
Office Products Center
Bennington, Vt
B.U
Tineke
Plante
Jewelers
Main St
Marra
North ST. Bennington
Sue State
Burlington
Chittenden County Superior Court
U.S
Maria
Hollis Norman Wright
Brattleboro
Wright
Vermont District Court
Shelburne
Loren Williams
Richmond
U.S. 7
Williams
William Bleau
Medical Center
Bleau
Claudette Beaudoin
Carey
Down In
Berkshire
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