North Adams State ends secondary education program
North Adams State College plans to eliminate the high school teaching track as enrollments in education fall to about 30 in the secondary program. The move shifts focus to elementary and middle school training, with in service programs for current teachers and a new teacher learning center concept.
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Arthur R. Brodsky
Berkshire Eagle
North Adams
Mass
North Adams State College
Education Department
Thomas Mulkeen
Mulkeen
Ada Tudeiare
Raymond Sullivan
Adams-Cheshire
North Adams City
County Superintendents’ Association
Local notes from Hoosick Falls and Bennington area events
Hoosick Falls mayoral and town news include Guy Phillips hospitalized after illness with visitors from Quincy Mass. Minor community events cover Kings Daughters banquet at Blackfriar Bennington, stork shower for Debbie Myers in Babcock Lake, and upcoming Past Matrons Club meeting at Amberglo Restaurant. Church and civic schedules list Pownal Baptist choir rehearsal, Rap Group gathering, selectmen meeting, and Pownal Rescue Squad open house to view a new ambulance with refreshments provided.
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Kings Daughters
Blackfriar
Bennington
Norma Brenenstuhl
Ann Armstrong
Galdys McClellan
Iva Durkee
River Road
Miss Brenenstuhl
Mabel Smith
Terrance
Debbie) Myers
Babcock Lake
Gail Morin
Wilder Ave
Troy
Albany
Petersburg
Berlin
Hoosick Falls
Pownal Center
Pownal
Environmentalists claim partial victory over Quebec dam plan
Environmentalists in Vermont and New York welcome the IJC stance after the commission rejected Canada’s latest Richelieu River flood control proposal. The IJC said the plan did not meet the spirit of its prior report and would permanently lower Lake Champlain water levels. In Vermont, a bill to preserve scenic roads was killed as the House withdrew the measure. Rep. Robert Graf sponsored the bill.
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UPI
Vermont
New York
Richelieu
Quebec
International Joint Commission
IJC
Commission
Lake
Champlain
Vermont House Cool to Higher Driver License Fees
The Vermont House gave preliminary approval to a bill raising license fees from six to eight dollars and driving test fees from two to five dollars. Funds generated would back driver education with a target of 450000 dollars, aided by transfers from the Highway Fund and 35000 dollars in federal highway education money.
Police officers injured in cruiser crash on ice
In Springfield two local officers were hurt early today when their cruiser slid on ice on Route 106 and hit guard rails. Officer Neil Martin suffered a broken collar bone and bruises and was treated and released. Lt. Charles Niles sustained broken ribs and internal injuries and was hospitalized in Hanover, New Hampshire. The cruiser was totaled.
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Springfield
UPI
Neil Martin
Charles Niles
Martin
Miles
Hanover
N.H
Burlington airport bogged by icy runways near crash scene
A taxiing Air New England plane skidded on an icy runway during maintenance at Burlington International Airport. Its spinning propeller struck a parked pickup truck but caused no injuries. The airport has seen three crashes in three weeks, with two New Hampshire residents killed earlier and two people injured in a Sunday twin engine jet crash.
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South Burlington
UPS
Burlington International
Air New England
New Hampshire
Mechanicville High-Speed Chase Leaves Two Injured In Field
In Mechanicville early Tuesday a pursuit ended in a field with large tree stumps after Robert Ronda fled a red light. His Camaro hit several trees before stopping. he is at Albany Medical Center in good condition. Brother Michael Ronda was treated and released. Ronda faces four traffic counts.
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Mechanicville
Robert Ronda
Ronda
Albany Medical Center
Michael Ronda
Leonard Hospital
SUNY Albany Nursing Protest After Budget Cut Recommendation
Students at SUNY Albany staged protests after a task force proposed eliminating the School of Nursing and 12 other degree programs to save 1.3 million. The plan would cut about 99 jobs this year and 34 more in 1977-78, with nursing students saying the four year program bears the brunt while others escape cuts.
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John Zaharis
Zaharis
James T. Amsler
Albany
State University of New York At Albany
School of Nursing
Berkshire murder case bound over for grand jury
Earl Gary Blake, 21, bound over for Superior Court grand jury for the December 14 murder of his 14-year-old stepsister Dawn Starr Smith. Witnesses Randy and Lisa Smith testified they saw Blake strike the girl with a blunt instrument in the kitchen. Smith's body found in a blackberry patch. tire iron used. Blake arrested January 15, held without bail.
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North Adams
Earl Gary Blake
Dawn Starr Smith
Blake
Randy
Lisa Smith
Miss Smith
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