URI urban extension service shifts focus to cities
Providence Rhode Island urban field center at Fox Point offers planners and urban experts to Rhode Island's eight cities. The four person staff handles about 25 projects in six months, funding mainly from the university with efforts to attract foundations and government aid. Groups pay 25 percent of project costs if able.
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Providence, R.I
UPI
Cooperative Extension
America
University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension Service
Fox Point
Providence
Rhode Island
Marcia Marker Feld
Uri Urban Field Center
Edward B. Feinman
Ford Foundation
Uri
Cooperative Extension Service
New England Officials Clash Over Seabrook Nuclear Plant
New Hampshire Rep. James Cleveland criticizes regional energy policy and blames Muskie and Kennedy for opposing New England energy interests as Seabrook faces a swift $2 billion decision. He urges prompt action while EPA reviews cooling tunnels and highway crash figures rise in 1976.
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N.H
UPI
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Capitol Hill
Seabrook
New England
James Cleveland
Edward Muskie
Maine
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
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Kennedy
Egland
Cleveland
Seabrook Station
Environmental Protection Agency
New Hampshire Town Makes Recycling Mandatory
Dover New Hampshire conducted a four week mandatory recycling phase after 11 weeks of study and seven optional weeks with high participation. 86 percent chose recycling early, rising to 99 percent during the four week mandate. Noncompliers faced dumping penalties. the town sought $5,000 in funding last March to start the program and will report to the selectmen in March.
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Public Works
Sepa
University of New Hampshire Recycling Center
Cromby
Emery Swan
University
David Littlefield
Littlefield
CB Radio Boom Shapes Nation Say Good Buddies Rise
CB radio and on the road chatter foster a rising cultural force as riders and truckers form a loose network nicknamed good buddies. The trend reflects shifting media access and a new sense of community across regions and highways.
Inventor injured in collision with a snow plow
Norman C. Pickering 61 of Long Island was listed in satisfactory condition at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a Dec 27 Route 22 crash with a Rensselaer County snow plow. He suffered a broken jaw and cuts and bruises. the truck driver Ralph Elwell 46 had no injuries. Pickering is inventor of the Pickering zone arm used in stereo gear.
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Petersburg
N.Y
Norman C. Pickering
Long Island
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Pickering
Volkswagen
Rensselaer County
Ralph Elwell
Arsonist Stephen Collins GPS Missing on APB
State Police issued an all points bulletin for Stephen Collins a 25 year old Nashua man who failed to return to the state hospital on Friday during a 12 hour pass. Collins was committed to the hospital forensic unit for life on arson charges by Hillsborough County Superior Court. He is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall 180 pounds with a scar on his right thumb brown hair and blue eyes.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
Stephen Collins
Nashua
State Hospital
Collins
Hillsbourgh
Legislators oppose state run gambling in New Hampshire
New Hampshire Sunday News poll of 424 incoming lawmakers finds 52 percent of respondents oppose casino gambling while 31 percent favor it and 17 percent undecided. Sports card betting faces 54 percent opposition, 28 percent support, with 18 percent undecided. A quarter of those polled lack ideas on new state revenue.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire Sunday News
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