Hovering objects reported in central Massachusetts
Reports of an orange glow and hovering objects surfaced over Phillipston Athol and Winchendon after a weekend of sightings. Police noted the light moved up and down near Lost Lake, with two airplanes observed, while earlier crews searched for a fire believed to have sparked embers but found no trace.
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UPI
Massachusetts
Here
Athol
Winchendon
Lost Lake
Norwich student analyzes western migration study
Robert Brescia a Norwich University senior used satellite photographs to trace westward migrations of early French Canadian and New England settlers. His award winning study challenged the belief that 90 percent of American land follows the U S land survey system. The National Council for Geographic Education gave Brescia top honors for his work.
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Northfield
UPI
Robert Brescia
Norwich University
New England
National Council For Geographic Education
Brescia
San Francisco
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Texas
California
Oregon
Indiana
Michigan
Washington
U.S
Norman Thrower
Breda
Landsat
Battenkill Grange Opens Year With New Members
Arlington Vermont January 5 gathering drew many guests including Hugh and Margaret Evans Educational Aid Fund member and district deputy Alfred Franklin Sister Freida and others. Arline Moffitt joined the Grange and took First Degree Obligation. Six new members total. Treasurer Thomas Kaukenen of Ludlow died. Mary Kaukenen widow. Socials at 7 30 p.m.. hospital patient Charles Lindsey listed.
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Belle Decker Arlington
Battenkill Grange
Hugh
Margaret Evans
Educational Aid Fund
District 4
Alfred Franklin
Freida
Richard Whitman
Sarah Williams
Arline Moffitt
Franklin
Moffitt
Londonderry Grange
Thomas Kaukenen
Ludlow
Grange Center
Mary
John Reber
Sheila Moffitt
John Williams
Florence Waltman
Ruth Stearns
William Kilmartin
James Katrick
Alford Clayton
Charles Lindsey
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Combined church service and community notes in South Cambridge
The circuit churches hold a joint service Sunday at 10 30 am at North Hoosick United Methodist Church led by Rev Harry Burdess. Administrative board meets Monday at 8 pm. Reports cover the Educational Aid Fund, Grange activities, Christmas remembrances, and a sewing contest. Brescia discusses LANDSAT mapping of historic land grants and its implications for future land use and surveying.
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North Hoosick United Methodist Church
Harry Burdess
Pownal Lions Club to dine at Mt Anthony Country Club
The Pownal Lions Club meets at 6 30 tonight for a dinner after a social hour at 6, at Mt Anthony. Senior Citizens of Pownal report their New Year party on Jan 7 with 26 members at the Pownal Center. A fruit basket prize funded by Mr and Mrs David Ricker Sr supported a benefit for the center. Patrick Hurley 13 of Bee Hill Road Pownal was named a legislative page in Vermont's current session. He travels to Montpelier Tue Wed and Thu and stays with a friend. pages must be in eighth grade and arrange lodging themselves.
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Aoe
Pownal Center
Coub
David Ricker Sr
Carleton Tatro
North Pownal
Rose Mattison
Vermont
Patrick Hurley
Thomas Hurley
Bee Hill Road
Patrick
Montpelier
Vermont towns risk losing flood insurance program eligibility
Vermont officials warn many communities may drop from the national flood insurance program due to a zoning mapping conflict. Towns that have interim flood plain ordinances could lose eligibility as the mapping project is not expected to be completed for about 15 years. Banks would then withhold loans for construction in flood zones and federal disaster relief would be unavailable.
Roque named director of student life at St. Michael's College
Bernard A. Roque, a Grand Isle native and St. Michael's graduate, is named director of student life succeeding acting dean Jerry E. Flanagan who remains admissions director. Roque, 43, retired last month as a lieutenant colonel after leading the ROTC program and aerospace studies from 1974. He previously led USAF 21st NORAD Region and holds a master's from Inter-American University Puerto Rico. He lives in Essex Junction.
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Winooski
Bernard A. Roque
St. Michael’s College
Jerry E. Flanagan
Roque
St. Michael’s Air Force
Grand Isle
Royalton-A Public Forum on Land Use Laws
A public forum on land use laws will be held January 16 at the South Royalton Grange Hall from 1:30 to 3:30 sponsored by Vermont Law School. A film titled Duxbury Town Meeting A Town Faces Change will screen, followed by a panel moderated by Justice Franklin S. Billings Jr. of the Vermont Supreme Court featuring Edwin Dolan Schuyler Jackson John McClaughry and Peter Teachout. A second round-table on the same topic will take place January 25 from 1:30 to 3:30 at the law school.
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Royalton
South Royalton Grange Hall
Vermont Law School
Duxbury
Franklin S. Billings Jr
Vermont Supreme Court
Edwin Dolan
Dartmouth College
Schuyler Jackson
Vermont Environmental Board
John McClaughry
Institute For Liberty and Community
Peter Teachout
Law School
Barre man charged after nighttime police chase
Barre police pursued a snowmobile driver on Hill Street when it lacked headlights. The vehicle overturned after striking a traffic island. Stanley Foster, 29, of East Barre, was charged with driving while impaired and attempting to elude a police officer. A passenger was not charged.
APA OKS 90-Meter Ski Jump For 1980 Olympics Near Lake Placid
Adirondack Park Agency authorizes a 90 meter ski jump south of Lake Placid despite opponent Sierra Club concerns. The six to four vote hinges on esthetics versus promise of hosting the 1980 Winter Games. The jump’s height brings APA jurisdiction.
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Lake George
Adirondack Park
Lake Placid
Sierra Club
Olympic Organizing Committee
APA
Suspect in Todd disappearance moved to higher security prison
A suspect in the December disappearance of Falmouth schoolteacher Carol Ann Todd was remanded to Walpole State Prison last Friday, three days before a planned parole from Monroe State Prison Camp. The man, part of the Monroe work release program and employed at the Sheraton North Adams Inn, was moved in a Berkshire district attorney and state police investigation. The transfer, described as higher security, was confirmed but the inmate’s previous location and exact facility were not disclosed.
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North Adams
Falmouth
Carol Ann Todd
Walpole State
Monroe
Sheraton
North Adams Inn
Miss Todd
Walpole
John Keizer
State Department of Corrections
Boston
Berkshire District Attorney’s Office
Massachusetts State Police
Two fatal sledding accidents rock western Massachusetts
A Springfield man 28 was killed in early Sunday sledding crash in western Massachusetts marking a second fatal sledding incident in four days. The prior Wednesday 10-year-old Andrew Trepacz of Pittsfield died after his sled struck a car on Wahconah Street. Sunday’s victim, Richard W. Doran, died from a basal skull fracture when his toboggan hit trees while riding alone around 12:30 a.m.
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Hadley
Springfield
Massachusett
Andrew Trepacz
Pittsfield
Wahconah Street
Richard W. Doran
Doran
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