Adams Reservoir spillway grant funds Woodford Vermont
Washington DC news reports a $30,600 grant from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation to Adams Reservoir development in Woodford Vermont. The funds will design and build a reinforced concrete spillway and controls to maintain water levels for park recreation at Adams Reservoir in Woodford State Park.
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Washington, D.C
UPI
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Adams Reservoir
Woodford
Woodford Park
Woodford State Park
Vermont
Department of Forests and Parks
Vermont Officials Name Lemke Deputy Commissioner
MONTPELIER UPD Banking and Insurance Commissioner Charles S Black Thursday named Eugene R Lemke 42 of Glens Falls NY as his deputy commissioner replacing Richard Kemp who resigned last month Lemke comes to the post after five years with the Glen Falls Insurance Co Winooski UPI Mayor Edmund Dupont says he will not seek re election in March Former Mayor Bernard Sumner and City Council President James Myers have announced their candidacy for the post.
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Winooski
UPI
Edmund Dupont
Bernard Sumner
James Myers
Albany Hospital begins home care program in upstate New York
Albany St. Peter's Hospital launches the first hospital based home care department in upstate New York. Administrator Sister Mary Janet and medical director Dr. Rudolph DelGiacco say the program lets patients return home sooner and aims for about 50 patients in the home care census. In Nassau, 200 residents protest a landfill proposal by Latham Holding Corp. The Albany School Board approves a summer program with courses for failing students and enrichment offerings. A police task force investigating welfare frauds is disbanded and reassigned to routine duty.
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Albany
St. Peter’s Hospital
Mary Janet
Upstate New York
Rudolph R. DelGiacco
DelGiacco
Nassau
Latham Holding Corp
Capitol Division Disposal Inc
Troy
Cohoes
Watervliet
Capital District
Arnold W. Proskin
Proskin
Berkshire Experimental Schools Eyed For West Side Plan
Tentative plans to open two west side schools for a three month experimental community program were submitted to Mayor Butler's planning committee and will be voted on January 29 at a general meeting. A new day care center for about 100 children is also being planned with federal financing hoped.
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Pittsfield
West Side
Donald Butler
Springfield man removed after SDS literature at Mt Greylock
A Springfield man distributing SDS literature at Mt. Greylock Regional High School was asked to leave by Superintendent Robert J. Osterman. No outside material may be distributed on school grounds without School Committee approval.
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Williamstown
Springfield
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
Mt. Greylock Regional High School
Robert J. Osterman
Nicholson Named Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Pittsfield
Pittsfield School Committee named Charles V. Nicholson, formerly a city resident, to oversee business services as assistant superintendent of schools. Nicholson previously served as account manager for Electric Storage Battery Co., Industrial Division in Philadelphia, with a salary of 14 500 dollars.
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Pittsfield
Charles V. Nicholson
Electric Storage Battery Co
Philadelphia
Williamstown Life Tenure Question Heads To Ballot
Petitions submitted to the town clerk show 263 signatures in favor of granting life tenure to Police Chief Joseph Zoito Jr. and the issue is expected to appear on the March 3 election ballot.
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Williamstown
Joseph Zoito Jr
New England NERC Urges East West Highway and Fast Rail
The New England Regional Commission calls for urgent Boston to New York high speed rail to curb congested airways and highways. It also favors an east west highway across northern New England with three route options and costs from 206 to 1,1 billion dollars, plus modernization of rail service and a jetport between Boston and New York.
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Boston
UPI
New York
New England
New England Regional Commission
NERC
Bennington
Brattleboro
New Hampshire
Rutland
Bethel
Lake Champlain
Chimney Point
Montpelier
St. Johnsbury
Systems Analysis and Research Corp
Cambridge
Long Island
Connecticut
Hartford
Conn
Bradley International
Windsor Locks
Interstate Commerce Commission
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Ohio
Boston and Maine
New York State
N.Y
Maine Fights Trade Zone Rift as Vermont Links Tie
UPI reports Maine must proceed without Vermont and Connecticut in its mandamus bid to force action on a foreign trade zone for Occidental Petroleum’s Machiasport refinery. Judge Gignoux denied Vermont and Connecticut intervention and any speedy action.
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Vermont
Maine
Portland, Maine
UPI
Connecticut
Lame Duck
C.R. Smith
U.S. District Court
Edward G. Gignoux
Prouty and Aiken Propose National Cemetery in Vermont
Senator Winston L. Prouty and co sponsor George D. Aiken seek a national cemetery in Vermont to relieve crowding in 35 of 98 state cemeteries and avoid New England veterans being buried in New York. The proposal envisions using Green Mountain federal land with local approval before designation. The pair also push an interstate school compact giving federal authorization to Vermont and New Hampshire to bridge the Connecticut River for joint districts.
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New England
Long Island, N.Y
Prouty
Sen
George
D. Aiken
R-Vt
Senate
New Hampshire
Vermont
Corrections System Appoints Stoneman to Lead New Regions
R Kent Stoneman a Newark Delaware parole officer is named administrator of Vermont s regional corrections program set to start April 1 1968. The $14000 yearly post will oversee four regional centers at Rutland Woodstock Burlington and St Johnsbury with 39 officers to be hired. The project focuses on rehabilitation and community services for offenders awaiting trial or serving short sentences.
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Paw
Rutland
Woodstock
Burlington
St. Johnsbury
Windsor County
Adams
Stoneman
Deleware
University of Delaware
Delaware Board of Parole
Repeal Sought of Report Clause In Vermont Drug Act
Doctors and law enforcement support a measure to remove the requirement that drug addicts be reported to state health officials by their treating physicians. The amendment seeks to limit mandatory reporting to protect patient privacy while addressing drug abuse concerns.
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Vermont
Davis Cuts Colleges Budgets In Vermont
Governor Deane C. Davis announced drastic budget cuts on television in Burlington, slashing the Vermont State Colleges budget to 17 percent of the requested increase and reducing the UVM appropriation to 8 percent of its requested rise. UVM proposed 19 million in state funds while the state colleges sought about 11 million. He supported ending old age assistance and poll taxes but said they should stay for two more years. He justified taxing food to balance the budget. The 1968 Vermont Drug Control Act was before the House committee with officials noting treatment aims and reporting limits, and federal drug agents awaiting leads on addicts.
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Burlington
UPI
Deane C. Davis
University of Vermont
Davis
Vermont State Colleges
UVM
Vermont
House Health and Welfare Committee
Jonathan Brownell
Brownell
Jonathan Leopold
Ross Kindestin
Barre
Vermont governor seeks 4 percent sales tax bill
The House Ways and Means Committee should receive Gov. Deane C. Davis four percent sales tax legislation next week as officials prep the measure. Davis plans to present line item expenditures to the 180 lawmakers to clarify his three part tax program and a 95.1 million dollar FY1970 budget. Legislative leaders react cautiously to the proposal amid a developing state financial squeeze since January 9.
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UPS
Walter Charland
Holy Angels Church
York
Down
Berkshire
Saybrook, Conn
Graves Neck
R.1
Saybrook
Plum
Fisher Islands
Gignoux
Smith
Rhode Island
Occidental Petroleum Corp
Machiasport
William T. Keefe
Robert Co. Fuller
Herbert F. DeSimone
Trade Zone
DeSimone
Prouty and Aiken
National Cemetery
Corrections System
Windsor
Charles G. Adams
Chittenden
Rutland County
Candle Mill
Arlington
Januar
Bavings
Thelen
Main St
Atkins
Yours
Jewelers
Montcomery Ward
New Monument Plaza
Zenith
Artery Arcade
North Adams
Discount Department Store
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