Connecticut education dept promises integration plan this fall
Connecticut Education Department aims to propose regulations this year to ease racial imbalance in schools. Education Commissioner Mark Shedd avoided specifics, stressing local leeway and responsibility. He said plans focus on improving education quality rather than mandating busing and enforcement concerns linger over existing anti bias laws. The panel investigates discrimination claims and plans a summer report.
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Hoosick Grange Notes and State Forensic Unit Debate
Hoosick Grange notes describe Patriotic Night with speeches on Liberty Coolidge and Roosevelt, a flag story, a president quiz, donations to deaf education, and an Aug 20 picnic at Grafton State Park. The piece also covers Concord NH opposition by the New Hampshire Medical Society to a $4 million 144 bed forensic unit, preferring a 50 bed or renovation plan, plus a call for a Department of Forensic Medicine.
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Taylor B. Light
Ralph J. Griswold
The
Grange News
Sister Knapp
Franklin D. Roosevelt
N. Clifford Cottrell
Shem
James Farmer
National Grange
Path of Life
Grange
Grafton State Park
Ralph D. Griswold
Hoosick Grange
Rensselaer County
Concord
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New Hampshire Medical Society
Theodore Smith
Gary Miller
Meldrim Thomson
Thomson
Miller
Wheelock
Smith
Parole Revoked for Vermont Murderer Earl Miner
Vermont Parole Board revoked Earl Miner’s parole after reports he threatened and assaulted his second wife. Miner, 4 percent of Proctorsville, to serve the remainder of an eight year sentence for second degree murder after his first degree conviction for his wife Bonnie’s 1967 rifle slaying was overturned. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in 1970 and was paroled nine months later.
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Miner
Burlington windfall eyed from no-heir estate law
Burlington officials may receive about 31000 dollars under a state law that gives unclaimed estates to the town’s school system. Public notice is required and the award can be challenged for 17 years. This would be the second such windfall for the department in two years and funds may be used for capital improvements.
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Burlington
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Harold Cook
Teen dies after bicycle under bus on Lake Road
A 14 year old boy died Thursday after his bicycle slid under the rear wheels of a moving school bus on Lake Road near Hillside Trailer Court. Robert Grant Jr. was pronounced dead at Saratoga Hospital after being transported by Mechanicville Emergency Corps. Deputies reported no summonses issued. In Albany, state Sen Howard Nolan gained a boost in the Democratic mayoral race as Albany County Sheriff John McNulty endorsed him, with possible later Liberal line endorsement if Nolan loses to Erastus Corning in September.
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Stillwater
Lake Road
Robert Grant Jr
Saratoga Hospital
Mechanicville
Albany
Howard Nolan
Erastus Corning
Albany County
John McNulty
McNulty
Corning
Nolan
ONeill Clarifies Pittsfield Priority Over North Adams
Lt. Gov. O Neill said he did not intend to favor Pittsfield in the urban renewal dispute with North Adams. He noted the remark related to Lenox vs Pittsfield and stressed the administration prioritizes Pittsfield, while denying a broader North Adams rivalry. In a separate Adams item, Twine and Vine shop faced a police raid July 8 seeking marijuana, with owners alleging no illegal activity found and considering a lawsuit.
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North Adams
Thomas P. O’neill
Pittsfield
Sheraton
North Adams Inn
O’neill
Michael S. Dukakis
Peter Broer
Lenox
John A. Tarsa
Joseph F. Gentile
Chestnut Street
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