Nature workshop offered at Huntington center for teachers
Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center invites teachers to an Aug 11 two week workshop at Huntington Nature Center. The program trains educators to use the 230 acre wild area and nearby natural sites for meaningful field trips and classroom extensions. Participants receive field trip planning and post trip follow up guidance.
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Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center
Huntington Nature Center
Robert N. Spear Jr
Nature Center
Emily Bell
Francies Howe
Ethel Schule
William Barbour
H. Douglas Hinshaw
Vermont
P.O. Box
Huntington
Call
Green Mountain Audubon Society
Hoosick Falls cast of 1776 held for Bicentennial fund
Hoosick Falls stage group for the musical 1776 held a post show party Saturday night at the home of directors Joanne and Calvin Pedersen on Richmond Avenue. The celebration followed the final performance as performers unwound after the effort. Gerald Moses of Eagle Bridge is hospitalized in Cambridge after a heart attack. John Curtis of Los Angeles visits his mother and sister at 33 High Street.
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Hoosick
Gerald Moses
Eagle Bridge
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
John Curtis
Los Angeles
Calif
Mrs. Rose
Margaret Curtis
High St
Pownal church and library events scheduled midweek
Pamela Blakeman notes a story hour directed by Mrs Irene East wood at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Solomon Wright Library. The Pownal Baptist Church choir meets 6 30 p.m. Wednesday and the weekly prayer meeting is at 7 30 p.m. at the church. The Rap Group gathers 7 to 9 p.m. at the Pownal Recreational Community Center. United Methodist Women convene tonight at 8 at Mrs Warren Masons home with program led by Mrs Anson Mason and with Mrs Otis Dorman and Mrs William Snow assisting with refreshments.
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Irene Eastwood
Solomon Wright Library
Pownal Baptist Church
Pownal Recreational Community Center
United Methodist Women
The
Pownal
Hoosick Grange program highlights historical figures
The Hoosick Grange met under the theme Interesting People with a program arranged by Mr and Mrs Ralph J Griswold. Edward Baker led a life highlights of Stephen Foster while a cast headed by Mrs Laurence Ludwig presented The Making of the Flag with Betsy Ross and others. The meeting featured stories about Pocahontas Washington Franklin and Robert Morris, a finished flag tableau, and readings on Clara Barton and Abraham Lincoln. A business session named resolutions of respect for Mrs Sanford Rudd and discussed a joint space venture article and Tocqueville’s view of American strength. The next meeting Aug 13 will elect officers, followed by Aug 16 picnic at Grafton Lakes State Park with hot dogs and watermelon.
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Hoosick Grange
Ralph J. Griswold
Old
Kentucky
Stephen Foster
Edward Baker
Laurence Ludwig
Betsy Ross
Taylor Light
Wesley Hall
Clara Barton
Abraham Lincoln
Black Joe
Clifford Cottrell
Master Wesley Hall
N. Clifford Cottrell
Sanford Rudd
Alexis Tocqueville
Grafton Lakes State Park
Allen Cornell
Philadelphia mother sues Ryegate over drowning death
Silvia Bubis, administrator of Kenneth Bubis estate, sues Ryegate in U S District Court for 250000 alleging town negligence in maintaining the pond bottom and supervising raft use at a public swimming area where her 21 year old son drowned on July 31 1973. The suit names Ryegate officials and seeks damages. The case underscores local safety responsibilities and ongoing queries into public recreation site management.
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Burlington
UPI
Philadelphia
Vermont
Ryegate
U.S
Silvia Bubis
Kenneth
Troy murder case and housing bid collide in Troy reports
In Troy two stories unfold. Police seek motive in the fatal Sunday shooting of Herman Simon, 38, with Richard Myers, 32, charged with second degree murder and held without bail. Separately, the Troy Housing Authority discusses buying two apartment buildings for 119000 amid foreclosure and title concerns after a 1971 mudslide damaged Phelan Apartments and Thompson Street.
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Troy
Herman Simon
Richard Myers
Myers
Rensselaer County
Kyran P. Molloy
Joseph B. West
Simon
West
Troy Housing Authority
Margaret W. Phelan
First Merrick
Thompson Street
Authority
J. Robert Hayes
Berkshire Food Stamp Growth and Pittsfield Crime Push
Massachusetts food stamp use rose to over 250000 households in the last year with about 183000 allocations this month that could buy 12.1 million in groceries. In Berkshire County around 3100 households received allocations, while Pittsfield Mayor Evan S. Dobelle urged a state funded Youth Detention Center to curb youth crime as the city’s rate climbs 23.5 percent in the first half of the year. He also proposed expanding the Jail Site Study Committee to include locator work for a Youth Detention Center.
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Burlington
UPI
Gordon Paquette
Paquette
U.S. House
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
State Department of Welfare
Berkshire County
Pitt'sfield
Evan S. Dobelle
Dobelle
County House of Corrections
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Dorset
Dorset Historical Museum
Dorothy Kraft
Edwin Bigelow
Walter McNamara
Osborne Halsted
Jack Stannard
Green
East Poultney
Middletown Springs
Manchester
Arlington
Hoosick Falls
Edith Beaumont
John Delarey
Franklin Tate
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Chittenden
Chittenden Savings Certificates
F.D.I.C
Chittenden Savings
FDIC
Pownals
Pamela Blakeman
Windsor
Sies
Gabriel Beazley
U.S. District Court
Beazley
Chittenden County
R. Kent Stoneman
Paul Cavallou
Leahy
Washington
Patrick Leahy
D-Vi
Indian Ocean
Diego Garcia
J. Lloyd Trump
National Association of Secondary School Principals
University of Vermont
Trump
New York
Down In
Berkshire
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