Officials fear spring floods in Vermont regions
Gov. Deane C. Davis may lift a limited emergency status for the Champlain Islands as civil defense warns of possible flooding. National guardsmen are recalled from snow removal, conditions drift toward normal, while heavy mountain snows and warm rain raise flood risk. Berlin hosts a conference to map emergency plans as Lunenburg pumps replenish a depleted reservoir and Brandon inquiétably reports very low water.
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Holmes
Northeast Kingdom
Lunenburg
Harvard Women Squat Over Cambridge Building Contested
About 30 women occupied a rundown Harvard owned building in Cambridge and vowed to stay as long as possible. The group resisted evacuation, cut power, and faced police and public health notices while drawing mixed reactions from Harvard groups and the city.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Harvard University
Charles River
Joseph DeLeo
Harvard
Haddock Extinction Threat Prompts Fishing Ban
The National Marine Fisheries Service warns haddock could vanish by decade's end. A 60 day March April spawning season ban by the 14 nation International Commission aims to revive stocks off Maine. Woods Hole researchers start a 45 day Georges and Browns Banks survey to test the plan.
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Mass
UPI
National Marine Fisheries Service
Maine
International Commission For the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Georges and Browns
William Gordon
Hugh O’rourke
Boston Fisheries Association
Haddock
O’rourke
Off premise school opens for Vermont youths
A $5,000 federal grant funds an experimental off premise school in Springfield for about 50 Windsor County youths. The open ended, fully accredited program operates separate from the Springfield district but is district run and aims to serve high school students disillusioned with traditional schooling.
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Springfield
UPS
Windsor County
Fairfield family hails release of captive son-in-law
Fairfield couple the Reeds celebrate as their son-in-law James Sexton, married to their daughter, is freed after being held by Turkish revolutionaries for six days for a $400,000 ransom. In Vermont, officials urge a FPC hearing on Connecticut River dam fish passage facilities.
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Connecticut
Massachusetts
West Springfield
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Commissioner of Development and Community Affairs
Fairfield
Donald Reeds
James Sexton
Reed
U.S
Montpelier
Federal Power Commission
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Pittsfield
General Electric Co
New York City
Two Troy residents die in separate Monday accidents
A 5-year-old boy, Thomas Patrick Wolfe of 3 Lark St, and sanitation worker Paul C. Sharlette of 158 3rd St, Troy, were fatally struck within minutes of each other. Wolfe died after a school bus struck him at Lark Street and Madison Avenue at 10:18 a.m. Sharlette, with the Troy Sanitation Department, was killed when struck and run over by a sanitation truck at 124th St and 7th Ave around 10 a.m. Also, HUD to grant about 1.5 million for three federal housing projects in Troy, and Frederick R. Bull, 88, former Sim & Co. president, dies at Samaritan Hospital.
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Thomas Patrick Wolfe
Lark St
Paul C. Sharlette
3Rd St
Ella Mae Powell Wolfe
Richard H. Wolfe
Samaritan Hospital
Lark Street
Madison Avenue
Sharlette
Troy Sanitation Department
124Th St
7Th Ave
Berkshire embezzler sentenced in federal court case
Robert Quadrozzi of North Adams, 33, was given a two year federal sentence for seven counts of embezzlement. Six months to serve with 18 months suspended, two years probation, and $3,000 restitution to First Agricultural National Bank.
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North Adams
Robert Quadrozzi
U.S. District Court
Boston
First Agricultural National Bank
Berkshire County
Sandisfield bans mobile homes and travel trailers
By a slender margin residents adopted a virtual ban on mobile homes and trailers in Sandisfield on Saturday joining Berkshire towns in tight housing rules. The bylaw prohibits travel trailer parks and individual travel trailers and mobile homes anywhere in town.
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Sandisfield
Berkshire
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