Hoosick Falls Mayor Seeks Re Election On Tax Stand
Hoosick Falls voters select three trustees and a village mayor in a race dominated by issues of jealousy and stable taxes. Incumbent Mayor Donald E. Bogardus pledges no tax hikes, touts federal grants for sidewalks and water, a pending $800000 plan for a new municipal building, and steps to attract industry while opposing more police hires.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Donald E. Bogardus
Bogardus
OTB
Gorman pledges full-time mayor role oppose park building
Democrat John P. Gorman announces he will serve as a full-time mayor if elected and opposes constructing a new municipal building in Wood Memorial Park. He favors improving sidewalks and streets, proposes better village employee relations, and avoids taking firm stances on union talks, consolidation, or downtown plans until studies and votes shape them.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
John’p. Gorman
Democrat Gorman
Wood Memorial Park
Gorman
Hoosick
Rensselaer County Planning Bureau
Hoosick Falls trustee candidate Allard seeks growth plan
HOOSICK FALLS N Y Richard Allard running for village trustee on the Independent ticket outlines aims to attract business industry and housing to revitalize downtown. He favors more retail to stimulate competition, low cost housing to ease elderly burdens and keep young couples local, and a tax system rework to relieve fixed incomes. He opposes consolidation with the town and calls for a new municipal building at a park site.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Richard Allard
Bennington
Falls
Allard
Rensselaer County
Capital District Regional
Wood Memorial Park
Pay raise bill advances in Vermont House panel
The Vermont House Government Operations Committee, in a 6-5 vote, endorsed binding arbitration for labor disputes as part of a proposed across-the-board 16.6 percent pay raise for state employees. The panel also rejected a plan to require all workers to pay union dues and rejected excluding many workers from union membership.
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VSEA
Snelling
Lawyer seeks divestment of four parcels tied to Barnett
John Michaels of Jericho filed in Chittenden County Superior Court to be relieved of ownership of four parcels in Stowe Fletcher East Montpelier and Elmore held in his name for Theodore Barnett’s companies. He no longer knows who should receive the properties amid Barnett’s tangled real estate dealing.
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Burlington
UPI
Theodore Barnett
Lamoille County
John Michaels
Jericho
Chittenden County
Stowe
Fletcher
East Montpelier
Elmore
Michaels
Barnett
UVM Eyes Scaled-Down Gym Expansion Plan
University of Vermont officials say funding for a gym expansion remains possible though smaller. The House Institutions Committee rejected a 1 million dollar state grant for a 2.2 million project that would add six indoor tennis courts. President Lattie Coor plans an 800 thousand dollar version with more office space showers and locker rooms. Federal funds risk if facilities for women are not added.
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UVM
Richard Snelling
Morale problems fester at Vermont Motor Vehicle Dept
About 10 disgruntled workers asked for a meeting with Senate Highway Chairman Thomas Crowley to discuss a so called crisis within the Motor Vehicle Department. The dispute centers on the dismissal of veteran supervisor Raymond Hendrickson and a reprimand of another employee who questioned the firing at a meeting with Transportation Secretary Ronald Crisman.
Derby man to be arraigned on New York grand larceny fugitive charge
Gary Richard Turner, 24, of Derby, was to be arraigned in Vermont District Court on a fugitive from justice charge filed by New York authorities for grand larceny. Police said they arrested him at his father’s Derby home Wednesday night and jailed him before release on $2,000 bail.
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Newport
UPI
Gary Richard Turner
Derby
Vermont
New York State
Turner
Nolan Challenges Corning For Albany MayoralNomination
In Albany, Democratic state senator Howard C. Nolan announced a bid to unseat incumbent Mayor Erastus Corning II for the party nomination. Nolan decried Corning as autocratic and advocated a businesslike city approach, pledging to replace the police chief fire chief and public works commissioner if elected. Corning secured only 25 of 50 votes in Colonie Town Democrats’ confidence vote as suburban leaders back Nolan. Also in Albany Rensselaer County employees rejected a Civil Service Employees Association contract 307 to 198, despite a proposed $700 across the board raise effective Jan 1 1978 for about 1,100 workers.
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Albany
Albany County
Democratic Party
Daniel P. O’connell
Howard C. Nolan
Erastus Corning II
Nolan
Corning
Colonie Town Democratic Committee
Rensselaer County
Civil Service Employes Association
CSEA
Missing teacher Carol Todd case eyed for Air Force help
Berkshire search for 28 year old Falmouth teacher Carol Ann Todd, last seen December 12 at Sheraton North Adams Inn, fears blood stains and found schoolbooks. Det Lt Milo Brown seeks Air Force aerial photos and planned ground search when weather allows. In Williamstown, voters approve five of six warrant articles including zoning steps for a federally funded elderly housing project on Church Street.
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North Adams
U.S. Air Force
Carol Ann Todd
Falmouth
Sheraton
North Adams Inn
Mohawk Trail
Milo F. Brown
Air Force
Williamstown
Church Street
Religious exemption suit filed against Lee and Lenox tax bodies
The Bible Speaks has filed suits with the Appellate Tax Board in Boston seeking tax abatements and a court declaration that its nonprofit educational and religious status exempts it from local real estate taxes in Lee and Lenox.
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Pittsfield
Bible Speaks
Appellate Tax Board
Boston
Lee and Lenox
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