Cate Farm Space station ties energy research to Vermont farm
Cate Farm near Plainfield becomes a winter hub for the Social Ecology Institute and Goddard related work. The facility combines solar greenhouse aquaculture, composting, methane digestion, solar water heating, wind power tests, and soil pollution studies with hands on student led programs. Founders include Murray Bookchin and coordinator Daniel Chodorkoff as they push year round activity and eco technology integrated with rural life and community impact.
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Plainfield
Cate
Vermont
Cate Farm
Social Ecology Institute and College
Goddard
New England
Institute
Murray Bookchin
New York
Times
Rachel Carson
Murray
New York City
Daniel Chodorkoff
Dan
Dan Chodorkoff
Lao Tzu
Hoosick Falls Bicentennial committee expands members
The Hoosick Falls Town Bicentennial Committee announces an enlarged membership adding Lou Bouplon Pepi Noble Donna Geers and Gunnar Schonbeck to the original lineup of Joseph Holloway Christina Stevens Jack Halstead Ashton Crosby William Johnston Kevin Thibodeau and Carol Gaillard. A pictorial booklet As In Days Gone By is printed and for sale. A July 1 costume ball at Hoosac School is planned with limited tickets via Nancy Bigelow or Don's Book Store.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Town of
Hoosick
Joseph Holloway
Christina Stevens
Jack Halstead
Ashton Crosby
William Johnston
Kevin Thibodeau
Carol Gaillard
Lou Bouplon
Pepi Noble
Donna Geers
Gunnar Schonbeck
Hoosac School
Alphonse Salluzzo
Nancy Bigelow
Dennis Bornt
Liz Decker
Don’s Book Store
Regional plan argues for concentrated Hoosick Falls growth
About 30 residents from Hoosick Falls and surrounding boards attended a State Armory meeting where Linda Bryant and Tom Easterly of the Capitol District Planning Commission outlined the Regional Development Plan. The CDPC, advisory to four counties, promotes coordinated regional solutions, reviews federal program applications, and maps suitable development areas in Hoosick Town and Hoosick Falls Village. The plan foresees modest population growth, emphasizes urban sprawl effects, and endorses a village development program to absorb housing needs while agricultural districts may curb dispersed growth and public service costs.
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Edith Beaumont
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
State Armory
Linda Bryant
Tom Easterly
Capitol District
Ms. Bryant
CDPC
Commission
Peter Kent
Hoosick
Rensselaer County
Lew Ruby
Bennington
CDPC Plan Promotes Infill Growth and Resource Conservation
The commission urges protecting diminishing agricultural land and directing future growth to existing developed land to preserve public services. It calls for rehabilitation and conservation of existing buildings and recommends diverting outside lands development to Hoosick, North Hoosick, Buskirk, and Eagle Bridge while aligning with 1967 village and town plans prioritizing conservation and revitalizing commerce.
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CDPC
Hoosick
North Hoosick
Buskirk
Eagle Bridge
Pownal community events and church restoration update
A Pownal news roundup lists Saturday activities including library hours 10 to noon at Solomon Wright Library and a church food sale 10 to 1 30 with Daisy Dorman as chair. Girl Scout and Boy Scout meetings follow at local centers. AA meets at 8 p.m. at the community center. A $710 total donor sum funds the Pownal Center Church carriage barn restoration with about $1000 needed for materials and volunteer labor sought. The piece also notes the March 24 formation of Pownal Post No 90 and Sunderland school board resolution honoring Mrs. Bernice Benedict, plus a Manchester car theft and arrest report.
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Pownal
Pownal Center
Village Gift Barn
Vermont
Walter Hicks
Sea Cliff
N.Y
Frank N. Wechtel
Kathrine B. Graves
Bennington
Rounds Real Estate
Charles Rounds
Church Shed Restoration Fund
School House Road
Sunderland
Albert W. Bowen
Gretta Mason
Mary M. Beckwith
Bernice Benedict
Benedict
Vermont gears up for higher driver fees and school aid
The House adopted a Senate amendment boosting driver examination fees from two to five dollars per extra test after the first, while the base fee rises to ten and license renewals to eight. Gov. Salmon is expected to sign to fund driver education. Separately, lawyers for the Vermont State Employees Association sought to block moving 600 Human Services and Environmental Protection Agency workers from Montpelier to Waterbury, a move the state says could save about $250,000 next year.
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Montpelier
UPI
House
Senate
Thomas Salmon
Vermont State Employees Association
Waterbury
VSEA
Human Services and Environmental Protection Agency
State Hospital
Washington County
Agawam man dies in I-91 rollover car crash
Ronald Snow, 33, of Agawam Massachusetts was killed Thursday when his car left an Interstate 91 exit ramp and rolled over several times, ejecting him from the vehicle, state police said.
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Westminster
UPI
Ronald Snow
Agawam
Mass
City urban renewal head fired in Troy. Quinlan named successor
Francis E. Yankowski loses his job as director of the Troy urban renewal agency as his contract ends. John J. Quinlan Jr., president of a local electronics firm, is chosen to replace him at 23000 annually amid party disputes. Yankowski calls his tenure frustrating. Republicans deny political motive. In a separate Troy case, state Supreme Court denies appeal in Joseph Deeb obscenity conviction. Conway finds no basis. Deeb remains in a 30 day sentence.
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Troy
Francis E. Yankowski
John J. Quinlan Jr
Yankowski
Quinlan
State Supreme Court
Joseph Deeb
Rensselaer
Edward A. Conway
Deeb
Berkshire county elderly meals illness blamed on handling
A rash of illness among 50 participants in Berkshire County's meals program for the elderly is blamed on handling rather than the food. Preliminary University of Massachusetts tests found no issue with the chicken casserole served last Thursday. Complaints erupted from North Adams to Williamstown about meals on two days, including a blueberry dessert shell, with city sanitarian George Heisler noting initial reports Monday.
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North Adams
Berkshire
University of Massachusetts At Amherst
Home Care
Frederick Whitman
Friendship Club
Williamstown
Lee
George Heisler
Murray boy to be observed in state mental hospital
Defense and State attorneys agreed Thursday to commit 16 year old Daniel A. Murray for 20 days to a state mental hospital in Waltham for observation after a judge Baker Center report found him incompetent to stand trial due to seriously disordered thinking. The victim, his grandfather Donald A. Murray Sr., 71, died from a fractured skull and smoke inhalation when a mattress fire filled their 5 Park St apartment. police said Murray was likely struck with a blunt instrument, probably a crowbar.
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Park St
Murray
Hoag Birthday Fest and Local Club Cards Night
Walloomsac visitors Bruce Andrews and Bridget Hoag family celebrated Bridget Hoag’s 14th birthday with Jim Hoag’s parents in North Adams. A Hoosick Area Senior Citizens Club card party awarded Jennie Marker a door prize, Helen Garvey and Fred Myers won pitch, and Ruth van der Kar with Harold Prebble won pinochle. St Mary’s Academy seventh and eighth graders staged two one act plays directed by Anne Donovan with Rev. Michael McGuire and Sister Regina Marie Flynn, titled Horse Sense and An Imaginary Trial of George Washington, followed by a reception hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Tony Wirmuski.
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Bruce Andrews
Maureen and
Bruce James
North Adams
Mass
Jim Hoag
Bridget Hoag
Joe Hoag
Hoosick Area
Senior Citizens Club
Jennie Marker
Helen Garvey
Fred Myers
Ruth van der Kar
Harold Prebble
St. Joseph
St. Mary’s Academy
Hoosick Falls
Anne Donnovan
Michael McGuire
USA
Regina Marie Flynn
George Washington
Tony Wirmuski
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Judith Edwards
Shaftsbury
Sheilah Miller
BCA
Cathleen Harwood
The
Pownals
Pamela Blakeman
Solomon Wright
O— Girl Scout
Dolores Kimball
O— Boy Scout
Alcoholics Anonymous
Methodist Youth Fellowship of
American Legion
James A. Brookman
Leo Pellerin
Robert E. Thompson
Northway W. Abbot
Frederick R. Crandall
Harold Arbour
Terry Moffitt
Leroy Andrews
Jeffersonville
New Haven
Brattleboro
Hinsdale
Mrs. Benedict
Manchester
Palace Hotel
Sidney
Joseph Hale
William Crandall
Thomas Allen
Dorset
Palace
Burlington
Charles Finnigan
Chittenden County
Finnigan
Trudy Mabry
Rutland
Edward McClallen
John Liccardi
Vermont Job Service Office
Frank Vasos
Down In
Heublein, Inc
Hartford
Conn
Walloomsac
Bertha Hoag
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