Pownal and Brattleboro Community Notices Highlight Local Events
The Pownals announce a 8 p.m. firehouse meeting of the Pownal Fire Auxiliary and a series of community listings. Brattleboro hosts the 24th annual Brattleboro Music Center Concert Series with John Buttrick piano recital at 7 30 p.m. in West Village Meeting House. Subscriptions cost 18 dollars for six concerts, 4 dollars for youths, with tickets at area stores and by mail. Other items include church rehearsals, a Rap Group meeting at the Pownal Recreational Center, a preschool workbee for a Christmas bazaar, a Ladies Guild rummage sale at the Pownal firehouse, and a Holiday Bazaar at East Pownal Fire Auxiliary. Hoosick Falls police report minor accidents including a rear-end hit on a Grand Union parking lot.
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Brattleboro
Brattleboro Music Center
John Buttrick
West Village Meeting House
West Brattleboro
Buttrick
Philadelphia
Rudolf Serkin
Isidor Philipp
Beveridge Webster
Juilliard School
Franck
Ladies Guild of Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Pownal
East Pownal
Bennington Methodist Church
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Bill Knapp
Grand Union
Hoosick Falls Police Report A String Of Local Incidents
Hoosick Falls police report multiple incidents including a hit and run on Church Street near the County offices, a right turn crash at Hovey Avenue and White Street, and an arrest spree involving drivers and pedestrians. Persons named include Weyers, Cusson, Peabody, Schmigel, Martelle, Nolan, Carswell, Frank, Allen, and Lothspeich with charges ranging from leaving the scene to speeding and public intoxication. Various arraignments and jail detentions followed.
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Walter Cusson
Box 22
Hoosick Falls
Robert Peabody
Scott St
Hovey
Richard Schmigel
Pownal
John Street
Joseph Martelle
Nancy Nolan
Schmigel
Victor Frank
Manning Blvd
Albany
Main Street
Frank
William Fitzpatrick
Rensselaer County
Fitzpatrick
Community Visitors and Local News Spotlight
White Creek residents note visits from Paul Bellemare and Joyce Bellemare Middletown area guests. Hulda Robertson and Donna from Middlefield. Martin Nielsen of Wilmington Vermont. Bendix Johannson of New York City. Lanesboro hosts Walter Hulihan. Norma Travis and Melissa of SUNY Oneonta visit home. Gordon Nesbitt returns after summer at Hedges Lake. Earl Perry from Cobleskill home for weekend. Farm Bureau Kitchen Conference No 2 held at Maurice Perry home on Oct 28. Jermain Methodist Youth Fellowship escorted young children in costumes and held a Halloween party at the Jermain Community Hall. Coast Guard Seaman Apprentice Douglas S Zecher graduates Hospitalman School at the Coast Guard Academy New London Conn. 24 weeks of training including first aid patient care lab pharmacology anatomy and physiology. Joined Coast Guard January 1975.
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Joseph Thompson
Howard
Paul Bellemare
Joyce
Hulda Robertson
Donna
Middlefield, Conn
Martin Nielson
Wilmington, Vt
Bendix Johnnason
New York City
Coast Guard
Douglas S. Zecher
I. Stanford Zecher Jr
Overlook Road
Manchester Center
Hospitalman School
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
New London
Mixed Vermonters split on Gov Salmon in poll
A statewide telephone poll of 800 Vermonters for the Burlington Free Press shows 36 percent favorable and 36 percent unfavorable toward Gov. Thomas Salmon, with 19 percent neutral and 9 percent undecided. The poll was conducted Oct 20 to 22 by Decision Research Corp. of Wellesley Massachusetts. ST. ALBANS UPI Bonnie Lee King, 19, of Fairfield was sentenced to 10 to 25 years for the October 1974 shotgun slaying of Lawrence Juaire in Franklin County Superior Court. Her boyfriend Gerald Max Ryan, 32, of Fletcher, awaits trial for first degree murder after being accused of counseling King to shoot Juaire.
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Burlington
UPI
Thomas Salmon
Burlington Free Press
Free Press
Decision Research Corporation
Wellesley
Massachusetts
ST. Albans
Bonnie Lee King
Fairfield
Lawrence Juaire
Miss King
Franklin County
Wynn Underwood
Gerald Max Ryan
Fletcher
Juarire
Champlain Valley town names third police chief in two months
Shelburne promotes Detective Thomas Powers to an 11500 a year post after Lawrence DeCecco quit within six weeks. Police history traces to August when Chief George Elwood resigned to lead a state training council.
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Shelburne
UPI
Champlain Valley
Selectmen
Thomas Powers
Lawrence DeCecco
George Elwood
State Law Enforcement Training Council
Renters push for a voice in Rensselaer County bids
In Troy New York tensions rose at a Monday meeting as Civil Service Employes Association leader Joseph Lazareney decried a $100 yearly raise plus longer hours for many workers. County Executive William J Murphy defended the offer as a starting point and budgeted settlement. In a separate Troy housing panel hearing the oversight body approved bylaws to comply with a 1974 state law, allowing tenants from nine city projects to elect two representatives on the housing authority next April. Tenants need 50 signatures and may nominate two candidates. eviction cases do not bar tenant voters.
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Troy
Rensselaer County
Lazareney
City Housing Authority
Authority
Williams College Poll Claims Majority Admit Cheating
Williams College students show 51 percent admitting cheating in a poll of 183 respondents from a 250 sample. Amherst reports 48 percent. The Williams Record published results from last spring, noting the higher dishonesty rate among Williams students.
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Williamstown
Williams College
Williams
Williams Record
Amherst College
Amherst
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Pownals
Pamela Blakeman
Pownal Baptist Church
Douglas Weyers
Fiske Street
Harold Nolan
Church Street
Weyer
Martelle
John Carswell
Smith St
John A. Mahar
John Allen
Knapp Drive
Bennington
High Street
Mike Lothspeich
Madison
Ind
River
Church Streets
FA Ze
Chittenden
Chittenden Loan
Arlington
Eleanor Niles
Walter Hulihan
Lanesboro
Mass
Bertha Andrews
Doris
Norma Travis
North Haledon
N.J
Melissa
SUNY
Oneonta
Mrs
Gordon Nesbitt
Hedges Lake
Earl Perry
Suny At
Cobleskill
O— Farm Bureau’ Kitchen Conference No
Maurice Perry
Jermain
Manchester
Vermont
New York
Down In
Berkshire
Pittsfield
George J. Bulgarelli
Bulgarelli
North Adams
W. R. Grace & Co
Adams
William A. Doubleday
Joseph R. Bianco
Thomas Gavin
Grace & Co
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