Hoosick to hike spending but broader base may cap taxes
Hoosick plans about 12 percent higher spending in fiscal 1978 versus 1977 while a broader tax base is expected to keep the tax rate from rising. Supervisor Raymond Calhoun announced a total appropriation of 400,444.70 for 1978 with 184,456 from taxes, and noted highway costs will add 30,000. The town will vote November 14 on both the budget and federal revenue sharing allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick
N.Y
Raymond Calhoun
Rensselaer County Regional Services Center
Hoosick Falls
Calhoun
Highway Department
Thomas McMartin
McMartin
George Dougherty
Arlington Blood Drive Donors Hit 100 Pints
Arlington donors contributed a total of 100 pints of blood this week. Local volunteers organized the drive, with participation from community groups and hospital staff encouraging residents to donate for patients in need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Manchester garden club to host town manager speaker
The Garden Club of Manchester Inc. hosts an open luncheon on Monday November 28 at 12 30 p m at the Avalanche Motel. Henry Hank Lambert will discuss Manchester 1985 Planning for the Future with a Q A period. Invited officials include Manchester and Dorset selectmen. Tickets are 3 75 including tax and gratuity. Reservations by November 22 to Emmy Mc Cully or Frances Bennett. The Dorset School Board holds a special meeting November 16 at p m at the Factory Point Bank.
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Manchester
Garden Club of Manchester Inc
Avalanche Motel
Vermont
Henry
Hank” Lambert
Dorset
Ethel Simmons Twichell
Garden Club
Emmy McCully
Frances Bennett
Manchester Center
Factory Point Bank
Rev Quinn visits Hoosick Falls as Bronx pastor
The weekend visit by Rev Walter J Quinn OSA formerly of Villanova announced his assignment as assistant pastor at St Nicholas of Tolentine in the Bronx. The article notes a blood drive in the area with significant donor turnout from Mack Molding and Hale Company workers. Don Keough led with eight gallons, Fred Hoyt five, followed by Matilda Kenny three and Shirley Mc Ternan two. A volunteer staff of about 50 aided the blood bank, including Girl Scouts and a telephone squad. Attending physicians were Dr James P O Neil and Dr F P Carrigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter J. Quinn
O.S.A
Villanova
Hoosick Falls
St. Nicholas of Tolentine Catholic Church
Bronx
Mack Molding
Hale Company
East Arlington
Don Keough
Fred Ho
Marge Doyle
Charlotte Dunlap
Mary Hess
Clara Hulet
Jackie LaBatt
Christine MacKenzie
Marge Macksey
Julie Mears
Judy Monte
Lorraine Moody
Margaret Webster
Molly White
Shaker village to hold annual holiday sale event
Friends of Hancock Shaker Village sponsor the annual holiday sale at Brick Dwelling in Pittsfield on Saturday November 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Shaker herb preparations, sachets, and herb baskets fill the Herb Shop. the Kitchen Sisters' Good Room offers baked goods. the Book Store will feature reproductions and books. Autograph sessions with curators and authors, a Fancy Goods Store display, and handcrafts from the Village Forge and Weavers' Shop are featured. A noon to 2 p.m. buffet luncheon costs $5. A staff quilt will be sold by raffle with a 4 p.m. draw.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Friends of
Hancock Shaker Village
Kitchen Sisters
June Sprigg
Shaker Hands
John H. Ott
Amy Bess Miller
Shaker Community Inc
Believers
Pownal church activities and Rupert school board meeting
The Wesleyan Class of Pownal United Methodist Church meets at 8 tonight at the Maxmillians home with Mildred Kemmlien leading and Irene Pettit assisting with refreshments. Our Lady of Lourdes holds religious education for grades 1-6 Saturday 10 to 11 15 a.m. at Pownal Elementary. The North Pownal Congregational Church Sunday worship at 10 15 features sermons God has Three Sons and Rejoice in thy Youth with Sunday school at 9. Methodist Youth Fellowship meets Sunday 5 to 7 p.m. at the Pownal church. Rupert School Board will meet Wednesday Nov 16 at 7 p.m. at Rupert Elementary.
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Pownal
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
North Pownal Congregational Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Pownal United
Rupert School Board
Rupert
Hoosick Falls Police Notes
Nelson Prew and Pamela Goodel appeared before Judge William Fitzpatrick in Hoosick Falls to answer for criminal possession of marijuana. The charge was reduced from a second degree felony to a Class A misdemeanor, with Prew receiving six months in jail and a pre-sentence investigation planned for Goodel. Police rescued a small gray dog from a trap near the Shop Bridge on Church Street. the dog is at Dr. D. E. Armstrong's office and faces destruction if unclaimed by Monday.
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Hoosick
N.Y
Nelson Prew
Pamela Goodel
Hoosick Falls
William Ftzpatrick
Prew
Ms. Goodel
Rensselaer
Rensselaer County
Shop Bridge
Church Street
D.E. Armstrong
Conservation not sole solution to energy crisis says Vermont official
Vermont Energy Office deputy director Bruce Haskell warns conservation buys time for permanent energy solutions. He notes oil could deplete in lifetimes and cites the need for simpler explanations of foreign oil dependence to spur public action. WRUT radio interview reports his view.
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Rutland
UPI
Vermont Energy Office
Bruce Haskell
Haskell
Wrut-Fm
Vermont political figure sued for fraud in Burlington
Harley Walter Kidder of Burlington faces a civil fraud suit filed in Chittenden County Superior Court by Ludwig Froelich over a $12,500 check allegedly written to Kidder from Froelich’s blank check. The court authorized freezing Kidder’s approximate $12,300 bank balance as the suit seeks $12,500 plus 25,000 in punitive damages. Kidder has long been active in Vermont politics with no successful elected office.
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Burlington
UPI
Harley Walter Kidder
Vermont
Chittenden County
Ludwig Froelich
Kidder
Froelich
Ernest Gibson
Congress
Crandall named acting chancellor of Vermont state colleges
Arthur Crandall, chairman of the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees, will serve as acting chancellor of the five college system starting November 20. He replaces Chancellor David McGregor, who will leave December 1 to join Long Island University. A search committee will look for McGregor’s permanent successor.
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Burlington
UPI
Arthur Crandall
Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees
Crandall
David McGregor
Long Island University
McGregor
Eight and a third to thirty years for child molesting twins
Donald Bouton received an eight and a third to 30 year prison sentence in Albany County Court for sexual assaults on 11 year old twin sisters. Judge Joseph Harris warned that harsher penalties await child molesters, as Bouton, who denied guilt and questioned grand jury fairness, faced testimony from his 12-year-old son and four other children. In a separate case, 37-year-old Patricia Harris was indicted on two counts of second degree murder and one count of second degree arson after a fatal fire on April 3.
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Alburg
API
Grand Isle County
Michael Cain
Albury
Cain
Joshua Bohannon
Bradley Bohannon
St. Albans
Burlington
UPI
Joseph
Red'’ Dupan
Winooski
South Burlington
Dupan
U.S. District Court
Comprehensive Employment and Training Program
CETA
Albany
Donald Bouton
Joseph Harris
Albany County
Bouton
Harris
Patricia Harris
Madison Ave
Isaac Paul Williams
Philip St
Williams
Ski injury suit settles in Rutland court
Pittsfield Shirley Frazier settled out of court a $20 000 tort action against Sherburne Corp owner of Killington ski resort on the first day of trial. She claimed bindings failed to release causing knee rib chest injuries and phlebitis while hospitalized in Rutland.
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Pittsfield
Shirley Frazier
Tesday
Sherburne Corp
Killington, VI
Rutland
John Frazier
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