Poet to Read His Own Poetry and Classics in North Adams
W Simone DiPiero will headline An Evening with a Poet at North Adams State College on Monday November 25 at 8 pm in Bowman Hall. He will read from his poetry and translations of Italian poets, with commentary and readings from Shakespeare and Keats, followed by questions and coffee. An afternoon lecture on Thomas Pynchon is slated for 4 pm in Bowman 101. DiPiero recently spent two years in Italy as a Fulbright grantee and is an essayist and translator alongside poet.
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Hoosick Falls to host info meeting on village town merger
Hoosick Falls Mayor Richard Severson announces an informational meeting Tuesday night November 26 at 7 30 p m in St Marys High School auditorium to explain a proposed village town consolidation. Leonard Schwartz of Kingsley Associates will present findings with Kiwanis Club backing.
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Hoosick Falls advisory council meets for dances and race plans
Members of the Hoosick Falls Youth Advisory Council gather at 50 Church Street on Monday November 25 at 7 30 p m to discuss a Christmas dance and preliminary plans for a third annual canoe race on Memorial Day 1975. Chairman Robert Hayden and president Kathy Delarey chair the meeting with Mayor Severson advising.
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Gogol lecture and colloquium at Williams College
Williamstown Massachusetts John Fennell professor of Russian at Oxford will speak at Williams College next week delivering a lecture on Gogol the Innovator and a colloquium on the application of textology to medieval Russian history and literature both events open to the public sponsored by the Williams Department of Russian Prof Fennell holds a PhD from Trinity College Cambridge and has taught at Cambridge Nottingham and Oxford.
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Vermont Education Board ranks special education lunch and VTE top
Vermont's Education Board designates special education school lunch and vocational technical education as top priorities for funding in the next fiscal year. If no state fund increase occurs, $1.1 million would be shifted from aid to local districts to support those programs amid tight finances.
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Health officers gain power to halt new hookups over overloaded plant
Local health officers can stop new businesses from connecting to an overloaded sewage plant. Attorney General Kimberly B. Cheney ruled the Berlin Health Officer acted legally in banning hookups. The ruling expands local health powers to halt development when a sewage system is inadequate, and calls for legislative clarification. Health officers are appointed by the state Health Department on local official recommendation.
Vermont high court rules landowners need not be notified
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that landowners along proposed utility right of way lines do not have due process rights to notice before Public Service Board certification of a public good. The ruling overturned a lower court decision and limits notice to condemnation hearings for specific parcels.
Vermont claims top national ranks in rehabilitation
MONTPELIER UPI Vermont's vocational rehabilitation program is praised as among the best. Human Services Secretary Thomas O. Davis reports national figures placing Vermont fifth in service to the severely disabled with 44 percent of rehabilitations in that group. The state ties Hawaii for first in serving disabled recipients of public assistance at 35 percent. The two categories are described as top national priorities in rehabilitation.
Carey backs continuing exclusive Saratoga racing season
Albany Governor-elect Hugh J Carey said he will support keeping Saratoga’s exclusive 24 day August racing season. He argued permitting thoroughbred racing elsewhere in the state would harm Saratoga’s economy and the state’s tourist draw, noting Saratoga’s 1957 exclusive season grant.
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New GOP chairman elected in Rensselaer County
Troy Brunswick administrator Joseph L. Bruno was elected chairman of the Rensselaer County Republican party replacing State Sen. Douglas Hudson. Bruno praised Hudson and pledged unity to 250 county committeemen. He won amid backing from County Executive William Murphy and Assemblyman Neil Kelleher.
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Neil Kelleher
Betti fired after letter of resignation push by mayor
Documents released by former Health Board member David Betti show Mayor Joseph Bianco sought a signed resignation letter, promising a future appointment. Betti refused, was fired three days later, and attached documents to his removal appeal. The board’s chairman John DeRosa had also clashed with Bianco over dumping industrial waste into the city sewer system. In a separate note, North Adams schools consider a free breakfast program for low income students citing an obligation to provide nutritious meals and potential full federal reimbursement under state law.
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