No more cheap food says USDA official at NY ASCS meeting
New York ASCS conference heard Glen A. Weir say cheap food is no longer assumed and that farmers should not be vilified for payments. The meeting at Monticello drew about 300 workers and covered REAP plans, food costs, and the shift to computerization for farm data.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
New York State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Monticello
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Glen A. Weir
USDA
Weir
New York
U.S
Edward D. Hews
William E. Carnahan
Washington
Grant Buntrock
America
Kansas City
Charles Russell
Cornell University
David Nolan
Farmers Home Administration
Frank B. Hyatt
Johnson to address VNRC annual meeting in Montpelier
Vermont secretary of environmental conservation Martin Johnson will address the Vermont Natural Resources Council annual meeting on December 1 at the Tavern Motor Inn Vermont Hall in Montpelier. The event opens at 9 30 a.m. and includes a screening of People on the Land and a 1973 activity report plus board member elections. Lunch reservations are requested in advance.
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Montpelier
Martin Johnson
Agency of Environmental Conservation
Vermont Natural Resources Council
Tavern
Katherine Beatty
Danville
Judith M. Buechner
Pawlet
John Shuell
Peru
Deane C. Davis
A. John Holden Jr
East Montpelier
Leonard Wilson
Waitsfield
VNRC
Vermont Association of Snow Travelers
Vermont Profile Committee
Green Mountain
Society of American Foresters
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Vermont Timberland Owners Association
State St
Pillow recruiting new leadership for Jacob's Pillow
LEE Mass A new executive director and artistic staff are being recruited for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival as planning begins for the 42nd summer season in the Berkshire Mountains. A special committee led by Dr Ira S Colby seeks qualified candidates to head the festival and advance its status as a global dance center and training ground.
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Jacob’s Pillow
Reinhart
Ted Shawn
Shawn
John Christian
Walter Terry
Charles Reinhart Management, Inc
National Endowment For the Arts
U.S. Office of Education
New York City Center
Asia Society
Norman Walker
Grace Badorek
National Forest chief here shifts to Montana
Floyd J. Martin, Green Mountain forest supervisor, is named forest supervisor of the Kootenai National Forest in Libby Montana. The 1.8 million acre unit with 300 staff moves Martin and his family there by mid December as Cravens notes his broad experience in resource management and human development programs.
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Manchester
Floyd J. Martin
Green Mountain National Forest
Kootenai National Forest
Montana
Kootenai
Libby
Mont
Jay H. Cravens
Marita
Forest Service
Glenda
U.S. Forest Service
Mariin
Cravens
Sage City Symphony marks first anniversary in concert
Sage City Symphony will celebrate its one year birthday with a December 2 concert at North Bennington Elementary School gym. Louis Calabro will conduct 65 volunteer musicians in a program featuring Hindemith, Schumann, and Copland with bass Richard Frisch.
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Sage City Symphony
SCS
Bennington
Louis Calabro
Hindemith
Aaron Coplands
Richard Frisch
Bennington College
Wilder’s Theophilus North a warm portrait of Wilder’s life
The Berkshire Eagle reviews Thornton Wilder’s Theophilus North as a blending of autobiography and fiction. The narrator mirrors Wilder’s Yale background and Berkshire ties while following Theophilus in Newport 1926 through witty moral interventions, friendship, and reflections on genius.
Shaftsbury Sno Pilots Meet Planned at School
The Shaftsbury Sno Pilots announce a monthly meeting on Thursday November 29 at 8 p.m. in Shaftsbury Elementary School to plan events for the coming season. All area snowmobilers are invited, and yearly dues may be paid.
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Shaftsbury Sno
Shaftsbury
Dorset Youth Group to Sell Candy for Community Club
William Gilbert's Dorset Youth Group and Dorset Boy Scouts begin candy sales today in Manchester, the Dorsets, Rupert, and Pawlet to raise funds for a Dorset Sportsmen's Club community clubhouse. The facility will host dances, receptions, meetings, and parties for local groups.
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Dorset Youth Group
Dorset Boy Scouts
Manchester
Dorsets
Rupert and Pawlet
Dorset Sportsmen’s Club
Rensselaer County names tax map supervisor
HOOSICK FALLS N Y Sylvester F Currier director of the Real Property Tax Service announces William L Montgomery as tax map supervisor for Rensselaer County Montgomery, a Watertown native and Syracuse University graduate, has five years land research experience and recently led the research and plotting section at Jefferson County Tax Mapping Department He joins Cole Layer Trumble Company field editors to map Brunswick North Greenbush Poestenskill and Schodack with property owner interviews to verify lines, not assess properties In addition to Montgomery the field editors named are William Jackowski Paul Headon Ben Martilotta and Richard O'Donnell
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Sylvester F. Currier
Rensselaer County Real Property Tax Service
William L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Watertown
Darrow School
New Lebanon
Syracuse University
United States Army Reserve
479Th
Rensselaer County
Jefferson County
Cole-Layer-Trumble Company
Brunswick
North Greenbush
Poestenskill
Schodack
Currier
William Jackowski
Paul Headon
Ben Martilotta
Richard O’donnell
Schodak
Taconic Grange Meeting Details
Taconic Grange 491 schedules a meeting on Tuesday November 27 at 8 pm Deputy Marion Thompson will attend to instruct new officers and members in Grange ritual work.
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Taconic Grange 491
Marion Thompson
Expanded well baby testing opens in Dorset clinic
In partnership with the state Health Department the Dorset Nursing Association begins expanded Well Baby Clinic services on Dec. 5 at the United Church of Dorset and East Rupert. Dr. Elizabeth Byrnes is the attending physician with consultants from Planned Parenthood and United Counseling Service. Children from one month to pre school age from Dorset Rupert Pawlet and Wells may register by calling 362-2072. Appointments start at 9 a.m. and transportation aid may be available. Bring the child’s immunization record.
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Sally H. Begley
Berkshire Eagle
Thornton Wilder
Wilder
Dorset
State Department of Health
Dorset Nursing Association
Well
United Church of
East Rupert
Elizabeth Byrnes
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