Pownal Community groups plan meetings and Christmas events
Alcoholics Anonymous meets Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Pownal Recreational Community Center. The Methodist Youth Fellowship meets Sunday 5 to 7 p.m. at the Pownal United Methodist Church. Reservations for the Pownal Fire Auxiliary Christmas party due by Monday, Dec. 2. call Mrs. Jannette Bishop at 823 7224. Party on Dec. 9. Thirteen East Pownal Fire Auxiliary members met last Monday. April Knapp reported on the State Fire Auxiliary meeting in Clarendon with Margaret Mattison and Linda Sheriden. The group plans quilt pieces for a state auxiliary fundraiser, to be stitched into a single pattern. Members should bring ideas to the supper and work meeting at the firehouse on Wednesday, Dec. 12. The auxiliary has donated $250 to the fire department for improvements and equipment. Wreaths and sprays will be sold. wreaths $4 and sprays $2.50, at the firehouse Saturdays and Sundays before Christmas starting Dec. 7. Christmas trees will be available from the fire department on those days. For info or orders call Margaret Mattison at 442-4910 or April Knapp at 442-4389. The annual Christmas party for fire department and auxiliary members and families will be held Saturday, Dec. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. The Dec. 11 supper and work meeting will replace the regular December meeting.
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Pownal Fire Auxiliary
Jannette Bishop
East
Fire Department
Margaret Mattison
Knapp
Manchester Center land-use hearing on Maier project
Siegfried Maier of Manchester Center seeks to renovate and add to the old creamery on Lincoln Avenue with a one acre site for a small electronic plant. The Enfield District Environmental Commission will hold a 9:30 a.m. hearing at the town office to review the $38,000 plan with architect G Richard Goldbaugh of Manchester Center noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Ennington District Environmental Commission
Siegfried Maier
Manchester Center
Maier
Lincoln Avenue
Georgiana
G. Richard Goldbaugh
Skepticism over Hoosick Falls consolidation plan discussed
Public forum in Hoosick Falls drew under 50 residents as officials debated merging village and town governments per a study by Leonard E. Schwartz. Skepticism centered on loss of local voice and state aid. Proposals call for a supervisor, four councilmen, and a full time administrator, with some positions reappointed rather than elected. A January follow up meeting was announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Beaumont
Schwartz
Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club
Richard A. Severson
Quaint Verse author and poetry collection in Arlington
Long time Arlington resident Dorothy E. Bullenkamp has published Quaint Little Stories in Verse from Pageant Poseidon Press priced at 2.50. Copies were given to John J Brush Memorial Library at Fisher Elementary and Martha Canfield Library. The two score poems appeared in The Grade Teacher The Instructor and Highlights for Children. Bullenkamp, a retired teacher, studies art history science and sketching and writes about nature including deer chipmunks squirrels birds snow wind and rain. Several verses feature her Persian cat Mitzi. She is a member of East Arlington Federated Church and formerly active in its Enterprise Society for art and poster work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Dorothy E. Bullenkamp
John J. Brush
Fisher
Martha Canfield
Pageant- Poseidon Press
Ms. Bullenkamp
Mitzi
Pownal Teachers and Board Deadlock on Contract Talks
A stalemate exists between Pownal Elementary School teachers and the Pownal School Board over a new contract. Ted Johnson of the SVEA says 13 articles of disagreement will go to a fact finding panel. The board offered a 4.4 percent hike. teachers seek about eight percent or $7,600 base pay plus fringe benefits and training support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
Ted Johnson
Southwest Vermont Education Association
SVEA
Bennington
Mt. Anthony Union High School
New York
Massachusetts
Johnson
Rupert Pawlet and Union District 23 meet in December
The Rupert school board schedules a special meeting at 4 p.m. December 3 at Rupert Village School. The Pawlet school board will meet December 3 at 8 p.m. at Pawlet School. Union District 23 directors set a 7:30 p.m. December 4 meeting at Currier Memorial School in Danby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rupert School
Rupert Village
Pawlet
Pawlet School
Union District 23
Currier Memorial School
Danby
Hoosick Falls Hosts Miss Softball Banquet Honoring Players
The Hoosick Falls Miss Softball League held its first annual banquet with 165 attendees including players coaches and guests. Trophies recognized 12 Wood Flong Chuckers 14 Flamatic Rebels 13 Dodge Dodgers 15 Little Elks plus 20 major league and 21 minor league all stars. New officers Janet Reilly president Dallas Chapones vice president Susan Kelly secretary Pat Manoogian treasurer. Also noted are requests for volunteers and a memorial service by the Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks with state officials among the speakers. The Hopkins Memorial Forest deer permit holders will have access restrictions December 2–7 1974.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Misses
Wood Flong Chuckers
Flamatic Rebels
Dodge Dogers
Little Elks
Janet Reilly
Dallas Chapones
Susan Kelly
Pat Manoogian
Wood Flong Corporation
Joseph Cullen
Paper Workers Union
Thomas Wysocki
Hoosick Falls Elks
Jean Brewster
Elks Auxiliary
Albert DeLuca
Elms Street Quartet
Valerie Brenenstuhl
Hoosick Falls Aerie of Eagles
Ida Blair
New York State
RPI Plans $12.75 Million Engineering Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announces a 12.75 million engineering center to house nearly all School of Engineering activities. The seven story reinforced concrete building will span 200000 square feet and replace Ricketts Sage and Troy. Construction starts next year with occupancy in late 1977.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
N.Y
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sage and
Engineering
Latin crafts exhibit opens in Troy with Latin American works
Rensselaer County Council for the Arts hosts a Latin American crafts exhibit starting Sunday, Dec. 1, with a 2 to 5 p.m. reception to meet collectors William Lassiter and Tom and Mickie McPheeters. Lassiter will display textiles from Guatemala. the McPheeters gallery features Molas, mantas, skat shawls, belts and dolls from across Latin America. The display runs through Dec. 24, weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with school group visits by arrangement at 273-0552.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Rensselaer County Council For the Arts
William L. Lassiter
Tom and Mickie McPheeters
William Lassiter
Hudson Valley Community College
South
Central America
Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago
Guatemala
McPheeters
Mexico
Peru
San Blas Islands
Panama
Cuenca
Ecuador
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Robert McClintock
Wilmington
Parent-Teacher Club
Memorial Hall
PTC
Alcoholics Anonymous
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Pownal United
Pamela Blakeman
Walloomsac
Bertha Hoag
Robert Baldwin
Edward LaFortune Jr
Julie Ann
Melrose
Edward
DEC
Terry Bentley
Pittsfield, Mass
Mrs
Gordon Hoag
Alice B. Fitzgerald
Berlin
Roscoe Austin
William Austin
Fred Cottrell
Putnam Memorial Hospital
John Barner
Colonie
John O’brien
Ann O’brien
Hoosick Area
Guy Barber
Catherine Hughes
Maude Turner
Ruth van der Kar
Ivan Purdy
Cambridge
Conasta
Addie Dorgelch
Mary Morin
Alma Arnold
Josie Kostenblatt
Abby Pine
Master Charge
Bank Americaid
North & Adams Streets
Vermont
Bargain Buster
North St. Benn
North ST. Bennington, VT
William Johnston
Severson
Cruce Patire
North Adams
Mass
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Pittsfield Flyers
NASC
No. Berkshire
Mt. Anthony
Christmas Brook
Hoosac
Christmas Brook Figure Skating Club
Buxton
Tomcat
Westfield
Drury Phys
Adams Jr
Drury
No. Berkshire Youth Hockey League
Gully
Hoosick Falls
Hopkins Forest
Williamstown
Hopkins Memorial Forest
Center For Environmental Studies
CES
Michael McGuire
USA
Hoosick Falls Lodge of Elks
William J. Murphy
William Holsapple Jr
George Wilkie
John Liporace
George Hodge
Bernard Sinay
Walter Blackall
Thomas Hyland
Donald Bradley
New York State Dormitory Authority
Main St
Bennington, Vt
Colonial Shopping Cn
Drysdale
Drysdales
Evans’ News Inc
Kroehler
Drake
Smith
Mersman
Cosco
Hedstrom
Vives
Cae
Dial
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