From Mekong to Manchester New North Shire Reporter
Joseph C. Swayze has joined The Banner to head the Manchester bureau after returning from Vietnam where he served as a public information officer with the 9th Infantry Division. He is a Williams College graduate and will reside in Manchester Village, succeeding Michael G. Miller who becomes a Brattleboro editor.
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Joseph C. Swayze
Banner
Manchester
Swayze
Williams College
Glen Ridge
N.J
Michael G. Miller
Brattleboro
Vietnam
9Th Infantry
Mekong Delta
Joanna
Bennington College
Manchester Village
Miller
North Shire
New Trailer Park Eyed in Shaftsbury
Shaftsbury selectmen met in the town clerk's office to discuss a proposed trailer park by Trenor Elwell on Route 7. The plan requires state health permits before town review and a public hearing. Elwell hired engineer Daniel Cadiz to ensure compliance and minimum 692 feet from Route 7.
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Shaftsbury
Selectmen
Trenor Elwell
Merton Snow
Elwell
State Department of Health
Snow
Daniel Cadiz
James Schevill Reads at Williams College in Oct
Williams College hosts American poet and Brown University English professor James Schevill for a reading on Wednesday October 15 at 4 p.m. in the Berkshire Prospect Lounge. The event features Schevill reading and singing with his wife Margot Blum. admission is free.
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Williamstown
Mass
James Schevill
Brown University
Berkshire Prospect
Williams College
Schevill
the Swallow Press
Chicago
Roger Williams
United States
Europe
Actor’s Workshop
San Francisco
Tyrone Guthrie Theatre
Minneapolis
Dramatics Alliance
Harvard University
University of California Extension Division
California College of Arts and Crafts
Poetry Center
San Francisco State College
Navy goes dry ban on ships ends 900 year tolerance
The United States Navy bans all alcoholic beverages from its ships after sailors used drink privileges to smuggle liquor into Norway. The move makes the navy effectively dry for the first time in 900 years.
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Oslo
UPI
Norway
New Dress Code At Manchester Elementary School
Manchester Elementary School directors approved a student sponsored dress code calling for decent length skirts replacing a two inch above knee rule. The plan limits earrings larger than a dime and dirty sneakers. Principal Wood assigns interpretation to him with the student council executive committee as appeals board. Student leaders Zoufaly Lernihan Counsell presented the plan. In other actions the board scheduled an Oct 27 meeting with the teachers association, approved a $1120 bid for a back entrance door, authorized $250 for a 200 foot fence, $94 for an elevator key box, and slated a lunch price review to next meeting.
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Manchester
Robert P. Wood
Steve Zoufaly
Marlene Lernihan
Susan Counsell
Harvey A. Dorfman
Manchester Teachers Association
Northland Builders
MES
Wood
Winners Listed in Hoosick Punt Pass Kick Contest
Hoosick Falls winners across six age groups were announced after a joint event by the Hoosick Falls Kiwanis Club and the local Ford agency. First-place boys advance to zone competition at Shaker High School, Latham. girls receive statuette trophies presented by the Kiwanis Club.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick Falls Central School
Thomas Pender
Cambridge Central School
Mark Bromirski
St. Mary’s Academy
Matthew Durrin
Cambridge
Thomas Luke
Kevin Button
HFCS
John Hayden
Don Cavalier
CCS
Bob O'Neil
Howard Haynes
Kiwanis
Sandra Remacus
Rebecca Stetson
Carol Liporace
Kathryn Miller
Rebecca Cook
Kelly Shaw
Linda Scarey
Deborah Baldwin
Katherine Luke
Sharon Moore
Jill Stempek
Judith Mattat
Cathy Bass
Teresa Doo
Improvements At Hoosick Youth Center Open House
Hoosick Falls N Y The Hoosick Town Youth Commission hosted an open house at Center and Church streets to showcase improvements. New wall paneling in game rooms a tiled shower a reinforced foundation exterior repaint and a new portable TV plus an extra pool table were shown. Fluorescent lighting and gym floor resealing are planned next year. Center opens season with weekday hours 3 to 5 and 7 to 10 p m Saturday 1 to 5 p m Two supervisors on duty. girls gym time Tuesday evenings with a female director.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Town of
Hoosick
James Cusack
Volney Chapman Jr
Linda Horton
Robert Hayden
William Murphy
William J. Murphy
Community group activities and meetings in Pownal
Pownal Scout Troop 347 meets tonight at 7 in the Scout Hut led by Scoutmaster Edward Reynolds. The Pownal Parent-Teacher Group holds an Oct meeting at Center School at 7:30 with Principal Bernard J. Bisson discussing Elementary Education and pupil project displays. John L. Mason will discuss bond plans for the Center School addition ahead of the Nov 4 bond vote. Special committees for fundraising and project work will form. Also on the schedule a North Pownal Congregational Church business meeting at 7 Wednesday, Sunday School classes led by Mrs. Earle V. Church, Mrs. Martin G. Lingner and Miss Lois Burdick, and the first Pownal Cub Scout Pack 347 meeting Wednesday at 7 in the North Pownal Firehouse for ages 8 to 11, with parent attendance. Libby to supervise enrollments with Mrs. Paradise and Mrs. Frost assisting. A public safety program at 7 Wednesday in the Pownal Fire House, hosted by Hoosac Valley Homemakers Extension Group, features R. W. McNabb on Safe Products For You. Mrs. Wilfred LaBonte urges community interest. The Ladies Guild of Our Lady of Lourdes Church sponsors a rummage sale Oct 25 from 10 to 4 at the North Pownal Firehouse, chaired by Mrs. Harvey DuBois. donations welcomed via guild members or church lobby.
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Pownal
Center School
Bernard J. Bisson
Town of Pownal
John L. Mason
North Pownal Congregational Church
Earle V. Church
Martin G. Lingner
Lois Burdick
North
Stuart Libby
William Paradise
Philip Frost
Libby
Pownal Fire House
Hoosac
Wilfred LaBonte
Ladies Guild of Our Lady of Lourdes Church
North Pownal
Harvey DuBois
Hoosick Falls Seniors Attend Liberty Themed Program
About 40 members of the Hoosick Senior Citizens were guests of the Hoosick Grange for a Liberty and Freedom themed program featuring a humorous reading by Mrs. Almon Hewitt and an illustrated talk on travel spots in America by Arthur Moseley.
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Hoosick Falls
N. Y
Hoosick Senior Center
Hoosick Grange
Almon Hewitt
Arthur Moseley
America
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New North Shire
Selectman
Roy Whitman
State Board of Health
Health Department
Williams
Navy
DEPT
Hedstrom
Haynes & Kane Inc
Main St
Bennington
Main Street
Hoosick Youth Center
William J. Rourke Jr
The
Pownals
Vera Langlais
Edward Reynolds
Rensselaer Area
Wynantskill
Rensselaer
Tamarac School
Rensselaer County
John F. Nigro
Wilfred Knapp
Ralph D. Griswold
Grange
Carleton Philpott
N. Clifford Cottrell
Paul Cipperly
David Cornell
George Scott Sr
Edith Craig Reynolds
Central School
Ralph J. Griswold
Greenberg
H. Greenberg & Son
Coats
Aia Td Atn
Prdeimai
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Sennington
Frost
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