Regulation skating rink planned for Arlington park
Arlington officials forecast a regulation-size ice skating and hockey rink in a 30 acre Battenkill River recreation area. The project, first in a series of park additions, will cost about $3,200 donated toward excavation paving sealing and painting. Phillip Linde reported on rink prep using the old Swiss ice system and daily skate scrape floods with two inch ice after an overnight rest.
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Arlington
Donald S. Kendall
Arlington Recreation and Park Commission
Battenkill River
Phillip Linde
Oakley Frost
Frost
Aa&pc
RensselaerAuxiliary expansion gains support in Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls officials announce the acceptance of 15 candidates to the all volunteer Rensselaer County Auxiliary Police Service this week. Mayor Richard Severson and Acting Village Police Chief Royal Howard endorse the program amid village police staffing concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Rensselaer County Auxiliary Police Service
Richard A. Severson
Royal C. Howard
Train block ends with pickup man in Fort Worth
Bill Miller blocked a freight train by parking his pickup on the tracks after a 15 minute wait. Police traced him by license and urged him to move once the train’s delay reached 20 minutes. Local civil defense offers volunteer police applications at Hoosick Falls Firehouse with interviews Oct 23 and 30.
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Fort Worth
Tex
UPI
Bill Miller
Miller
County Office of Civil Defense
Hoosick Falls
Bloodmobile to make final 1973 visit in Manchester area
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will conduct its third and final 1973 visit in the Manchester Dorset area on Wednesday October 24. It will park at the Zion Parish House in Manchester Center from noon to 5 30 p m. Donors are urged to give a pint, joining an act of community service and personal pride.
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Manchester
Red Cross
Manchester-Dorset
Zion Parish
Shire
Bloodmobile
North Adams rink schedule lists weekly public sessions
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating rink in North Adams Massachusetts announces unchanged public sessions for Oct 21–27 1973 with multiple weekday and weekend shifts for hockey groups and fraternities including Pittsfield Flyers Tri City youth East Longmeadow Acacia Delta Tau Delta Mt Anthony High School Theta Chi Rensselaer Bennington Colonie Taconic Park and Valatie Blues hockey programs plus Adams Memorial Junior High activity slot and Northern Berkshire Youth hockey sessions.
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North Adams
Mass
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Pittsfield Flyers
Tri-City
East Longmeadow
Acacia Fraternity
Delta Tau Delta
Mt. Anthony High School
North Adams State College Club
Theta Chi Fraternity
Northern Berkshire
Rensselaer
E. Pavelehek
Adams Memorial Junior High
Bennington Catamounts
MAYAA
the Fraternity
Colonie Crusaders
Taconic Park Gully Cats
Valatie Blues
Berkshire bottle show and sale set in Lee High School gym
Berkshire Antique Bottle Association hosts its sixth antique bottle show and sale on Sunday Oct. 21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lee High School gym in Lee Massachusetts. Thirty five dealers from New England New York and Pennsylvania will attend with thousands of bottles insulators and related books on display. Special exhibits include local glass works and a Millerton New York display. A pancake breakfast benefits youth programs.
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Lee
Mass
Berkshire Antique Bottle Association
Lee High School
Greylock Street
Lee, Mass
Massachusetts Turnpike
Joseph A. Furgal Jr
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
John Hicks
Millerton
N.Y
William Loeffler
Troy
Robert Burke
Dalton
Lee Kiwanis Club
Lee High
Vermont aims to raise lagging income with export push
Governor Salmon told the first Governor's Conference on Exports that Vermont ranked near the bottom in per capita income and must attract capital investment. He urged government business and labor cooperation to create higher paying jobs, noting 130 Vermont firms will export about $105 million this year, roughly 10 percent of industrial output and about 4,000 jobs.
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Waterbury
UPI
Salmon
Gov. Salmon
Vermont
Vermont contractors call end to bargaining in Burlington dispute
South Burlington UPI reports contractors told Gov. Salmon's fact finding panel they are finished negotiating with union leaders in the Burlington labor dispute. Attorney Christopher Gallagher said fruitful bargaining has ended, while denying a plan to break unions. Hearings resume Monday in Montpelier with a report due by November 15.
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South Burlington
UPI
Burlington Area
Gov. Salmon
Christopher Gallagher
Vermont
Montpelier
Critics fault board for omitting land use tax plan
Franklin County politicians farmers and landowners attacked the Environmental Board at a Thursday night hearing over a proposed land-use plan. Senator Robert Branon urged including a land-use tax for better reception in the legislature and Senator Richard Soule agreed you cannot divorce land use from taxation while Chairman Schuyler Jackson said tax and land use should be complementary but treated separately.
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ST. Albans
UPI
Franklin County
State Environmental Board
Robert Branon
Richard Soule
Environmental Board
Schuyler Jackson
Jackson
Burlington plant gets seven month air permit approval
Burlington Electric Light Department wins a seven month pollution permit from the state air quality variance board for the Moran generating plant. The board orders improvements to the city pollution control system during the permit period.
New York bill push seeks interest on mortgage escrow
Albany lawmakers hear calls to require banks to pay interest on all escrow deposits for taxes insurance premiums and water rent. Officials and advocates call current practice unfair. Savings Bank Association defends it. In Troy, URA silence over Uncle Sam Mall purchases prompts GOP and independent critics to demand disclosure as about 80 properties are tied to the deal.
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Albany
Select
Legislative Committee On Consumer Protection
The
Savings Bank Association
Troy
Troy Urban Renewal Agency
Uncle Sam Mall
URA
Francis E. Yankowski
Controversy Over Motorcycle Trials Damage Sparks Debate
In Holyoke a zoology professor disputes a state report claiming slight damage from the International Six Day Motorcycle Trials. David W. Stickel inspected 30 routes, photographed 130 damaged areas, and warned recovery could take years. The AMA sponsored event billed as the Olympics of Motorcycling. In North Adams, City Councilman Breda urged industrial growth over tourism, challenging James Keekin Jr’s Operation Evergreen plan and faulting the regional workforce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holyoke
Department of Natural Resources
David W. Stickel
Holyoke Community College
Stickel
Natural Resources Department
The
American Motorcycle Association
North Adams
D. Albert Breda
North Berkshire
James R. Keekin Jr
Pheasant and wildlife seasons open. 1500 birds stocked
Pittsfield state game officers stock 1500 cock pheasants in Berkshire cover ahead of opening day this Saturday for pheasant waterfowl rabbit snowshoe hare grey squirrel and quail seasons. Partridge and woodcock season began Oct 10. In Sheffield a hiker was stabbed on the Appalachian Trail as two youths demanded his backpack. Matthew Twickler 18 Branford Conn was treated and released.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire
Winston S. Saville
Sheffield
Matthew Twickler
Branford
Conn
Twickler
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Heublein, Inc
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Walker
Ridge Homes
Ridge
Rensselaer and
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Vision OF Vans
COMPA
Conshohocken
Jur Ridge
Double Trouble
Reno
Nev
Robert McLean
McLean
Carol Jean Armstrong
Alfred W. Armstrong
Rupert
Putnam Memorial Hospital School of
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Miss Armstrong
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
US RT
Shaftsbury
Down In
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