Fed up residents press for strict local traffic controls
Manchester homeowners on Wyman Lane and Cottage Street, fed up with drivers using the Routes 7 and 11 30 intersection as a bypass, crowded the town offices to urge action. Ken Johnston and others cited speeding and danger to children, while selectmen considered installing signs and assigning a police patrolman to monitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Wyman Lane
Cottage Street
Ken Johnston
Manchester Selectmen
Harold Benson
Clyde Bryant Jr
Ralph Fleming Jr
Hoosick Falls Peace Corps couple head for Nepal posting
Hoosick Falls Albert W Butkas and wife June Hansen Butkas of Babcock Lake Road have completed six weeks of training in Davis California and begin job training in Jathmandu Nepal in the Himalaya mountains near Tibet India. They married three years ago after he graduated from Syracuse College of Forestry and she from the College of St Rose Magna Cum Laude. He worked for the New York State Department of Transportation and she for the Rensselaer County Health Dept Lab before joining the Peace Corps. Both resigned their jobs to serve. Meanwhile Debby Carswell, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Carswell, was honored at a bridal shower with about 150 guests at the VFW Hall. Miss Carswell will marry Clinton Philpott on Nov 14 in Hoosick. HFCS nurse Mrs Elizabeth Holmes urges kindergarten registrants to provide vaccination proof and measles and polio immunization per New York State law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert W. Butkas
Babcock Lake Road
Peace Corps
Davis
Calif
Jathmandu
Nepal
Hamalaya
Tibet
India
Butkas
Albert A. Butkas
Babcock Lake
Syracuse College of Forresty
June Hansen
Northport
Long Island
Syracuse University
College of St. Rose
Albany
Rensselaer County Health Department
Troy
New York State Department of Trans
Debbie Carswell
John Carswell
Smith St
VFW Hall
Helen Benkoski
Mary Ann Roberta
Ann Clipperly
Patricia Walsh
Carswell
Clinton
Elizabeth Holmes
HFCS
New York
Arlington state aid cut sparks school funding debate
Arlington district officials including Wilfred Bordeau state district supervisor met Arlington selectmen town agent and school board Monday to report a roughly $12000 reduction in state aid for education due to an increase in pupils. Helen Wood protested questioning the sizable cut for only two pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Wilfred Bordeau
Arlington Selectmen
Helen Wood
Bordeau
Pownal man is Texas agent
James Lounsbury 27 of Harlingen Texas graduated from the United States Border Patrol Academy at Los Fresnos and will serve as a patrol agent in the Port Isabel border patrol sector. He was in the 97th session among 99 new officers completing training in immigration and nationality laws Spanish language duties and authorities to act civil rights and other studies. He attended Berkshire Community College Pittsfield MA and Paul Smiths College Paul Smiths NY. He served four years in the U.S. Navy including a 12 month tour with the 26th Marines in Vietnam. He is married to Janice Clara Coates of Marshall NC and was a credit manager for Sun Finance in Asheville NC before joining the Border Patrol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Fresnos
Tex
James Lounsbury
Harlingen
United States Border Patrol Academy
Port Isabel
Texas
Lounsbury
Border Patrol Academy
Pownal
Berkshire Community College
Pittsfield
Mass
Paul Smith’s College
Paul Smiths
N.Y
U.S. Navy
26Th Marines
Vietnam
Janice Clara Coates
Marshall
N.C
Border Patrol
Sun Finance Company
Ashville
US. Immigration and Naturalization Service
White Creek Newspapers Pickup and Weekend Guests
White Creek residents are reminded to contact any 4-H member or leader Mrs. Donald George to arrange pickup for missed newspapers. Weekend guests included Mr. and Mrs. William Gulley of Watertown, N Y visiting Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gulley. Mrs. Dewey McCart and others attended the Co S C S subdistrict meeting in Johnsonville where district officers presided and church ladies served luncheon. Malcolm Souness of Holyoke, Mass., spent several days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Souness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jolly Jones
4-H
Donald George. O
William Gulley
Watertown, N.Y
Albert Gulley
Roy Whitman
Maurice Perry
Fremont Meerworth
Herbert Austin
Donald George
Co.s.c.s
Johnsonville
Malcolm Souness
Holyoke
Mass
Mrs
John Souness
Hudson Valley College unveils Dwight Marvin Library in Troy
Hudson Valley Community College dedicated its new Dwight Marvin Library a 3 million building housing 90 000 volumes with 85 000 square feet for 1300 seats. The facility designed by Cadman and Droste of Troy and built by Rosch Brothers of Albany replaces the 1960 admin building. The ceremony included local officials, board members and the Marvin family with tours offered to the public daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
N.Y
Hudson Valley Community College
Dwight Marvin
Marvin
Record
Cairman
Tryon
N.C
HVCC
Hudson Valley
Cadman and Droste
Rosch Brothers
Albany
Lester C. Higbee
Keith Marvin
Hudson Valley Faculty Association
Susanne K. Stark
David Billingham
Bailey M. Cadman
Margaret Howland
Town Board Sets Action On River Obstruction And Sign Project
The Board of Selectmen decided William Morse will remove a river obstruction near Russell Holton’s property at an estimated cost of 1000 dollars not to exceed 1500. R V Jones showed a sketch for a High School Industrial Arts lettering project for a Slow School sign on East Arlington Road to curb speeding. An open meeting 7:30 p.m. next Monday at Town Hall will discuss purchasing property for a proposed sewage treatment plant to be voted on November 3. All voters urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Selectmen
William Morse
Russell Holton
Selectmen
R. V. Jones
Industrial Arts
Arlington Road
Car demolishes, teens escape near stream in Shaftsbury
In Shaftsbury on White Creek Road a late model Ford carrying two Bennington teenagers and a North Adams man slammed into a tree, tearing the car around and wedging the trunk over a stream. Andrea Bonfiglioli 16 Shelley Purdy 16 were treated and released at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Harry Gaudette refused treatment. The car owner was Mr Claremont of North Adams. State Police called it a near miracle no one was killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
White Creek
Ed Cook
Putnam Memorial Hospital
North Adams
Mass
Shaftsbury
Andrea Bonfiglioli
Shelley Purdy
Harry Gaudette
Claremont
William Luczynski
Cedar Ledge Bakery Opens With Gifts and Hours
Pownal's first bakery Cedar Ledge Bakery and Coffee Shop opens Sept 14 at Route 7 in Pownal Center. Grand opening runs Thursday and Friday 6 am to 5 pm and Saturday 7 am to 2 pm with doughnuts coffee and cider. A sign on site proclaims the shop and a prize of The Pownall an electric can opener. Pownal schools close Thursday and Friday for a fall convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Ledge
Pownal
Pownal Center
Cedar Ledge Bakery and Coffee Shop
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Bennington Banner
Ferdinand Bongartz
County Environment Control Commission
Ken Senecal
Bongartz
Environment Commission
Hoosick Falls
Peace Corps Service
Ann Armstrong
Rogers Avenue
Philpott
Clinton Philpott
Breese Hollow Road
Hoosick
Burlington Savings Bank
Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Pownal Man
Ernest W. Mattison Sr
Board of Sisters
Mattison
Eleanor Niles
Dewey McCart
James McCart
Howard Robinson
Gordon Byars
Rensselaer County
State University
Harry Vincent
Paul Engel
James J. Fitzgibbons
Tobin
SALEM
Franks
Tel Ds
The
Evan
Jack-O-Lanterns
Evans
Main Street
Union Street
News & Office Equipment, Inc
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