St Mary's opens with highest enrollment in Hoosick Falls
St Marys Academy High School in Hoosick Falls opens on Tuesday September 7 at 8:00 am with a Mass at 9 am in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The enrollment of 127 students marks a peak in years and includes students from Hoosick Falls Cambridge Petersburg Grafton Valley Falls and Remington. New staff members Edmond Reid from Shushan NY and Miss Josephine Liporace from Hoosick Falls join the faculty with Reid heading the English department and Liporace directing expanded girls sports in the Northern Conference. The rest of the faculty includes Rev. Michael A. McGuire Joseph Galvin Patrick Town Gordon Smith Miss Jane Adsit and others.
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Hoosick Falls
Saint Mary’s Academy High School
Church of the Immaculate Conception
SMA
Cambridge
Petersburg
Grafton
Valley Falls
Remington
Edmond Reid
Shushan
Josephine Liporace
Reid
New York University
New Jersey
Susan Kelleher
Trinity College
Vermont
St. Mary’s Academy
Liporace
Michael A. McGuire
OSA
John Galvin
Patrick Town
Gordon Smith
Miss
Farce of law over fishing bait case in Ohio
Ohio state senator calls the Division of Wildlife action ludicrous as five agents investigated Jeff Gyde, an 11-year-old boy selling bait from his parents’ yard. The case, involving four dollars and fifty cents in sales, was dismissed in court.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPI
Ohio Division of Wildlife
Division of Wildlife
Clinton
Battenkill Grange Elects Officers At Arlington Meeting
At the Battenkill Grange regular session in Arlington last Wednesday, officers were re elected and new officers chosen including Lady Assistant Steward Gayle Paustian Cees Florence Woltman Leturer Irene Novotny. Committees formed in Home Economics Youth Center M I and Social. A demit for Ethel Viault granted a five dollar contribution to the Contestant Fund. Pomona Grange to meet Sept 14 for officer election with a harvest supper planned for Sept 15 at 6 30 p.m.
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Arlington
Battenkill Grange
Roy Crofut
John Williams
William Kilmartin
Mike Hayes
Chaplan
Sarah Wiliams
Mabel Crofut
Belle Decker
Gate Keeser
Leslie Waltman
Pomona
Mildred Kilmartin
Flora
Ruth Stearns
George Novotny
Piarist
Doris Wright
Audita
Dorothy %Utkin
Gayle Paustian
Cees
Florence Woltman
Leturer
Irene Novotny
Friends of Hildene plan meeting in Manchester
Friends of Hildene a newly incorporated group to save the Hildene estate built by Robert Todd Lincoln will meet at the Manchester town office Wednesday Sept 8 at 7 30 p m The public is invited Members unable to attend may join by sending 5 dues to Robert Thum Dorset Vt 05251 President Robert Schmid announced the group has filed tax exemption papers Officers listed include Schmid Hill Thum and several others
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Manchester
Friends of Hildene
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Thum
Dorset
Robert Schmid
Schmid
Susan Hill
Kenneth Hill
Oscar Johnson
Romi Perkins
Carl Saladino
Manhasset
L.I
John West
Willian Whit
E Friends of
BRSU Enrollment Declines Across Vermont Districts
Enrollment across the Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union and nearby towns fell from 1194 last year to 1157 on the first day of school, reflecting a national birth-rate decline since the early 1970s. Manchester and West Pawlet show steep drops. totals for 1974 were 1242 and 1237 respectively, with several towns noting minor changes as the school year begins.
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Manchester
Bennington- Rutland Supervisory Union
Edward F. Houlihan
Houlihan
West Pawlet
Dorset
Pawlet
Rupert
West Rupert
Sunderland
Currier
Danby
Community Attic Sale at Park-McCullough House
The second annual Community Attic Sale takes place next Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Park-McCullough House with $10 15 foot spaces along the driveway. Items sold include furniture jewelry fur coats toys and Oriental artifacts. Donations are tax deductible and a rain date is Sept 12. For details contact Marie Baldwin at 442-5207 or the Park-McCullough House at 442-2747.
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Park- McCullough House
Park-McCullough Association
Big House
Marie Baldwin
Park-McCullough
Manchester NH teachers strike halts first day of class
Manchester public schools opened with no classes as teachers walked out in a six month pay dispute. MEA demanded higher pay, talks with a mediator failed, and city officials offered limited sums delaying the start to protect student safety. Governor Thomson offered state aid to resolve the strike.
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Manchester
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire
Manchester Education Association
Charles Stanton
MEA
Albert Lemerises
MBA
Henry McLaughlin
Meldrim Thomson
Thomson
Private Vermont schools win state board approval
Two private schools, the Long Trail School of Dorset and the Stratton Mountain School of Stratton, were approved by the Vermont State Board of Education on the Dept. of Education recommendation this week. The Long Trail School was approved for July 1, 1976 through June 30, 1979 and Stratton Mountain School for July 1, 1976 through June 30, 1981.
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Long Trail School
Dorset
Stratton Mountain School
Stratton
Vermont
Vermont jail system near capacity prompts expansion plan
Vermont Deputy Corrections Commissioner Cornelius Hogan says the jail system is chronically overcrowded and within one or two beds of capacity. He notes a 21 percent rise in inmates over two years and blames harsher sentences. a 10-year plan to replace two of four centers and enlarge a third is proposed, with an immediate $3 million to replace the Rutland center.
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Rutland
Vermont predicts harvest of 850000 bushels of apples
UPI reports Vermont fruit experts forecast an apple harvest this fall of about 850000 bushels, below the normal one million. University of Vermont fruit specialist Joseph Constante said the crop is very good and the apples are excellent in color due to cool weather. Picking begins about 10 days earlier than last year.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
University of Vermont
Joseph Constante
Constante
Vermont appoints Paul Hudson as chief of Criminal Justice Division
M Jerome Diamond announced the appointment of Assistant Attorney General Paul Hudson of Waterbury as chief of the Criminal Justice Division. Hudson has one year as AAG, four years in Windsor County state's attorney’s office, and was a partner in Mahady and Hudson in White River Junction. He is a University of Maine Law School graduate and succeeds Raymond Betts Jr., who moved to Texas.
Barre Judge postpones ruling on Mayo assault dismissal
District Judge Charles Bristow postponed ruling on a defense motion to drop the aggravated assault charge against Washington County Sheriff Malcolm Mayo arising from a July 1974 Barre bar fight. The judge did not set a new date for further hearings. Mayo had faced impeachment charges earlier that year not connected to the Barre incident.
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Senate
Mayo
House
Barre
Burlington Man Dies After Tree Cutting Accident Near Home
Clement Sears 54 of North Ferrisburg died in Burlington after a freak accident while cutting a tree. He was hit by a branch and knocked down as part of the tree fell on him. He died at a local hospital from chest injuries.
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Burlington
UPI
Clement Sears
North Ferrisburg
Sears
New York Corrections chief fires top prison investigator
In Albany Stephen J. Chinlund dismissed Scott Christianson the Corrections Commission's lead prison inspector citing his independent stance and distrust of leadership Christianson had long criticized prison conditions calling Attica a powder keg and says the firing is part of a purge He plans to appeal Miner barred from seeking re election on Conservative ticket in a forged signatures case and will appeal Proskin challenged the result in court
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Albany
State Commission On Corrections
Scott Christianson
Stephen J. Chinlund
Christianson
Chinlund
Attica
Corrections Commission
New York
Supreme Court
Roger Miner
Howard Nolan
Miner
Nolan
Arnold Proskin
Mt. Washington Seeks First Fulltime Policeman
Berkshire County town Mt. Washington with 78 residents launched a search for its first fulltime police officer after a rise in housebreaks and higher automobile traffic, officials said.
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MT. Washington
Berkshire County
Radiologists Seek Independent Practice After Hospital Split
Radiologists negotiate departure from Pittsfield Hospital to form their own corporation mirroring the anesthesia department’s earlier move. Hospital officials say the national trend will raise doctors fees and overall health care costs for consumers.
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Pittsfield
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