Ellen Bindman memorial established in Engewood NJ
The Englewood New Jersey Board of Education approved the Ellen Bindman Memorial Fund to honor the late teacher Ellen Bindman until her death in June. The first board donation was 2.00 from Mr. and Mrs. Bindman. The fund will sponsor an annual scholarship for students showing skill and promise in education, and Dwight Morrow High School library will be named the Ellen Bindman Memorial Library as a memorial to the popular teacher found dead at home.
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Engewood, N.J
Dwight Morrow High School
Ellen Bindma
Tacher
Soe
Walk for Hunger planned in Hoosick on Oct 5
A planning meeting for the Walk for Hunger reports 27 attendees from area churches schools and service clubs. The 10 mile walk through the west hills aims to raise funds for CROP and partner hunger relief groups with rest stops and transportation back. sponsors per mile support walkers.
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Community Hunger Appeal
Church World Service
CARE
Catholic Relief Service
American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee
West Hills
Hoosick
Morgan Parkhill
Marilyn Douglas
Lorraine Brownell
Clifford Gilson
Robert Sprunger
Hoosick Town Soil Mapping To Begin In September
The Rensselaer County Soil and Water Conservation District will start mapping soil in Hoosick in late September along the Hoosick Petersburg town line, led by Ralph Work of the U S Soil Conservation Service. SCS scientists Mark Silverman William Broad and Jerry Rosenberg will participate. Rosenberg and Broad map only until end of September, then reassigned. Mapping aims at about 8000 acres, roughly 20 percent of Hoosick, continuing into spring and finishing by mid 1976 if weather permits.
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Hoosick
Siverman
Work
Ralph Work
Rensselaer County
Soil Conservation Service
Nyne
HFCS enrollment drops deepen state aid erosion
At the Toeday night board meeting enrollment fell 32 in elementary and five in high school from 799 to 794, with kindergarten classes shrinking yearly. Six year trends show elementary down from 1002 to 931 while overall enrollment rose to 1783 in 1972 before settling at 1725. The district cites no new residents and declining births as causes, prompting budget cuts including not replacing a first grade teacher and reallocating services.
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Board of Education
Leonard
Margaret Myers
Hoosick
Diane Scott
New York City
Petersburg
Rensselaer County Manpower Development Act
Lake George
Rochester
New York
Hawk Watch Sets Vermont Records For Hawks And Eagles
The first day of the Hawk Watch at Gile Mountain near Norwich and Lucy's Lookout in Barnard produced record counts with 463 broadwing hawks at Gile Mountain and over 300 at Barnard. Observers logged numerous other species, including sharp-shinned, cooper's hawks, ospreys, redtails, and a Swainson's hawk. Eagles were sighted near Ascutney, described as “statues” in flight.
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Woodstock
Gile Mountain
Norwich
Lucy’s Lookout
Barnard
Barnard Lookout
George Ellison
Great Plains
Wesley Fletcher
Linc Prescott
Brian Fletcher
Ascutney
Vermont
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Woodstock Union High School
Salmon backs Ristau as Vermont Transportation head
Gov. Thomas Salmon intends to stand behind his appointment of Arthur Ristau to lead Vermont's newly formed Transportation Agency, despite Senate confirmation doubts from Sen. Thomas Crowley and Republican senators. Aides say there is no plan to withdraw the nomination as discussions continue. In Maine, Maine Central Railroad won ICC approval to abandon the Beecher Falls Branch, with talks planned to sell the 58 mile line to Vermont and New Hampshire within 60 days amid mounting interstate commerce concerns.
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John Gray
Portland, Maine
UPI
Maine Central Railroad Co
Beecher Falls
New Hampshire
Vermont
Interstate Commerce Commission
Maine Central
ICC
Ethan Allen Furniture Company
Vermont House panel weighs 3 to 4 percent sales tax increase
The Ways and Means Committee opened talks on Gov. Salmon's plan to raise the sales tax to four percent. House Appropriations Chair Emory Hebard called Salmon's Sept. 29 special session call premature and urged six months of fiscal review. He may push bills to bar impounding funds. Salmon warned he would impound education aid if the tax rise fails.
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Salmon
Burlington Detective Faces Review Over Assault Conviction
Burlington police commission will rule next week on veteran detective Harold Miles after his $150 fine in Vermont District Court for assaulting a teen in custody. Miles, suspended since May 5, faces charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and possible demotion or dismissal after a closed hour review, with a decision expected soon.
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Burlington
UPI
Harold Miles
Miles
Vermont
New York Teachers Face Injunctions as Strikes Continue
In South Colonie preliminary injunction papers were served against striking teachers. James Stolis, former association president, warned defiance of the injunction. Schenectady’s 13th day of strike saw 12 teachers found guilty of criminal contempt for disobeying two court orders. A union spokesman said picketing would likely continue until a deal is reached. Ballston Spa plans action Friday if progress stalls.
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South Colonie
James Stolis
Teachers’ Association
Schenectady
State Supreme Court
William Crangle
Ballston Spa
Republicans gather in Albany to plan 1976 strategy
About 40 Republican county chairmen and state leaders met at the Thruway Hyatt House in Albany to map 1976 campaign strategy. Charles S. Peckham of the national committee said the closed session focused on voter registration drives from September 27 to October 6 across counties, with the strongest impact expected locally where a few hundred votes can decide races.
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Albany
Thruway Hyatt House
Charles S. Peckham
National Committee
Peckham
Youngest Berkshire police chief named in New Marlborough
Berkshire County tale pairs the appointment of 21-year-old James H. Small Jr. as New Marlborough police chief with a history of quick turnover as prior chiefs left amid salary and equipment disputes. Small, a Sheffield native, holds a degree in law enforcement administration from the University of New Haven and must relocate within 90 days while earning 3.15 dollars per hour plus 12 cents a mile. the town currently has no cruiser. In Pittsfield, Cadwell murder case takes a turn as the defendant’s mother, Judith Gerwaski, pleads guilty to being an accessory to manslaughter in the January death of Walter Gerwaski III, saying Cadwell disciplined the boy with a paddle and rusty chain while she lived with him.
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New Marlborough
Berkshire County
Commonwealth
James H. Small Jr
Sheffield
Terrance A. Johnson
R. Gordon Taggart
Small
University of New Haven
Pittsfield
Calvin T. Cadwell
Walter Gerwaski III
Judith P. Gerwaski
Walter H. McLaughlin
Cal
Cadwell
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Ellen Bindman
HFCS
Bragdon
Snakes of Vermont
Dennis Gemmell
Castleton State College
Church Hill Road
Pownal
Pamela Blakeman
Pownal Center
A Daniel Mason Sr
Jim Lounsbery
Ellen Lillie
Mason
Lounsberry
Frances Lampman
John Armstrong
Fran Armstrong
Harriet Beals
Howard Black
Andrea Bowen
Harold Hicks
Mildred Hicks
Marcelle Langlois
Margaret Lillie
Dorset
Clair A. Edgerton
Lean Edgerton
Route 30
Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Fort Knox
University of Vermont
Chittenden
Chittenden Savings Certificates
F.d.1.c
Chittenden Savings
Yi Tie
Main ST
Bennington
Crocidus
Roberts
Ristau
Down In
Berkshire
Mrs. Gerwaski
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