Referendum on Area Vocational and Special Ed Center Set
Residents from twelve districts in Tompkins Seneca and Tioga Counties vote April 17 on a central facility for vocational training for high school students, education of severely handicapped children, and adult continuing education. Polls open 2 to 9 pm. Vote to authorize BOCES to lease with Dormitory Authority of NY to construct a regional vocational special education school at estimated cost not to exceed. A special notice with voter info and polling places is mailed this week.
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Ithaca
Tompkins
Seneca
Tioga
Board of Cooperative Educational Services
BOCES
State of
New York
J. Victor, Bagnardi
Petitions OK and Field Trip Planned for May Referendum
State Education Department inspectors checked Ovid Interlaken petition signers and found them in order. A public referendum date is expected in early May and a merger committee plan a visit to Southern Cayuga School in late April to review outcomes, with transportation provided for interested voters.
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State Education Department
Ovid- Interlaken
Cayuga
Merchants Close Friday for Good Friday Service
Notice states TRUMANSBURG merchants will close Friday April 12 from 1 to 2 p.m. In cooperation with the Council of Churches a community Good Friday service will be held at the Church of Epiphany on Elm Street.
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Trumansburg
Council of Churches
Elm St
W F W Post 6200 Unveils New Charter at Ovid
At a regular meeting the Arthur G. Depew Post 6200 Veterans of Foreign Wars presented its new charter. Formerly Willard Post, it traces back 22 years to founding members who started in a Willard school room and later moved to a Willard home in 1948.
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Ovid
Arthur G. Depew
Willard Post
Willard School
Willard
Rhode-Covert Funeral Service formed in Trumansburg
John W. Covert joins Samuel C. Rhode Jr. at Samuel Rhode Funeral Service, forming the Rhode Covert Funeral Service. Covert, resident of Ovid with wife Karen and two children, is a 1961 Ovid Central School graduate and 1966 Simmons Embalming graduate, honored with the Key Merit Award. The funeral home stays at Washington and McLaken Streets. Interlaken Office and other First National Bank of Waterloo locations close Good Friday noon to Monday after Easter 1968.
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Trumansburg
Samuel C. Rhode, Jr
Samuel Rhode
National Funeral Directors Assoc
Rhode-Covert Funeral Service
Washington and
McLaken Sts
Interlaken
First National Bank of Waterloo
Trumansburg Loses Dedicated Servant
Sgt Perry Preston 44 died at home on Searsburg Road after serving as Trumansburg police officer since 1966. He led juveniles toward safer choices, spoke against drinking and speed related deaths, and was praised by Mayor Newport and Sheriff Howard. Funeral held at First Federated Church Ulysses. burial Riverside Cemetery.
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Trumansburg
Perry Preston
Searsburg
Perry
Tru- Mansburg
Robert Newport
Preston
Tompkins County
Robert Howard
Sgt
Sheriff's Department
Owego
Union-Endicott High School
Navy
Schuyler County
Lodge #157
Order of de Molay
Janice Jamison
Johnson City
Robert
William
Patricia Preston
Eunice Moon
le Grand Preston
Groton
Federated Church of Ulysses
Earl Gross
Riverside Cemetery
Appala
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W.F.W. Post
V.F.W. Post
B. Gouchie
J. Kearns
B. Montford
C. Mollenkoph
Red Webh
Marvin Cuer
G. Pemberton
Red van Nostrand
J. Kopsa
Herb McCutcheon
William Foster
G. Slack
N. Barber
H. McCutcheon
Pemberton
John W. Covert
Rhode
Ness
Perrion Preston
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