Montgomery O ks apartments and shop center on Rt 17K
A 260 unit garden apartment project with a 110 acre shopping center will rise next spring on Rt 17K in the Chambers property area. Wallkill Valley Construction led by Matthew Fasolino is the developer. Mayor LeRoy Chase cast the tie breaking vote approving the plan as the village board also moved to seek federal funds to double water storage capacity. Atty James Hadaway will draft the funding application with urban beautification funds potentially covering up to 75 percent of village improvements. The board also set street plans and scheduled a teen dance on Clinton Street in front of the firehouse with Peter Sunshine and his orchestra.
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Montgomery
Chambers
Edward Devitt
Wallkill Valley Construction
Matthew Fasolino
Huguenot Street
New Paltz
LeRoy Chase
Chase
James Hadaway
Goshen
Clinton ‘Street
Muse
Peter Sunshine
Biafra teen drive widens in Orange County effort
Bruce Earle reports a teen age relief drive for starving Biafran children expanding from two Gisville girls to Orange County on Tuesday. Neil Waldron, 15, of Sterling Forest, and youth groups from Newburgh and Monroe volunteer. Waldron will begin Thursday in Tuxedo South fields and Sterling Forest area, aided by Rev. David W. Jenks, with more supporters hoped.
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Sbiafran
Gisville
Orange County
Sterling Forest Boy
Newburgh
Monroe
Neil Waldron
Monroe-Woodbury Central School
Tuxedo
Southfields
Sterling Forest
Neil
Robert Waldron
Clinton Woods
Nell
David W. Jenks
Lower Ridge
Nancy
Dow
Youth For Burkhardt
Chester Town to extend highway supt term and raise fees
Chester Town Board votes to hold four public hearings on Memmelaar’s bid to extend the highway superintendent’s term from two to four years. Hearings Aug 19 and Sept 3 set. plan to adopt local law for voter approval in November 1969. Proposals include subdivision rule changes, higher building permit fees, and permit time limits.
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Chester
Jack Memmelaar
Memmelaar
John P. Braghird
John Feliner
State Water Resources Commission
Walton Lake Estates
Surrey Meadow Homes
Middletown youths plan clambake drive for funds
A.J. Ryan promotes a Middletown Police Department Clambake at City Hall with door to door fund drive starting Thursday. Otisville girls Nancy Decker and Debbie Green run a food sale, car wash and fundraising party with a band at Kenyen Swimming Club and seek support from Youth for Downtown Newburgh and Monroe groups. Funds go to United Presbyterian Central Receiving Agency in New York.
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A.J. Ryan
Jerome Markovits
Middletown
Neil
Otisville
Nancy Decker
Debbie Green
Main Street
Nancy
Otisville Area
Kenyen
Debbie
Lore Lingerie Factory
Pat Love
Paul O. Boger
Mount Hope Presbyterian Church
United Presbyterian Central Receiving Agency
New York
Goshen school taxpayers win cut on district budget transfer
Goshen school board moved about 30000 dollars from the 1967 68 surplus to the 1968 69 budget reducing the tax raise to about 1 202 037 dollars per thousand true value by roughly six cents. Taxpayers in Goshen Chester and Warwick towns would pay less than estimated while Hamptonburgh sees an increase due to a changed state equalization rate. The board also plans to meet with contractors on the new middle school to speed construction, with a September completion target.
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Goshen
Donald E. Gray
Gray
Chester
Warwick
Hamptonburgh
Charles V. Stiller
Mines strike bridge southwest of Saigon as Marines hunt VC
UPI reports Communist mines on floating rafts shattered a bridge southwest of Saigon, cutting the main route into the capital. Marines and U.S. air cavalrymen pressed operations against Viet Cong units. 41 enemy deaths noted, Allied casualties described as light.
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Saigon
UPI
Mekong Delta
U.S
Oriental
An Sea Amnile
U Minh Forest
Quang Nam
da Nang
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Montgomery Oks
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Biafra
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Lovann
Chester’s Road
Doortown
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