Letchworth patients move to Middletown State Hospital next week
The first of 144 mentally retarded adults from Letchworth Village will travel 40 miles to Middletown State Hospital on June 15 to begin a newly created unit with 104 staff. The move aims to relieve crowding and upgrade care, funded by a $12.4 million state appropriation, with more transfers planned across Harlem Valley and Creedmoor facilities.
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Mary Anne McEnery
Middletown
Letchworth Village
Middletown State Hospital
MSH
Harold Wolfe
State Department of Mental Hygiene
Albany
Wolfe
Thiells
Rockland County
Letchworth
Harlem Valley Hospital
Dutchess County
Creedmoor State Hospital
Queens
Frederic Grunberg
Amore del Guidice
West Group
Sullivan County
Wassaic State School
Harlem Valley State Hospital
Wingdale
Willowbrook State School
Staten Island
Harlem Valley
Willowbrook
Students Helped Pack 160 Glasses for Lions Club
Newburgh South Junior High students assisted in sorting packing 160 glasses for the Newburgh Lions Club sight conservation program. Pictured from left are Antoinette Caronia, 14, and Colette Dumas, 15. TH-Record photo.
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Newburgh South
Newburgh Lions Club
Antoinette Caronia
Colette Dumas
Ellenville petition protests low income housing location
Bill Lowry reports a Monday night petition to Ellenville's village board opposing a 40 unit low income housing site on Eaton Court. residents near Eaton Court and Maple Avenue allege unfairness and potential property loss while disputes over land ownership and votes surface amid claims of racial considerations and ties to local landowners.
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Ellenville
Eaton Court
Harry Kass
Maple Avenue
Kass
Brodhead
Canal Streets
Harold Lonstein
Housing Authority
Ben Lonstein
David Kramer
Kramer
Louis Berger
Eaton Court Land
Berger
HUD
Department of Housing and Urban Development
State Department of Highways
Rt. 52
Liberty board hires teachers for 1972 73 school year
The Liberty Central School Board of Education announced the hiring of two new elementary grade teachers a speech therapist and a guidance counselor for 1972 73 Mrs Linda Corrado will teach elementary art and is a Liberty BOCES staff member Gloria Orseck will be the new first grade teacher replacing the retiring Lillian a new speech therapist is Selma Cramer also a BOCES staffer and the guidance counselor is Mary Kaiser a Minisink Valley and Monticello alumna with a masters from SUNY Albany Marion Mascola will resign as sixth grade teacher effective June and Alice McCoso will join as teachers’ assistant
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Liberty
Liberty Central School Board of Education
Linda Corrado
Selma Cramer
BOCES
Mary Kaiser
Minisink Valley
Monticello
Kaiser
St. Rose College
Albany
State University of New York
Marion’ Mascola
Alice McCoso
Seniman
Mamakating OKs shanties amid health hazards dispute
The Mamakating Town Board voted 3-2 to allow continued rental of 12 heatless shanties at Camp Hemlock despite state health department concerns. Owned by Charles Tarrow, the shacks are described as in “unbelievably bad condition” with open cesspools. Two new families move in soon as dispute widens between board members and local officials.
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Wurtsboro
Mamakating
Camp Hemlock
Bloomingburg
Burlingham
State Health Department
Dennis Greenwald
Charles Tarrow
Middletown
Greenwald
Tarrow
Robert J. Bronner
Sullivan County Welfare Department
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del Guidice
Orange County
Benjamin A. Gilman
R-95
GOP
26Th
Gilman
Bill Lowry
Kass-Lonstein
Authority
Lonstein
Liberty Board
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