Chester votes down budget and rejects merger plan
Chester voters rejected a 1.39 million school budget by 429 to 188 and elected two anti merger candidates to the school board. Trustees John Greco and Cyril Latimer won decisively, while President Arthur N. Paras warned of cuts and higher taxes if austerity is chosen, urging continued funding and repairs.
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Chester Chester
Arthur N. Paras
Chester
Goshen
John Greco
Cyril Latimer
Greco
Micael Monti
Latimer
Raymond Johanson
Chester League For Independent Schools
CLIS
Citizen's
Merg' Monte
Johanson
Committee For Better Education
Citizens
Paras
Parais
Michael Monte
T.R. Manna
Washingtonville approves 6.05 million budget with tax shift
Washingtonville residents backed a 6,049,038 budget by a 320 to 132 vote, an 8.2 percent increase over last year. The measure raises taxes about 50 cents per thousand true value, as district officials anticipate variable state and federal aid affecting the rate in Blooming Grove. Incumbent school board president Raymond A. Wood won re election.
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Washingtonville
Edward Docherty
Blooming Grove
Docherty
Teachers Association
Raymond A. Wood
Bement
Frank Bickel
Highlands Falls voters approve full 1971 72 budget and oust incumbent
Highland Falls residents pass all 10 budget propositions for the 1971 72 school year, approving a $2.8 million budget with a $6.80 per thousand tax increase, and elect C David Scott to a five year trustee term over L Robert Mulvaney. Scott, 39, a Fort Montgomery resident and Postal Service safety officer, succeeds the one term incumbent and will serve with four children.
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Highland Falls
C. David Scott
Fort Montgomery
L. Robert Mulvaney
Highlands
Jeanne
Scott
The
Postal Service
Warwick votes defeat 4.5 million school budget and library plan
Warwick voters narrowly rejected the proposed 4.5 million school budget by eight votes 494 to 486 and also defeated an expansion of the Albert Wisner Memorial Library 827 to 348. Rev Elwood P Mather won a Warwick Valley School Board seat 585 551 over Richard Fumanti.
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Warwick Warwick
Elwood P. Mather
Pine Island
Richard Fumanti
Sugar Loaf
Warwick Valley
Town of Chester
Warwick
Town of Warwick
Albert Wisner
Warwick Taxpayer’s Association
Rev. Mather
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Mather
Valley Central budget victory and bus plan defeat
Valley Central School District voters approved a 6.13 million dollar budget by a wide margin 879 to 495 with 1,415 of 2,225 eligible voters casting ballots. The bus partnership proposal to spend up to 105 thousand dollars failed 1,085 to 274 bringing the budget to 7.4 percent and an estimated tax rate of 19.38 per 1000. Incumbents Moran and Crist won or ran unopposed for school board seats with Encounters Norris Havens and Dawn Simmons facing opposition as Paul Engels won a third term.
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Montgomery
Valley Central
William F. Moran
Moran
Ida Ruscitti
Norris Havens
Dawn Simmons
Paul Engels
Samuel Segall
Edward Crist
Pine Bush approves budget and trustees race results
Pine Bush voters approved a 3.89 million dollar school budget by 496 to 386, with a 12 percent increase and a tentative tax rate of 17.50 per thousand. Kenneth S. Carmichael Jr. won the four way trustee race with 273 votes, over Frederick W. Schneider 233 John Czerniawski 195 and Adeline Ladd 133. Turnout rose to 870 from 698.
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Pine Bush
Frederick N. Bement
Henry Sudel
Kenneth S. Carmichael, Jr
Scotchtown
Circleville Engineering
Eustance and Horowitz
Frederick W. Schneider
John Czerniawski
Adeline Ladd
Carmichael
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Washingtonville Voters UK
Cragston High School
Charles Faulk
Warwick Schools
Isabelle Paddock
Minisink
Slate Hill
Minisink Valley
National Science Foundation
Peas
Biology Institute
University of Colorado
Johi
New York
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