Pike and Sullivan counties battle gypsy moth spraying
Pike County has completed its 1978 chemical war against gypsy moth with 14 000 acres sprayed and evaluation due this week weather permitting. In Sullivan County rain halted spraying and officials expect continuation. Pennsylvania’s program covered Delaware Lehman Porter and Blooming Grove Townships using Dylox to control larvae at 3.87 per acre funded by federal state county and local sources. About 250 000 acres affected. predatory insects considered later. most land privately owned. few complaints about environmental impact.
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Pike County
Sullivan County
State Department of Environmental Conservation
DEC
Earl C. Wixson
Catskill
Pennsylvania
Paul Szabara
Pa. Department of Environmental Resources
Cochecton
Suffolk County
Wixson
Greater New York
Szbara
Szabara
Newburgh Chamber Plans 1976 Bicentennial Redevelopment
The Greater Newburgh Chamber of Commerce outlines a pedestrian oriented bicentennial project for Washington Headquarters area. Plans include marine and railroad museums, a docked ferry, parks, a walkable mall, amphitheatre and renewed East End streets. Funding and land acquisition hurdles loom as DOT plans and a junkyard site complicate progress.
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Ron Rosenberg
Newburgh
Greater Newburgh
Johnson Street
Ann and William Streets
New York
Hancock Little Calvert Inc
Chamber
Raymond Ruge
Barry Benape
Water Street
Hudson
Ann Street
Federal Street
Broadway
Newburgh Public Safety Building
Grand and
Colden Streets
William E. Lockwood
Benepe
Lake Street
Washington Headquarters
Lockwood
Liberty and
Ann Streets
IBEW
Musum
Consolidated Iron and Metal Co
Kingston
Orange County
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
New Windsor
Know
Special Athletics Olympia honors two Crystal Run students
Vicki O'Brien a coach at Crystal Run Camp and School presents a gold medal to George Stangle as Scott Parker looks on. The boys won their medals at the Special Athletics Olympia of New York in Cortland, sponsored by the Joseph Kennedy Jr. Foundation, the New York State Jaycees, and The New York State Association of Teachers of the Mentally Handicapped. Scott won the softball throw and George the 25 yard freestyle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicki O'Brien
Crystal Run Camp
George Stangle
Scott Parker
New York
Cortland
Joseph
Bank merger fight prompts independent bid for board
Middletown realtor and stockholder Carl Barmann will run as an opposition candidate for Empire National Bank’s board, decrying the merger as risky to local identity and shareholder value. He notes a 10-9 merger vote split and questions why dividends would drop under the proposed exchange with Financial General Bankshares.
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Carl Barmann
Middletown
Barmann
Peopl
Schmidt and
Payne
Spring Valley
Schmidt
Empire National
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Pike
Sullivan Counties
Mike Carey
Financial General
Financial General Bankshares
States
District of Columbia
Virgin Islands
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