Abt weighs $250 water law fines
Middletown Public Works Commissioner Kenneth B. Abt plans to seek a $250 penalty for violators of city water regulations at the next common council meeting on July 5. He cites too many residents ignoring the current $5 or $10 penalties and overuse of sprinklers during the allowed hour. Abt compares the issue to past highway litter control and urges constant public awareness and stricter conservation measures amid lower reservoir levels.
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Middletown
Public Works
Kenneth B. Abt
Abt
Abr
Petition Opposes Kensel Road Wallkill Landfill
A petition with over 100 residents opposes designating the Kensel Road Maples area as a landfill site. The Wallkill Town Board will hear Middletown Mayor Botens on water issues and discuss Tarbell Road maintenance costs and a temporary sewerage plant at Scotawood, plus town employee examinations.
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Silver Lake
Kensel Road
Maples
Wallkill
Paul Crane
Middletown
John N. Botens
Middletown-Wallkill
van Burenville Road
Fair Oaks Road
Keasel Road
Tarbell Road
Silver Lake Mechanicstown
Narrow Escape For Port Jervis Man In Car Wreck
Robert A. Billman of Port Jervis narrowly escaped serious injury when his car left a curve at Wawayanda Avenue and Place. A guard rail pipe smashed through the windshield, missing him by inches after he says another car forced him off the road. Middletown Patrolman Walter P. Pengel aided him from the wreck as the city had just approved 4000 dollars to straighten the curve amid prior accidents.
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Robert A. Billman
Port Jervis
Middletown
Walter P. Pengel
Wawayanda Avenue
Wawayanda Place
Billman
Mulberry Street School to close as city buys site
The 57 year old Mulberry Street School will close after today’s sessions to allow sale to the city for urban renewal. Officials say the exact sale date and appraisal remain undetermined though the board budget assumes proceeds in 1965-66. Students and staff are reassigned to nearby Memorial and Academy avenues schools.
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Middletown
Board of Education
Mulberry Street
Richard B. Roth
Academy Avenue
Memorial Schools
Memorial School
Library appoints Sumner F White as assistant director
Sumner F White of Goshen is named assistant director of the Ramapo Catskill Library System in Middletown, succeeding former assistant director Eleanor Harris who became director in May. White has served as a consultant since 1963 and previously worked at East Orange Public Library after Detroit Public Library and before that. He is a Boston University graduate with a Simmons College master's in library science and is married with three school age children. Robert Cohen of Ulster County was elected to fill an unexpired term on the system board left by Anthony Percoco. Cohen works for the New York State Department of Labor in Newburgh. his wife Phyi lig briefly assisted in the system. The Ramapo Catskill system serves 45 libraries across Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, and Rockland Counties.
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Middletown
Sumner F. White
Goshen
Ramapo Catskill Library System
Eleanor Harris
White
East Orange
N.J
Detroit Public Library
Boston University
Simmons College School of Library Science
Library System
Robert Cohen
Greenfield Park
Ulster County
Anthony Percoco
Ellenville
Cohen
New York State Department of Labor
Newburgh
Phyilig
Four teachers named to Headstart program in Middletown
Richard Grimm, head of Project Headstart in Middletown, selects four teachers for an eight week course to aid underprivileged preschoolers. From Middletown are Elsie Genegal Liberty Street School Tracy Thayer Mechanicstown School Carolyn Kip Goshen Elementary Rosemary Kettman Batavia NY. Training begins Monday at Rochambeau School White Plains sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. Middletown received $14,500 in federal Headstart funds in May.
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Middletown
Richard Grimm
Elsie’Genegal
Liberty Street
Carolyn Kip
Goshen Elementary
Rosemary Kettman
Batavia, N.Y
Grimm
Rochambean School
White Plains
Federal Office ‘of Economic Opportunity
Driver Sues Middletown Over Gas Station Catch Basin Snag
George H. Wood of 105 N Beacon Middletown sues the city for 25 dollars after a protruding angle iron on a catch basin at 125 127 Main St Middletown snagged his car last May. His attorney served notice to the city on Tuesday.
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George H. Wood
Beacon
Middletown
Wood
Main St
George Woods
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Mike Lee
Mulberry Street School
Helen Bloom
Roth
Jacob Gunther
Robert N. Duffus, Jr
Ramapo Catskill System
Orange
Sullivan
Ulster
Rockland
Sumner F, White
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