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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1976
Page
2
Residents and rescue officials report repeated crashes at the Dublin bridge curve on Routes 22 and 67 in North Hoosick. Officials say the state plans to bank the road rather than straighten the turn, drawing criticism from local volunteers and residents.
The Hoosick Falls Village Board voted to protest a fuel oil sales tax to Gov. Carey and Assemblyman Solomon. They adopted local bicycle and Waldron Avenue parking rules set to expire, discussed lunch-hour clerk access before taxes, and considered laying off highway workers to fund summer help. They rejected a 15 mph residential speed limit, approved a new dump truck specification, and authorized a pH meter for the sewage plant. Trustee Marilyn Douglas reported progress toward cable TV for the area.
Falls Health Center nears state certification as 8 a.m. accident on Route 22 leaves 16 year old Thomas Slattery dead and two 15 year old passengers injured. Deputies say the youths were rushed to Columbia Memorial Hospital with arm and leg injuries. Regina Dibble notes the ceiling work is complete and an engineer may visit for inspection. The Christ mas ball of the Albany Inter-racial Council will be held Dec a. Proceeds aid Arbor Hill Community Center.
Cambridge Central School presents the annual Winter Concert in the school auditorium. The Junior Band directed by Barwood Strobeck performs The Twelve Days of Christmas Angelicus Feelings A Hundred Pipers and Come Emmanuel. The Senior Band offers Christmas Festival Terpsichore Suite Greensleeves The Liberty Bell March and Sonata Piano and Forte. Admission is free.
The exiled writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and family settled near Cavendish Vermont on a permanent U S visa. Town officials report heavy media interest but limited details as neighbors describe a private gradual integration into the small New England town.
Charmaine D. Brownell 47 of Buskirk died at Mary McClellan Hospital after a one vehicle crash on Route 59 in Cambridge. Her husband Roland 44 was hospitalized with multiple injuries including broken hips facial bones and arm as deputies investigate the early morning accident.
Mrs Hugh Dorr of Hoosick Falls becomes president of the Cambridge-area Branch Woman's National Farm and Garden Association. She led the meeting and installed officers including Mrs Maurice Oleson and Mrs Joseph Myers. Luncheon card party planned Jan 13 at Johnsonville Firehouse to benefit scholarship funds with Elsie Button and Catherine Hoag cochairing. An international silver tag sale is set Feb 13 at 2 pm in Cambridge United Presbyterian Church under Laura Dunbar.
The Assumption Church parishioners mainly Italian oppose merging with St. Paul’s Irish parish aided by Augustinian Fathers. Tensions trace back to early 1800s arrivals, discrimination, and school access. Residents worry about losing ethnic identity and local control while some see unity as saving their church financially.
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