Deeds, wages, zoning, vaccines

The following excerpts from The Millerton News were compiled by Kathleen Spahn and Rhiannon Leo-Jameson of the North East-Millerton Library.

October 11, 1934

A deed dated July 10, 1720, was found Saturday in the files of County Clerk Frederic A. Smith’s office while workmen were removing old filing cabinets in connection with remodeling of the office.

Drawn on heavy paper resembling sheepskin in texture and thickness, the deed is three feet wide and five feet long. Written with pen and ink, it is unusually legible considering its age.

Grange Contemplates Appeal To State TERA For Revision Of Wages

A meeting of the Dutchess County Pomona Grange tax committee held at the Washington Grange Hall, Millbrook, Saturday night may result in an appeal by the county Grange to the New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration for a revision of the regulations governing prevailing wage scales in rural sections. Following an explanation of the rules by Harold R. Dean. executive director of the Dutchess TERA, and other county TERA officials, members of the Grange committee criticized the lack of farmers representative on the county prevailing wage rate committee and decided to lodge a protest with the state administration.

Millerton Graduate On Honor List

William Pulver, 1934, Valedictorian, Eighteenth In Scholarship Group

By F. E. Wood, Principal

William Pulver, the valedictorian of the 1934 graduating class of Millerton High School, has just been informed by the State Department of Education that he stood eighteenth on the list of scholarship pupils, thus placing him in the second list of ten for Dutchess County.

Students Exempt

As another innovation we are going to exempt in the high school from final examinations students who have an average of 85 per cent for the five marks in the six weeks tests.

October 9, 1975

Restaurant Gets Go-Ahead From Town Zoning Board

The North East Zoning Board of Appeals has okayed a request for site plan approval for a restaurant to be opened on the north side of Route 44 in Millerton, owned by Robert and Joseph Trotta III.

Ray and Alta Decker have requested a special permit to build a 50-unit trailer park on Route 22, north of Millerton, opposite Suburban Propane. The Planning Board recommended approval. At the Zoning Board’s Public Hearing, some 10 residents who live near the area of the proposed trailer park spoke against the issuance of a permit.

Immunization Action

Governor Carey has designated October as “Immunization Action Month” in a proclamation cautioning parents that 1 out of 5 New York children entering school for the first time in September “was not fully immunized against the most serious of the childhood communicable diseases.”

October 12, 2000

NE Library Latest Recipient Of Saperstein’s Largess

Choking back tears amid a flood of recollections, a group of the couple’s closest friends and relatives gathered Saturday afternoon at the North East-Millerton Library to celebrate the generosity of the late Irving and Shirley Saperstein.

The occasion was the dedication of the library’s children’s room to Mr. and Mrs. Saperstein. The Sapersteins’ daughter Susan Rabin recently gave the library a piece of land from the Saperstein estate. The land will eventually be sold to benefit the library and its children’s programs.