Roosevelt, potatoes, opposition to charter school

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

November 15, 1934

Congratulated by President Roosevelt

LAKEVILLE — Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cleaveland are the proud possessors of a letter from President Roosevelt extending his heartiest congratulations and best wishes to them upon their golden wedding anniversary which they observed Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Cleaveland celebrated the occasion at “The Pines,” the home of Mr. Cleaveland’s sisters, where they were visited by many relatives and friends and also received many other congratulatory notes.

Return from hunting trip with three deer

A party of Millerton sportsmen returned Sunday night after a ten days’ hunting trip at Golden Beach and Racquette Lake, bringing home with them one spike horn buck, a four-point buck and a five-point buck. In the group were Ronald J. Silvernale, Yorke S. Blanchard, Henry Penchoen, of Brooklyn, Robert Fenn, Hulet Silvernail, Oliver W. Valentine and Raymond Van De Bogart.

Theft of potatoes reported by Wathley

George Wathley has reported the theft of twelve bushels of potatoes from a barn on his property, formerly known as the Stephen Mills farm. In revealing the theft, Mr. Wathley intimated that the identity of the person who stole the potatoes was known.

Escape from jail possible, report says

In a report on the Dutchess County jail, the State Department of Correction last week warned that the grille-work or shut-off at the main entrance corridor of the jail be relocated in order to prevent possible escapes. Three prisoners already have broken out of the county’s so-called “escape-proof jail.” Although it approved the plans for the jail and later stamped its O.K. on the jail when completed, the Correction Department explained that it had “overlooked the possibility of escapes through the offices adjoining the entrance corridor.”

November 6, 1975

Sharon Artist Big Winner

At the stroke of midnight Oct. 15 Alderson Magee of Sharon would have been ineligible to enter the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting stamp contest.

Magee, however, finished his design at 10 p.m. on the eve of the deadline date, hustled to a post office in Hartford, arriving 20 minutes before midnight, and got the necessary Oct. 15 postmark.

November 9, 2000

HVCS Puts Flyers on Cars: Webutuck, Dover SDs Slam Charter School

WEBUTUCK - A partisan crowd of about 75 people packed the Webutuck High School auditorium Monday to denounce a proposal to create a charter school in Amenia.

But members of the proposed Harlem Valley Charter School board (HVCS) were nowhere to be found opting instead to place pro-charter school flyers on the windshields of audience members during the hearing.

One audience member wanted to know how to ask questions of the HVCS board members.

“You can always put a note on their car,” cracked another audience member.