Fire Chief Lee Lozier has announced that provisional fire captain Peter Lanteigne has passed the Civil Service promotional exam for captain. He is captain of Shift 2.
Justin Krumdick, son of Mary Jane and Jack Krumdick of Athol, recently won first place in the Junior men’s solo-freestyle clogging competition in Burlington, Vt. He has been dancing for three years.
Five Athol Police Officers have volunteered to participate in a new program that will increase the department’s presence in the downtown area this summer. The five officers will be patrolling on bicycle.
Three weeks after Athol-Orange TV’s first cablecasts began, AOTV Executive Director Carol Courville says she is “floored” by the degree of community interest in the new public access station.
Danielle Johnson, 7, of Orange, caught a 22-inch, five-pound two-ounce catfish at Silver Lake with her father Dan Johnson. Danielle, who has been fishing with her dad for a number of years, said this is the biggest fish she ever caught.
Mahar Middle School students recently participated in Nations of the World Night. Each student created an exhibit displaying costumes, maps, artifacts, homes, information and projects on a country. The grand prize was awarded to Brian Eno for his exhibit on Scotland. First runner up was awarded to Leah Tanner for her display on Greece.
Old turn-of-the-century photos showing townspeople gathered down at the Millers River for an afternoon of relaxation and boating may not be a thing of the past. In conjunction with their plans to breathe new life into downtown, the Orange Revitalization Partnership has plans that will bring back the attraction of the river, now that it has been pretty much cleaned up and is a pleasant place to be than a few decades ago. “We figure the river is the town’s greatest asset,” said Orange Revitalization Partnership coordinator Deborah Becker, “We want a park where it’s very green, a lot of grass, tables, rental canoes or boats.”
With hopes dimming, rescuers armed with tiny cameras and listening devices searched for survivors in the rubble of a bombed federal building in Oklahoma City. Two hundred people remained unaccounted for nearly 24 hours after a car bomb caused horrific destruction to the building. At the same time, more than 150 FBI agents were helping police search for the suspected terrorists.
Michael Zanga, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Zanga of Athol, is the winner of the 1970 YMCA Pussy Willow contest. He received a $5 gift certificate.
The Tadeusz M. Maciejewski family of Athol has been singled out for the “Outstanding Americanism” award presented by the Department of Massachusetts, American Legion.
Boys from each of the four Scout troops in Athol will assist in the conservation project for the Athol Shade Tree Commission. They will plant 40 trees in selected areas of the town. The varieties of trees to be planted are crimson red maple, sugar maple, columnar maple, linden, crab, locust, Washington hawthorne and mountain ash.
A “rake-in” on Lake Ellis is scheduled as part of the day long Environmental Teach-in at Athol High School. Participants will clean up weeds and litter in the cove that borders the west edge of the high school. John Pine, coordinator, describes the rake-in as “a start, a beginning toward involvement, a getting together for a common goal, the beginning of awareness.”
Trooper Steve Petrie, attached to the Athol State Police Barracks, is still hospitalized in Boston with injuries received in the recent Cambridge riot, according to his commanding officer, Sgt. Francis Murphy. Murphy said four men from the Athol barracks were among law enforcement officers on duty in Cambridge during the rioting.
The Athol Chapter, American Red Cross, received 860 pledges to support the current fund campaign.
In executive session, the study committee on the elementary school building problem, represented by William Schmick, chairman, told Orange selectmen the committee is exploring a previously considered plan to renovate the old Central School and a new plan to build an addition to the Dexter Park School.
Paris, France, was the destination of almost 70 Mahar Regional School honor society students and faculty members who lined up in front of a chartered bus bound for Logan Airport. The group will spend four days in France and three days in Switzerland. They will then return to Paris for services at Notre Dame Cathedral before busing to Orly Airport for the return trip to Boston.
The joyous peal of church bells in Gallup, N.M., heralded the safe return of Apollo 13’s astronauts. There were cheers on the stock exchange and ticker tape rained on Wall Street.
The first trout entered in the Daily News — YMCA Trout Fishing Contest was caught in Silver Lake by David Goupil, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Xavier Goupil of Athol. The fish entered is a brown trout 11.75 inches in length. The all-time record thus far has been set in by the entry of a 17.25-inch brown trout caught at the confluence of Millers River and Tully Brook by 8-year-old Daniel Varno, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Varno of Athol.
Pvt. Edward Louis Robichaud, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Robichaud of Athol, is pictured digging a foxhole in the woods near Rockenfell, Germany, during action as an infantryman of the U.S. First Army.
Mr. and Mrs. Wincenty Piepol, of Athol, have received a cablegram from their son, Vincent “Billy” Piepol, now stationed at an air base somewhere in England with the Eighth Air Force, telling of his promotion from lieutenant to captain. Capt. Piepol, pilot of a B-17, has been overseas since October and has completed his missions and is expected home soon.
Mrs. Anna Johnson of Athol, mother of Cpl. John D. Johnson, 21, paratrooper, who was reported missing in action in Germany on Dec. 27, has received a telegram from the War Department informing her that “following enemy propaganda broadcast from Germany, mentioned name of Cpl. John D. Johnson as a prisoner of war.”
Pfc. Stanwood R. Bailey, infantryman, of Athol, was “killed in action in Germany on March 28” according to War Department telegram received by his wife, the former Charlotte W. Day. Besides his wife, he leaves four children: Bruce, 8; Christine, 6; Stanwood, Jr., 3; Herbert, four months; two brothers and three sisters.
Cpl. A.A. Jardine, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. Artemus M. Jardine of Tully, was recently awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action against the enemy in the Pacific.
Pfc. Emerson Maynard, son of Mrs. Sadie Maynard of Orange, who has been a prisoner of war in Germany since the breakthrough of the American line last December was liberated on April 4 and expects to be home by the first of May, according to letters received by his mother.
Pfc. Edward R. Casari, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Casari of Orange, was killed in action March 29 on the island of Luzon, according to a telegram from the War Department which his parents received.