The Eagle January 21, 2016

EAGLE Vol. 36 No. 3 ~ JANUARY 21, 2016 HUGE CROWD ATTENDS MEETING ON HOOSICK FALLS WATER POLLUTION - SEE PAGES 16 & 17- State Bureaucrats Holding Up Licenses for “The Cambridge” Easton Man Perishes in Fiery Crash - SEE PAGE 2 - - SEE PAGE 11- Salem Students Repurpose Trash into Toys Sheriff’s Department Receives Accredidation from State Association - SEE PAGE 2- Postal Authorities Looking at Shushan Sites - SEE PAGE 13 - Royal Arch Masons of Greenwich Install 2016 Officers - SEE PAGE 19- Farmers Needed for County Ag Plan - SEE PAGE 3- I N D E X Local Headlines........................2, 3 Calendar...................................31 Poor Richards.............................6 Cambridge News...................8-11 Hoosick News.....................14-17 SALEM - The average American produces 4.5 pounds of garbage per day. If a person lives to be 80 years old that is 131,400 pounds of garbage in their lifetime! There are 314 million people in the United States and if everyone lives to be 80 years old that is a lot of garbage that has to be stored in landfills or incinerated. Amy Maxwell’s Environmental Science class at Salem Central School examined the issues surrounding garbage by reading articles, watching and discussing the movie Wall-E and projects. The final project for the unit was a design challenge. Students had to take materials that would be recycled or thrown away and make a toy or game for elementary aged students. On January 7, 2016 students took their projects to the first grade classrooms to be tested. Both groups of students had fun and were inspired by the event. Garbage is an important issue for our planet. Innovative solutions are needed to solve our garbage problems and maybe Salem Central School students will discover new ways to deal with our garbage problems in the future. Easton-Greenwich..............18-19 Salem News........................12-13 Classifieds & Notices..... .25-26 Obituaries........................27 Sports............................28-30 Trump and the Evangelicals: Make Strange Bedfellows - SEE PAGE 4- CCS BOE Discuss Capital Project - SEE PAGE 9-