Arlington Community Calendar Highlights and Local Notices
Weekly events list from Monday to Sunday including school board, fire company, AA meetings, choir rehearsals, bingo nights, and public meetings. Notices include town clerk closure, death of Mrs Alberta Sullivan, Playhouse Nursery School visit, preschool openings, kindergarten registration, and July 4 parade planning by Arlington Volunteer Fire Co with details on activities and fireworks.
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Arlington Volunteer Fire Co
Arlington Fire Chiefs Honored by Local Honoring Group
John Canfield Medric Grover Lee Marsh Ken Smith Fred Hoyt and Ronnie Cole, former chiefs of the Arlington Volunteer Fire Co., were honored by the local fraternal organization in a ceremony. The event celebrated their leadership and service to the community.
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John Canfield
Medric Grover
Lee Marsh
Ken Smith
Fred Hoyt
Ronnie Cole
Arlington Volunteer Fire Co
Manchester votes on sewer bond tonight in town meeting
Manchester voters convene a 7:30 p.m. town meeting at the elementary school to question officials before Tuesday's Australian ballot on a $2.96 million town village sewer project funded largely by state and federal grants. The town must approve bonding for about $400,000, with per dwelling tax and usage charges proposed by Jennison Engineering.
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Maggie C. Bucholt
Manchester
Environmental Protection
Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Jennison Engineering
Jennison
William Finn
Donald Dorr
Dorr
Pownal Groups Schedule Evening Meetings
The Pownal Fire Department and Fire Protective Association meet at 7 p.m. at their firehouses. 60 Pownal Brownie troops convene 6 30 to 7 30 p.m. at Pownal Elementary. Bennington Boy Scouts join Pownal unit 7 to 8 30 p.m. at First Baptist Church. East Pownal Fire Department meets 7 30 p.m. at its firehouse. Solomon Wright Library hours are 1 5 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday. Pownal Baptist Bible study at 7 30 p.m. at the parsonage. Pownal School Board meets 7 p.m. Tuesday at Pownal Elementary. American Legion Post 90 meets 7 30 p.m. Tuesday at Redwood Beauty Salon. Pownal Senior Citizens Club holds its monthly 2 p.m. Thursday April 7 at the center in Pownal Center.
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Pownal Brownie
Pownal Elementary
Pownal
Bennington
First Baptist Church
East Pownal
American Legion Post 90
Redwood
North Bennington Planning Commission Meets Tonight
The North Bennington Planning Commission will meet at 7 30 tonight at the Village Offices in the railroad station. Proposals include a site and use plan for the former Granger Construction Co. building north of the tracks recently bought by Daniel Wendell owner of the Villager Restaurant. Also on the agenda are possible changes to Sage Street and a site and use plan for the former Economy Graphics buildings.
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North Bennington
Sage Street
Police hunt escaped prisoner in Rutland center
State police sought Ronald Benway a 29 year old Granville New York suspect who escaped last week from Rutland Community Correctional Center after a conference with his attorney. He faces assault and robbery charges and is considered dangerous. Ten escapes have occurred at the facility in two months with seven still at large including convicted murderer George Hohman of Bennington.
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Rutland
UPI
Ronald Benway
Granville
N.Y
Rutland Community Correctional Center
Benway
George Hohman
Bennington
Vermont Men Among 313 Named Guggenheim Fellows
Two Vermont residents writer Geoffrey Wolff of Warren and sculptor James Buchman of Winooski are among 313 scholars, scientists and artists chosen for Guggenheim Fellowships from over 3,000 applicants. The awards honor past achievements and future promise in their fields.
Burlington Jewelry Worker Missing After 11 Days
Vermont authorities have no leads in the disappearance of 63 year old Wendell Emslie of Shelburne last seen in Colchester on March 24. His car and a small amount of jewelry were found in Burlington with his personal papers. A Vermont National Guard helicopter searched a 50 mile radius but found no trace. Family offers 500 reward for information.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont National Guard
Wendell Emslie
Shelburne
Emslie
Colchester
VPIRG Attacks Orwell Nuclear Plant Site in Orwell
Vermont Public Interest Research Group director Herman Bluestein warns the Orwell site could harm the town economy and dairy industry by nuclear radiation affecting cows milk. Utility officials have noted Orwell as a potential nuclear facility site. Bluestein spoke before the Addison County Ratepayers Alliance.
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Middlebury
UPI
Vermont
Public Interest Research Group
Herman Bluestein
Orwell
Bluestein
VPIRG
Addison County Ratepayers Alliance
Vermont Judge Dismisses Suit Against Rutland Herald
A Vermont Superior Court judge dismissed a $2 million invasion of privacy case against the Rutland Herald filed by a father over reporting that used his daughter's name and details of a crime. The judge ruled the information was already public record in connection with Windsor’s murder of an 8-year-old and the rape of a 17-year-old babysitter.
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Woodstock
UPI
Vermont
Rutland Herald
Windsor
Wynn Underwood
Herald News
Vermont Secretary of State to rule on Stowe selectman election
Vermont Secretary of State James Guest planned to issue an opinion on a disputed Stowe selectman election. The Stowe town meeting tally faced scrutiny after more ballots were counted than names on voter checklists. Petitions with 146 signatures demanded a new election last week.
Cohoes Board Considers Open Workshop Sessions
A minority on the Cohoes Board of Education plans another vote to open workshop sessions to the public and press on Tuesday night. Helen Turcotte cites a letter from the State Committee on Public Access to Records supporting open meetings. The majority has previously defeated a motion to open workshops, arguing that no formal decisions are made and the public can be excluded.
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Cohoes
EnCon Warns NY Firms Over Dangerous Chemical Declarations
Albany EnCon Director Peter Berle warned 4000 New York State companies to disclose dangerous chemical usage following reports of toxic waste dumping. Noncompliance could lead to permit revocation for pollution control systems, a warning sent to the scofflaws.
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Albany
New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation
EnCon
Peter A.A. Berle
Berle
New Books at McCullough Library North Bennington
McCullough Library in North Bennington lists new adult and juvenile titles by numerous authors including Millar MacDonald Tattersall Thorne Thomson Deighton Sheldon Greenberg Hodge Wood DeBlasis Henkin Sassoon Slawson Wright and Lyons plus crafts titles Crochet and Knitting for Beginners. Also works by Delderfield Robins Kellogg Kellogg Frost and others.
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McCullough Library
North Bennington
Millar
MacDonald
Castle Fosse Tattersall
the Family Arsenal
Theroux
Hour of the Bell
Tetrakis
Deighton
Mother Goose
Thorne-Thomson
Sheldon
Founder’s Praise
Greenberg
Judas
Hodge
Charlie
Delderfield
Bend — Wood
The
Sassoon
Vermont State Government & Administration
Nyquist
Wright
the Postal History of
Vermont
Slawson
We Who Serve
Home To
Roost Garve
Silver Leopard Cass
Abbey Court — Thum
Searsburg selects tax rate after school budget cut
Searsburg selectmen met at the new Town Hall to set an $8.50 tax rate, up from $7, to meet Wilmington school funding needs. The school budget was based on 15 children with 10 attending Wilmington and five to Bennington, following voters’ reduction to $38,000 from $41,000.
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Searsburg
Wilmington
Bennington
Adams speaker at church on Palm Sunday converts to Christianity
Jeff Fritz, head of the New England branch of Jews for Jesus, spoke at the First Congregational Church in Berkshire on March 27. He described his Palm Sunday 1972 conversion after a challenge from Christian friends and noted he received about $100 in contributions for the Cambridge based organization. Fritz, 32, said he was an agnostic at the time and remains a Jew despite shunning by the orthodox Jewish community.
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Adams
First Congregational Church
New England
Jews For Jesus
Jeff Fritz
Fritz
Riviera Beach drowning claims local teacher Amy Williams
North Adams notes the accidental drowning of Amy Grosso Williams, longtime Drury High School teacher from 1938 to 1962, found face down in the Commodore Hotel pool by husband Forrest. Police ruled out foul play. cause of death undetermined. She was sister to Edmund Grosso of Springs Restaurant in New Ashford.
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North Adams
Amy Grosso Williams
Drury High School
Riviera Beach
Fla
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Arlington
Helene Thompson
Arlington School Board
Arlington Women's Fire Auxiliary
VFW
St. Margaret Mary Hall
Arlington Chorale
Music Box
Battenhill Grange Grange
West Arlington
FOE Auxiliary
Eagle Rooms
Leo Club
Community House
Firehouse
Arlington Fire Co
American Legion Post 69
Legion Rooms
Red Mt. Lodge
Masonic Temple
Battenkill Grange
Alberta Sullivan
Cornelius Sullivan
East Arlington
Stuerts
Playhouse Nursery School
Clyde Dunlap
Sundiland
Itis
Linda Wilams
Mary Wheen
Gail Lampron
Arlington Nursing Association
Arlington Community House
Songho Hong
Arlington Nursing Assoc
Fisher Elementary School
Rick Hawley
Sweet Home
Paes
Pany
Finn
U.S
Lye Brook
U.S. Forest Service
Pownals
North Pownal
Solomon Wright
Villager Restaurant
Planning Commission
Economy Graphics
Bennington Banner
Guggenheims
Herald
Stowe
New York
First Vermont Bank
Equal Housing Lender
Barre
Bellows Falls
Brandon
Brattleboro
Castleton
Chester
Waterbury
F.d.lc
Shirer
Darcourt — Holland
Kellogg
DePree
Maudie
Chorao
Dickinson
Rubenstone
Papa
Gudgekin the
Gardner , Buck, Wild — Balch
Carlo Walter
Down In
Berkshire
Jesus
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