The Half Sisters review a witty two sister tale
A Sally Begley critique of Cynthia Propper Seton's The Half Sisters notes a well made, credible comedy about Erica and Billie, half sisters born to one father. The novel tracks their Postwar 1946 era loves, family tensions, and a reunion set near Center Moriches Bay, with keen social observation of 70s women.
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Sally H. Begley
Cynthia Seton
Berkshire Eagle
Northampton
Erica
Billie
Center Moriches Bay
Long Island
Sam
O— Seton
Margaret Fuller
Antique bottle show set for Saturday in Lee Mass
Berkshire Antique Bottle Association hosts its seventh show and sale on Saturday April 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lee High School gymnasium on Greylock Street Lee Massachusetts. Thirty five dealers from eight Northeastern states will display thousands of antique bottles insulators and related books for sale. Awards will be given for best sales tables and exhibits in antique bottle and insulator categories.
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Lee
Mass
Berkshire Antique Bottle Association
Lee High School
Greylock Street
Lee, Mass
Massachusetts
Anne M.G. Tenney
Lenox
Charles L. Flint
Vermont volunteer spotlights unsafe toys in UVM project
Sharon Frink, a UVA volunteer and VPIRG charter member, highlights dangerous toys in Vermont. Her work began after hearing Ralph Nader at UVM and spans organizing leafleting, press conferences, and a national TV appearance with a bag of risky toys. She cites pre screening gaps and dangers of cheap mass produced toys.
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Burlington
Ralph Nader
Sharon Frink
Sharon
University of Vermont
UVM
UVA
Action
Vermont
Nader
Public Interest Research Group
PIRG
Washington, D.C
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
VPIRG
Board of
WPIRG
Dangerous Toys
Dick Cavett
ABC
New York City
LJYA
Consumer Protection Movement
Ruth Sprague Frink
Hayden Farkway
South
Neil T. Frink
Essex Junction
Consumer Product Safety Commission
HRBCEPA to sponsor panel on clean waters at Park-McCullough House
HRBCEPA Inc will sponsor a panel discussion Wednesday April 17 at 8 p.m. at Park-McCullough House North, featuring Richard A. Axelrod Robert E. McCarthy and Terry Learned discussing the citizens role in achieving clean waters. The Hoosic River Basin group aims to restore swimming fishing and boating in the river and its tributaries.
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Hrbcepa, Inc
Hoosic River Basin
Servation Arborist
Hirbcepa
Terry Learned
Hrbcepa,., Inc
Hoosic River
Mallary to address VPGA conference in Manchester
Congressman Mallary will address the Vermont Personnel and Guidance Association spring conference at the Avalanche Motor Lodge on April 26. The event opens with a luncheon led by Sally Smith, with Mallary speaking at the Friday night dinner. Panels cover vocational guidance, adolescent group counseling, Armed Forces testing and education, and elementary guidance, plus mental health consultation and a career education model program. A Saturday luncheon concludes the meeting with a program on women’s concerns and counseling.
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Manchester
Mallary
Vermont Personnel and Guidance Association
Avalanche Motor Lodge
Sally Smith
Rep. Mallary
Connecticut Valley Construction Faces Financial Trouble in Vermont
The Springfield based Connecticut Valley Construction Co. faces financial strain with unfinished Shaftsbury and Pownal school additions. Subcontractors’ claims were handed to a bonding company, while disputes over wall leakage and drainage persist. Towns in Bennington County seek redress as CVC downsizes from about 200 employees in 1971 to a three man operation.
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North S
Bennington County
Connecticut Valley Construction: Co
Springfield
Massachusetts
Connecticutt Valley
Pownal School
Joseph E. Crossman
Pownal
Goodrich
Connecticut Valley
Shaftsbury
CVC
Robert Townsend
Vermont Academy
Saxtons River
Burlington
Claremont
N.H
Durham
Springfield Housing Authority
Housing Authority
Finn & Stone Inc
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Half-Sisters
Cynthia Propper Seton
W. W. Norton & Co., Inc
New York
Williams
Williamstown
Office of Admissions
Williams College
Deau
Sterling Law-School
Moriches
Seton
Andes
Red Sea
Lucy
Southern Connecticut Antique Bottle Collectors Association
Robert Burke
Dalton
Kay Boyle
Iris Murdoch
Hrbcepa
North Shire Senior Center
Dorothy Devine
St. Paul’s Church
Elma Reimann
Ora Converse
Walter Bennett
Service To America
VISTA
Service Corps of Retired Executives
SCORE
Active Corps of Executives
ACE
Action Cooperative
University
Peace Corps
Mike Balzano
Ray Lambert
Burr & Burton Seminary
VPGA
Nammcc
Self Service Discount
Bennington
Javery
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H
South Street
Garrison Printing
Econo Graphics
North Bennington
Julian Goodrich
South Burlington
Shaftsbury Board
Manfred W. Ehrich Jr
Hubbard
John Harrington
Harrington
OEY
Monument Plaza
Bennington, VT
Sobertsl
Berkshire Plaza
North Adams
Monet
North Adams, Mass
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