Legislature Weighs Private School Aid and Term Extensions
The Legislature debated next year's priorities with a focus on private school aid and four year terms for top officials. Reps Peisch Tudhope and Beattie questioned private aid, Tudhope warning against a shift from free public education. Senate action on a $120 million omnibus fund includes Vermont Legal Aid restoration, $28.2 million for education, and a precarious $5 million arts building at UVM within a $13.3 million capital plan. The Senate seeks a $250,000 operating funds authorization for interest on university bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Peisch
Burlington
Douglas Tudhope
South Burlington
Orrin H. Beattie
Manchester
Tudhope
House
General Assembly
Senate
Vermont
University of Vermont
Methodist pastor McGaughey transferred to Schenectady
The Rev. Melvin R. McGaughey, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Bennington, will move to First United Methodist Church in Schenectady, N.Y. as associate pastor after the Troy Annual Conference in May 1922 at Green Mountain College Poultney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin R. McGaughey
First United Methodist Church
Schenectady
N.Y
Troy
Green Mountain College
Poultney
New York
Janet
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Boston University School of Theology
Methodist Church
Troy Conference
Ellenburg
Hoosick Falls
Morrisville
Peru
Bennington
McGaughey
Fire damages trailer and garage in Manchester area blaze
Fire Chief reports a trailer owned by Wanda Cole destroyed by a short circuit in a ceiling lamp while a Manchester police team and Bennington firefighters tackled a separate electrical fire at Bennington Garage. No serious injuries. one man not reported injured. A grass fire at William E. Dailey gravel pit near Route 7 also extinguished with no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dufresne Pond Road
Manchester
Wanda Cole
Peter Ennis
Miss Cole
Ennis
William E. Dailey
Route 7
Manchester Drive-in
Benhigh 46 reunion plans 25th gathering at Mt Anthony
The Bennington High School class of 1946, Benhi 46, schedules its 25th reunion for June 19 at Mt Anthony Country Club. The committee seeks addresses for Robert Benn Ellen Bevis John Cahill Mary Ann Campney and Bettie Merill and requests contact with Elane Granger at 503 Gage St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington High School
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Robert Benn
Ellen Bevis
John Cahill
Mary Ann Campney
Bettie Merill
Elane Granger
Gage St
Rubin Named Director for St. Albans Growth Center
Gov. Davis appointed Frederick A. Rubin to direct the St. Albans Growth Center project and serve as special assistant to Elbert G. Moulton. Rubin, 38, leads the Association of Business and Commerce of Central Berkshire County and was formerly executive director of Torrington, Connecticut, chamber. He hails from Gloversville, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Mass
Chamber
Torrington
Conn
Gloversville
N.Y
VEW Home Burglarized And Other Local News
Bennington police report the VEW home on North Street was burglarized last night with liquor and about $10 stolen from a muscular dystrophy card. Entrance was via a broken front window between 11 p.m. Sunday and 5 a.m. today. A window at the Vermont Bank and Trust on Main Street was broken and a rock hit the drive in window. Listers remind property holders forms are due by tomorrow. District updates note most new homes inspected for tax purposes. SBA tax exemption denial for Village Machine Shop noted. Dorset and East Dorset fire units respond to rubbish fire near Dorset Green.
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Bennington
Thomas J. Marcotte
John C. Behan
Joseph Wassick
Main Street
West Main Street
Veterans of Foreign Wars
North Street
Vermont Bank and Trust
Listers
Frank J. Hogan
U.S. Small Business Administration
SBA
North Bennington
Veterans Administration
Sisters
Dorset — Dorset
East Dorset
Manchester Fire Department
Dorset Green
Dorset Inn
Everett
Dorset
Josiah Allen Realty
Hugus
Jeffords seeks more experts on CVPS rate hike ruling
Vermont Attorney General James L. Jeffords says he will not let Central Vermont Public Service Co escape scrutiny after the Public Service Board cut its proposed 19 percent rate increase to 11 percent. He plans to ask the Emergency Board for funds to hire additional experts to challenge the decision and press for hearings with more witnesses. CVPS has two weeks to decide whether to appeal the PSB ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
James L. Jeffords
Central Vermont Public Service Co
Vermont
Jeffords
Public Service Board
PSB
State Emergency Board
Hobby show draws crowds at Bennington Rotary event
The Community Hobby Show sponsored by the Bennington Rotary Club drew a good turn-out, especially Sunday, with exhibits filling the Catamount School gym. Robert J. M. Matteson won a prize for parsnips. A state toy car race highlighted the weekend. Other displays included wood carvings pottery antique guns and coins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Ronald R. Knapp
Knapp
Three teens arraigned after Bennington dance brawl
In Bennington District Court three teenagers faced intoxication charges after a Friday dance brawl at Second Congregational Church on Hillside Avenue. Douglas E. Barney 18 and Michael R. Kinney 17 pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one day in jail. Myron Green Jr. 16 pleaded innocent and was released to his father. Police noted a fight and a broken window leading to the dance being called off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Bennington District Court
Second Congregational Church
Hillside Avenue
Douglas E. Barney
Michael R. Kinney
John P. Morrissey
Myron Green Jr
East Road
Shaftsbury
Bennington Community Meetings and Events Schedule
Bennington area briefs list meetings at Putnam Memorial Hospital First Baptist Church and local halls. Events include district nurses meeting April 21 at 8 p.m., bloodmobile April 21 11 30 a.m. to 5 p.m., fluoridation discussion April 21 7 30 p.m., Snow-Goers meeting Tuesday 7 30 p.m., 140 Club gathering Tuesday at Bertha Denio home, Emblem Club 368 Wednesday 8 p.m., Le Leche League Tuesday 8 p.m., Rural Fire Department Auxiliary tonight 7, Bennington Environment tonight 7, Rita DeGrenier traveling to San Leandro, LWV meeting Tuesday 8 p.m. topic National Study of Congress chaired by Pat Kellogg.
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Putnam Memorial Hospital
Red Cross
First Baptist Church
Colgate Hall
North St
Jonathan Forman
Bennington
League of Women Voters
Mab DuHamel
Frost Road
National Study of Congress
Pat Kellogg
Harold F. Doolittle
Union Carbide
National Carbon Company
Charcoal Lane
Westport
Conn
Unitarian Church
Lyons Plain Road
Hospital Notes Daily Admissions and Discharges Report
Hospital notes list admissions and discharges for April 16 to 18 1971 in Bennington Shaftsbury Hoosick Falls Manchester Center and nearby towns. Birth announcements include a son for Starr family Hoosick Falls a son for Kaiser and a daughter for Hoard with dates April 16 17 1971.
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Mary Ann Hoague
Inez Cross
Bennington
Leroy Loomis
Shaftsbury
Kerr L. Armstrong
Shushan
N.Y
John J. McGrath
Hoosick Falls
Linda Corcoran
Elizabeth Hart
Manchester
Bessie Wright
Austine O’brien
Pownal
Jean Potter
Charles F. Leeseman Jr
Yvonne C
Ernest Costa
Leon A. Reynolds Sr
Manchester Center
Mary Patrice Cullen
Helen K. Church
North Pownal
Mary Anne Hoague
Robert Starr
Kelley St
Arthur Kaiser
Dewey St
Alan Hoard
R.D
Turning on without drugs at McCullough Talk
Dr Harmon Hartzell Bro will speak at the McCullough Mansion in North Bennington on High Play Turning On Without Drugs. He is a psychotherapist and pastoral counselor educated at Williams Harvard and Chicago with 15 years teaching religion and psychology and a career spanning Harvard Syracuse Drake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmon Hartzell Bro
McCullough
North Bennington
Bro
Williams College
Harvard University
University of Chicago
Harvard
Syracuse University
Divinity School
Drake University
Edgar Cayce
Edith Benn Funeral Held at Shaftsbury Church
Fr iday funeral service for Edith Harris Benn wife of Rev Elmer Benn pastor emeritus of Shaftsbury First United Methodist Church. Officiants were Rev A J MacDonald and Rev John Rhinesmith with clergy from Bennington County Ministerial Association present. Burial in Shaftsburg Village Cemetery follows at the family plot. Mrs Benn died Easter Sunday in St Petersburg Florida.
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First United Methodist Church of
Shaftsbury
Edith (Harris) Benn
Elmer Benn
A.J. MacDonald
John Rhinesmith
Troy Conference
John Millington
Ernest Gratz
Victor Harwood
Ramey Galusha
Robert Kline
Jack Clawson
Fred Stickle
James H. Mars
Pawlet
Rutland Hospital
John
Margaret (McGrath) Mars
John J. Magisano
Fox Fallow Road
Grafton
N.Y
Mahar
Hoosick Falls
Church of the Immaculate Conception
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Magliano
Italy
Troy
Elizabeth Iozzo
John Parker
Stephen Pyne
Easthampton
Mass
Anthony
Hillsdale
Joseph
West Hoosick
Vito Magiiano
Toronto
Canada
Robson Home
Robert
Julia
Buck) Montgomery
North Bennington
Elmer Bushee
Harrington
Bennington
Leonard Bushee
Paul Bushee
Carl
Jennie) Jones
Pownal
Ezekiel
Inez) Cross
Hanson-Walbridge
Floyd la Bombard
First Baptist Church
Longtime area residents named in multiple obituaries
Obituaries from Pawlet to Bennington report James H. Mars a lifelong local farmer dying after a long illness. Other notices honor Bridget Brazell Edward Rothrock John J Magisano Ruby Harrington Clifford Fleming Harold Doolittle and more with calling hours services and burials planned across Granville Hoosick Falls Shaftsbury Manchester Depot and Westport venues.
Bennington Housing Authority Meets Over Funding and Leadership
Hall Cushman calls a 4 p.m. meeting as housing commissioners may name a temporary head to replace ill chair Hamilton Shields who is in hospital after a heart attack. They will discuss HUD talks in Manchester N H and a private session with John Bonkoski. A major federal grant remains pending since last July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall Cushman
Bennington Housing Authority
Housing Authority
Hamilton Shields
Shields
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Vermont Medical Center
Burlington
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Manchester
N.H
Cushman
John Bonkoski
Bennington
Bennington Aviation plans lease of six passenger plane
Bennington Aviation Inc announces a six passenger Cherokee 6 for air taxi freight and ambulance service at Bennington Airport. The carrier adds four planes to the field over the past two months. Other aircraft include a two passenger Piper Vagabond a Cherokee 140 trainer and a Cherokee 180 four passenger model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Aviation Inc
Bennington
Mark Hamilton
Police Seek Accident Cause In Arlington Crash
State Police report a 1967 Ford platform truck driven by Harold A. Cross, 39, damaged when it swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle and struck a utility pole on Warm Brook Road about 2 a.m. Sunday. Cross was uninjured. Police seek the operator of a suspected early 1960 maroon Chevrolet and ask for information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Harold A. Cross
Warm Brook Road
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