From mill to mall by William Poole Bridgewater
Vermont town shakes off mill closure by forming Bridgewater Mill Mall Inc to convert the 90,000 square foot three story mill into a post office, a supermarket, arts crafts store, and 10 small shops. Local residents invest about 30,000 dollars. Woodstock National Bank aiding. State job losses and taxes noted. Local scout activities and community fundraising accompany the project.
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William Poole Bridgewater
UPI
Ottauquechee
Vermont
Sid Wiliams
Milton High School
Williams
Bridgewater
Woodstock National Bank
Bridgewater Mill Mall Inc
Vermont Council On the Arts
United Methodist Women Host Stanley Brush Party
The Jermain Church group will meet at 1030 a.m. Friday at Mrs. Maurice Perry's home for a Stanley brush party with a covered dish luncheon. Contact Ms. Perry to place orders if unable to attend. Ernest Wirren Jr. received lay speaker credentials during last Sunday's service at Jermain Church.
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United Methodist
Jermain Church
Stanley Brush
Maurice Perry
Ms. Perry
Ernest Wirren Jr
First United Methodist
Londonderry Library hosts open house with historic exhibits
South Londonderry Library welcomed visitors on a windy Saturday featuring exhibits from the Londonderry Historical Society. Highlights included a scrimshaw powder horn dated 1775, a Paul Revere rug, old Londonderry maps, and Buxton family books. The event also noted local artifacts, a Windham County Mental Health Association room, and a relic-filled back room with The Londonderry Sifter dating to 1883.
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Londonderry
James Starkweather
Starkweather
Humphreys
James
New York Harbor
New York
Charles Pearson
Paul Revere
Old North Church
Londonderrys
E. G. Janeway
Ellen Lyman
Frank Buxton
Edward Landon
Weston
South Londonderry
Buxton
Brookline
Mass
Harvard
Janeway
Thompsonburg
Glebe Mountain
Magic Mountain
Windham County Mental Health Association
Londonderry Sifter
Lydia E. Pinkham
Florence Nightingale
United Kingdom
Lever Brothers
South Londonderry Library
West River
Londonderry Credit Union
Credit Union
The
Londonderry Historical Society
Growing and Cooking with Herbs Shaker Style workshop
Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock Mass offers three herb workshops on April 26 29 and 30 from 10 am to 2 pm in the Brick Dwelling. Herbalist Martha Dahlen leads a lecture followed by lunch and a recipe booklet. Fee is 8 dollars. enrollment limited to 12. Reservations by check to Martha Dahlen Hancock Shaker Village Box 898 Pittsfield MA 01201. For details call Shaker Community Inc.
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Hancock
Mass
Martha Dahlen
Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield
Shaker Community, Inc
Tiffany glass and 19th century landscapes lecture
Williamstown hosts the first 1975 NBCA antiques lecture by Prof. Robert Koch on Tiffany Glass and Art Nouveau at 11 a.m. April 29 in the Clark Art Institute. Koch, a Yale PhD and longtime art historian, books include Louis C. Tiffany works.
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Williamstown
Mass
Northern Berkshire Council of the Arts
Tiffany Glass
Robert Koch
Southern Connecticut State College
New Haven
Clark Art Institute
South Street
Harvard
Louis C. Tiffany
Southern Connecticut
Queens College
Yale University
Henry Heydenryk
Martha Gandy Fales
Kennebunk
Revere
Tiffany
Lamb’s Stationery
Min
North Adams
Renzi’s College
Spring Street
NBCA
Union St
John Wilmerding
Leon E. Williams
Dartmouth College
New York
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
Vermont groups defend Act 250 in court challenge
The Vermont Natural Resources Council and the Sierra Club filed a friend of the court brief with the state Supreme Court defending Act 250 as a constitutional tool. Dr James D Kinsey of Manchester challenges the law after his 65 acre Mount Holly Weston game farm plan was overturned by the Environmental Board following appeals from multiple agencies and an adjacent landowner. Kinsey argues his property rights were unlawfully restricted.
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State Environmental Board
Rutland District Environmental Commission
State Environmental Conservation Agency
Mount Holly and
Weston Planning Commissions
District Commission
Kinsey
Burlington Union Official Given Suspended Five Year Term
Joel Snyder, business manager and financial secretary of Local 1981 IBEW, received a suspended five year sentence in Vermont District Court after pleading guilty to embezzling 8254 dollars from the union over a two year period ending last May. He was placed on probation and ordered to restitution by Judge Edward Costell.
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Burlington
UPI
Joel Snyder
Snyder
Vermont
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Edward Costell
Lawyer withdraws request to move Bonnie King murder trial
Bonnie Lee King 19 of Fletcher will face a June trial in Franklin County Superior Court after her attorney Public Defender Robert Farrar withdrew a petition to change venue in the shotgun slaying of Lawrence Juaire outside a Fairfield parking lot last October.
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ST. Albans
UPI
Bonnie Lee King
Fletcher
Franklin County
Miss King
Lawrence Juaire
Fairfield
Robert Farrar
Eber Spencer Jr to resign Provost post at Vermont College
Dr. Eber Spencer Jr will resign as provost of the Vermont College Division of Norwich University at the end of the current school year. He has led the division since its merger three years ago and will take a year sabbatical. The provost post will be replaced by a dean, with Spencer returning to Norwich next year in a faculty or administrative role.
Vermont Utility Eyes Wood Fueled Plant Upgrade
Green Mountain Power officials in Montpelier say a federal decision next month will determine support for converting a Milton oil plant to burn wood. The plan, to displace oil with wood at a 4 000 kilovolt facility, costs about 1 million dollars and seeks federal funds. A federal task force may visit Vermont to study the proposal.
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Montpelier
UPI
Green Mountain Power Co
Milton
Green Mountain Power
Vermont
Budget urges savings while New York eyes cuts and deficit
Troy budget director Bassidy reports 58831 saved in the first quarter as County Executive Murphy imposes a hiring freeze and 300 cap on departmental purchases with some exceptions. Projected 250000 in annual savings contrasts with a social services budget shortfall over 1 million. Sage College president Walker to resign this summer amid a history of faculty disputes and governance changes.
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Troy
T. William Bassidy
Rensselaer County
William J. Murphy
Grace & Co. final offer rejected by Berkshire workers
Adams Grace & Co officials warned that local jobs are in jeopardy after striking production workers rejected the firm's final offer 88 to 5 in an eight week picket. Plant manager Thomas O. Gavin said losing business to competitors due to overtime refusals endangers employment. The offer proposed immediate 9.7 percent wage and benefit increase, plus an 8.6 percent rise in March 1976, with new overtime language.
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Adams — Grace & Co
Thomas O. Gavin
Grace
Gavin
Former Great Barrington Man Found Dead in South Windsor
Stirling B. Thomas 77, a former Massachusetts Electric Co. supervisor, was found dead in his South Windsor condo with a plastic bag around his head. His wife, Minerva Thomas, was unconscious on the floor amid pills and hospitalized in critical condition. Police investigate murder and drugging, noting a scene note but withholding its contents.
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Great Barrington
South Windsor
Conn
Stirling B. Thomas
The
Massachusetts Electric Co
Minerva School of Sheffield
Manchester
Memorial
Thomas
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