Pownal Loses Track Assessment Appeal Second Time
The Bennington County Tax Appeals Board corrected a $32,088 overstatement after an initial error, lowering the fair market value of Pownal track from $6,640,000 to $4,650,000. Pownal faces an $8,900 repayment and marks its second loss in two years in track assessment disputes. Hearings in Pownal featured Jerome Tinnian for the track and Joseph H. Martin for the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
Bennington
Atty
Neil Moss
Appeals Board
Fresh Air Fund Begins Record Summer Season
Morrisville reports the 1969 Fresh Air season starts after a state conference. Bennington area hosts include Mrs. Fred Stacy and Mrs. Janet Mattison. The program aims to serve 130 area children this summer with invitations open until May 15 and new invites accepted until July 1. Children arrive July 23 and depart August 6 and August 20. The fund covers transport, insurance, medical costs, and program organization. hosts provide lodging, meals, and care.
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Morrisville
Charlemont
Bennington
Fred Stacy
Janet Mattison
New York
Fresh Air Fund
Alan Mattison
Arlington
Ellery Lawrence
Lewis West
Manchester Center
Peter Clark
Cambridge
N.Y
George Ridler
Albert Waytakus
Hoosick Falls
Parents Night at HFCS Highlights Course Options
About 80 Hoosick Falls Central School eighth graders' parents attended a Friday Parents Discussion Night led by William Folgert with assistance from Michael Brewster. The meeting outlined high school course choices and future plans for freshmen. Folgert will lead a group of sophomores and juniors to Lansingburgh High School for a College and Career Night, with about 75 students planning to attend. Representatives from roughly 80 schools and various colleges, vocational programs, industries and military services will participate. Six HFCS students joined Warren Eastwick and his wife at the Citizenship Education Conference in Syracuse, marking the sixth year local students have attended the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick Falls Central School
William Folgert
Michael Brewster
Folgert
Lansingburgh High School
Troy
Syracuse
New York State
Warren Eastwick
Hoosick Falls Events Highlight May 3 Pageant and Show
Hoosick Falls hosts Springtime Revue featuring the Rene Ducharme Dance Class Esther Bogardus School of Baton and Miss Kathleen Dance Class Saturday May 3 at 8 p.m. in Hoosick Falls Central School auditorium Sponsored by Hoosick Post 40 American Legion. A horse owned by Jack Wysocki was struck by a car near Route 22 and had to be destroyed. Stork showers honor Mrs Kenneth Begin and Mrs Edward Cwalinski with guests and gifts, noting an earlier auto accident that day. both events reflect local community life in Hoosick Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rene Ducharme
Esther Bogardus
Wysocki
Kenneth Begin
Averill Park
Susan Peckham
Hoosick
Harold Peckham
Peckham
Begin
Richard Okerman
Jay Iskowitz
Bennington
Martin Gorton
Berlin
Edward Cwalinski
Cheshire
Mass
Eileen Davendonis
Hoosick Falls
Salvatore Anniversary Observed by Family and Friends
Mr and Mrs Ernest A Salvatore of 1 Church Street marked their silver wedding anniversary on April 10 with a family party at home. Married April 10 1944 at Notre Dame Church Adams they plan to relocate to Exeter New Hampshire next month. He previously ran a shoe store in Bennington and now works for Clark Brothers Bolt Co. she is a medical secretary at Putnam Memorial Hospital. They have five children Steven Macdonald Berkeley Wayne Castleton James Keene Lee and John all in area schools or colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Ernest A. Salvatore
Church St
Salvatore
North Adams
Mass
Rita Gagne
Adams
Notre Dame Church
Leon C. Nadeau
Exeter
N.H
Putnam Block
Bennington
Clark Brothers Bolt Co
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Steven Macdonald
Berkeley
Calif
Wayne
Castleton State College
James
Keene, N.H. State College
Lee and
John
Canfield Library Opens TV Based Books List for Patrons
Arlington’s Martha Canfield Memorial Library launches a new service listing current TV programs based on library books. The week features two dog stories Bristle Face by William Ball and Lad a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune, plus a dive program on Lake Titicaca.
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Arlington
Martha Canfield
William Ball
Walt Disney
Albert Payson Terhune
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Lake Titicaca
Andes
Jason Robards
Edgar Lee
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Pownallan
Jerome Tinnian
Pittsford
Joseph H. Martin
Trenton, N.J
Randolph
Green Mountain Park
Bennington County
Drysdale
Drysdale’s
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Finast
Catamount Elementary
B.C.H.S
Bellemae & Son Interiors
Veronica Anthony
Friendly Towns
Anthony
HFCS
Ilynne Cook
Laurie Shaw
Beverly Sausville
Eastwick
Edith Beaumont
Peter Davendonis
River Street
Main St
The
Stamford Yarn Shop
Singer Supplies
Stamford
Manchester Ctr
U.S
Salvatores
Canfield Library
Christopher Morley
Kitty Foyle
Virginia Graham
Caroline Bird
Borr
Tiyan
Carroll's
Carrol Drug Store
Rfennington
Maine
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