Ford Unable to Attend Arlington Fourth Whopper Planned
Arlington plans a large old fashioned Fourth of July with a girl riding side saddle Susan Ploof on a Morgan horse a SPEBQSA champion barber shop quartet and the New Hampshire Minute Men. 14 motor floats horse drawn entries and a family picnic style day with box lunches hot dogs hamburgers sodas and lemonade plus a firework display and a bicentennial rocker prize.
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Gerald Raftery
Arlington
Ford
Dick Farrell
Farrell
Susan Ploof
Morgan
Delaware
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
Barber Shop Quartet Singing In America
Spebqsa
New Hampshire
Marjorie Coulter
Alan Knapp
Alan Mattison
Joe Godfrey
Virginia Andrews
Harry Hayden
Walter Crawford
West Arlington Ladies’ Aid
Enterprise Society of the Federated Church
Lions
The
Grange
Marsh Boys Laundromat
Mortar & Pestle Pharmacy
Martha Canfield Library
Scouts
Park & Recreation Commission
Order of the Eastern Star
American Legion
Dale Bahan
Mary Farrington
Larry Molloy
Green Mountain track reduces river contamination efforts
Pownal Vermont Green Mountain Race Track reports progress in stopping waste water discharge into the Hoosic River. An engineering firm outlines a two phase 100000 dollar treatment system to treat storm water run off and septic waste with discharge limited to heavy spring rains and chlorinated when necessary.
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Judson Brown
Willard Farnham
Agency of Environmental Conservation
Green Mountain
Environmental Agency
Farnham
Dorian Bowman
Hrbcepa
Fred Crandall
Shoreham Plans May Revolutionary Celebration Weekend
Shoreham marks a two day Revolutionary history celebration to recall Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys crossing Lake Champlain and capturing Fort Ticonderoga. Festivities on May 9 and 10 feature cannon fire, muskets, reenactments, band performances, Revolutionary costumes, contra and square dancing, a public dance, and historic exhibits at the elementary school.
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Shoreham
Hand’s Cove
Ethan Allen
Green Mountain Boys
Lake Champlain
Fort Ticonderoga
Green Mountain
Shoreham Shores
Route 74
Aiken
Salmon
Jeffords
Sen. Leahy
Sandgate rummage sale and Shoreham reenactment event planned
The Sandgate Mothers Group sets July 12 for a rummage sale with donations accepted now. Volunteers arrange pickup. contact Barbara Stewart at 375-6376. A Memorial Day weekend program includes antique exhibits, an Ethan Allen reenactment on May 10 at 1 p.m. near the Lake Champlain launch, with officials invited.
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Sandgate Mothers Group
Barbara Stewart
Garrettsville and Troy Families Visit Ohio Homes
Mr and Mrs Daniel Morehouse and family of Garrettsville spent Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Malcolm Hamilton and sons. Mr and Mrs Kenneth E Aiken of Troy spent time here at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Kenneth E Aiken last Sunday.
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Daniel Morehouse
Garrettsville
Malcolm Hamilton
Kenneth E. Aiken
Troy
Vermont seeks federal grant amid opposition amid state concerns
In Montpelier Attorney General M Diamond seeks a 242000 federal grant to study organized crime but faces pushback from Governor Salmon's administration over creating lingering bureaucracy. Diamond has filed with Law Enforcement Assistance Administration while the Governor's Commission has wavered on the grant.
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Diamond
Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Vermont dispatchers kept. budget saved districts spared
Public Safety Commissioner Edward Corcoran says none of the 62 state police dispatchers will be laid off next year. He had warned that budget cuts could force office closings and dispatcher dismissals to meet Gov. Salmon’s 1976 plan, but lawmakers restored most funds, averting layoff actions.
Swanton Packing Co. to Resume Operations by August
Swanton Ohio meat packing firm owners say they expect to restart by August after a January fire that destroyed the Swanton Packing Co. and left 31 workers unemployed. Workmen have begun clearing rubble and officials expect most laid off employees will be rehired.
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Swanton
UPI
Swanton Packing Co
CSEA Wins Rensselaer County Sheriff Employees Vote
In Troy New York the Civil Service Employees Association won 37 to 17 to represent members of the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Dept. SEIU leader David W. Patrick claims a last minute deal favored the CSEA and accuses Sheriff Harkness of promoting CSEA interests. Patrick vows continued organizing efforts despite the defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Civil Service Employes Association
Rensselaer County Sheriff's Dept
David W. Patrick
Service Employes International Union
CSEA
William A. R. Harkness
Patrick
SEIU
Berkshire Population Drops in 1971 State Census
Berkshire state census figures show North Adams population at 18,361, down 85 from 18,446. Pittsfield counts 55,821, a drop of 609 from last year and nearly 3,000 from the 1963 peak. Williamstown and West End North Adams lost power for about an hour after a Boston and Maine crane struck a 23,000 volt feeder, igniting a grass fire that burned about 1.5 acres and 150 railroad ties. Firefighters worked ~12 hours. Massachusetts Electric Co. restored power to all but 1,800 customers within an hour, while linemen were on strike the prior Thursday.
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North Adams
House of Representatives
Pittsfield
Berkshire County
Williamstown
Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Electric Co
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Ronnie Cole
Four-H
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Cyril Hoyt
Jim Wiley
Phil Bahan
Betsey Finney
Roy Crofut
Hale Company
West Mountain Inn
Arlington Community House
Tomonici Moss
J F
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Roberts
Madkour’s Market
Main ST
Bennington
Hoosie River
Shoreham’s
West Arlington
Sandgate
Nancy Tschorn
Sisters of
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Canada
South Cambridge
Margaret Aiken
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Jcolors Instock Dustianer Furniture Inc
Elm ST. Bennington
Catella
Norton
Holbrook
Bracey
New York
City Urban Renewal Agency
Richard B. Devane
Uncle Sam Mall Corp
State Urban Development Corp
Devane
Down In
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Tale of
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Crane
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