Fox Hollow Festival Arts in Hoosick Falls This Week
The 10th annual Fox Hollow Festival of Traditional Music and Arts runs Thursday to Sunday August 7 8 9 and 10 at Fox Hollow Route 2 Peters burg New York. Returners and newcomers perform with workshops concerts and dances daily including children day and a puppet show. Tickets at the gate.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Fox Hollow
Nde
Route 2
Petersburg
Canterbury Country Orchestra
Jerry Jenkins
Mandala
Arlington Community Calendar and Fair Highlights
A detailed weekly Arlington calendar lists Pony League games, tennis sessions, soccer practices, and meetings across venues including AMHS field Recreation Park and St. Margaret Mary's Hall. Notable notes cover the 37th Annual Street Fair on Aug 14 at Community House grounds, plus county field days with the Crawford family racking up blue ribbons and honors in 4-H events.
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Pony League
Arlington Vs. Pownal
Arlington Junior Tennis Association
Recreation Park
VFW
VFW Rooms
Manchester
St. Margaret Mary’s Hall
Well Baby
Community House
Arlington
Amhs Field
Hawley’s Court
East Arlington
High School
All Boys
Bennington Elks
Arlington Soccer Club
Ludlow
Park and Recreation
Arlington Nursing Association
Battenhill Grange
Grange Hall
West Arlington
AMHS
Women of St. James
American Legion Post 69
Legion Rooms
Battenkill Grange
Chester
Arlington Community Club, Inc
Martha Canfield
Walter Crawford
Ondawa
Woodchuckers
Mike Beayon
Crawford
Robin Beayon
Crawfords
Shane Crawford
Bartlett Hall
Vermont nurse education chief named Dr Bernard Gresh
Burlington announces the appointment of Dr Bernard Gresh as director of the Continuing Education Recognition Program for nurses. Gresh, formerly in charge of adult continuing education at Montclair State College, holds a doctorate from Columbia Teachers College and has worked with Newsweek and the Forum for Adults. The Vermont Historical Society Museum in Montpelier displays 25 posters from the Vermont Bicentennial Competition with four winners to be released for sale over 1976 and 1977.
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Burlington
Bernard Gresh
Ann Janney
Vermont State Nurses’ Association
Gresh
Montclair State College
Upper Montclair
N.J
la Salle College
Philadelphia
Manhattan College
N.Y
Montpelier
Vermont Historical Society Museum
Vermont
Heritage
Phyllis Demony
Middlebury
Festival
Bonnie Willis
Bethel
Horizons
Sabra Johnson Field
East Barnard
USS
Columbia University Teachers College
Villanova
Manhattan
Duquesne University
New School For Social Research
Janney
Dr. Gresh
Newsweek Magazine
Forum For Adults
Jersey City
the Alternative
New York
Bloodmobile Visit Shifts to Arlington Parish Hall
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will come to Arlington Tuesday from 1 to 6 P.M. at St. Margaret Mary's Parish Hall. Chair Claire ONeill fears the day change may confuse regular donors though the event remains the summer blood draw, historically the most productive. About 40 to 50 volunteers support the drive alongside a steady stream of donors. past five years show about one pint per 15 residents on average, noting donors travel from nearby towns as well.
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Arlington
Red Cross
Claire O’neil
St. Margaret Mary’s Church
Village board weighs zoning change and HUD grant plan
Hoosick Falls village board meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m to hear a zoning petition at 103 Main St. from residential to business to permit a dentist office in the Bradley & Sons residence. After the hearing the board will set priorities to resubmit HUD Community Discretionary Grant funds, with about 400 000 available for Albany Schenectady Saratoga and Rensselaer counties and Rensselaer city given high priority. deadline August 15.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Main St
Joseph A. Bradley & Sons
Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Dvelopment
HUD
Peter E. Kent
Albany
Schenectady
Saratoga
Rensselaer
Shaker Kitchen Festival Opens at Hancock Village
The 12th Shaker Kitchen Festival runs through Aug 9 at Hancock Shaker Village with tastings in the Great Kitchen and full course World’s People Dinners each evening in the Believers’ Dining Room. Reservations via box 898 Pittsfield or village contact. Also tonight meetings for Pownal fire groups and library hours listed along with Pownal School Board meeting and a postponed concert by the Pownal Community Band due to conductor illness.
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Hancock
Mass
Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield
Pownal
Federal bill eyed to placate Bristol Cliffs landowners
Washington UPI: Federal officials draft legislation to exclude Bristol Vermont private property from the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness Area. Sen Robert Stafford aides say he has not decided to sponsor the measure, awaiting a Tuesday meeting with Vermont’s three-member delegation. Montpelier UPI: Sen John Boylan warns Vermont programs may be cut to stay within means, citing duplication and fiscal conservatism as he chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee. He calls for avoiding deficits and tax hikes, suggesting some programs must be dropped.
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Washington
UPI
Bristol, Vt
Robert Stafford
R-Vt
U.S. Forest Service
Bristol Cliffs
Stafford
Bristol
Montpelier
John Boylan
Orleans
Essex
Vermont
Boylan
Senate Appliations Committee
Welfare Department Faces Possible Deficit Pressure
Vermont officials warn Welfare Department may run a large deficit as unemployment benefits lapse and more residents shift to welfare. 8,200 receive jobless benefits, with 1,100 in the final 13 weeks likely to seek welfare once benefits end. Human Services Secretary Davis seeks $1.5 million from the 1976 legislature to cover rising medical costs.
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Welfare Department
Vermont cuts travel. governor travels heavily
Vermont state travel costs show a mixed picture after last year's crackdown on out-of-state trips. Administrations Secretary Robert Wilson notes overall expenses are higher due to a raised rate-per-mile for workers using private cars on state business, with Governor Thomas Salmon making 13 out-of-state flights since last November, plus a Russia trip funded by the federal government. Salmon aides cite duties with the New England Regional Commission and regional and national governors conferences as the travel driver.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Robert Wilson
Wilson
Thomas Salmon
Russia
Salmon
New England Regional Commission
New England and
July brings Berkshire rainfall record and parking ordinance steps
Berkshire rainfall totaled 8.01 inches in July the highest in 30 years. Weather official George J. Bulgarelli notes a three month total of 18.65 inches, with most rain falling in eight days. In Pittsfield, the Council committee advances an ordinance to raise fines for parking violations and adopt windshield tickets with tiered penalties.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire
George J. Bulgarelli
Bulgarelli
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Honor
Bennington County
Randolph
Susan Wilcox
Wanda Salter
Dorothy O'Dea
John Currier
Princess Crawford
Helene Thompson
Miss Crawford
Amana
Bennington, VT
Duraflex
Burt Bros
Charles Bros
School House Road
Pownal Elementary
Rte.7
Pownal Center
Arltons
Eagle ST
North Adams
Shaker Kitchen Festival
the Pownals
Pamela Blakeman
North Pownal
Solomon Wright
East Pownal
Bennington Banner
Manchester Center
Mr. Cross
Troy
William A.R. Harkness
County Board of Elections
Eugene Eaton
Eaton
Harkness
Pierce H. Russell
Russell
Charles Lightness
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church
City Hall
Down In
Robert F. Jakubowicz
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