Mt Laurel Students to Join Manchester Elementary Classes
Mt Laurel School directors approve a joint program with Manchester Elementary to expose Mt Laurel special education students to a normal classroom experience. Mt Laurel will send students for physical education and some homemaking and industrial arts, with no extra expenses.
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Manchester
Mt. Laurel
MES
Supt
Neil Cross
Cross
Abraham Madkour
Vermont Education Department
Laurel
Sarah Given Larson
Story behind the seal tree questioned by historian
ARLINGTON The State County Seal Pine tree near Route 313 will be marked as historic on August 21. Historian James McCabe disputes the horn drinking cup tale linked to Ira Allen and the Vermont seal, noting earlier visitors and design dates in 1778 1779.
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Arlington
James McCabe
Hemenway
Vermont
Martin Deming
Chittenden
Philip Linde
McCabe
Ira Allen
Justus Sherwood
Great Britain
Marlboro Theatre ends season with Look Back in Anger
The Marlboro Theatre Company presents its final 1971 show Look Back in Anger by John Osborne at the Players Barn tonight through Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Robert McDonald stars as Jimmy Porter with Michael Field, Wendy Nute, Hilary Waters, and Stephen Greene in supporting roles. After Marlboro, the company moves to Weston Playhouse for four more performances. Tickets are on sale at Marlboro box office.
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Marlboro
Marlboro Theatre Company
Players’ Barn
John Osborne
Marlboro Theatre
Route 9
Weston Playhouse
Geoffrey Brown
Marlboro Company
Robert McDonald
Bristis
The
New York Times
Old Home Day brings parade and carnival to Rupert this weekend
Rupert hosts its annual carnival and Old Home Day with a chicken barbecue at 11 30 a m Saturday and a 6 p m parade featuring six bands the Mavericks Speigleaires Saratoga Hurricanes Cambridge band Schuylerville Green Sabers and Adirondack Bagpipers along with fire trucks floats antique cars clowns and kids bicycle entries. Post parade activities include carnival rides and a Granville band concert with Thursday Kids Night and Friday Family Night shows. A cross country race for junior high and older boys runs 2 2 miles and 4 to 5 miles respectively with entries open until race time. Arts and crafts display at West Rupert school and antique car awards also planned.
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Rupert
West Rupert
Mavericks
Speigleaires
Saratoga Hurricanes
Cambridge Band
Schuylerville Green Sabers
Adirondack Bagpipers
Granville
Presto
John Pelton
Canada bound Boy Scout troop heads for Mount Tremblant trip
Seventeen members and four leaders of Boy Scout Troop 64 depart Hoosick Falls for a week in Mount Tremblant National Park sixty miles north of Montreal. They will boat, fish on Lake Escalier with special fishing permits, camp, and compete in family events upon return.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Boy Scout
Mount Tremblant National Park
Montreal
Bruce R. Patire
Luke Fleming
Walter Davendanis
Lake Escalier
National Council, Boy Scouts of America
18 year olds rights debated at Manchester school meeting
Manchester Vermont. The Manchester Elementary School Board discussed the new law raising the age of majority to 18 and its residence implications for tuition and residency. Supt Neil Cross cited a Burr and Burton case where 18 year olds live independently while parents reside elsewhere.
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Manchester
Neil Cross
Vermont
Burr
James Jeffords
Cross
Jeffords
Montpelier
IBM
Ferdinand Bongartz
Judy Cone
Harvey Dorfmann
Exhibition Showcases 300 Works at Southern Vermont Art Center
The Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester hosts its Annual exhibition featuring 300 paintings and sculptures by member artists. New to the show are Olivia Ambrosini Lisa Black Veontha Cook Geoffrey Chapman Yvette Childs and many others while renowned names like Luigi Lucioni Ogden Pleissner and Beatrice Jackson are also highlighted. center hours run daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 1 to 5.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
Olivia Ambrosini
Lisa Black
Veontha Cook
Geoffrey Chapman
Yvette Childs
Richard Cole
Gordian Davis
Susanne Debus
Neta Drummond
Wendy Evarts
Martha Fielder
Robert Glidden
John L. Gregory
Roseanne Henning
Susan Herzberg
Carole Anne Hoffman
Emily H. Kirkham
Rhonda S. Kliewer
Elsie Lombardo
Barbara Nordberg Maser
Richard Maury
Gloria Peterson
Diana B. Talcott
H. Edna T. Tompkins
Marion W. Towner
Clar Vaughn
Ruth Willis
Suzanne Woodcock
Art Center
Southern Vermont Artists, Inc
Luigi Lucioni
Ogden Pleissner
Felicia Meyer
James L. Montague
Gene Pelham
Harry Shokler
Virginia Webb
Arthur Jones
Richard Clark
Churchill Ettinger
Stuart Eldredge
Patsy Santo
Thomas Clark
Eve Dawson
Stephen Maniatty
Beatrice Jackson
Don Trachte
Fair on the Green events and summer notices
The village hosts a two day Fair on the Green in Bank Square with games pony rides and food sales planned by the Norshaft Lions Club to benefit local conservation and education. An earlier film program at Mc Cullough Library runs 1 to 2 p m featuring Toy Maker Tunnel of Wonder and Golden Fish with Bennington Battle Day closures announced.
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McCullough Library
Toymaker
Norshaft Lions Club
Bank Square
North
Bennington
Norshaft Treasury
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
North Bennington Park
Dorothy Cherbonneau
Greenwich Street
Robert C. Toomey
Main Street
Dorothy Buxbaum
Kim Lasher
Karen Watson
Patty Shaw
Peggy LaCroix
Readsboro Fire Team Wins Prizes at Vermont Convention
The Readsboro Fire Department master team earned first prize in wet hose coupling and third in the midnight alarm at the Vermont Firefighters Association convention in Brattleboro. In Cheshire County events the team took second prize for pumping, winning $15 in cash.
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Readsboro
Vermont Firefighters’ Association
Brattleboro
Cheshire County
Arlington Street Fair Opens Its 33rd Year in August
Arlington hosts the 33rd Arlington Street Fair on Thursday evening August 12 with bingo books, coffee, cotton candy, and a White Elephant table. Rain date is Friday night. The library book sale offers current best sellers, encyclopedias, fiction and nonfiction, and magazines such as National Geographic Yankee and Vermont Life. Garden Club displays plants and decorative plaques from State Seal Pine.
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Arlington
Arlington Street
White Elephant
National Geographic
Yankee
Vermont Life
Garden Club
Neighbors Night at Battenkill Grange Draws 72 Guests
Battenkill Grange held its annual Neighbors Night with 72 attendees from New York and Vermont granges including Hoosick Shushan South Cambridge Gansevoort Bradford Fair Haven Saxtons River Pawlet and White Creek. Guests heard from state officials Kermit Richardson Jean Adams John Patch and others. A memorial gift funded the Grange Center Fund and plans were announced for August Arlington Street Fair social and August program by Ethan Allen Pomona Grange. A patriotic program featured readings songs and a tableau with Boy Scout salute.
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West Arlington
Battenkill Grange
New York State
Hoosick
Shushan
South Cambridge
Gansevoort
Vermont
Kermit Richardson
Bradford
Jean Adams
Fair Haven
John Patch
Patch
Saxtons River
Jennie Stewart
Pawlet
Agnes Braymer
Rupert
Shaftsbury
Stamford
Middletown Springs
Equinox Grange
Mettowee Valley
Mt. Anthony
Maple Valley
Grange Center Fund
Harold J. Arthur
Ethan Allen
Pomona Grange
George Cooledge
Belle Decker
Abbie Baker
Graces
Blanchard Stone
Decker
Howard Robinson
Mary Beth
Duane
Robinsons
White Creek
Jesse Harrington
Mabie Crofut
Harrington
Alford Clayton
Elizabeth Bentley
Shushan Grange
Harold Cross
Bennington
Roy Crofut
Mary Robinson
Keith Mason
Junior Grangers
Prudence Vaughn
Mark Mason
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Manchester Elementary
Green Mountain Boys
Sunderland
Michael Monahan
William Frazier
Robert Brett
Stephen Downey
Donald McCabe
Richard Spink
George Brett
Nicholas Mancini
David Downey
William Sargood
Michael Slingerland
Robert Frazier
Michael Griffin
Gregory Spink
Patrick Graney
Thomas Scarey
Timothy Smith
Thomas J. Downey
Charles N. Scarey
William Marcoux
Richard A. Severson
Les Parkers Orchestra
Methodist
Gordon Crk
Vt. Art Center
Amelie Zell Wright
Jane B. Armstrong
Robin Lory Campbell
Samuel Ogden, Jr
Frances Shannahan
Herta Mosessio
Malvine Cole
Elfriede Abbe
Renzo Palmerini
George Mitcham
Kevin M. Cosgrove
Robert J. Newman
John Bateman
Beverly Bender
Lars Turin
Janet Gregg Schroeder
Jim Bow
Florence Field
McCullough
Bennington Battle
Lake Paran
Paran
Ed Paquin
Charles Bonenti
Old Town
AIM Inc
Vermont Bottlers Association
Heard
Fair Nets
Blue Flame Gas Service
Elizabeth Birch
Battenkill Social Committee
Michael Hayes
Deborah Woodcock
United Counseling Service
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Dunham
Dusthame Furniture Inc
Elm ST
Ecoroomy Auto Stores Inc
Main ST
Dial
Bennington, VT
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