Plymouth Old Home Day celebrates Plymouth Notch with crafts and music
Old Home Day at Plymouth Notch on Sunday August 15 features scarecrows craft exhibits a chicken barbecue and a full slate of activities. Services at Union Christian Church at 11 am dress in colonial attire and spectators will receive Old Home Day ribbons. Vegetables and flowers displays judged blue ribbons awarded at school art show and a model settler cabin exhibit. Concerts by Yankee Doodle Dandy Virginia Reel hymn sing Farm & Wilderness String Band and more with old time games and a bonfire. Rain date is August 22.
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Plymouth
Plymouth Notch
Union Christian Church
Peter Buswell
Ladow
Farm & Wilderness Camps
Eleanor Wheeler
Ray Lynds
Williamstown antiques show grows to largest local event
Williamstown Mass hosts the Third Annual Board of Trade Antique Show Aug 19 to 21 at Mount Greylock Regional High School Route 7. More than 40 dealers from New England, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Florida and South Carolina, 50 volunteers, extended hours, and a booster club run refreshment stand. Dealers feature lamps on wood and brass, homespuns, English antiques, American Indian items, paperweights, iron work, Fischer ware china, jewelry, furniture, silver and primitives. Tickets from Board of Trade members or at the door.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williamstown Board of Trade
Mount Greylock Regional High School
Route 7
New England States
England
China
Community Notes From South Cambridge And Adjacent Towns
South Cambridge residents and relatives visited relatives in Bexleigh Cambridge Troy Coila Chappaqua Lake George and Skye Farm. The North Hoosick United Methodist church will host a combined circuit service August 15 led by Rev Mrs Florence Strait. Pleasant Valley Grange planned fairs fall supper and Grange Hall improvements with officers elected including Master Ernest Trinkle Michelle Stannard Overseer William English Burton Stannard and many others.
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North Hoosick United Methodist Church
Florence Strait
Michelle
Burton Stannard
Skye Farm
Washington County Fair
Schaghticoke Fair
Patricia Hamilton
CWA
Hazel Welling
Pearl Brownell
Grange
Junta
Ernest Trinkle
Michelle Stannard
William D. English
Marilyn Robinson
Blanche Royal
Rodney Brownell
Beverly Stannard
National Institute of Education helps schools to solve problems
Patricia McCormack profiles the National Institute of Education NIE launched by Congress in 1972 to boost U S education. Led by Harold L Hodgkinson NIE funds basic skills equity education and work finance and productivity capacity for problem solving and dissemination. It supports regional labs bilingual curricula career awareness TV series and school community decision making.
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National Institute of Education
National Heart Institute
National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Education Congress
Harold L. Hodgkinson
NIE
Center For Research and Development In Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bard College
New York
School of Education
Simmons College
Boston
U.S
Equity Group
United States
Institute
East Harlem
Yorkville
New York City
East Park High
Watts
Los Angeles
Dr Mason Barney Named Good Citizen by Mt Equinox Grange
Dr Mason Barney of Manchester, born in Rutland, received the Good Citizen award from Mt Equinox Grange. He taught the first all volunteer ski patrol first aid program at Pico Peak and studied cranial osteopathy in Philadelphia and New York. He helped organize civil defense and emergency services in Manchester and served as medical officer for the Old Manchester Emergency Unit and later the Manchester Rescue Squad.
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Mason Barney
Mt. Equinox Grange
Manchester
Rutland
Barney
Pico Peak
University of New Hampshire
Northeastern University
Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery
Kirksville
Esther Parry
Esther
Lois Bitler
David
Suzanne
Philadelphia
New York
U.S
Civil Defense Organization
Sheriff's Department
State Police
FBI
VFW
Ownership of Green Mountain Power Revealed
Burlington based Green Mountain Power Co publishes a report showing out-of-state holders control almost 90 percent of shares while Vermonters own 11.3 percent of the shareholder accounts. 93 percent of common stock is held by individuals, and 98 percent of accounts are small to medium with 1 to 1000 shares.
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Burlington
UPI
Green Mountain Power Co
Vermont
New England
New York State
Sandgate Bicentennial Picnic Set In Lamberg Meadow
The festival portion of the Sandgate celebration is an all town picnic this Saturday Aug 14 at 11 am in Lamberg meadow near Town Hall. Grilles charcoal provided. Each family brings meat beverage plus one communal dish. Games for all ages. Musicians urged to bring instruments. Lorrie Reed of Kelly Stand garage guest of honor. If rain the event moves to Sunday Aug 15.
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Sandgate
Lamberg’s Meadow
Town Hall
Lorrie
George) Reed
Kelly Stand Garage
FDA opens Rutland office for disaster aid demand
FDA officials opened an office in Rutland to process federal aid applications after President Ford declared Rutland Bennington Orange and Windsor counties a disaster area following last month’s severe flooding. They downplayed flood damage as about 1.3 million to protect tourism. A separate Rutland item reports a man in his 20s struck and killed on I-89 while barefoot in the northbound lane. John Tenney 36 of Shelburne was driving the car and the victim had no ID.
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Rutland
VPI
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
Ford
Bennington
Orange
Windsor
FDAA
Milton
UPI
John Tenney
Shelburne
Burlington
Lunch reservations stolen in Montpelier Vermont
Vermont Gray Panthers fear mail theft may have emptied lunch reservations for a Thursday Montpelier luncheon. Spokesman Faire Edwards says reservations were likely in the pilfered Vermont Ecumenical Council post office box. Sen. Patrick Leahy is listed as a speaker on hunger at Bethany Church.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Gray Panthers
Faire Edwards
Vermont Ecumenical Council
Bethany Church
Patrick Leahy
D-Vi
CCV seeks VA hearing over veteran education benefits ruling
Community Colleges of Vermont asks for a hearing at VA headquarters to overturn the July 7 decision cutting benefits to CCV students. President Peter Smith cites $60,000 in overpayments from VA studies and says CCV improved recordkeeping at a cost of nearly $50,000.
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John McDonnell
Smith
CCV
Storm floods southern Vermont towns as rivers surge
Tropical Storm Belle unloads heavy rain across southern Vermont. Rivers overflow, forcing evacuations in Wilmington Jamaica Ludlow Chester Cuttingsville. Main Street Ludlow covered by several feet of water. roads closed and Civil Defense mobilizes National Guard standby. No deaths or injuries reported.
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Montpelier
UPI
Belle
Vermont
Civil Defense
Vermont 100
Ludlow
Thomas Salmon
National Guard
Gertrude Hodge
Wilmington
Jamaica
Chester
Cuttingsville
Pensions Top $1 Billion in New York for 1976
Albany reports state and local contributions to the municipal employees pension fund exceeded 1 billion dollars in 1976 for the first time. A department spokesman cites more benefits, inflation, and new municipalities joining the program as key factors.
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Albany
New York State
Department
Albany Woman Sentenced for Fatal Stabbing
Albany County judge sentenced Mrs. Bertha Austin 47 to up to 20 years in prison for the July 5 fatal stabbing of Lenny Roberst. Austin pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter in the death discovered unconscious in his Albany apartment. The judge noted she had served a prior three year term linked to another violent death.
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Albany
Bertha Austin
Conte ousted from key subcommittee in early Berkshire row
In Kansas City Congressman Silvio O Conte of Pittsfield was dumped as head of the Human Rights and Responsibilities subcommittee amid a clash between Ford and Reagan backers. Charles Pickering of Mississippi succeeded him, while Conte called the move a desperation tactic and warned of attempts to control the executive committee over Panama busing and related matters. In Great Barrington, firefighters rushed to Jenifer House after a visitor pulled a fire alarm mistaken for a gift shop reproduction causing a rainfall delay on Route 7.
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Pittsfield
Ford
Reagan
Kansas City
Silvio O. Conte
Conte
Washington
California
Panama
Massachusetts
Charles Pickering
Mississippi
Great Barrington
Jenifer House
Karl Lipsky
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Virginia
New Jersey
Florida
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Edward J. Lamphier
Mary L. Dempsey
Board of Trade
South Cambridge
Margaret Aiken
Carol Ann MacNeil
Bexleigh
Melissa Aiken
Cambridge
Kenneth E. Aiken
Gertrude Aiken
Nels Jacobson
Kenneth L. Aiken
Troy
Lois A. Virtue
Paul
Coila
Mrs
Francis Wade
Alvin Fritchler
Chappaqua
Mrs. Wade
Lake George
Pleasant Valley Grange
Ernest Henson
Esperance
William Hustler
Malcolm Hamilton and Sons
Asbestos Board
Air
Co-Operative Fire Insurance Assoc. of Vermont
Middlebury
Granite Mutual Insurance Company
Barre
Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Vermont Mutual Insurance Co
NFPA
Patricia McCormack
UPI Educatio Editor
Equitable School Finance Systems
Green Mt. Power
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