Foundations Poured Monday For Shaftsbury Town Garage
Shaftsbury selectmen announced the new town garage foundations were poured Monday with steel siding arriving in six to eight weeks. The project will replace the old garage near Cole Hall, and the lot deeded by Ayres and Shea will be kept for future storage. In other business the board reported road work progress and reviewed a Bennington County master plan urging developers to maintain roads. The Fish and Game Board will hold hearings on deer herd overpopulation on Sept 4 in Newport and Sept 5 at Island Pond.
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Shaftsbury
Mer~ton Snow
Lorenzo
Sam’ Sanborn
Roy Whitman
Cole Hall
Fairfax Ayres
George Shea
Selectmen
Bishops Road
Murphy Hill Road
Town Planning Board
William E. Dailey Jr
Thomas Hall
Merritt Hewitt
Bennington County
Arlington
Merton Snow
Tom Hall
Hall
Fish and Game Board
Newport
Fish and Game Club
Island Pond
Fowler Family Visit Recalls Connecticut Roots
Mr and Mrs Dana Fowler and son of Groton Conn spent several days visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Joseph E Fowler at their Ways Lane home Peter Riker son of Mr and Mrs Donald F Riker and John Reber son of Mr and Mrs John Reber have finished their summer studies at Johnson State College Col and Mrs Ralph Murray and son Edward of Fort Morn
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Dana Fowler
Groton, Conn
Joseph E. Fowler
Ways Lane
Peter Riker
Donald F. Riker
John Reber
Johnson State College
Col
Ralph Murray
Edward
Fort Morn
TV Director Will Spend Year in Japan
Burlington Vermont educator Raymond G. Dilley, director of in school services for Vermont Educational Television, will spend a year in Tokyo starting September under a Corporation for Public Broadcasting fellowship to study Nippon Hoso Kyokai and foreign broadcast systems. Dilley, a St. Johnsbury native and UVM alum, has worked since 1966 to advance Vermont classroom broadcasts and has produced for Voice of America and network radio.
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Burlington
Vermont Educational Television
Raymond G. Dilley
Tokyo
Nippon Hoso Kyokai
National Radio and Television System
Corporation For Public Broadcast
Dilley
United States
Britain
Sweden
Canada
Japan
St. Johnsbury
UVM
University of Montana
Department of
Speech and Drama
Vermont Etv
Vermont
Voice of America
Network Radio
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Congress
Shaftsbury Man Fined in Rutland
Richard Smith, 28, of Shaftsbury, received a six months to one year suspended sentence and a $500 fine in Rutland District Court for operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. He pleaded guilty to taking a car owned by Medrick Baker of Pawlet on July 13 and was placed on probation.
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Rutland
Shaftsbury
Rutland District Court
Richard Smith
Smith
Medrick Baker
Pawlet
Baker
Atty
Richard Hill
State Doctors Dentists Prepare for Golf Tourney
Rutland hosts the 34th Vermont Medico Dental golf tournament at Rutland Country Club on Monday August 25 starting 11 a.m. A banquet and business meeting follow. Defending low gross champion is Dr. William A. O Rourke Jr. from Rutland. Over 50 MDs DDSs and DMDs from across the state participate in this yearly event dating back to 1932.
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Rutland
Rutland Country Club
Henry L. Pratt
Lyman W. Johnson
Edward R. Bove
Burlington
William A. O’ Rourke Jr
William W. Brislin
D.m.d.’S
A.A. Bellerose
F. E. Farmer
St. Johnsbury
B. F. Cook
Up With People Troupe To Present Concert Series
Vermont governor announces a nine town October tour by the Up With People youth chorus of 130 performers from 20 countries and 40 states. Plans include local coordination, host families, and support from service clubs as the group visits Barre Burlington Rutland Bennington Springfield White River Junction St. Johnsbury Newport and St Albans. The troupe aims to perform two or three concerts per stop with in-state committees organizing hospitality and logistics.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Washington
D.C
Gov. Davis
Sean
Barrington
Judy Ericson
Brussels
Belgium
Joseph Newlin
Barre
Burlington
Rutland
Bennington
Springfield
White River Junction
St. Johnsbury
Newport
St. Albans
Newlin
United States
Manchester Babe Ruth team attends Pittsfield Red Sox game
Seventeen members of the Manchester Babe Ruth team with coach Carl Rice and assistants Joseph Markey and James Henry visited Rupert resident Guy Campbell at a Pittsfield Massachusetts Red Sox game. The group traveled by bus at 5:45 p.m. to watch the Berkshire farm team and Manchester finished its second season since being reactivated last year by Donald Fleming and Campbell, ending third with a 6-3-1 record.
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Manchester
Babe Ruth
Carl Rice
Joseph Markey
James Henry
Guy Campbell
Rupert
Pittsfield
Mass
Red Sox
Berkshire
Donald Fleming
Campbell
Miss Schweitzer to Perform Benefit Piano Recital Sunday
International pianist Jacqueline Schweitzer will give a Sunday afternoon recital at 3:30 in the Southern Vermont Art Center Music Pavilion. Proceeds go to the Bartlett and Louise Arkell Endowment Fund. She will play works by Schumann Chopin and Liszt.
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Manchester
Jacqueline Schweitzer
Southern Vermont Art Center
Bartlett and Louise Arkell Endowment Fund
Music Pavilion
Schumann
Chopin
Liszt
Simon Barendse
Youth Focus at Schaghticoke Fair 150th Year
Schaghticoke New York fair opens August 28 and runs through September 2 with a new 1,000 seat judging arena to expand youth activities. 4-H events dominate the schedule including horse shows cattle judging and a fashion show. Labor Day features a 4-H talent show and queen crowning.
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Schaghticoke
N.Y
Fair
Philip
Phil Bemis
Berkshire NAACP Dinner Dance Set in Pittsfield
Berkshire County NAACP schedules its annual dinner dance for Friday from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Breezy Knoll Stam Lodge on Route 7 in Pittsfield with George Carrington and his Supremes of Hartford providing the music. Proceeds from local events include a Peach shortcake supper at Pownal United Methodist Church netting $370. The Pownal Lions Club board meets Monday at 7:30 p.m. at King Lion Kokoras’s home to plan future events, with the next Lions meeting Aug. 25 at the Club House Lounge featuring a 6 p.m. happy hour and 6:30 p.m. dinner. hostesses and door committee named. The NAACP dinner dance aims to help the national group cover its $400,000 deficit.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Berkshire County
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Pownal United Methodist Church
Pownal
Lucy Evans
John Hunt
Clifford Potter
Helen Hamilton
Eliott Robinson
Ada E. Walker
James Hall
David L. Gunn
Lafayette W. Walker
NAACP
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Memorial Park
Melanie Otis
P.O. Box
Mouth
N.J
Don B. Otis
Theodore Day
Oregon
Day
VISTA
Cadette
Washington, D.C
Winston L. Prouty
Potomac
Mount Vernon
Dan Noble
Joseph H. Harrington
Reginald L. Counsell
Burr and Burton Seminary
Peter C. Housekeeper
Charles C. Davis
Vermont Headmasters’ Association
State Department
F. Pierce Jr
Charles 8B. Johnson
Vermont Superintendents’ Association
Houskeeper
New England
Helene Thompson
Keough’s
Pic & Pac
North Bennington
Pic ’N Pac
Bank Street Extension
Vermont 67
Karl Harrington
Stowe
Avast
Artery Arcade
North Adams
Miss Schweitzer
Marguerite Long
Paris
Orford
Hancock
Maine
NBC Television
Albert Schweitzer
Lipinski
Neactta Rehab Stores
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
The
Pownals
Haynes & Kane
Haynes
Kane, Inc
Main St
Bennington, Vt
TY Anacas
Walker
North Adams Hoosac
Massachusetts
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