Last of the Class opens at Dorset Playhouse
Fred Carmichael’s Last of the Class runs at Dorset Playhouse through August 31 with 8:30 p.m. curtain. The comedy follows two college alumni reuniting in a New York hotel to settle a classmate’s estate, their feud turning into friendship as arrivals enliven their suite. Cast includes Gaylord the bellhop, Wanda Lust the stripper, Janet Zabriskie, Jill Charles, and Edward Powell with director Patricia Carmichael and designers Fulbright Chapman Ryan.
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Fred Carmichael
Dorset Playhouse
Gaytera
David Heveran
Peter Fertnum
Janet Zabriskie
Ivadley Granger
Wanda
Frank Dorski
William Mehegan
Peuline
Michelaine Ryan
Man
John Charlies
Joan Colgan
Dorset
Peter Fortnum
Dudley Granger
New York
Jill Charles
Dion Drislane
Wanda Lust
Gaylord
Bellhop
Don Baker
Edward Powell
Carmichael
Patricia Carmichael
Peter Fulbright
Susan Chapman
John Charles
Bennington Bicentennial Endorses County Tour Guide Plan
The Bennington County Bicentennial Committee approved a 96 page county oriented tour guide to aid tourism in 1976. Charles Neuschafer presented the dummy volume with maps photos and sections on outdoors culture and history. The book will include calendars events lodging dining and services with ads kept to 25 percent and a projected $2 price.
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Arlington
Bennington County
Charles Neuschafer
Neuschafer
George Serrigo
Vermont Health program delay and tax fund adjustments
In Montpelier, the Vermont Regional Medical Program postponed actions while federal investigators review its adherence to bylaws and stakeholder representation. Separately, Treasurer Stella Hackel urged moving an additional 5 million from the Property Tax Relief Fund to cut the General Fund deficit, as Gov. Salmon warned of a highly austere budget and possible new tax resources.
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Mazuzan
Thomas Salmon
Tourist dollars rising in Vermont hotels and meals taxes
UPI reports Ralph DesLauriers, Bolton resort owner and head of the Vermont Hotel Motel and Restaurant Association, estimates tourist related taxes will rise about 2 million in the current fiscal year based on 1975 figures. He cites 12 million in fiscal 1975 and projects about 14 million this year. A second Vermont item notes the body of 46 year old Elmer Burroughs found in Corinth from a tractor accident, with death by fractured skull per Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lawrence Harris.
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Bolton
UPI
Vermont Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Association
Ralph DesLauriers
DesLauriers
Corinth
Vermont
Lawrence Harris
Elmer Burroughs
Grafton man sues sheriff over alleged beatings in New York
Charles Murray III, 20, files a $500000 damage suit against Rensselaer County Sheriff William A R Harkness and deputies Joel Yarter and Richard Simm. He claims they assaulted him at 4:45 am on June 8 at his home after Edward Maxfield accused the deputies of letting him beat Murray. The suit, prepared by Seymour Fox, asserts the deputies acted with force and malice.
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Troy
Rensselaer County
William A.R. Harkness
Grafton
Charles Murray III
Joel Yarter
Richard Simm
Seymour Fox
Edward Maxfield
Croppseyville
Murray
Troy — Rensselaer
T. William Bassidy
James W. van Auken
State Sheriffs’ Association
Harkness
Bossidy
VanAuken
Cooperstown
Bassidy
Eugene Eaton
Berkshire Community College delay due to state budget cuts
Berkshire Community College may open Sept 2 but could slip three to four days after Gov Dukakis and lawmakers cut budgets. Interims limit state agencies to 90 percent of prior spending, delaying openings for all 15 regional colleges. About 300 Pittsfield general relief recipients may lose benefits under new rules.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire Community College
Dukakis
William Dwyer
State Board
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Wellesley
John Connor
Thomas McNamee
BCC
Thomas E. O’connell
O’connell
Donald J. Stack
Department of Public Welfare
Boston
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Jill Charlies
Bicentennial
By Gerald Raftery
Tanglewood
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Serrigo
England
Bob Sourcliffe
Walloomsac Inn
William Ellery Channing
Old Bennington
Bennington
Walloomsac
Tordis Isselhart
Kay Williams
Battle of
Arthur Gilbert
Arlington Town Hall
RT Ie
Chittenden
Federal Deposit Insurance
Bruce Allbee
Chittenden Trust Company
Burlington Square
Burlington, Vt
Down In
Berkshire
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