New BCRC assistant reflects shifting planning emphasis
Greg Burke a 26 year old graduate of Michigan State University joins Bennington County as assistant planner, reflecting Vermont move to decentralized regional planning. He works on workable programs for Bennington and Manchester, meeting officials, drafting codes, planning land use and housing, and coordinating with town committees for urban renewal and growth.
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Charles Bonenti
Arlington
Greg Burke
Chicopee
Mass
Rensselaer County
N.Y
New York State
Civil Service
Bennington County
Bennington County Regional Planing Aid Development Commission
BCRC
John Simson
Burke
Bennington
Manchester
Vermont
Montpelier
Development Agency
Simson
Michigan State University
American Institute of Planners
Albany-Pittsfield
Benington County
University of Massachusetts At Amherst
Deanna
Shaftsbury
Exhibit traces five centuries of plants at Williams College
The Plant Kingdom special exhibition in the Chapin Library showcases original plant life books from 1470 onward. It features woodcuts and engravings, hand colored plates, herbals, and first editions by Crescenzi Hernandez De La Cruz and Linnaeus among others. Contemporary prints by Zeke Moore and Henry Fyans illuminate the gallery walls. The display runs Monday through Friday on the second floor of Stellan Hall from Plolandstad through Sept 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Thirough
Chapin
Williams College
Crescenzi
Hernandez
San Francisco
Stellan Hall
Plolandstad
Hanley Building to be Demolished for Mini Park Plan
Burgess Brothers Inc of Bennington awarded the contract to demolish the Mattison block known as the Hanley Building in Manchester. Demolition starts Sept 5 and should finish within six days with precautions for public convenience. The site will be landscaped and expanded bank vaults plus weathered windows and extended banking hours planned. The Mattison block, part of Main Street since 1894, previously housed a meat market and later municipal uses. further bank expansion details to follow.
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Manchester
Homer Pillrs Jr
Foint National Bank
Burgess Brothers, Inc
Bennington
Mattison
Hanley Building
Manchester Garden Club
Mattson
Main Street
Herbert Mattison
Robert Mattison
Hanley Brothers
Telephone Exchange
Superintendent of Schools
Francis Colburn
Hanley
County youths head to Skidmore for fall term
More than 600 new students arrive at BBE College in Saratoga Springs New York for orientation. Among them are Robin C Meiklejohn of Raite Shafts bury and Thomas Cooper of Dorset Hollow, two Bennington County residents. About 00 freshmen and 100 transfers join a two day program before classes begin.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Bennington County
BBE College
Robin C. Meiklejohn
Jane E. Meiklejohn
Raite 7
Shaftsbury
Thomas 3. Cooper
Matcalm Cooper
Dorset Hollow
Pownal Church Choir Rehearsal and School Board Meeting
Choir rehearsal of the Pownal Methodist Church will begin at 7 pm Thursday. The Pownal School Board will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Town Center school. Pam Blakeman is listed with a contact number 823-5514 for Pownal events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal Methodist Church
Pownal
Fowns Center School
Cheney Visits Vermont Tanning Plant for Job-Seeking Campaign
Kim Cheney, longtime Vermont State's Attorney and GOP attorney general hopeful, tours Pownal Tanning Company. He encounters workers amid hot, noisy machines, seeking voter contact and noting women's rights as a key issue. The encounter highlights the contrast between a polished candidate and factory workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
Kim Cheney
Washington County
Po Tanning Company
Cheney
Robert Garland
Garland
Vermont
New
C Company
Franks
Robert B. West
West
McLuhan
Pownal Tanning Company
Dostal Lodge Permit Rejected as Easy Decision
Water Resources Commissioner Martin Johnson called the Londonderry lodge discharge permit rejection an easy decision. He testified that Dostal Lodge should not discharge treated effluent into a pristine water and could have been refused on grounds the waterway is an upland mountain brook. The hearing followed a ruling that the state bears the burden of proof in the Dustil Todge appeal under the 1870 Water Pollution Control Law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
Martin’ Johnson
Londonderry Lodge
Johnson
Water Resources Board
Dostal Lodge
Dustil Todge
White Creek notices and local births and moves
White Creek community notices include services at Jermain Church on August 27 at 9 30 a m and Sunday School resuming September 10 at 10 30 a m. Local moves and births are noted including Michael Clay and family moving to the McCoubrey home in Douglas Kansas and births of a daughter named Dardéy to Clarence Hunt and an Andrew Sheffer son at Mary McClellan Hospital.
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Jermain Church
Michael Clay
Douglas
Kansas
McCoubrey
Clarence Hunt
Dardéy
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Robert Ogert
Mary McClellan Hospital
Andrew Sheffer
Sheffer
Rose Marie Niles
Three retirements fourth career for this visitor to Landgrove
Isabel Gwinn reports Anna Minnigerode, a frequent Landgrove visitor, pursuing a fourth career after a life spanning work as a sales clerk in New York, a Foreign Service wife and traveler, teaching in Alabama public schools for 33 years, and writing for local papers and short stories. She plans to spend her time writing, aided by writers conferences on Cape Cod and Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel Gwinn
Landgrove
Anna Meade Minngerode
Cooper Hill
Subjena
Peking
Mrs. Minnigeroda
Stern Brothers
New York
Washington
Shanghai
Department of Agriculture
China
Alabama
Talladega
Craigville
Cape Cod
St. Simon's Island
Georgia
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Bennington Banner
Samson
Factory Point National Bank
Fort Salem Theatre
East Broadway
Salem, Hi
Skidmore
The
Pownals
Pamela Blakeman
White Creek
Eleanor Niles
Howard Robinson
Duane and
Mary
Gordon Byars
Dewey McCartt
Safford
Shields Pavilion
Hedges Lake
Wayne Andrews
Mrs
James Hoffmeister
Cobble Hill Road
Doris Chesney
Lake Luzerne
Mrs. H. Gordon Minnigeroce
Bennington, Vt
Williamstown, Mass
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