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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1967
Page
6
In North Bennington Village the total tax rate for this year is 6.89 including town 0.99 highway 0.50 village 0.43 and school 4.97. The village levy remains below other town areas while the grand list doubled to reach 50 percent of fair market value and the year’s tax shows a modest rise.
North Bennington school officials invite residents to help themselves to surplus desks from the former study hall now used as a library. The yard sale price is 6.89, reducing actual taxes to about five percent. Village and Shaftsbury district tax bills will be mailed in about 10 days.
Mr and Mrs Lyle Grusendorf return to their North Pownal home after a week in Puerto Rico Hi Ho Amigos 4 H Club plans a horse show at Bald Mt Arlington this weekend Pownal Town School District registers new pupils Sept 1 George H Daley principal at Center School 9 am to 2 pm birth certificates required classes begin Sept 6 bus schedules to be posted next week
North Bennington School Board hopes to add an art program this year pending a part time instructor within budget and district salary norms. Supt. Wagner will continue searching after Lake Paran workshop praise and principal Kellogg’s policy inquiries on truancy and crossing guards. A flexible reading plan for Grades 3-6 was approved in principle, to be discussed in detail with the superintendent.
North Bennington School opens September 6 with K through 6 in the brick School Street building. Custodians Knapp and Green finished moving furniture, refinishing floors, and painting as changes include a kindergarten on the first floor with a new suite, a rebuilt library, teacher and science rooms, a kitchen conversion for hot lunches, and a new principal Robert Kellogg along with music teacher Robert Joe Godfrey.
Arlington Garden Club reports donations for Auction 67 on September 2 at West Arlington Green. Items include antiques and collectibles such as a bathtub on lion feet, chest of drawers, and a Victorian mirror. Auctioneer Bus Mars of Pawlet will start at 10 a.m. lunch available, parking ample, rain shelter provided. Volunteers can donate items on Sept 1 or call 375-2871 for pickup.
Dorset voters are reminded of a special town meeting starting Monday at 7 30 p m to decide whether the Board of Sisters should expand from three to five members and whether a state property appraisal is needed A second session Tuesday from 9 a m to 6 p m will vote by Australian ballot on approving a proposed zoning ordinance All meetings are at Dorset Elementary School.
Arlington new student registration at Arlington Memorial High School runs Monday from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Students wishing to discuss programs or change plans should meet guidance director Herbert Eddy at the high school during this period. School opens Sept 6. All boys interested in soccer should report Thursday Aug 31 at 9 a.m. Physicals follow at 9:30 a.m.
A review of Hostile Witness by Jack Roffey at the Weston Playhouse critiques summer stock theater. The critic laments low-stakes, entertainment-first productions, praises some actors for line mastery, and argues for more challenging, well-staged works despite limited budgets and sets. The piece weighs the duty of critics to seek quality theater over easy diversion.
Carl T. Ramsey of Dorset receives an honorarium from Friends of Nature in Brookside Maine for his weekly nature column in The Banner and his orchid conservation work. Ramsey studied orchids at the New York Botanical Garden in 1929, created orchid drawings under the WPA in 1932 later displayed at the University of Vermont, and is viewed by John David Hatch Jr. as the Audubon of Orchids. Ramsey will be 86 on September 13.
The Manchester Area Jaycees Arts and Crafts Festival starts Saturday at 10 a.m. on the Village Green to benefit local projects. Artists include Virginia Webb Robert White Francis Coburn Barney Duke and Virginia Cooney with additional works from the Southern Vermont Art Center Deeley Gallery and Marjorie Sargent Creative Arts shop. Various craft exhibitors from Manchester Center Bennington and Dorset are set with a white elephant table, baked goods, and refreshments. An evening drawing offers a 65 Polaroid color camera as top prize.
A collage of local visits unfolds as Robert G. Jones, a U.S. Marine captain in Tampa, trains reserves at Norfolk, stopping in Wilmington to see Barbara Coussement. The Finneys, Bergs, Simsons, and Bergs visit relatives and enjoy Emerald Lake. a Belgian prince arrives in NICE seeking the man he accuses of embezzling $7.4 million in a real estate scheme.
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