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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1965
Page
6
An art display runs through Labor Day featuring works by gallery members in a 30th annual exhibition. The show highlights diverse media with pieces from local artists, inviting visitors to view a yearlong community collaboration.
The annual Harned-Fowler Post and Auxili ary VFW family picnic will be at Tinmouth Pond Pavilion at noon Sunday with meals, a snack table, a horseshoe tourney, and swimming. A repeat street dance by area youth is set for Memorial Avenue Saturday at 8 p.m. Berets of Bennington provide music. Grange Hall if rain. Post members recently returned from the Chicago VFW convention and will show moving pictures with commentary at the post soon. Mrs. John Wilhite and Eve Otis of Arcadia, California visit Don Otis.
Dorset Patience Brooks and Edith Snare with Nicholas Lemtugov sell land on West Road to Robert Nation. Margaret Mallory Dixon sells a house to John Hawkes. Sylvia Mor esi purchases land from Edward Forrest and spouse.
Jack Frost, a 31 year old professional well digger from Danbury Connecticut, has started Stavens Frost Inc in East Dorset Vermont. He moved his family here for good schools and plans to drill wells with two crews using up to 96 000 dollars in equipment. Drilling averages 25 feet per hour with typical wells around 170 feet deep. He emphasizes luck over dowser methods and lives on Battenkill Rise Farm with his wife and six children.
Van Loon Associates launched in Manchester with Henry van Loon hosting a party for Peter Powers Hale Bart Jacob and Richard Toussaint. The Vermont headquarter firm offers architecture engineering and land use planning with projects in industrial and residential design.
District announces new faculty for the session starting September 7 across Bennington Rutland union towns. Danby Danby Borough and Corners Schools gain teachers Carrie King June Greene. Dorset welcomes Elizabeth Wheelwright Arlene Rigg. Mount Tabor sees Nelson Carman Virginia Colvin. Pawlet West Pawlet Sunderland Rupert districts list incumbents and replacements with notes on illness and ongoing principals.
Manchester Elementary marks the new school year on September 7 with two faculty changes and a new kindergarten assistant. Edward Thompson will teach Grade 5, George Wheeler Jr. becomes band instructor, replacing Napoleon Ianni who resigned after 20 years. Ruth Fowler named kindergarten assistant. Other staff return, and students must bring their own lunches until the hot lunch program resumes.
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