Developing ecological awareness in a southern Vermont summer camp
Tom Hopkins documents the Southern Vermont CSSV summer school in Londonderry where 10 to 15 children aged seven to 13 spend five days exploring forest field and stream habitats. Co directors Eloise Clark and Bell Landmesser guide a curriculum designed to spark curiosity through activities like a predator prey role play. The program emphasizes indirect learning via nature hikes to foster ecological awareness understanding and respect to prepare future citizens for environmental challenges.
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Londonderry
South Londonderry
The
Conservation Society of Southern Vermont
CSSV
Eloise Clark
Bell Landmesser
Dorset Talk Postponed On Battle of Bennington
The Dorset Historical Society rescheduled its August 21 program to Wednesday Aug 28 at 8 p.m. in the United Church vestry Dorset. Professor Codman Hislop will present a free talk. Hislop, retired Union College history professor, previously spoke on Hubbardton and plans to cover Saratoga in Dorset’s Bicentennial activities.
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Dorset
Dorset Historical Society
Bennington
the United Church
Codman Hislop
Hislop
Hubbardton
Saratoga
History
Union College
Schenectady
N.Y
Captiva
Florida
George Washington
Brandon appoints administrator at Brandon Training School
Oliver A. Yancer was named assistant superintendent at Brandon Training School per Superintendent Raymond M. Mulcahy. A Syracuse University graduate, he joined the staff in 1970 and was business manager in 1972 after prior roles at Easy Washing Machine Corp and General Electric. He will oversee residential and developmental programs for residents.
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Brandon
Oliver A. Yancer
Raymond M. Mulcahy
Yancer
Syracuse University
Easy Washing Machine Corporation
General Electric Company
Bennington Rutland Union Gets Ecology Mini Grant
The Vermont Department of Education approved a $659 mini grant under Title III for Mrs. Francis Mitchell of Manchester Center a 5th grade teacher at Currier Memorial School Danby. The project Discovering Our Environment funds forest based mapping surveying and forestry skills with a field trip to National Survey Co from Sept 12 to Oct 17.
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Manchester
The
Bennington-Rutland
National Survey Co
Vermont settles fraud case with Vinyl Distributors
Attorney General Kimberly Cheney announces settlement with Vinyl Distributors Inc over deceptive advertising and sales. The company must keep warranty records, investigate claims within 14 days, and repair or replace as needed, with a $4,000 civil penalty. Advertising and sales practices must comply with Vermont law and consumer rights to cancel home solicitations within three business days. Consumers with unsatisfied claims should contact Vinyl Distributors or the Consumer Fraud Division if not resolved.
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Burlington
Kimberly Cheney
Vinyl Distributors, Inc
Lee Suskin
Vinyl Distributors
Consumer Fraud Division
Vermont
State of
Printing and the Mind of Man at Williams College
Williams College Chapin Library displays 50 first printed editions from Gutenberg to Newton. The exhibit features Dante’s first illustrated edition, Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Vesalius Fabrica, Erasmus Greek New Testament, and other landmark scientific, religious, and historical works. Visitors may feel lightheaded yet gain a taste of a grand intellectual feast.
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Gutenberg
Isaac Newton
Euclid
Alberti
Valturius
Copernicus
Albrecht Duerer
Fuchs
Agricola
Vesalius
Bremer
Bacon
Hobbes
Locke
Coke
England
Harvey
Napier
John Harris
Public rate case in Vermont seeks reconsideration of hike
Allen Martin, attorney for the public, says the Public Service Board should reconsider its 31 percent temporary rate hike granted to Green Mountain Power if the board dismisses parts of the utility’s testimony. Green Mountain seeks a 65 percent permanent increase. Martin argues the testimony uses a future test year contrary to Vermont regulation. GM Power’s Peter McTague counters that future costs are needed to avoid a perpetual catch-up.
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Green Mountain
Peter McTague
PSB
Hospital opens records on obstetrics amid abuse charges
Central Vermont Hospital offers to let any qualified individual inspect its obstetrics department after a public hearing raised claims of forced drug use during childbirth and harassment of women preferring natural birth. One claimant said forceps caused facial damage to her baby. hospital officials would welcome a commission review. For the second item Gov. Salmon plans a special attorney to probe drug convictions in Franklin County, citing testimony by undercover agent Paul Lawrence and potential conflicts of interest with the court.
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Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Walker
C.O. Granai Jr
Barre
Richard Romeyn
Montpelier
Barney
Salmon
Nuke fuel hearing rejected in Vermont Vernon plant
Attorney General Cheney says the state’s nuclear consultant sees no need for a hearing on replacement fuel for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. The MIT physicist Rasmussen believes the new fuel will be safer and better. The New England Coalition has asked the AEC for a hearing as Vernon plant prepares to replace 90 percent of its fuel starting Sept. 27.
Welfare rolls fall sharply in New York in 1973 74
Albany reports New York state welfare rolls declined by 222,336 persons from March 1972 to May this year marking the second straight drop. Public assistance recipients fell by 161,000 in 1973 with further declines expected in 1974. The 14.3 percent reduction is the largest since World War II and the first decline since 1960, attributed to stricter eligibility rules and procedures.
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Albany
Department of Social Services
Social Services
Abe Lavine
Samuels and Carey push jobs as top priority at convention
Lake Placid Democratic gubernatorial nominees Howard Samuels and Hugh Carey told a publishers’ convention that creating more jobs is their main goal. They criticized Rockefeller and Wilson for action or inaction, noting the Job Development Authority yields only 1,900 jobs per year since 1961. Carey called crime rate a barrier to growth and proposed more day care centers to enable mothers to work.
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Lake Placid
OTB
Howard Samuels
Hugh Carey
Nelson Rockefeller
Malcolm Wilson
State
Samuels
Carey
Berkshire school delays threaten September opening
In North Adams Supt. Robert L. Loretan postponed the Sept. 4 first day for juniors and seniors after discovering safety risks at the old Drury site and delays at the new Drury middle school project. Underclassmen may begin in a couple weeks, but mixed classes are unlikely, hurting overall student placement due to carpenters’ strike and contractor hesitancy.
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North Adams
Robert L. Loretan
St. Joseph High School
Old Drury
New Drury
Old School
Carpenters
Loretan
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