Christmas Gift Drive Ahead in North Bennington
North Bennington Women’s Fellowship reminds members to deliver wrapped gifts to Mrs Ronald Nadeau by December 4 for the December 5 Christmas meeting in the church social rooms. Deer hunting news highlights Robert Peckham and son John with first day kills, while Steven Peckham secures a later six pointer in Sandgate. Local youth Ricky Knapp adds a deer to a family legacy, and 11 year old Eddie Riley posts his first seven pointer. North Bennington Boy Scouts plan a Sunday house to house sale of handmade birch bark candle holders to fund troop supplies, meeting at the school at 1 pm. Scout leaders Pete Stoothoff and others lead first aid and crab soccer activities.
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Women’s Fellowship
The
Congregational Church
Ronald Nadeau
Hall Street
Robert Peckham
Peckham
John
Steven Peckham
Sandgate
Ricky Knapp
MAUHS
Fred Knapp
Donald Knapp
Brad Riley
Eddie
Nington
Pete Stoothoff
Alan McWaters
Bruce McWaters
Southwestern Vermont Teachers Form a Unified SVVEA
The Southwestern Vermont Education Association, formed by the merger of the Bennington Teachers' and Bennington Southwest Teachers' groups, now has nearly 200 members and aims to unite eight districts. The group discussed dues shifts, policy on contracts, a salary schedule proposal, and a public relations newsletter, with emphasis on active teacher participation in local education issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Pownal
Arlington
Southwestern Vermont Education Association
SVVEA
Bennington Teachers’ Association
Bennington Southwest Teachers’ Association
Marie Mattison
Jon Emerson
Bennington Elementary
Zone 7
Vermont Education Association
VEA
Vermont State School Directors’ Association
Vermont Superintendents’ Association
Emerson
Henry Coley
Mt. Anthony
SWVEA
Coley
Philip George
Arlington High
Association
Bennington
David Jareckie
Ethiopia
Jareckie
Four New York hunters fined in Manchester justice court
In Manchester Justice Court Justice Ralph Fleming Jr. convicted four New York residents and one Bennington man for fish and game violations. Edward Powers and Carl Falsen of Troy pleaded guilty to hunting without a license and were fined $25 each. Francis Griffis of Bennngton pleaded guilty to failing to tag a deer and fined $20. Rossario Lebrun and Francis Lebrun of Glens Falls were convicted and fined $25 each. Liz Beckwith opened a real estate office on Bonnet Street with Ann Sykes joining Dorset office duties.
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Manchester
New York
Bennington
Ralph Fleming Jr
Edward T. Powers
Carl T. Falsen
Troy
N.Y
Arlington
William LaCount
Francis G. Griffis
Griffis
Dorset
Jim Williams
Glens Falls
LaCount
Rossario O. Lebrun
Francis P. Lebrun
CPA Buys Manchester Business
Joseph F. Saunders, CPA, announced the purchase of the accounting practice of Armand Guay in Manchester. His office will relocate from Wells Real Estate on U.S. 7 to his home on School Street while a new facility is found. Saunders has lived in Manchester five years, is married with a daughter at the University of Vermont and a son in eighth grade at Manchester Elementary School.
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Manchester
Joseph F. Saunders
CPA
Armand Guay
Saunders
Wells Real Estate
U.S. 7
School
University of Vermont
Manchester Elementary
Grange
National Grange
Minneapolis
Minn
Vermont
Glen
Marilyn Easter
Grand View Grange
Addison
Easter
Rose Torrey
Mountain Home Grange
Winhall
St. Margaret’s Guild of Zion Episcopal Church
W. G. Shaw
Bonnet Street
Driscoll Family Thanksgiving Visit in Drexel Hill
Mr and Mrs Jerome Dris coll and family of Drexel Hill Pennsylvania spent Thanksgiving and the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Lester Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Driscoll
Drexell Hill, Pa
Lester Jones
Barber Shop Reopens on Main Street After Vacation
P O Box 506 Francis Coburn has resumed business at his barber shop on Main Street following a month long vacation in Florida A Christmas band concert is scheduled at the Manches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Coburn
Main Street
Florida
The
Manches
Postponed Williams College lecture on McLuhan topic
The Thursday December 1 lecture at Williams College by George P. Elliott titled We Become What We Behold has been postponed to January 5 at 8 p.m. in Jesup Hall. Elliott, novelist and Syracuse University English faculty member, will discuss Marshall McLuhan’s phenomenon. Also noted are upcoming elementary school events and a town sidewalk tractor purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
George P. Elliott
Marshall McLuhan
Jesup Hall
Elliott
Syracuse University
Pownal Poet Barbara Howes Reads at Guggenheim
Barbara Howes, noted Pownal poet, will read from her verse at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on December 8 at 8 30 p.m. as part of the Academy of American Poets series. She shares the program with James Merrill, whose latest volume is Nights and Days. Her Looking Up at Leaves appeared from Knopf last summer. In 1965 she edited From the Green Antilles Writings of the Caribbean. Before the Guggenheim appearance she will tape a program December 6 at WBAI in New York on The West Indian Experience, arranged through the MacMillan Company.
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Elizabeth Dwyer
Hunters All
Boy Scouts
John Carriere
Cochrane’s Furniture
Manchester Playhouse
Hitchcock, Clayton-Marcus
Northland Construction Co
Ringheiser
As Effective Teachers’ Organization
Pro
Alan Page
Margaret E. Phillips
UVM
English Department
Ernest Edward Phillips
Margaret
Peru
Alice Dibble
Prescott Huidekoper
Milton
Joseph Billo
New York City
Paul Ostertag
William Gwinn
Fontaine Martin
Darien
Conn
Landgrove
Manchester Justice Court
Liz Beckwith
Glen Valley
Manchester Depot
Whipples
Russell Stover Chane
Coty
Elizabeth Arden
Old Spice
Lanvin
Revlon Yardley
Manchester Center
Manchester, Vermont
Byron Hathorn
GOP
David Anderson
Board of Civil Authority
Ferdinand Bongartz
Carmel Babcock
Alice Congdon
Ann Clay
Clara May Hemenway
Virginia
Max) Perrotta
Hawley Company
Maple St
E. Arlington, Vt
John O. Slade
Chet Ringheiser
P.O. Box
Guggenheim
Weg
Rust Craft
Purdy
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