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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1968
Page
5
Vermont lawmakers submitted eleven measures to the 1969 legislature as four more bills went to printers. Proposals include an apiary inspection measure and an interstate pest control compact to curb crop insect damage, plus cooperation with communities to fight Dutch elm disease with a $30,400 biennial appropriation.
In Albany, Troy Housing Authority reports HUD approval of a 1.848 million dollar plan to build 100 low rent units on the St Joseph’s Infant Home site east of Burden Avenue and Mill Street with 44 more units south of Glen Avenue and River Street, plus 24 apartments on the former maternity hospital site.
Williamstown Citizens Highway Committee battles state Route 7 bypass plans and seeks to pause them. Connecticut officials eye a 1500 mile undesignated interstate route to link Connecticut to Vermont via Berkshire and North Adams. Meanwhile the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority sues Cromwell Wright Corp. for 100000 over the Mud Pond Dam break in Lee last March, two dead and millions in damages.
Three state agencies submit rough drafts to the Interagency Committee on Natural Resources for a proposed 5.2 million flood control project in Victory Vermont. The U S Army Corps of Engineers would build a 2800 acre lake by flooding the Victory Bog.
At Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire nearly 50 American Indian youths and 150 secondary students joined parallel ABC conferences. The events, sponsored by ABC and United Scholarship Services, featured speakers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and coalition representatives. Participants included Penobscot Passamaquoddy and other tribes from Maine with hosts from Hartford Vt High School.
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