Higgins Faces House Divisions Over Appointment Controversy
The town board, amid heated dispute, debates the appointment of Higgins' son to a post. Key players include Campbell, Frasier, Boutin, Lamb, and Daigneault, with accusations of pledges to resign, alleged pressure, and claims of nepotism shaping votes. Residents voice objections as looming recall-style tensions surface.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Higgins
Campbell
Frasier
Boutin
Norton Barber
Barber
Lamb
Army
Ronald
Pierce
Drysdale
Selectman
Clayton Daigneault
Higgin
Jeedhe
Daigneault
Gerald Cornell
Ellis Winslow
Cornell
Ronald Higgins
Bennington
Democrat O Connor enters Vermont House speakership race
Brattleboro attorney Rep Timothy J. O Connor announces his bid for speaker as 1971 legislature nears. He argues for partnership over power while critics doubt his path to the 150 member body, with Democrats divided between Frank Bunting and John Hancock and Walter Kennedy seen as front runner. O Connor was reelected to a second term and previously served on the Judiciary Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Brattleboro
O’connor
State Democratic Committee
Frank Bunting
Brandon
John Hancock
Hardwick
Walter Kennedy
Chelsea
House
Judiciary Committee
Thomas P. Salmon
Rockingham
UVM Trustee Beckley vows resignation after dispute
UPI reports University of Vermont trustee John Beckley, Caldwell, New Jersey publisher, vows to resign after a board meeting. Beckley had supported reconsidering quitting, then told TV cameras he cannot support a university with lower faculty standards amid controversy over Professor Michael Parenti and his appeal from an Illinois campus protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
UPI
University of Vermont
John Beckley
Beckley
Caldwell
N.J
UVM
Michael Parenti
University of Illinois
Edward Eurich
Vermont Democrats face debt and resignations amid internal rifts
Vermont Democrats confront a $30,000 post election debt after sweeping Republican victories. Fulltime executive secretary Donald Webster resigns while party chair Francis Esposito attacks unnamed colleagues, vowing to stay on to restore finances. Leo OBrien to head a fund drive as Hoff and Prouty clash in a tense intra party struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Democratic Party
State Democratic Committee
Donald Webster
Webster
Leo O’brien
Francis Esposito
Rutland
Esposito
Bennington Lodge Elks Meet and Community Christmas Events
Bennington Lodge of Elks sets 8 p.m. Tuesday at the lodge barn with snacks to follow. Christmas parties are planned by the Bennington County Central Labor Council at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Senior Citizens Center, and by the Senior Citizens Club tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the North Street center with a covered dish and a $1 gift exchange. Church Night at Second Congregational Church Tuesday at 6 p.m. features Christmas in all its forms. Plain Dirt Gardeners meet Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. James Wallace's home with an annual Christmas ornament auction and evergreen branch identification. American Legion Auxiliary hosts a Christmas party December 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Heritage House with a $1 gift. Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Christmas party Tuesday at 7 p.m. with a covered dish supper upstairs at North Street. Children’s Christmas party moved to Sunday December 20 with toy donations to needy families, drop-offs at First Baptist Church or YMCA pickup by calling 447-7316. Alpine clinic at Mt Anthony Union High School canceled. Gas price at 32.9 cents per gallon at Davey Oil. Lost: Dusky, a 1½ year old black Labrador in West Shaftsbury, reward. Call 442-2680. Asset and insurance ad notes: inflationary costs rising 4.6% in the past year. Shea Agency advertises higher home insurance amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars 1332
North Street
Postmaster appeals for cleaned sidewalks and steps
Bennington Postmaster Stanley J. Pekalski urged customers in the Bennington postal district to clear snow and ice from sidewalks approach walks and porches. He cited past year falls by mail carriers and losses of workdays and costs to the Postal Service. He asked residents to sand and clean after storms to reduce hazards and protect letter carriers milkmen and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley J. Pekalski
Bennington
New England
Postal Service
Relevance Review of Haydns Creation by Vermont Chorus
Vivian Golbin praises the Bennington Community Chorus for a vivid Creation performance at Mount Anthony High School led by Theodore Cook. Soloists Virginia Gerleman Arthur Murphy and Paul Bohne Jr. deliver clear diction and strong singing as the ensemble blends wind solos with choral reverence in a balanced, devotional rendition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian Golbin
Bennington Community Chorus
Haydn
Mount Anthony High School
Papa Haydn
Europe
Theodore Cook
Angels
Gabriel
Uriel
Raphael
Adam and Eve
Sidley
Virginia Gerleman
Arthur Murphy
Paul Bohne Jr
Mr. Bohne
Adam
Mr. Murphy
Miss Gerleman
Gabriel and
Eve
Cook
Bennington
90 day jail term ordered for pointing gun at police
Robert W. Peabody Jr. of Gore Road was ordered to serve 90 days of a three year prison term for pointing a loaded deer rifle at two State Police officers in Bennington on Sept. 19. In Bennington District Court Judge John P. Morrissey sentenced him to Rutland Regional Correctional Center after a middle course ruling. State's Attorney Neil S. Moss urged prison time for a crime deemed dangerous to law enforcement in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. Peabody Jr
Gore Road
Bennington
Bennington District Court
John P. Morrissey
Peabody
Rutland Regional Correctional Center
Neil S. Moss
William C. Sennett
Morrissey
Ronald K. Brace
Main St
Barbara L. Harrington
Hospital Notes Friday December 4 1970 admissions
Admissions list includes Mrs Lillian Harrington Shaftsbury and Harold Beebe East Dorset for Friday December 4 1970. Discharges include Brenda Slade Manchester Depot Elizabeth Teal Shaftsbury and several others with multiple names across Bennington Arlington Hoosick Falls Manchester Depot and Shaftsbury. Births report a daughter for Mr and Mrs Edward Holden of West Road on December 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Harrington
Shaftsbury
Harold Beebe
East Dorset
Carlton Rockwell
Brenda Slade
Manchester
Elizabeth Teal
Linda Ayers
Bennington
Elizabeth A. Myers
Patricia D. Hoard
Lulu Themelis
Steven Dufresne
Eva A. Taylor
Cecelia M. Hassenpflug
Emma Boutin
Roy D. McDermott
Arlington
Pauline McGuire
Hoosick Falls
Albert D. Kretzmer
Mildred Dailey
North Bennington
Anna L. Bovey
Eric H. Hill
Anna Hoyt
Guy W. Herrick
Pawlet
Frances Bronson
Pownal
Edward Holden
West Road
Car skids off, driver unhurt near Mt. Anthony High
Village police report 24 year old Alton R Robinson of Chapel Road escaped injury when his 1963 Chevrolet slid on Park Street Extension at 4 25 am and went over an embankment on a snow covered road just north of Mt Anthony Union High School. Police Chief William H Fox warns residents there is to be no overnight parking to aid snow removal.
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Alton R. Robinson
Chapel Road
Park Street
Robinson
Mt. Anthony Union High School
William H. Fox
Fox
Funeral Rites Held for Raymond F. Patten of 231 North St
The funeral for Raymond F Patten who died at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a long illness was held at St Francis de Sales Church with a Requiem High Mass. Burial will be in spring at Park Lawn Chapel. Relatives came from Weston Connecticut and North Bennington. Included notes on bearers and prior Rosary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond F. Patten
North St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
St. Francis de Sales Church
Francis B. Flanagan
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Ralph Bartell
Arthur E. Patten Jr
Floyd Cookson
John P. Proud Sr
Christopher Patten
Ronald Walczak
Obituaries from Dorset to Arlington Mark Weekend Deaths
Multiple obituaries note deaths across Vermont and nearby states. Gertrude H Hislop of Dorset dies at home with no funeral. John C Jones 75 of Peru dies in Rockingham Hospital with services planned in Peru Church and burial in Orwell. Lucie B Oakley 78 formerly of Westport dies after brief illness with private funeral and memorial gifts to St James Arlington. Jack Donavan 79 of Johnston and Bennington sportsman dies in Crescent Manor with church services and Elks Eagles rituals planned. Georgia Farnham Rice 85 of Arlington dies in Pontiac with funeral in Arlington and burial in Evergreen. Donald S Kendall Sr 76 Arlington plastics pioneer dies at Putnam Memorial Hospital. funeral held in Manchester. Survivors include spouses, children, and extended relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude H. Hislop
Dorset
Hislop
Codman Hislop
George Fulford Hanson
Madison, Wis
Herbert Milton MacMaster
Schenectady
N.Y
Dorset Village
John C. Jones
Peru
Rockingham Memorial Hospital
Bellows Falls
Alvin
Florence (Wyman) Jones
Alta
Lucy Stevenson
Florida
Peru Congregational Church
Gary Wehrwein
Lucie B. Oakley
Westport
Conn
George C. Oakley
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bruges
Belgium
Philip Linde
Arlington
William R. Wright
Maui
Hawaii
Roger G. Oakley
Fairfield
St. James Episcopal Church
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
John George Donavan
Jack Donavan
Crescent Manor
Johnston, R.I
George and
Elizabeth (Toohey) Donavan
Bennington
Holden & Leonard
Warner Hursing
Georgia (Farnham) Rice
Carl J. Rice
Pontiac
Mich
John W. Eddy
Hanson- Walbridge
Evergreen Cemetery
Donald S. Kendall Sr
Mack Molding Co
Hattie (Sargent) Kendall
Caldwell
N.J
Eleanor Beaman
Society of Plastic Industry
Red Mountain Lodge
F&am
Manchester Congregational Church
Donald Kendall Jr
Jane Gardner
Wayne, N.J
Mary Kendall
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Ludlow Cemetery
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O'Connor
Parenti
Deane C. Davis
Illinois
Samuel Fishman
Vergennes
Philip H. Hoff
U.S. Senate
Winston L. Prouty
Fishman
State Committee
Prouty
Bennington Briefs
Bennington Lodge of Elks
Bennington County Central Labor Council
Senior Citizens Center
Head Start
BROC
Senior Citizens Club
Second Congregational
James Wallace
American Legion Auxiliary
Heritage House
First Baptist Church
Main Street
YMCA
Davey Oil
West Shaftsbury
Dusky
Shea Agency Inc. Adv
Music Review
Jay C. Mattison
Alice Grace Mattison
Hanson-Walbridge
A.J. MacDonald
First United Methodist Church
Mattison
Frank Sthroer
George Manuel
Lew H. Levin
Herbert Ware
Marshall Lyon
Ralph Sherwin
Center Shaftsbury
Mr. MacDonald
Sourcliffe Nursing Home
Brace
Robert C. Ryan
David G
Cleveland Avenue
Robert
Readsboro
Wilmington
Wayne D. Rowell
Opie
Stamford
Mrs. Codman Hislop
John G. Donavan
Red Sox
Bennington Aerie
Order of Eagles
Eagles
Gibney, Haynes & Kane
Elks
Mary Donavan
Norwich
Gibney, Haynes & Kane Funeral Home
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Blackstone
Mass
St. Paul's Cemetery
Donald
Kendall Sr
Drysdale’s
Bank Americard
Armory
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