Victorian Christmas Feast Lights Ancram Streets and Halls
Ancram New York outlines a 1975 Victorian Christmas celebration with white candle windows on Simons General Store and park lights. The event features a Victorian Parlor at Vauxhall, historic furniture displays, an Estey organ, and a Christmas room set in 19th century style. Gilbert and Sullivan quartet, Bernard Lennon artworks, and expanded Oliver House hours accompany theater, film, and gala dinners through Twelfth Night Frolic and New Years celebrations. The season ends with Merry Widow screenings and Maxim era decor.
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Ancram
N.Y
Simons General Store
Vauxhall
Livingston Manse
Ancram Opera House
Estey
Brattleboro
Yorgensen
Martha Yorgensen Holmes
Opera House
Bernard Lennon
Oliver House
Ronny Whyte
Lawrence Chelsi
Johann Strauss Atheneum
Maxim’s
Atheneum
Jeanette MacDonald
Maurice Chevalier
Franz Lehar
Mount Snow CAP celebrates 34th anniversary in West Dover
The Mount Snow Composite Squadron marked the Civil Air Patrols 34th year with Col. David Dawson leading an all day officer workshop. A pot luck supper followed and a January dinner is planned. CAP invites aviation and rescue enthusiasts to join. ground rescue team efforts are in progress for southern Vermont with training by the Vermont Wing.
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West Dover
Mount Snow
Civil Air Patrol
Vermont
David Dawson
CAP
Call
Jacob de Jong
Hoosick Falls Lions sell Christmas trees weekend sale
Hoosick Falls Lions Club begins its annual Christmas tree sale at Wood Memorial Park with trees cut that afternoon. Sale runs all day Sunday and weekdays until Dec 23, with special hours on Dec 21 and 22 from 10 a.m. Proceeds support local needs. The Hoosick Falls Eagles celebrate 30th anniversary with a weekend at First Street clubhouse starting Saturday 7 p.m. including roast beef dinner, dance 9–12, guest speaker Larry Roy from Montreal NY Aerie president. Also Sunday breakfast at 9, member initiations at 11:30 and 1 p.m. Eagle music programs at Hoosick Falls Central School on Sunday Dec 14 at 2 p.m. School bands and choirs perform. reception in high school cafeteria to follow. donations to King’s Daughters for needy in town.
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Town of
Hoosick Falls Aerue of Eagles
First Street
Ladies Auxiliary
The
Aenue
Mac
Larry Roy
Montreal
New York
Aerie
Eagles Aerie
Hoosick Falls
King’s Daughters
Hoosick
Public skating week schedule unchanged with event changes
North Adams notices no change to daily public skating for Dec 14 to 20 but lists altered special event times. The plan adds and shifts hours for NASC Pittsfield Eagles Wahconah High Gully Cats and other youth and adult hockey sessions across Monday to Saturday.
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North Adams
Mass
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Lanesboro Recreation Association
Drury
NASC
Christmas Brook Skating Club
Pittsfield Eagles
Northern Berkshire
Wahconah High
Lanesboro
Gully Cats
Vermont Housing Authority to study its structure
Vermont State Housing Authority votes to hire Cole Associates of Boston for a $5,000 month-long review of its administrative setup. Executive Secretary John Collar says the study will focus on issues such as uncollected rents and marks the first in seven years of operation.
Middlebury completes te W year fundraising drive beyond goal
Middlebury College in western Vermont reports the completion of a ten year fundraising plan surpassing its $10.3 million target by more than $3 million. Officials said almost $14 million was raised from 12,800 donors including over $6 million from foundations. Endowments, professorships, scholarships, a field house and faculty salaries benefited.
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Middlebury
UPI
Middlebury College
Western Vermont
Buttéy
Olin Robison
City leadership shakeup and belt tightening in two upstate towns
In Cohoes NY, Urban Renewal Agency Executive Director Francis J. OConnor resigns after mayor elect Ronald Canestrari requests changes to the administration. The board questions future appointees' independence. In Troy NY, City Manager John Buckley ends 24 hour city car use for six employees while others retain round-the-clock access amid belt tightening and calls to curb personal car use and phone calls.
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Troy
Norma H. Fatone
John P. Buckley
Buckley
Hinsdale judge weighs Zeitler parole bid in postcard claim
Hinsdale an attorney for William J Zeitler Jr said he never sent a threatening postcard to Edward Nutbrown of Pittsfield from Walpole state prison. Nutbrown testified at Zeitler's June trial and received the postcard showing Walpole prison with the message Wish you were here. The district attorney reported the hearing on a request to reduce Zeitler's sentence of 314 years was denied. Defense attorney Neven T Smith said prison records show no communication between Zeitler and Nutbrown. Great Barrington armed robbery at Exxon station on Stockbridge Road netted $215 as a masked teen held the gunman silent and crouched during the holdup. Attendant Michael Kydis, 16, noted the robber did not speak. police suspect the robber may have known the teen.
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Hinsdale
William J. Zeitler Jr
Walpole State
Edward Nutbrown
Pittsfield
Nutbrown
Zeitler
Walpole
Neven T. Smith
Great Barrington
Exxon
Stockbridge Road
Michael Kydis
Emmett J. Shea
Kydis
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van Rensselaer Lodge
F & AM
Masonic Temple
Santa Claus
Don’s Book Store
John Street
Santa
Edith Beaumont
Eagles
Ecuador
Water Street
Williamstown
North ST
Heublein, Inc
Hartford
Conn
Austin, Tex
USS
Gulf of Mexico
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co
Guertin Brothers
Shultz Jewelers
American Gem Society
Main Street
Bennington
Washington
James Jeffords
R-Vt
Jeffords
Federal Energy Research and Development Administration
House
Senate Conference Committee
Interior Department
Robert Stafford
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
Leahy
Stafford
White River National Fish Hatchery
Bethel
Richelieu River
Quebec
Lake Champlain
Northfield
Curtis Higley
Burlington
Higley
Northfield Electric Department
Down In
Berkshire
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