Sunderland School Director Heads Regional Junior High Committee
Sunderland School Board appoints a regional committee to study building a junior high for grades 7 to 9. Members include Albert Lawrence of Sunderland and Terry Tyler of Dorset with representatives from Manchester, Dorset, Arlington and Sunderland. A Jan 10 meeting is scheduled to continue the committee’s work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunderland
Manchester
Dorset
Arlington
Albert Lawrence
Terry Tyler
Ralph Fleming Jr
Lawrence
Margaret Thompson
Stuart Hill
Burr and Burton Seminary
Bennington
Leon Edgerton
Peru
Neil E. Cross
Arlington officials discuss shared police costs at high school events
Arlington Board of Selectmen Chair Orange R. Baker said town and school boards will share police protection costs at Arlington High School until town meeting. The exact split remains undecided with school funds covering personnel and town funding uniforms and related costs. A potential article for the warning may propose funds for a part time policeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington — Board of Selectman
Orange R. Baker
Arlington High School
Baker
Selectmen
Arlington Memorial High School
Arlington Lions Club
Readsboro Woodsman Hospitalized After Fall in Cabin
William Pike a longtime Readsboro woodsman, age 85, was hospitalized at Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington with a broken left hip after being found semi conscious in his cabin. He likely fell Saturday morning on the cabin doorstep and crawled inside. Pike has hosted hunters and hikers for years. the cabin sits near Route 8 by the Whitingham and Wilmington lines, owned by Catharine Opie of Groton, Massachusetts.
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Readsboro
William
Bill
Teddy
Pittsfield
Mass
Pikes
Bill Pike
Catherine T. Opie
Groton
Whitingham and
Wilmington
Londonderry pastor named new Columbus church minister
The Rev. Elliot T. Fair, longtime pastor at First Baptist Londonderry since 1962, accepted a unanimous call to East Baptist Church, Columbus, Ohio. He will begin Jan 22, succeeding interim pastor Rev. Henry Gillenwaters. Fair also led Bondville ministry and served as Stratton Chapel organizer. He held local leadership roles and Vermont Baptist positions, and was born in 1938 in Bridgeport Connecticut. He and his wife Sherrill Sanders have three children.
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Londonderry
Elliot T. Fair
First Baptist Church
East Baptist Church
Columbus
Ohio
Fair
Mr. Fair
Henry Gillenwaters
Newark
South Londonderry Library Board
Vermont Baptist Convention
Woodstock Baptist Association
Vermont Baptist Association
Bridgeport
Conn
Suffolk University
Boston
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Philadelphia
Tremont Temple Baptist Church
Sherrill Beverly Sanders
Arlington, Mass
Becky
Tad
Billy
Dorset Community Christmas Party Keeps 50 Year Tradition
Dorset and East Rupert children filled the Playhouse on Friday night for Santa Claus latest arrival and gifts. Magician Philip Moore entertained with levitation tricks while Barbara Towsley staged a safe cut in half illusion. The event traces back to 1913 or 1914 with Elma Pratt and a village Christmas tree, later moving to a church and school before settling at the Playhouse, supported by the Dorset Inn and the Women’s Fellowship with gifts funded by a Hawley trust and local donors to sustain presents for about 155 children each year.
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Dorset
East Rupert
Santa
Philip Moore
Rutland
Barbara Towsley
Robert McFall
Carol
Frederick Whittemore
Dorset Inn
Anna Gilbert
Elma Pratt
Burr and Burton Seminary
Sam Harwood
Edith Harwood
Helen Manley
James Leach
Pawlet
George McWayne
Rufus Gilbert
North District
Dorset Hollow
West Road
South Dorset
Olive Dern
Hawley
Miss Pratt
Dorset Playhouse
Terry Tyler
Skinner
Pownal Scout Troop to Host Christmas Party Tonight
The Pownal Center community will host a Scout Troop 347 Christmas party tonight at 7 in the Scout Hut. Scouts should bring 50 cents to one dollar for gift exchanges. The Pownal Center Church program Thursday at 7:30 features students and adults with songs, recitations, and a nativity pantomime, directed by Mrs. Fletcher Hall and others, followed by a gift exchange and holiday treats.
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Boy Scout Troop
Pownal Center Community Church
Kenneth Gile
Fletcher Hall
Jennifer Rounds
Ernest Roberts
Kimberly Roberts
Pamela Gile
Alan Lampman
Melinda Gates
Chris Thompson
Debra Patterson
Steve Chenaille
Kevin Lewis
Wendy Rounds
Jesus
John Patterson
Pamela Hall
Nicole
Kimberly Gile
Thomas Rounds
Terry Hall
Charles Rounds
Eleanor Rickert
Howard van Horn
Philip Thompson
Lauriston Wilcox
Women’s Fellowship
Scouts Sell Christmas Trees At Hulett's Greenhouse
Troop 331 Boy Scouts still offer balsam and Scotch pine Christmas trees for sale at Hulett's Greenhouse on Main Street, inviting local residents to purchase for the holiday season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts
Hulett
Main Street
Manchester teen wins good citizenship award for photo essay
Larry McDonald of Manchester Center received the WNHV good citizenship award for a dramatic photo page in the December 8 Valley News. The Lebanon newspaper photographer documented a fatal highway crash in sequential pictures with minute by minute text. A $50 prize was awarded and he pledged to donate the money to the Upper Valley Council for Retarded Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry McDonald
Lawrence McDonald
Manchester Center
WNHV
The
Valley News
McDonald
Lebanon, No.h
Upper Valley Council
Hoosick Grange Christmas Party Highlights
Hoosick Falls Hoosick Grange held a Christmas program organized by the Junior Grange led by Donald Hall featuring readings songs and skits including The First Noel Silent Night and No Room at the Inn. Santa distributed gifts as plans for a mortgage-lurn ing ceremony on Jan 21 were discussed and new committees were named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick Grange
Junior Grange
Donald Hall
Christopher Philpott
Alma Brenenstuhl
John Cipperly
Lillian Hewitt
William Brown Jr
Kathy Griswold
Dale Hall
Joan, Thomas
John Clancy
Timothy Wright
Jerry Griswold
Sandra Hoag
Hall
Santa
Omer
Norma Brenenstuhl
Omer Brenenstuhl
John Hoag
Malcolm Hall
Ernest Haas
Sanford Hewitt
Ralph J. Griswold
Fremont Haswell
William Brown
George Sigmund
Christmas Music Program At North Bennington School
A Christmas program by Grades K to 6 will be presented Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the North Bennington School gym. Parents and friends are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
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