Norwich to offer unique environmental technology degree
Norwich University in Northfield will start a four year environmental technology bachelor program next fall. Chairman Dr Gordon Pyper says no similar program exists in Vermont and possibly the nation. The B T degree leads to careers in environmental protection and involves collaboration with engineers to study and end environmental issues.
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Northfield
Norwich University
Vermont
Gordon Pyper
Norwich
Department of Civil Engineering
Pyper
Vermont Educators Aim to Cut School Construction Red Tape
Vermont educators and a state board move to ease costly construction regulations by studying New Hampshire cost cuts and meeting with state agencies to reconsider rules. They eye waivers on minimum school days and weigh fewer limits on innovative designs, environmental standards, and curious funding uses.
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Montpelier
State Board of Eucation
Vermont
New Hampshire
Deane C. Davis
Education Board
Marian Taylor
Taylor
Towns forego tax revenues in Vermont inventory tax losses
About 30 Vermont communities fail to list Xerox copying equipment as taxable items, costing $50 000 to $60 000 in revenues. A Vermont Tax Department spokesman cited lax local assessors and Xerox as factors. The losses are unrecoverable due to missed April deadlines, with Waterbury Northfield Windsor and Brandon among the hardest hit.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Xerox Corp
Vermont Tax Department
Waterbury
Northfield
Windsor
Brandon
Parochiaid challenge delayed by court panel
A three judge federal panel postponed Wednesday’s hearing on Vermont’s parochial school aid law to December 28 without stating a reason. Americans for Separation of Church and State files seek to halt state funding for sectarian and private schools while the Department of Education holds back a $15,000 Rutland payment. The suit seeks temporary and permanent injunctions against further state allocations. Gerald J. Moran, former Bennington resident and longtime Springfield Mass. resident, was given funeral rites at St. Francis de Sales Church. Burial is planned for spring at Park Lawn Chapel Cemetery.
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Department of Education
Rutland
Gerald J. Moran
Bennington
Springfield
Mass
St. Francis de Sales
Francis B. Flanagan
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Thomas Biggs
Charles Tidd
Francis D. Walker
William T. Shanahan
John P. Proud
John DesLaurier
Flanagan
Park Lawn Chapel
Putnam Square
Henry White
Moran
Stark Hose Company
Gulf Corp
Hoover as FBI Chief Shapes Political Power and Succession
The piece reviews J Edgar Hoover s unique influence on Congress and presidents from Nixon to Johnson noting his political sensitivity and the difficulty of finding a successor. It cites cases over treaties labor civil rights and the Kennedy era his reception by federal attorneys and argues that an outside independent leader with a finite term may best balance power and accountability.
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McCarthy
Portland
Ore
Hoover
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Joseph R
Wisconsin
Edgar
Soviet Union
Johnson
Congress
Nixon
Washington Street
Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Bureau
Justice Department
Home Office
Bob Kennedy
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Carrols
Afi Woolman
Americans For Separation of Church and State
A Wickes
Granada
Apollo
Wickes
North St
Grants
Grants Bradford House
Radford House
Bennington, VT
Wise Women Shop
Save-Way Supermarket
Mammoth Mart
Main Street
Vermont Bank
Catamount National Bank
Brattleboro
Bennington North
Manchester Center
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