Vermont Road Cost Estimate Error Dominates Early 1968 News
A long list of January 1968 items tracks Vermont political and local developments from highway budgeting across U.S. 7 to school salary freezes. Key figures include Robert M. Wilson named state development commissioner, Virginia N. Perrotta chairing Bennington Democrats, and ongoing debates over road funding, town budgets, and public works in Bennington and Windham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
U.S. 7
Howard F. Kelley
Robert M. Wilson
Bennington
Bennington Park Commission
Williams College
Bennington District Court
Main
Burdis Associates
Ben Mont Company
The
County Industrial Corporation
Manchester
David J. Fielding
North Carolina Police
Pownal
Virginia N. Perrotta
Ellis D. Winslow
Bennington Selective Service Board
Victor A. Agostini
Bijur Lubricating Corp
Kocher Drive
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
Greater Bennington Association
Catherine Corcoran
North Bennington
Franklin D. Frantz
Marian Taylor
State Board of Education
Emory Hebard
Glover
House
Ways and Means
Lauritz S. Larsen
U.S
House of Representatives
Reid Lefevre
Bennington County Industrial Corp
Ben Mont
Wraptures, Inc
Philip H. Hoff
Alma Langlois
Sunderland
Carl D. Jolivette
H. T. Cushman Mfg. Co
James V. Horrigan
North Adams
First National Bank
Sandgate
Peru
Listers
Vietnam
John Daley
Lucia Howard
Honduras
Bennington Friends of Retarded Children
Winston Prouty
Frank Bizzarro
Mt. Anthony Union High School
David Frederickson
Economic Opportunity
Neil Rappaport
League of Women Voters
Bennington South
First Baptist Church
Hoosick
Home, Inc
Housing Opportunity Mission Ecumenical
Congregational Church of
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
United States
Bennington Chronology Highlights Local Civic Fever
The Bennington Banner chronology lists political caucus shifts and a flurry of local events from February to May. It notes party maneuvers at the GOP and Democratic caucuses, federal funding talks for Windham County airports, a dairy farm fire, corporate land deals, road beltline debates, new plant groundbreakings, and civic projects across Bennington and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GOP
Bennington Taxpayers Protective Assn
Democratic Party
Windham County
Winhall
Laurin H. Capen
Jahleen D. Woodbridge
Boston
Ben Mont Papers Co
Eugene L. Coleman
Coleman Holding Corp
New York City
Readsboro
Bennington
State Highway Board
Robert Wilson
Philip Hoff
Mack Molding Co
Arlington
Dorset
Taxing of banks’ personal property discussed by sisters
A town meeting discussion covers taxing banks personal property. Eugene L. Coleman of New York City reports Vermont land prices not inflated after amassing 9,000 acres in New Fane Dover and Whitingham. Several dates note local events from May 1931 era in Bennington area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
John L. Hawkes
Dorset
William H. Fox
Bijur Lubricating Corp
Park Street
Kocher
Paradise Realty Corp
John P. Morrissey
Bennington - Rutland
Senate
Fannie Hurst
Manchester
New York
Pownal
Ecumenical Center
County Street
Green Mountain Park
Vermont House
Vermont
Leon E. Wagner
Bennington
GOP
Munson Farm
Howard Dufresne
Ivan D. Combe
East Dorset
White Plains
N.Y
Vickie English
Bennington College
Dallas County
Alabama
Pablo Casals
Marlboro
Philip H. Hoff
New York City
Harriman
Readsboro
Henry F
Eugene L. Coleman
Newfane
Dover
Whitingham
Robert T. Stafford
Grangers
United States
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Sacred Heart
St. Francis de Sales
George Rogers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Albert C. Mallory
Woodford
Brattleboro
Walter Hard Jr
Vermont Life Magazine
Rotary Club
Bennington Taxpayers’ Protective Assn
Board of Sisters
John C. Page
Paul Foster
North Pownal
Jaycee’s
Banner
Helen P. Howe
Silver Street
Edward Eldred
County Soil Conservation’s
Ned
Soldiers Home
Vermont Department of Social Welfare
North Street
Ernest Haas
James L. Oakes
Wilmington
Cosa Nostra
West Rupert
Allen F. Hull
Boston Athletic Assn
Is Ben Em
Eugene
Clark
H. James Wallace
Beers
Folk Singers
Petersburg
State Department
India
Carthusian Foundation of America
Mt. Equinox
Frances Healy Bender
Selectmen
Harry Kaufmann
Country Casuals
Monument Plaza
Joint
Senate Highway Study Committee
James F. Jeffords
Stone Soldier Pottery
Robert Burnell
Harwood Hill
VFW
Janet Taft
Frederick B. Wolf
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
State Housing Authority Board
Commission
Mt. Anthony Union High
Union Board
Vermont Alcoholic Rehabilitation Board
William J. Lawlor
Grandma Mose
Bennington Historical Museum
Vermont Sheepbreeders Assn
Three Meadows Farm
Robert Frost
Frost
South Shaftsbury
the Gully
Middlebury College
George A. Russell
Willow Park
Crusher
Hodgdon Bros
Bennington Taxpayers Protective Association
Col
Raymond Murray
Mt. Anthony Union
Trict
Vermont State Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Manes
Red Cross
Putnam Memorial Hospital
John T. Carmody Jr
Bennington County
Winston W. Luther
William
Board of Selectmen
J. Duncan Campbell
Gerald Cornell
Joseph Higgins
Col. Raymond ©. Murray
Triple
Grand Union
Bennington, VT
Living Wall
A.J. Dewey & Sons
Mckinley Street