Mt Anthony Considers Overlap Schedule To Ease Crowding
Mt Anthony Union High School Board approves a trial overlap schedule to reduce overcrowding and free classroom use next year. Juniors and seniors would start at 7 45 a m and finish by 11 a m to 1 p m while freshmen and sophomores arrive at 11 a m and depart at 3 53 p m. The plan faces concerns over bus costs and impact on families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Joseph Hall
Joseph Curran
Paul Snow
David Humphreys
Barth Vander Els
Geraldine Baker
Manfred Ehrich
Robert Dimke
Alan Morrison
Lionel Nowak
Francis Heisler
Eugene P. Smith
Jonathan Durand
George A. Sleeman
Dimke
MT. Anthony
Sister Candon Named Vermont Human Services Secretary
Governor Richard Snelling appointed Sister Elizabeth Candon of Burlington as secretary of Vermont’s Human Services Agency, the state’s largest and costliest department. The 55 year old nun, a Democrat and former Trinity College president, was recruited by Snelling and becomes the first woman in a Vermont cabinet post. The Senate must confirm the choice. two other cabinet slots remain to be filled.
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Snelling
Candon
Human Services Agency
Washington
Vermont
the Sisters of Mercy
Sister Candon
Trinity College
Burlington
Chittenden County
Higher Education Planning Commission
Educational Television Broadcasting Council
Thomas Candon
Rutland
Patrick Candon
D-Pittsford
Senate
Norwich University
Loring Hart
Clark Gravel
Windham County
William Graham
Fred Parker
George Elwood
Shelburne
Criminal Justice Training Council
Charles Tetzlaff
Eurich Reappointed Vermont Agriculture Commissioner
Gov Richard Snelling named Edward Eurich of Waitsfield as agriculture commissioner and reappointed Ronald Allbee as deputy. Eurich, 60, a dairy farmer and former state representative, returns to the post he held under Gov Deane Davis. A six member committee was named to screen applicants for public safety commissioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essex Junction
Allbee
Rober Branon
Snelling
Eurich
Edward Corcoran
Hoosac head cancels pageant over student unrest
Hoosac School headmaster James P. Beckford explains the cancellation of the Boar's Head and Yule Log pageant in a pre Christmas letter to parents. He cites a student suspension for marijuana possession and ensuing unrest plus an anonymous boycott threat as reasons. He invites parents to discuss the school's future and plans to reopen January 4. The note adds the Yule Log Fund remains affected.
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Hoosick
N.Y
James P. Beckford
Hoosac
Beckford
Episcopal Prep
Yule Log Fund
Inside Local and Page Turn Highlights in Brief
The issue lists Inside Local items on Christmas bird count criteria for pardons, inflation and divorce insights, Safire on pornography, kids using the metric system, Shaftsbury IBA zoning and firehouse sketch, public input on an Economic Development Program, Hoosick tax rates, a Letters of E. B. White review, and sports results including MAU versus La Salle, Green Mountain shocks BBS, Penn State in the Gator Bowl, and Cowens outlook for the year.
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Shaftsbury
Hoosick
E. B. White
MAU
la Salle
Green Mountain Shocks
Penn State
Cowens
Carter Signals Tax Cut Likely In Near Economic Package
President elect Jimmy Carter said a tax cut is a likely prospect in his upcoming fiscal package to be released at week’s end. He stressed priority on a work opportunity program to cut unemployment and outlined the package as an outline with ranges rather than fixed amounts. Carter’s remarks followed talks with New York leaders on city economic woes and noted welfare reform might be delayed until the economy improves.
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ST. Simons Island
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Carter
New York
Hugh Carey
New York City
Abraham Beame
Carey
Beame
Joseph Califano
HEW
Califano
Plains
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Kremlin
Congress
Oil spill from grounded tanker threatens mid-Atlantic shores
A 20 mile oil slick from the Liberian registered tanker Olympic Games grounded near Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, threatens New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware shorelines. About 133,500 gallons spilled, 50,000 contained by booms, with beaches at Paulsboro and Claymont affected. The 771 foot vessel carried 17 million gallons of light Arabian crude.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Coast Guard
British Petroleum
Marcus Hook
Kenneth G. Wiman
Gloucester
N.J
Commodore Barry Bridge
Wiman
Big Timber Creek
Here
Bellevue
Del
Paulsboro
Claymont
EPA to inspect Bennington lead water contamination
Two officials from the Boston regional EPA were en route to Bennington to inspect lead in town water. Floyd B. Taylor, chief of the water supply division, and an engineer planned to meet with local officials and a psychologist who has pressed for action. The town considers the mains clean but cites lead in service lines. a court petition seeks an immediate halt to drinking potentially contaminated water. The board may pursue federal funds to replace lead service lines as health officials call the situation serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Environmental Protection Agency
Bennington
Floyd B. Taylor
EPA
Louis C. Savelas
C. Frank Velkas
Taylor
Velkas
Savelas
Linden Witherell
State Health Department
Town Water Board
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Latey
Bennington College
Rod Clarke
Allbee In Agriculture
Hoosac Head
Salmon
Tom Braden
Safire
IBA
mid-Atlantic
Red Bank Shipping of
Panama
By John Leaning
Selectmen
Timothy Corcoran
Donald Greenslet
Corcoran
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