Bygone Bennington notes from a busy Vermont period
July relocation plans at U S 7 by pass east of town. Marlboro Orchestra in Chamber Music at Tanglewood. Pownal racetrack work resumes as pickets end. 21 Bennington sisters adjust taxes on 10 properties. Reid Lefevre seeks re election as state senator on Republican ticket. Migrant dormitory near completion. Rabbit breeder John J. Baker experiments with Lynx Rex strain near Old Bennington. Court action over Pownal track labor dispute. Charlotte McCartney starts Rural Vermonter. Funeral homes merge. Francis Owen to manage new house. Chancery Court hears testimony in track dispute. Keyser delays ruling. Vermont reapportionment on horizon. Numerous local elections filings and community updates follow with many names, places, and events across Bennington County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. 7
Marlboro Orchestra
Tanglewood
Pownal
Bennington
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
Vermont
John J. Baker
Old Bennington
Chancery Court
Banner
Charlotte McCartney
Vermonter
Stevens Funeral Home
Arlington
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Francis Owen
Hanson-Walbridge
New Funeral Home
Francis C. Tomasi
Bennington Weavers
Bennington, Inc
Gerald Morrissey
Richard Barret
Bennington Museum
Molly Stark
East Arlington
Wilmington
Walloomsac River
Eugene V. Clark
Public Safety Cmsr
William H. Baumann
Lincoln Street
William H. Meyer
John M. Spencer
U. S. Senate
Albert
Ranny) Galusha
North Caldwell
N.J
Jonas Galusha
Center Ski Resort
Vermont 9
Woodford Lake
Vermont Gas Corp
VGC
Gas Corporation
Putnam Memorial Hospital
John W. Browne
Green Mountain Park Raceway
Bennington Banner
George Amidon
Dorset
William Meyer
U.S
Henry Schurink
Shaftsbury
Pownal Center
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Mack Molding Co
Cavendish
Ugolino
Clark Art Institute of Williamstown
Dean Fausett
Southern Vermont Artists, Inc
Joel Whittemore
Holy Cross Fathers and Brothers
Holy Cross
Supreme Court
Boston Railroad
Rutland Railway
Stark
Lincoln St
Main Street
Our Lady of Peace
Shaftsbury Valley
Greater Bennington Association
Manchester Village
Chamber of Commerce
Union High School
Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc
New York
Vermont Roadside Council
Caroline Kennedy
Hillhaven
Carl Jolivette
North Bennington
Robert Dempsey
Flint and Robbins, Inc
Camp Wynakee
Dorset Hollow
Missionary Alliance Church
James M. Toolan
United Counseling Service
Bennington College
W. Robert Johnson
Brattleboro
U.S. Senate
William D. Worthington
Burr and Burton Seminary
Experimental Aircraft Association
Oneida
N. Y
Moose
North Pownal
New Union High
Bennington Village
Peter Harrington
Guy Sumner
George Cushing
Hoosick Falls
Union High School Board
Architects Collaborative
Cambridge
Mass
Woodford
John A. Burgess
Montpelier
Robert M. Wilson
Vermont Education Association
Greater Bennington
Stratton Mountain Corp
Marc Blitzstein
Philadelphia
Charles G. Salem
Stratton Ski
Searsburg
George Briggs
Briggs
Hallowe
T. Garry Buckley
A. Luke Crispe
Newfane
Philip H. Hoff
Buy- Rite Buyers Club
Prudential Committee
Greater Bennington Schools, Inc
Jefferson Heights
First Methodist Church
Melvin R. McGaughey
Joseph Caracciola
Alfred T. LaTour
John H. Maloney
U. S
George D. Aiken
Londonderry Artists Guild
West River Artists
Everett S. Lillie
South Stream Road
William Mattison
Civil Defense
Vermont Gas Company
Coth
Sarah Frisbie
Friends of
R. Marshall Witten
WBTN
Ralph A. Jones
First National Bank of
Atkins Jewelers
Charles Gould
Crescent Blvd
Albert France
Unicefers
William S. Ginsburg
F. Ray Keyser
Philip A. Hoff
Union School District
Fillmore Farms, Inc
Bennington Garden Club
Claude Frank
Henry W. Putnam
Benjamin Powell
North
Cora B. Whitney
John C. Hitchcock
Williamstown
Petersburg Pass
Friends of Retarded Children
Marjorie Sargent
Bernard Mayer
White Chapel Road
Mayers
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Williams College
Fairfax Ayres
Olin Scott Fund, Inc
Ogden Pleissner
Pawlet
Willington
Mabel Streeter
Seventh Day Adventists
First National
New England Based
Food Company
Area Council of
Bennington Peace Forum
First Baptist Church
Mount
General Assembly
East Pownal
Morgan Street
Imperial Avenue
Pentagon
Army Reserve
National Guard
453Rd Quartermaster
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Reuben Levin
Vermont Independent Party
Union School Board
Union
H. T. Cushman Manufacturing Co
Phillip J. Corcoran
N.E. Telephone and Telegraph Co
Civil Air Patrol
James Kirkpatrick
Robert E. Cummings
Putnam
Stratton
Mount Snow
Bennington College Community Chorus
Johannes Sebastian Bach
Vermont Civil Defense Organization
James B. Gibney
Pippin Knoll
William C. Fels
Anne Hambleton
Vincent Wiggin
Boothbay
Vermont town notes August to October 1962 events
A compact compilation records local actions from Bennington and surrounding towns in October and November 1962, including school district changes, tax issues, civic awards, and infrastructure projects. Highlights mention sewer plant work, jury of civic leaders, Doppler-era development, and regional education funding decisions.
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F. Ray Keyser Sr
Vermont General Assembly
Joseph J. Caracciola
Hunt Street
Selma Jane
William H. Stuchel
Buy-Rite Buyers Club
Area National Guard
Camp Drum
N.Y
Arlington Lions Club
Sugarbush
Berlin
Rosalee Loker
Red Cross
Louis J. Dondero
Sunderland
New England
Soil Conservation Society of America
Pownal Tannery
Edward F. Butler
Norton Barber
Board of Sisters
Corp
Sourdiffes
Sourcliffe Nursing Home
Rockefeller
Mary Brazie
Earl Tripp
Aerie FC Eagles
FOE
Senate
Vermont Supreme Court
J. H. Winslow
State Highway Department
Lake Hancock
Bennington Jaycees
Rutland
State Public Service Board
Bennington Post Office
Stanley J. Pekalski
County Forest Association
John Page
National Association of County Agricultural Agents
American Legion
Ost
Old Brooklyn
Union High School District
Gibney
Dodge Machine and Tool Co., Inc
Burlington
Better Tv, Inc
Fannie Chellis
Wickliam F. D. Smith
Sheilah Marlowe
Paul Foster
Vermont Green Pastures
Alfred E. Arnold
Civil Defense Bairman
Bennington Board of Civil Authority
Hoosac
Bennington American Legion Post No
Brooklyn
Trebor Knitting Mills
New York City
Jonathan Logan, Inc
Thomson Manufacturing Co
Trebor
Justin E. Mamis
Interstate Commerce Commission
School of Practical Nursing
Mt. Pleasant School
Episcopal Church
Robert G. Dana
United Church of
East Rupert
Associated Press
New England Daily
Joseph F. Richards
Bridgeport, Conn
F. W. Woolworth Co
Justin Morgan
Ann Forrester
Uganda
Africa
Keith Watkin and Sons of
Vermont Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Burr and Burton
Peter Frelinghuysen
Boston and Maine Railroad
Ralph E. Foote
Hale Co
East
Willam A. Flood
Elm Street
Second Congregational Church
Keyser
Bennington Little League
Raymond Tripp
Fritz Tolle
Bennington Union
League of Women Voters
George R. Brush
St. James Episcopal Church
Francis Wade Brackett
4-H
Charles Sharpe
Gov. Keyser
Bennington County
Estes
Union Street
Putnam Hotel
East Road
Moose Lodge
Village Planning Commission
Bondville
Drysdale’s
England
Little Theatre Group
Mrs. Carrolls
Village of
Hoosick
Hoosac School
Edward Dudley Tibbits
Clark’s Woods
Snow
Walter Schoenknecht
Mt. Snow _ development Corp
David Stanley Jacobanis
FBI
Jacobanis
Manchesat