Bennington Town Meeting preview 1971 reforms and ballots
Town Meeting 1971 leans toward fiscal restraint with a district voting plan and a reappraisal proposal. Voters will decide on a $60 000 outside reappraisal, four polling places, and several fiscal articles including sinking funds and local civic projects. Candidates joust for six selectman seats as parties seed a possible 4 to 2 Republican majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Willow Park
Jard Inc
Bennington-Rutland Opportunity Council
BROC
Anti-Poverty Community Action Agency
Joseph Higgins
Armory
North Bennington
Depot Street
Eagle Hose Firehouse
East Main St
School Street
Selectmen
Board of Selectmen
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
J. Duncan Campbell
Fred Baker Jr
J. C. Jerome
Kennon Morse
Ormal Pierce
Paul Sheriden
John Stone
Charles E. Dewey III
Gloria Gil
Dewey
Edward Frasier
Campbell
Frasier
Pierce
Stone
Jerome
Drysdale
Vermont House Notes Slim Output in Week of Actions
The Vermont House moved a series of minor measures including revised charters for Essex and South Burlington, land transfer to Windsor for a hospital project, and approved the blood donor and bank day bills. Surprises arose over adjournment timing, deputy sheriff term extensions, and lifting liquor sale bans on election days. The Senate backed four year terms for top state offices and a novel constitutional amendment method via a federal convention.
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Essex
South
Burlington
Windsor
Frank Bunting
Brandon
House
Senate
Bennington
Washington
Judiciary Committee
Vermont
General Committee
Nixon
Congress
U.S
UCS Publishes Community Mental Health Resource Manual
United Counseling Service of Bennington County releases a 112 page manual listing over 75 community and health organizations offering mental health related services. It notes publication cost of 1.50 per copy and appeals for donations while detailing volunteer needs across six UCS programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UCS
Bennington
United Counseling Service of
Bennington County
Walter LaGrange
United Counseling Service
Dewey Street
Vermont
Ursula M. Scott
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Thrift Shop
Beech Street
Brattleboro honors recreation leader Mrs Brungardt
Mrs Theresa Brungardt of Brattleboro receives the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year award at the annual meeting. A pioneer in Vermont recreation she helped found the Brattleboro Recreation Department in 1940 and led efforts that funded Memorial Park and a municipal pool. Her career includes state and national roles in aging and recreation and several honors from professional bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brattleboro
Theresa Brungardt
Brattleboro Area
Vermont
William H. Wills
Bennington
American Recreation Society
National Council On Aging
The
Brattleboro Recreation Department
Memorial Park
Municipal League
Memphis
Tenn
National Municipal League
Look Magazine
White House
Washington
District Court Imposes Pleas In Multiple Vermont Cases
A Manchester Center man, Donald A. Goodell, 20, pleaded guilty in Bennington District Court to breaking and entering and grand larceny involving a Jan 16 garage break in Manchester. Several defendants faced pleas or arraignments on charges from drunk driving to passing bad checks, with bail set or reduced, pre sentence investigations ordered, and fines or probation imposed where applicable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Center
Donald A. Goodell
Bennington District Court
Manchester
John P. Morrissey
Arlington
Arthur J. O’dea
Bourn
Terrance L. Colford
Keene
N.H
Readsboro Inn
Readsboro
Morrissey
Colford
Joseph P. Webber Jr
George E. Prouty
Bennington
Webber
Vermont Bank and Trust
Mammoth Mart
Prouty
Tom Thumb
Neil S. Moss
Nolan W. McLenahan
Gage St
Pleasant Street
Richard F. Longtin
Union St
Morgan Street
Clinton H. Dodge
Rutland
Stanley C. Towsley
U. S
East Dorset
Towsley
Joseph M. O'Neill
Carl A. Bouplon
Shaftsbury
Shaftsbury Hollow Road
Christopher W. Gates Jr
Valerie Schmigel
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Julio R. Blanco
Manchester Depot
Tony W. Hover
Town Road
Richard J. Guerard
U.S
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YMCA
By Joe Swayze
Wright and Morrissey
Legislator’s Report
Philadelphia
George van Santvoord Representative III
Scott
Beech Court
Home Inc
Nichols
Brungardt
Brattleboro Chamber
William Twitchell
Clarissa B. Twitchell
Hanson- Walbridge Funeral Home
John Geer
Federated Church
East Arlington
Robert McKeighan
David McKeighan
Stephen Young
Keith Squires
Fisher Elementary School
Evergreen Cemetery
Geer
Equinox Nursing Home
Sarah M. Aldrich
Dorset
United Church of
East Rupert
Hal C. Miller
Theodore Cook
Factory Point
Maple Hill Cemetery
William Congdon
Lyndon Blaisdell
Morrisville
Maynard Williams
Londonderry
Ernest Edgerton
Frank Campney
Chester Baldwin
Te Aes
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Bennington Banner
Main St
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Bennington, VT
PYLS
North Adams Hoosac Savings Bank
NO. Adams
Mass
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