First Hearing Tuesday On Davis Sales Tax Plan
Vermont House Ways and Means Committee opens two public hearings on Gov Davis 4 percent general sales tax plan at the State House. Discussions cover exemptions for food and proposed alternatives including a food exemption and potential service taxes. House Democrats prepare to craft a consensus, considering Sen Hayes recent surtax proposal and other revenue ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Montpelier
UPI
Deane C. Davis
House
Ways and Means
State House
Peter Giuliani
Giuliani
Guiliani
George Hayes
Franklin County
Hayes
House Democrats
Bennington beltline fight divides county planners
County planners wrestle with beltline priorities over new U S 7. Bennington officials push beltline funding while opponents warn of divided county and local vetoes. Rep Caracciola and others frame the dispute as a broader regional issue with Rutland named as a possible political payoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Robert Graf
Rupert
Bennington
Bennington County
Boy Scout Week Outlines Feb Week Across Southern Vermont
Walter Gartner, Rutland, chair of Ethan Allen Council camping and activities, announces Boy Scout Week in southern Vermont from Feb 7 to 13. Some 4700 Cubs, Scouts, and Explorers plus leaders will join Blue and Gold Dinners, window displays, camps, Courts of Honor, and rededication ceremonies with Scout Sabbath on Feb 8 and Scout Sunday on Feb 9. Members will wear uniforms to school during the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Gartner
Rutland
Ethan Allen Council
Boy Scouts of America
Vermont
America
Scouting
Community programs boosted by BROC council in Vermont
Holland notes poverty efforts face threats yet point to six state and federal visits to assess a regional program. BROC supports foster grandparent work, elderly assistance, a Dorset medical unit, youth corps rehabilitation, remedial education, and Head Start, centered around five neighborhood service centers in Bennington Rutland Manchester Poultney and Fair Haven. Funeral services held for Ruth Potter Mavilla and Edward W King, with attendance from relatives in multiple towns and burial plans for spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opportunity Council
Vermont
New England
New York
New Jersey
BROC
Holland
Brandon State School
Dorset
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Bennington
Rutland
Manchester
Poultney
Fair Haven
Bennington Center
Movie Timetable at Three Theaters Showings This Week
The Harte Theatre screens The Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit with Dean Jones and Diane Baker at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Oedipus Rex with Christopher Plummer and Orson Wells at the Manchester Cinema at 7 and 9 p.m. Faces with John Marley and Gena Rowlands at the Williamstown Cinema, 8 p.m. Monday and Thursday 7 and 9:15 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horse In
Dean Jones
Diane Baker
Winnie
Harte Theatre
Christopher Plummer
Orson Wells
Manchester
John Marley
Gena Rowlands
John Casavettes
Williamstown
Public Meeting Wednesday On East West Highways
A public meeting on proposed Route 9 improvements and major new east west highways will be held Thursday Feb 6 at 8 p m in Wilmington High School. Sponsors include the Bennington County Regional Planning Commission and the Windham Regional Planning and Development Commission with invited reviews from state and regional highway leaders. The meeting will discuss a planned 7 million dollar planning and economic feasibility study for northern New England arterial highways, its phases, and possible public participation and opinion on Route 9 over the next decade including a Wilmington Village bypass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington High School
Bennington County Regional Planning Commission
Windham Regional Planning and Development Commission
John T. Gray
Richard Wright
New England Regional Commission
New England
Congress
Ivor S. Pelsue
Robert O. Munn
William H. Schmidt
Windham
Vermont
Louis B. Peck
Bennington
Highway Committee
Bennington County
Deer Park
Manchester
Joseph Caracciola
George van Santvoord
Leon E. Wagner
R. Marshall Witten
Harvey D. Carter
Pownal
Ruling From Attorney General Awaited on Spur Funds
Montpelier filings indicate the attorney general’s office is crafting a legal opinion on reallocating 3.5 million dollars from the North Bennington spur to the Bennington beltline, amid highway board support for interchanges and beltline land acquisition, with lawmakers and local officials divided over priority and legality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
North Bennington
Bennington
James M. Jeffords
Jeffords
Vermont Highway Board
The
Highway Board
U.S. 7
Harwood Hill
Highway Dept. Engineers
Vermont Senate
House Senate
Bennington County
Deer Park
Manchester
House Highway Committee
Walter L. Kennedy
R-35
Chelsea
Guilty Pleas Entered In Two Larceny Cases
In Bennington District Court Daniel V. Bryant, 24, of Hoosick Falls, NY, pleaded to traffic violations and two counts of passing bad checks, with larceny charges tied to $25 checks. State’s Atty. Carmody dropped eight counts. pre sentence investigation ordered. In a separate case Michael J. Bushee, 19, Bennington, pleaded guilty to two petty larceny counts involving a Polaroid camera and a Kodak items theft. two other counts were not prosecuted and an investigation was ordered before sentencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel V. Bryant
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Bennington District Court
Bryant
Atty. R. Marshall Witten
Emil H. Schmigal
John T. Carmody
First National
Pic ’N Pac
Grand Union
John P. Morrissey
George M. Fienberg
Michael J.E. Bushee
Bennington
Bushee
George Hadwen
Kodak
Jean Ouellette
Carmody
Morrissey
YMCA Weekly Activity Schedule
The schedule lists recurring YMCA activities by weekday and time. Monday includes Executive Committee at 12:30 and 3:30, boys bowling at 3:30, high school basketball league at 7, Chess Club at 7:30, Air Force Reserve at 8. Tuesday features girls bowling at 3:30 and boys gym at 4, plus J1 Tri-High at 6:30. Wednesday offers women's exercise and volleyball at 10, planning committee at 12, baton class at 3:30, IMC executive committee at 7:30, and a self-defense course at 7:30. Thursday has girls gym at 4, Industrial Basketball League at 7, and Little League at 7:30. Friday shows Junior High basketball at 4. Saturday includes boys gym bowling and club at 9, girls gym bowling and club at 9, Rifle Club at Armory at 9, Junior high gym at 12, and high school gym at 1.
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Air Force Reserve
IMC
Building Committee Studies Mt Anthony Junior High Needs
Mt Anthony Union High School board has formed a six member building committee to study options for future junior high housing. Chairman William A. Castle says next steps include analyzing pupil population and growth in Bennington, possible sites, and a public meeting schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony Union High School
William A. Castle
Mt. Anthony
Castle
Norman Stratton
Bennington
New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Citizens’ Committee
Bennington High School
Bennington Local Union Launches Board Meeting and Notices
The Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union board opens with officer elections at Mt. Anthony Class room 209 at 7:30 p.m. The Banner invites questions. Additional items include Senior Citizens Club social at 7:30 p.m. on North Street Center and police report on a Burgess Road fire alarm triggered by a vehicle collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union Board
Mt. Anthony
Senior Citizens Club
North Street
Burgess Road
Hospital Notes listing births and admissions in early Feb 1969
Weekly hospital notes show admissions on Friday January 31 and Saturday February 1 in Bennington Hoosick Falls Shaftsbury and surrounding towns with multiple births and discharges. Births include Allan Burdick Jan 31 and several newborns with families identified. Additional births noted on Sunday February 2 and other related line entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Robinson
Middle Granville
N.Y
Marcy Ann
Glens Falls Hospital
Mabel Robinson
Beech Court
Bennington Obituaries Highlight Local Residents’ Deaths
Obituaries note the deaths of Herbert W Harrington 62 of Bennington Bartholomew L Henchey 79 in Ansonia and Robert C Morse 79 of Bennington. Also William E Poland 64 Westfield N J had ties to Manchester area. Funeral details, burial plans, and family survivors listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert W. Harrington
Bennington
Alonzo
Lucina (Warn) Harrington
Earl
Lynn
Buel Harrington
Forrest Harrington
Endicott
N.Y
Mahar & Son Funeral
Ansonia, Conn
Bartholomew L. Henchey
Hoosick Falls
Hollywood
Fla
Arch St
Ansonia
Henchey
University of Maryland, College Park
School of Dentistry
Derby Lodge of Elks
Naugatuck Valley Dental Association
American Dental Association
Highland Golf Club
John T. Collins
American Legion
Elizabeth St
Derby
Assumption
Robert C. Morse
Division St
Springfield
Mass
Charles J
Fannie (Bowles) Morse
Mary Dunton
Greenfield
Morse
Park Lawn Chapel
Old Bennington
Herbert R. Poland
Westfield
N.J
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Polands
Manchester
Poland
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Gray Funeral Home
E. Broad St
Fairview Cemetery
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bennington Banner
Stafford
Caracciola
Greater
Hall
Sunderland
Carter
Henry B. van Loon
Planning Commission
Graf
Ralph O. Mavilla
Ralph O. Mavilla Sr
Ruth Potter
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Thomas D. Steffen
Second Congregational Church
James Davis
Leon Percey
Ralph Knapp
Joseph Joseph
Women of the Moose
Bessie Burgess
Nancy Livingston
Mabel Mattison
Mary Hier
Marion Charest
Mavilla
Edward W. King
Park Street Extension
Sourcliffe
Melvin R. McGaughey
First United Methodist Church
Philip Fortune
James Nason
Thomas Joseph
Harold Williams
McGaughey
White Chapel Cemetery
Arlington
Woodford
YMCA
State Board of Education
Bennington Briefs
Order
Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Mt. Anthony Lodge
F&am
Brodie
Court St. Andrew
Catholic Daughters of America
BCHS
Vietnam
Florence Quist
Earline Ware
Bertha
Florence Denio
Priscilla’s Beauty Shop
Branch St
Priscilla’s
Adv
Belle Bowles
Mark Davock
Perle Corey
Ton
Carol Brenenstuhl
Ralph Tobin
William James
Joyce Jones
Jacksonville
Tina Bishop
Norman Willett Jr
Rupert Harwood
Gloria Jefferson
Shaftsburg
Eva Trombley
Juliet Nadeau
Edward Vosburgh Jr
Madeline Reilly
Julia Hogan
Petersburg
Norman Goodermore
Berlin
Allan Burdick
Main St
Jan
Theodore Dunn
Ellen Coyne
Mildred Toomey
Ruth Schreiber
Lucy Sanders
Shaftsbury
Jeffrey Connors
Gordon Lee
Pawlet
Dominic Grillone
North Adams
Patricia Fillmore
Argyle
Edith McCarthy
Henry Hansen
Benning
John Griffin
Washington Ave
Gareth Bigart
Pownal Road
Donald Tobin
R, D
Richard Mullins
Elm St
B.L. Henchey
Herbert R
North St
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