Vermont Lawmaker Reports From Early February Session
Representative George van Santvoord recounts a brisk Vermont House week amid planned absence February 13. Bills on debt adjusters and ambulance districts pass. H245 fails to curb bullet voting. tax reform and estate tax work progress. Cable TV regulation advances after five-year push. pavilion reconstruction continues. school group return and Kurn Hattin band performance praised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelton Miller
Senate
House
Vermont
South Carolina
Luther Hackett
Appropriations Committee
Vergennes
League of Women Voters
Stowe
Burlington
Public Service Board
John Alden
Woodstock
Orrin Beattie
Norton Bareber
Old Bennington
Ruth Cole
Sunderland
George van Santvoord
Montpelier
Steel Goes Up At New YMCA Center in Memorial Park
Foundation completed and steel erected for the new YMCA Center of Southwestern Vermont at Memorial Park. Construction will enclose the building while interior work proceeds. Summer programs at Memorial Park continue with playground activities. Long range plans include tennis courts and relocation of playground equipment. The YMCA Softball League returns to Memorial Park in 1971 after field repairs. Lights from Alumni Field will be installed on the rebuilt diamond. Memorial Park was deeded to the YMCA in 1950 by Bennington Memorial Park Association Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YMCA
Vermont
Memorial Park
Bennington Park and Recreation Commission
Alumni Field
Little League
Beech Street
Bennington Scholar Wins Explicator Award for Poetic Closure
Barbara Herrnstein Smith of Bennington College wins a $200 prize for Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, the best book of explication de texte published in 1968. The Explicator sponsors the annual contest, with judges from Michigan Yale and Queens College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Bennington College
Explicator
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Chicago Press
Sheridan W. Baker
University of Michigan
William K. Wimsatt
Yale University
Charles C. Walcutt
Queens College
Smith
Bennington
New York City
City College of New York
Brandeis University
Condon To Speak To AARP Unit
Robert B. Condon of HOME Inc. will address the Bennington Chapter of the AARP at a Feb 12 2 p.m. meeting in the First United Methodist Church social hall. Rev William Abernethy of North Bennington, trustee for HOME, will also speak. Refreshments served by committee chaired by Mrs. Ballou with Mrs. Jackson Cobleigh and Kenyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert B. Condon
Home Inc
Bennington
American Association of Retired Persons
First United Methodist Church
Main Street
HOME
William B. Abernethy
North Bennington
Funeral services held for Floyd R Shuffleton
LYNN Massachusetts Floyd R Shuffleton 64 a native of Arlington Vermont died January 24 at his home 316 Washington Street Lynn after a brief illness He was a Arlington Memorial High School graduate worked in Bennington then Lynn for 25 years before retirement at Hotel Edison A known southern Vermont baseball catcher nicknamed Shark He also played semi pro basketball Survivors include brother Phillips H Shuffleton of Pembroke Mass Private funeral services were held January 26 at W A Cuffe Son Funeral Home Burial will be Evergreen Cemetery Pembroke Massachusetts
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Lynn
Mass
Floyd R. Shuffleton
Arlington
Robert A
Anne
Hendee) Shuffleton
East Arlington
Washington St
Shuffleton
Arlington Memorial High School
Bennington
Hotel Edison
Vermont
Phillips H. Shuffleton
Pembroke
W.A. Cuffe & Son
Evergreen Cemetery
Library Workshop Highlights Services For Handicapped
Rutland Regional Library hosts a February workshop titled Library Service for Exceptional People at St Joseph College. Sister Immaculee and Dorothy Allen describe Vermont disability services under the Library Services and Construction Act, with regional library head Marian English noting rising requests and broadening outreach across Rutland and other libraries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
Rutland Regional Library
College of St. Joseph
Immaculee
Dorothy Allen
Free Public Library Service
Federal Library Services and Construction Act
Vermont
Marian English
St. Albans
St. Johnsbury
Berlin
Brattleboro
Manistic Approach to Education Theme for VT Teachers Meet
Vermont teachers gather Feb 13–14 in Montpelier for annual Title II instructional conference. Dr. Leon Bruno outlines Title III since inception. Donald P. LaSalle delivers keynote on science teaching to young children. Saturday focuses on workshops addressing the education change process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Vermont Education Association
Leon Bruno
Donald P. LaSalle
Talcott Mountain
Avon
LaSalle
Jaycees of
Connecticut
National Science Teachers’ Association
Europe
Russia
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Legislator’s Report
Waterbury
Brandon
Kurn Hattin
Westminster
Gov. Davis
Steel
New Ymca
The
Bennington Memorial Park Association Inc
Aate Taal’ Rponune
Main St
First National Stores
Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
del Monte
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Condon
AARP
Panasonic
Oakridge
Main St. Bennington
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