Dorset Tax Rate to Rise by 1.76 Over 1964 Budget
Poor weather and apathy gave Dorset a sparse turnout at the budget session as selectmen and school directors presented a budget totaling 100,099.90 for town and education. If approved at Town Meeting, the total tax bill would be 5.60 for town expenses and 8.32 for education, up 1.76 from last year’s 12.16.
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Dorset
Nathaniel Tyler
Rupert
Graneville
N. Y
J. Ford Shroder
Alfred Gilbert
Schrader
East
Dorset Historical Society meeting to hear local talks
Dorset plans a town meeting at East Dorset parish house with Reid Lefevre of Manchester discussing early government and Prof Alfred Gilbert presenting a paper on Dorset marble. Budget items include a 6000 debt retirement, equipment purchases, highway costs, and a 5425 reserve fund.
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Dorset Historical Society
East Dorset Congregational Church
Reid Lefevre
Manchester
Alfred Gilbert
Dorset
Ernest West
Gilbert
William Gilbert
Manchester Warning Asks Abolishment of Fire District
Manchester voters face a town meeting warning proposing abolition of Fire District No 1 and transferring its property powers and functions to the Town of Manchester. The district covers Manchester Center and Manchester Depot, mainly maintaining sidewalks and street lights, with annual meetings in June since 1877.
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Manchester
Fire District No
Manchester Center
Manchester Depot
Nce
North Village School Board Approves Compliance Signing
North Village board unanimously approves signing the Assurance of Compliance with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The panel also reviews 1965-66 teacher salaries, plans a salary committee, and discusses budgeting constraints and future use of the school plant as it transitions to elementary status.
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Nowak
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Leon E. Wagner
Harold MacDonald
Grange Notes from West Arlington Meeting
Safety talk on driver error as main cause of accidents, with speed and drinking following. Prescott shows disciplined-lesson film while officers report on youth and home economics efforts and dairy princess plans for May 11. Meetings set March 9 at Taconic Grange with John Page as guest speaker and St Patrick honored.
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West Arlington
Corp
Edward Prescott
Brattleboro
Ethan Allen Pomona
Battenhill Grange
Clarence Decker Sr
Prescott
Home Economics
Mr. Equinox Youth
National Youth
Vermont Future Farmers
Arlington
Manchester
Richard King
Taconic Grange
South Shaftsbury
Tax meeting on Knowles system urged for Manchester
Voters are urged to attend a tax meeting at the elementary school Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the auditorium. The meeting was called by selectmen to discuss an article in the Warning asking Manchesterites to adopt the Knowles system of property appraisal recommended by the state Tax Dept. Mr and Mrs Harry Barber Sr announce the marriage of their son Harry Jr to Arlene Spieler of Forest Hills NY. The ceremony was held in Baltimore Feb 1 and the couple will reside on Richville Road.
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Granville
N.Y
Miss Corcoran
Supt
Wagner
Nowak
Citizens’ Committee
Manschesterites
Knowles
State Tax Dept
Harry Barber Sr
Harry Jr
Arlene Spieler
Judith Spieler
Forest Hills
Baltimore
Richville Road
Bromley
Joseph Fowler
Manchester Historical Society
Charles Myers
First Congregational Church
Mark Skinner
Women's Fellowship Meeting Moves for Lions' Supper
The Women’s Fellowship of the Baptist Church will meet Tuesday at the home of Mrs Bernard Whitman. Dessert and coffee at 7 30 p.m. and the meeting at 8. The venue moved from church social rooms as Baptist women loaned their space to Congregational Church women for the Lions’ supper due to furnace repairs. WW I VETS MEET A reception for Melvin T Eddy drew 100 veterans and wives plus national officers at the Pavilion Hotel in Montpelier. Gifts included Vermont maple syrup cheese apples and Vermont marble novelties. Porter presented Bennington Barracks gifts of mugs from Bennington Pottery.
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Women’s Fellowship of the
Baptist Church
Bernard Whitman
Congregational Church
Kenneth Porter
Montpelier
Melvin T. Eddy
Pavilion Hotel
Comdr. Eddy
Vermont
Porter
Bennington Barracks
Bennington Pottery
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Marcen Skinner
Bennington
F.D.I.C
Bennington, VT
Bennington, VI
Moe Harrington
Middlebury College
Oeriment
Barclay
Depot Street
Hoosick Falls Council
Knights of Columbus
John Gorman
Robert Hebert
John Trimble
Harold J. Foster
Troy
Francis O'Neil
John R. Danahy Jr
William Ketchum
Joseph Buckley
Robert Crawford
Harry Crayon
Maurice P. Shea
James Ryan
Andrick
Grange
Jackie Breen
Allmark Valentines
Bennington Bookshop Inc
Main Street
Bennington Banner
Main St
Tereo
Emerson
Leonard
North Bennington
Elizabeth Dwyer
Big Valentine
Bennington Armory
van Dels
DAISY
Walker
Bering
Maytag Electric
Economy Auto Stores, Inc
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