Manchester Board Clash Over Seminary Music Cut Sparks Tension
Manchester School Board member Frank Dupree blasted Burr and Burton Seminary trustees for cutting parts of the high school music program to keep tuition down. Trustees defend openness while notes of community input and tuition shifts surface amid plans for a new cafeteria and expanded facilities.
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Manchester School Board
BBS
Seminary
Manchester
Burr and Burton Seminary
Burr and Burton
Frank Dupree
Houghton Pearl
Robert Treat
Prudential Committee
Carl Rice
Dupree
Rice
BBS Board of Trustees
Treat
Pearl
Restaurant and lounge proposed in North Shire
A preliminary Act 250 hearing is set for Tuesday March 8 at 1 30 p m in the Town Office Building. The proposal seeks a 90 seat restaurant and 40 seat lounge off Routes 11 and 30 in a converted structure near the Winhall line on 3.03 acres. Gretchen Stubbs of Essex and Ruth Swezey of Manchester own the site. Parties must file notice to participate by March 3. otherwise the hearing may be canceled.
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Manchester
Gretchen B. Stubbs
Essex
Atomic World assembly on nuclear energy at AMHS
Oak Ridge Associated Universities sponsored a 40 minute Arlington Memorial High School program titled This Atomic World. JoAnne Buehler, trained at Oak Ridge and holding biology and science education degrees, explains atoms radiation fission and fusion. The talk covers nuclear reactors, radiation sources, electricity generation, and radioisotopes in diagnosis and research.
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Arlington
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Arlington Memorial High School
JoAnne Buehler
Buehler
Oak Ridge
Tennessee
State University of New York
Michigan State University
Big House to offer course on Scotland culture
The Park McCullough House presents an eight week course The Intelligent Tourist s Guide to Scotland and Its Culture led by John Watt. It covers geography history literature and arts spanning Mary Queen of Scots and Edinburgh s Golden Age to Hebridean songs Gaelic life and contemporary Scotland. First meeting Monday March 21 at 7 30 p m with series through May 16. Cost 40 general 35 members Register at 442 2747. limited spaces.
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Mary Queen of Scots
Edinburgh
Gordon Highlanders
London
Harvard
Columbia
Brattleboro
Bury-Hohler-Nelson-Watt
Hoosick forms group to aid aged and disabled residents
Hoosick Town Board voted to form a committee under assessor Jack Burke to coordinate a local effort to locate and aid elderly and disabled residents. They seek cooperation with Hoosick Falls village and senior citizens, linking to county Project Alert services and a possible telephone aid line.
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Anne Eisenmenger
Hoosick
N.Y
Jack Burke
Burke
Hoosick Falls
Troy
Joan Rogers
Raymond Calhoun
John Gildea
Vermont
Raymond Albowicz
John Mahar
Otb
Hugh Carey
Carey
New York State Department of Youth
Department of Transportation
Boston and Maine Railroad
Beck Road
Jeffrey Benson
Benson
Robert Milliman
Rogers
Youth Commission
River Street
Bovie Hill Road
Shaftsbury zoning bill sparks hearing and Twitchell Hill plan
Selectmen discussed zoning and insurance as Rep. Edwin A. Colvin warned Shaftsbury may lose town vote status once population passes 2 500. He urged raising the cutoff to 3 000 while promoting a recreation project on the 13 acre Twitchell Hill Carman property appraised at 19 600 with an offer of 18 000. An informational hearing is set for February 20 at Cole Hall with prior viewing at Grange Hall.
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Shaftsbury
Edwin A. Colvin
Montpelier
Colvin
Windham County
Arthur Carman
Twitchell Hill
Bruce Mangan
Carman
Cole Hall
Selectmen
Grange Hall
Muriel Rowe
Sage City Symphony
Symphony
Neal McLaughlin
United Counseling Service
McLaughlin
UCS
Bennington
Brandon
Connecticut dog track owners press tax relief plan
Plainfield dog track owners told the General Law Committee they are operating at a loss and seek a tax relief and higher take from gambling receipts. Connecticut Yankee Greyhound backs cutting bettors prize money to 82 percent and doubling municipal share, claiming a $1 million revenue bump. They warn new facilities in neighboring states threaten profits.
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Hartford, Conn
UPI
Plainfield
Alphonse Spadaro Jr
Woodbridge
Levitsky and Berney
Connecticut Yankee
Spadaro
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