Jawbone traces man back 5 million years
Harvard researchers date a right lower jaw fragment to about 5.5 million years, pushing the human lineage earlier. The find in Kenya’s Lake Rudolf region, from Australopithecus, suggests upright posture with a heavy jaw and small brain, possibly a female.
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Cambridge
Mass
UPI
Harvard University
Arnold D. Lewis
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Lake Rudolf
Kenya
Lewis
Bryan Patterson
Patterson
Earth
Topping Tavern Remains Charm Amid Museum Conversion
Vermont Life’s spring 1971 six page feature by James D. Sage recounts the Topping Tavern at Shaftsbury now a museum with glass security walls and table-top tableaux, under Bennington Museum ownership. Originally a 1777 Matteson stagecoach tavern on the Bennington Arlington route, it supplied food and drink to travelers until rail advances in the 1850s shifted business, later a Matteson family homestead until 1926, later named by Beatrice Breese.
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Shaftsbury
Vermont Life
Topping Tavern
James D. Sage
Sonja Bullaty
Angelo Lomeo
Bennington
Earl of Gosford
Lady Gosford
Bennington Museum
Richard Carter Barret
Sage
Matteson
Mt. Equinox
Dorset
Dudley M. Blakely
Witten seeks more funds for state aid to schools
Vermont lawmakers consider boosting education funding beyond Gov. Davis’s $27.2 million request. House Appropriations Chair R. Marshall Witten says a $32 million target and around $1 million more are likely, with potential $300,000 surplus and unspent funds redirected to support education programs. He hints fee increases in several departments may help cover the gap.
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Witten
UPI
Whitten
Agriculture, Health
Labor
Industry
Davis
Wives to Spend Weekends With California Prisoners
California prisons will offer conjugal weekend visits in private apartments inside San Quentin and Folsom for minimum custody inmates. About 20 percent of San Quentin’s 3,300 inmates qualify. up to six to eight prisoners may use the two houses each weekend with no on-site guards, check-ins via telephone, and potential six-day expansion.
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San Quentin
Calif
UPI
California
Folsom
James Park
Shapp trades shirts and poems with a taxpayer
Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp and West Newton resident Bob Vertacnik exchanged shirts and poems over the proposed 5 percent state income tax. Vertacnik, earning 6800 dollars, argued exemptions would cut his burden. Shapp countered that many Pennsylvanians pay no tax due to deductions and highlighted a 48 dollar annual relief.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Milton S. Shapp
Bob Vertacnik
West Newton
Shapp
Vertacnik
Vermont Corrections proposes sweeping statuary rewrite
Vermont Corrections Commissioner Lawrence Bershad announced a broad program to rewrite and reorganize the department statutes. The plan would deter mine if inmate transfers to Waterbury mental hospital are necessary and bans participation in medical experiments while enabling compensation for injuries in work programs. The changes, described as the most comprehensive Vermont history, preserve past reforms while altering operations across facilities.
Vermont groups name leaders at Southeastern Council
BELLOWS FALLS UPI The Southeastern Vermont Community Action Council appointed Rev. David McCormick of Brattleboro as chairman of its personnel committee and Charles F. Beaudoin of Washington as director of its headstart program. New Haven UPI Katherine Pierce 23 of Middlebury was killed in a two car crash on U S 7. State Police also reported Nicholas Augliano 68 of Marlboro died from injuries suffered Tuesday. Washington DC UPI Sen George D Aiken announced a 55000 loan and grant to Barton for a sanitary landfill.
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Bellows Falls
UPI
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Council
David McCormick
Brattleboro
Charles F. Beaudoin
Washington
New Haven
Katherine Pierce
Middlebury
U.S. 7
Nicholas Augliano
Marlboro
Washington, D.C
George D. Aiken
Barton
Albany pellet vandals damage thousands in Albany
In Albany police report pellet snipers shattered windshields and damaged display windows across the area on Wednesday night. At least 40 cars were struck as vandals cruised in several sections, with damages estimated in the thousands of dollars.
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Albany
Troy Public Library Receives $10,000 Foundation Grant
The Howard and Bush Foundation awarded Troy Public Library ten thousand dollars to buy new books. Library officials said the funds will be used to expand the library’s collection.
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Troy
Howard and Bush Foundation
Troy Public
Dwyer orders criminal complaint against Timenterial Inc
In Berkshire the judge ruled a criminal complaint will be issued against Timenterial Inc for violations of Planning Board rules at Brookside Trailer Park off Washington Mountain road. Five months of delay occurred since the board first brought the case. Attorneys said violations persist despite efforts to fix the site.
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Lee
John J. Dwyer
Timenterial Inc
Planning Board
Brookside
Washington Mountain Road
Timenterial
Ronald E. Oliveira
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