Arlington Two-Year Selectman Candidates Debate Local Issues
Arlington contenders Steven E. Bliss and Robert V. Jones emphasize education and community needs. Bliss backs school additions, safer sidewalks, and cautious police staffing, preferring deputy sheriffs over a full-time officer. Jones urges immediate use of Humphrey’s Garage for a town office, cites central location and space, and highlights sewage treatment and school control concerns while stressing service to residents and transparency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steven E. Bliss
Fisher School
Robert V. Jones
Bennington
Arlington
Board of
Selectmen
Bliss
People’s Academy
State Rangers School
Wanakena
N.Y
Rutland
New England Forestry Foundation
U.S. Army
Germany
Humphrey
Humphrey Garage
West Arlingtonian
Jones
U.S. 7
Tso
Banner
Manchester
Chet Ringheiser
Robert G
U.S. Marine Corps
Vermont
Arlington Village
Local Republican Committee Invites March Meetings
Shaftsbury residents are invited to meet candidates on March 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Cole Hall with dessert and coffee. The committee also urges attendance at the floor meeting on March 6 evening.
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Republican Committee
Cole Hall
Canfield Library seeks increased town appropriations
Arlington officials seek higher support for the Canfield Library as space constraints grow. Expansion has added shelves and zones for reference and juveniles, with 32,000 books circulated last year and a per capita lead in the state. Towns Arlington Sandgate and Sunderland face higher appropriations totaling 650 more, plus nearly 3,000 still to raise by donations and projects. Martha Canfield, Miss Mattie, helped found the library in 1803 with a subscription basis, evolving through community supports and a 1959 gift funding book purchases until 1965.
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Arlington
Martha Canfield
George Russell
Russell
Jacking Deer
Gerald Raftery
Abe Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Canfield
Sunderland
Sandgate
Richard Cowan
Sandgate’s
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Village Homemakers Meet and Local Club Notes
The Villagers homemakers extension group will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the library with Mrs. Milton Mackey leading a meat cooking demonstration. A Blue and Gold Banquet for Cub Scout Pack 528 was postponed to March 2 due to a storm, while a father and son banquet for the North Bennington Baptist Church moved to March 13 because of town meetings. The Arlington Neighborhood Club traces back to 1899, now called the Community Club, and Martha Canfield Library Association formed in 1948 as the library grows to serve Arlington Sandgate and Sunderland communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington High
Bliss
U.S. 7
Bennington
Arlington
Milton Mackey
Cub Scout Pack 528
North Bennington Baptist Church
Martha Canfield
Arlington community meeting and club schedule
Arlington notices list a weekly calendar of meetings and events with groups such as Yankee Doodlers Cadettes Cub Scout Blue and Gold Arlington Fire Company Arlington Chorale and Brownies at various local venues. Activities span Monday to Friday including rehearsals, social gatherings, and town meetings in East West Arlington and at Fisher and Dunbar halls.
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Arlington High School Alumni Association
Anna Hawley
Fisher School
Arlington Fire Company
Firehouse
East Arlington
Arlington Chorale
West Arlington
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Enterprise Society
Bailey Hall
Sandwich
Community House
Dunbar Hall
Fisher Elementary School
Battenkill Grange
Grange Hall
Yankee Doodler Buglers
Sunderland
Sunderland Town House
Battenhill Grange
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Arlington Selectman
By Nancy H. Otis
Joe
Bart Bros
Maine Guide
Bart
Shaftsbury
Fran Stacy
Betty Trachte
Young Men’s Association of
Mattie
Betsy Pike
Diane Hanson
Gretchen Kreel
Debby Woodcock
Jon Trachie
Jon Trachte
North Bennington
Elizabeth Dwyer
Arlington Neighborhood Club
E. T. Williams
Lewis
Adams Clothes Shop
Life Press
Drysdale’s
Helene Thompson
Yankee Doodlers
Haynes & Kane, Inc
Main St
Dial
Ibs
Hamburger
Oneida
Gezatssz Tools
Stanley
Stanley Plane
Auto Stores, Inc
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