Human Resource Council hears agencies pitch at Bennington meeting
The Bennington County Human Resource Council gathered at the Second Congregational Church to hear five agencies seek town funding including 204 Depot St. Bennington Opportunity Council Planned Parenthood and Bennington Day Care Center. Sears and Selectman Corcoran exchanged remarks over a letter that raised confidentiality questions, while opponents urged voters to learn more about social services before Town Meeting.
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Bennington County Human Resource Council
Richard Sears
204 Depot St
Timothy Corcoran
Corcoran
Sears
204 Depot
Alexander Drysdale
The
Selectmen
Second Congregational Church
Bennington
Max Perrotta
Gerald P. Morrissey
Peter Reed Donavan
Richard B. Leake
Edward R. Lamb
Community Arts Council
Lamb
League of Women Voters
Adelaide Fine
Leake Ran for Bennington Board Amid Growth Fears and Plans
Former state and regional planner Leake aims to influence Bennington government. He supports controlled growth with small clean industry, residential expansion, and a town manager system. He criticizes excess recreation spending, urges varied uses for revenue-sharing funds, and weighs social agency funding while opposing Sleeman shopping center and East Road housing. Continued on back page.
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Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Leake
Edward R. Lamb
Lamb
Willow Park
Lerner
South Burlington
New England Teluses
Sleeman
Woodford Road
Planning Commission
Bennington Leader Seeks Growth Through Planned Zoning
Lerner cites prior service as a qualification for a current role. He sees the main issue as zoning and land use as Bennington grows. He advocates controlled industrial and commercial expansion and points to Bennington County Industrial Corp. projects as a model to cut taxes and create jobs.
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Bennington
Bennington County Industrial Corp
Bennington Ash Wednesday Service Tonight at St Peter’s
A covered dish supper follows the Ash Wednesday Open Communion Service sponsored by the Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches. The service starts at 6 tonight at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
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Bennington Area
Bennington and North Bennington thrift shops set hours and donations
Thrift shops run Thursday and Friday 1 to 5 and Saturday 10 to 4. Bennington shop seeks household goods plates and silverware, with a sale on winter suits and jumpers and spring clothes. North Bennington shop offers candlestick lamps spring attire a toaster and children's clothes along with stuffed chairs. Donations of paperback books encouraged.
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Bennington
North Bennington
Mason Seeks Bennington Town Board Change and Growth
Mason presents himself as a force for honest government ready to unify the board. He supports the town manager system, favors social agency funding, and backs downtown revitalization while opposing new four lane roads and the Sleeman center. He predicts big town changes in five years and vows openness to housing for the low income and more women on boards.
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Chester
Bennington
Long Island Sound
Montreal
Willowbrook
Applegate
Lerner
Board of Selectmen
John Malone
Mason
Selectmen
Selectman
J.C. Jerome
Jerome
Edward R. Lamb
Lamb
Sleeman
Woodford Road
East Road
Willow Park
Manchester
Board of Civil Authority
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Human Resource Council
Sears-Corcoran
Depot St
Bruce Stanley
Norton West
Shirley McTernan
BOC
John Peterman
Judy Wichelns
Donna Skrzypek
Planned Parenthood
Pownal
Shaftsbury
Vergennes
Loomis G. Dana
Bennington Opportunity Council
Bennington Briefs
the Sea Agency Inc
Insurance Center
Peoples Party
Gary Daigneault
ADV
Earl’s
Man
Greenmont Center
West Road
Drysdale’s
South ST
Bennington Banner
Main St
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Vermont
U.S
Main Street
Equal Housing Lender
Nichols
Ceanese Crane
Fiber Industries Inc
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