Village Attorney Outlines Problems Facing Government in Bennington
Village Atty John H Williams II delivered reports to Bennington trustees outlining outdated village laws and weak enforcement machinery. He urged a comprehensive legal review, stronger administration, and state legislative attention, focusing on junkyards and junk cars under the Junk Yard Law and village zoning limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Williams II
Bennington
Williams
Supreme Court
Bennington’s
Virginia
Bennington Briefs and Local Government Notes
Bennington briefs cover Feast of the Epiphany services at St. Peter's Episcopal, omissions in a participant list, ski conditions at Stratton Mountain, and a lettered appeal about junkyard and local governance issues. Also reported are a New Jersey man injured in a Vermont crash, an outbound Jr. Hi Canteen trip, YMCA activities, Senior Citizens Club, library story hour, and Social Security District Office hours. plus state-local governance discussions on junk disposal, funding transfers, and legislative inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Carl T. Weber
Plainfield
N.J
Vt. 9
Woodford
Edward J. Samulewicz
Havertown
Hospital Notes and Village Governance Echo in Bennington
Hospital notes list admissions for several patients and births in Manchester and Bennington, with a Tampa resident’s baby and an extended family. A Williams analysis critiques Bennington village laws, fiscal practices, and a pending police chief search, urging constitutionally aware reforms and better administration.
Bennington Obituary Notices and Local Deaths Chronicle
Obituary notices from Bennington area record the deaths of Mrs. Gilbert Lauzon 84, Walter Brownsword 79, Mrs. Otto R. Bennett 98, Irene Jones 91, Irene Lansing Jones, Duane Flower 89, and Joseph Danimus, with funeral arrangements in Bennington Manchester Cherry Plain East Arlington West Rupert and related survivors, calling hours, and burial plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Lauzon
Mary Jane
Jennie) Rousseau
Benmont Avenue
Warner Nursing Home
West Rutland
Napoleon
Lena
LaClare) Rousseau
Sacred Heart School
Bennington
Lauzon
A. LaChance
Sacred Heart
Paul Lauzon
Middletown
N.J
Francis
Diane) Roy
Mahar & Son Funeral
Sacred Heart Church
Park Lawn Chapel
North Adams
Mass
Walter A. Brownsword
State Road
Brooklyn
N.Y
Robert
Supplena (Rollins) Brownsword
Laura Reppell
Robert E. Brownsword
Walter W. Brownsword
West
Cherry Plain
Irene
Lansing) Jones
Rte
J. W. Schehr
New Lebanon
Donald Farrell
Taconic Valley Medical Center
Stephentown
Robert A. Higgins
Petersburg
Tpr
Harwood McCart
William Jones
Hall and Higgins Funeral Home
Jordan Holt
Berlin
East Arlington
Joseph M. Danuinas
Putnam Memorial Hospital
St. Margaret Mary’s Church
Arlington
Andrew Webb
West Rupert
Duane S. Flower
Sandgate
Moses and
Thankful
Hadaway) Flower
Albert Stoddard
Mr. Secord
Rupert Cemetery
Post Office Renovation Bids Opened
Eight bids were opened Wednesday for converting and remodeling Bennington’s former post office on South Street. Bids exceeded expectations. no award made yet. Base bids ranged from 93000 to 125000 with Gerald E Morrissey Inc among bidders. Federal funds had been expected at 70000. project will house IRS and Selective Service.
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Boston
General Services Administration
GSA
Bennington
South Street
Paul F. Healy
Public Building Service
Gerald E. Morrissey Inc
Healy
Internal Revenue Service
Selective Service System
Falling Ice Triggers Alarm At Putnam Hotel Incident
Ice from the roof of Hotel Putnam broke a water pipe in the sprinkler system, triggering an alarm and drawing a village fire truck. Firemen found no fire after patrolling the building. damage described as slight. Police later recovered a stolen 1964 Comet from Bennington Garage after a tip from Martin McCue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam
Stark
Leo Morrissette
Village
Martin McCue
Hogan’s Chevrolet
McCue
Bennington
Mythic horn of unicorn near Orion’s belt in ancient text
The piece recalls Monoceros the Unicorn near Orion with the horn described as two cubits long, citing Pliny the Elder who lived from 23 to 79 A.D. It explains cubit as the forearm length.
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Orion’s Belt
Sirius
Pliny the Elder
Therrien Found Guilty In Vermont Barn Break-In Case
A jury found Howard J. Therrien guilty of breaking and entering a barn at Southern Vermont Orchards on October 5. The verdict followed state troopers restraining the men at gunpoint with Earl J. Peacock Jr. awaiting trial. Pre-sentence investigation ordered by Superior Judge Franklin S. Billings Jr. Bail had been set high at $10,000, later reduced to $5,000 for Therrien after a defense motion.
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Howard J. Therrien
Vermont
Franklin S. Billings Jr
Therrien
Earl J. Peacock Jr
Peacock
Stock Averages at Noon January 5 1967
Dow Jones Industrial average stands at 799.55, up 8.41 points while rails rise 2.64 to 207.95 and utilities gain 0.70 to 137.26. Composite average increases 2.96 to 286.72. Trading volume reaches 3,130,000.
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Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
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Bennington Briefs
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Gerald
Marie) Legacy
Stratton Mountain
Pfc
Bradford B. Greene
Co. A
Air Mobile
APO
San Francisco
Calif
Pfc. Greene
Park St
Jr. Hi
North
YMCA
Senior Citizens Club
Moose
Bennington Free Library
Social Security Administration
Evelyn Street
Rutland
Salvatore Santarcangelo
Montpelier
Hodge Podge
Christopher Pisto
Maud Millington
Kenneth Hall
Sunderland
Elizabeth Kline
Shaftsbury
Vernon Sprague
Readsboro
Lola Gifford
Buskirk
Glynda Gray
Gwendolyn Gray
Daniel Davis Jr
Joseph Vadakin
North Bennington
Jean Peirson
Manchester Center
Charles Ball
Hoosick Falls
Scott Brownell
Robert Dow
Manchester Depot
Roger Croff
Houghton Lane
Joseph H. McCoy
Tampa
Fla
Joseph W. McCoy
Congress Street
Second Congregational Church
New York City
Claus Dulmann
Denmark
Sara A. Pitt
Argentina
Charles Lack
Zoran Kojic
Yugoslavia
Roy Bergquist
Pierre Tandy
Beirut
Lebanon
Leon Eldred
Bojana Smodlaka
Lawrence Bangs
Edgar Villamizar
Colombia
NYU
Miss Pitt
Smith College
Buckler
Bennington Area
Mrs. Gilbert Lauzon
W.A. Brownsword
Commission
Highway Department
Park Commission
Otto R. Bennett
Manchester
G. Stewart Bennett
Manchester Journal
Jessie Stewart
Melvin W
Martha (Auringer) Stewart
Bennett
Manchester Printing Co
Stewart
Otto Ronald Jr
Banner
Robert Clayton
Dellwood Cemetery
Brewster Funeral Home
Irene L. Jones
John Willigan
Oxford Road
Willigan
Anne Kelley
Glendale
Raymond Cone
John
John Lawton
Marjorie Anne Cone
Allston
Martin James Cone
Ballston Spa
Andrew Harrington
Overlea Road
Curtis J. Carey Jr
Curtis John Carey Jr
Putnam Hotel
Cash & Carry
Suftkin
Stanley Hercules
Claw Hammer
Yale
Lockwood Locks
Howard Therrien
Harte Theatre
Penelope
Wv Panavision
Metrocolor
Laurel & Hardys
Armour Cloverbloom Butter
Safford & Gage Sts
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