Manchester inventory tax repeal stirs town meeting debate
A Manchester Chamber of Commerce meeting on the inventory tax drew 25 participants. A slim majority backed warning repeal for March Town Meeting, while others urged delaying until next year to let supporters build their case. Selectmen ponder public input and potential impact on tax revenue and industry appeal, with Jan 21 as a filing deadline for petition.
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Manchester
Manchester Chamber of Commerce
March
I. Stanford Zecher Jr
Chamber
Blanchard Stone
Stone
Southwick
John B. Foster
Manchester Village
Lambert
Zecher
Land tax issue before BCRC
Arlington Bennington County Regional Commission will meet at St. Margaret Mary Parish Hall Thursday at 7 30 p m to discuss H 134 Rep Norris Hoyt bill allowing 20 percent farm and forest land appraisals to curb development pressure. Debate centers on open spaces valued for development potential, with call for land trusts and revenue-sharing to offset actual-use taxation. Other agenda items include transit policy reports, bicentennial plans, Park McCullough Foundation programs and a federal grant review for the Opportunity Council.
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Arlington
Bennington County Regional Commission
BCRC
St. Margaret Mary Parish Hall
Norris Hoyt
Norwich
Hoyt
John McClaughry
Kirby
John D. Randolph
The
Vermont Sportsman
County Public Transit Policy Committee
Shaftsbury
Tordis Isselhardt
Cochairman
County Bicentennial Corporation
Park- McCullough Foundation
BOC
Opportunity Council
Carter to Brattleboro Brattleboro Democratic event set
Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter will headline a Windham County Democratic Committee event in Brattleboro with a Dixieland band, buffet, and dancing at the Plantation Restaurant on Saturday evening January 24. Guests included Roscoe Austin and family, Alice Guiden, John Guiden, Ed Guiden, William Austin and children. Tickets are five dollars from party members and local committees.
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Brattleboro
Jimmy Carter
Windham County
Democratic Committee
Roscoe Austin
Alice Guiden
John
Ed Guiden
Guidens
William Austin
James
John Austin
BUHS
Good Life
Stabilization tax to be on ballot in Shaftsbury town meeting
At a quiet Knight's Selectmen meeting Shaftsbury discussed placing the tax stabilization plan on the March town meeting ballot. Alvan Lawrence opposed a new vote while Anthony Altobell and Sanford Buxbaum supported testing public opinion and potential one year renewal if approved.
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Shaftsbury
Knight’s Selectman’s
Alvan Lawrence
Anthony Altobell
Sanford Buxbaum
Altobell
Bill Sennet
Buxbaum
Lawrence
Prudential Committee
David Mattison
Howard Matteson
Ken Carlsen
Community events and notices span Arlington and Hancock schedules
Arlington and Hancock communities list weekly meetings and events from rescue squads to bingo and grange socials. Local projects include a sidewalk study along Route 7, a request to reexamine a tax exemption for Hale Mountain Fish and Game Club, and ballot article deadlines. Jiminy Peak hosts a skiathon fundraiser for the American Heart Association with pre-registration in mid February.
Birthday Open House for Mrs Keough in North Bennington
An open house honoring Mrs M Leo Keough on Sunday January 18 runs from 2 to 4 pm at St John the Baptist Church parish hall in North Bennington. Hosted by Mr and Mrs Robert Condon and Rep and Mrs Lawrence Powers, the event invites friends neighbors and relatives to attend. The North Bennington Thrift Shop hours this week are 1 to 5 pm Wednesday through Friday and 10 am to 4 pm Saturday, offering large rice drapes bedspreads and coat discounts with some coats as low as $1. donations of a vacuum cleaner are requested.
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M. Leo Keough
Mary Ann Powers
Main Street
North Bennington
St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church
Houghton Street
Robert Condon
Lawrence F. Powers
Frederick Street
North
Fireproof mortar goes on market in New Eagle
A local manufacturer announces a heat resistant fire plug mortar to repair gaps in fireplace masonry. The firm claims the product withstands 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, hardens under heat, and is far tougher than standard mortars, aiming to reduce home fire risk.
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NEW Eagle
UPI
National Fire Protection Association
Allied
Black Chemical Co
Vermont professors say only large dairy farms can fund methane power
UVM researchers presented at an American Society of Agricultural Engineers meeting that methane from cow manure could produce electricity economically only for farms with 200 or more cows. The study led by Prof. Joseph Oppenlander and colleagues includes Profs. Samuel Wiggans E A Cassell and Richard Downer.
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Burlington
UPI
University of Vermont
UVM
Chicago
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Joseph Oppenlander
Department of Civil Engineering
Samuel Wiggans
E.A. Cassell
Richard Downer
Blaze destroys large Chester farmhouse
Firefighters from seven communities battled a Sunday blaze at the Donald Douglas farm in Chester that gutted the large farmhouse. Officials say the fire appeared to start in a fireplace and the home was unoccupied at the time. damage estimate not yet available.
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Chester
UPI
Donald Douglas
McNulty Launches Upstate Assembly Bid in Troy District
In Troy McNulty, Green Island supervisor, announced Democratic support from county and city chairs and his father Albany County Sheriff. he will face Republican Neil W. Kelleher in the 106th assembly district. Also in Troy a police brutality inquiry is under way into a November arrest, with three arrestees hospitalized and 14 cases under review since 1975.
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Troy
State Assembly
Green Island
Michael R. McNulty
Troy Club
Rensselaer County
John J. McNulty Jr
Albany County
Neil W. Kelleher
McNulty
Upstate New York
John J. Givney Jr
Timothy E. McHale
Snowstorm disrupts Berkshire as roads close
Northern Berkshire faced about eight inches of snowfall in a seventh winter storm in three weeks. Schools canceled and accidents occurred including a minor injury to a 5 year old girl. Turnpike reduced to 30 mph with no other speed limit changes. EPA may test local drinking water for PCBs amid EPA probe of Housatonic River fish showing elevated PCB levels. officials differ on likelihood of PCB in drinking water.
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North Adams
Berkshire
Massachusetts Turnpike
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Housatonic
Food & Drug Administration
John McGlennon
Federal Agency
New England
Carol Wood
Edward Fitzpatrick
Hoosick River
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FOE No. 2551
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Fisher School
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West Arlington
Ledgerly Drive
East Street
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Pearl Hoyt
Joe Murphy
David Elwell
Hale Mountain Fish and Game Club
Ben Hulet
Edwin Colvin
Montpelier
Heart Assoc
Hancock
Mass
Jiminy Peak
Berkshire Massachusetts
American Heart Association
Brian H. Fairbank
Massachusetts
North Street
Pittsfield
Finast
Vermont
Keough
Pownal
Pamela Blakeman
Cub
Diane Zangari
Pownal Elementary School
North Pownal
H. Greenberg
Bennington
Plum Wilding
Springfield
William “Derek” Blaine
Earth People Park
Norton
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Blaine
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George D. Aiken
Henry Kissinger
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Rvt
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D-Mont
Aiken
Hoyt Bill
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