Stamford zoning snags push housewife to run for selectwoman
Stamford moves toward historic turnout as Mrs. Rinaldo G. Farman of Main Road is nominated for the selectman seat. Mayor H. Brewster Barry backs Farman, praising her as capable. The caucus also names Sherrill to fill an unexpired term and lists multiple nominations for town posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamford
Rinaldo G. Farman
Main Road
H. Brewster Barry
Barry
Fritz Ruebesam
Ira Whitney
Pawlet
Farman
Janice Robinson
Charles R. Sherrill
Alfred Mullett
Sherrill
Fred Whitham
Ruebesam
John Fabricius
Lottie H. Harriman
Herbert C. Craig
Frank Bushika
Robert B. Costine
Alexander A. Rubin
Warren G. Clough
June D. Anderson
Bushika
Whitney
Bonnie Costine
Warren Clough
Fluoridation Debate Sparks Bennington Meeting
A Bennington meeting on fluoridation drew lively, evenly divided discussion with no push for mandating fluoridation without a vote. Tony Masso called the session on dental needs in the area, as Dr. John G. Long prepares to speak at the February 9 session on establishing a dental clinic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Masso
State Welfare Office
Bennington Human Resources Council
John G. Long
State Department of Health
Masse
Barton Briethaupt
Barbara Millazo
Montessori School
Masso
Selectman
Joseph Higgins
Higgins
Dr. Long
Bennington area industry growth and fluoride debate highlighted
BCIC reports almost 200 new jobs after expansion, with Union Carbide hiring 400 and Catamount Dyers expanding. Spruce Tissue Mill in Pownal shows signs of life as prospective firms like Westvaco and U S Envelope consider Bennington. BCIC names new officers and board terms while local meetings discuss state town relations. A fluoride debate follows with citizens urging caution and proposing a dental clinic as an alternative. physicians and parents voice varied concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Carbide
Catamount Dyers
Bennington
Spruce Tissue Millis Inc
Hoosic River
Pownal
Girl reports second attack in Hoosick Falls
Linda Mentply fourteen of Cummings Street says she was grabbed by a man in his twenties from a light color Chevrolet while walking with Patsy Hayes. Mentply previously described a separate daytime assault on Mechanic Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Linda Mentply
Cummings Street
Patsy Hayes
Hayes
Mechanic Street
Bennington offers dog obedience series beginning next Tuesday
The Bennington Recreation Commission runs a nine session dog obedience program for dogs three months and older starting next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Stark Street Playground fieldhouse. Mrs. Raymond Hurley conducts lessons to make dogs better companions with early training advised. First session is registration and orientation. dogs should not attend. A small fee applies. For details call 442-3543.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Open meetings urged on Y town negotiations by Frasier
Selectman Edward Frasier, left out of a Tuesday luncheon Y meeting, calls for open negotiation meetings between the town and Y in the future. He questions the secrecy of the session, notes other board members were unavailable, and says voters should decide the Y issue, not via closed talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frasier
Selectman
Edward Frasier
Board
J. Duncan Campbell
Campbell
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
New York
Leon Boutin
Ormal Pierce
Joseph Higgins
Board of Selectmen
Wills Insurance Agency
Eward R. Lamb
Norton Barber
Steve Jesseman
Dudley Baker
Harvey Kevorkian
Bennington
O'Brien backs raising sin taxes for Vermont education
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Leo O'Brien urged raising sin taxes to fund Vermont education. He left the Chittenden Grand Isle Senate seat last fall to challenge Gov. Deane C. Davis, and said the state will have enough revenue to keep state aid to education at 40 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O’brien
Chittenden-Grand Isle
Senate
Deane C. Davis
Townsfolk Face Half Million Dollar Pool Vote
Davis calls for Hold the line state aid of just over 27 million and O Brien cites 29.6 million needed for 40 percent aid. He urges sin tax hikes to fund education and a swimming pool project costing about 0.5 million with ongoing maintenance. Voters decide.
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Davis
O’brien
Box Shop Near Here Faces Receivership Public Auction
Petition for Growth Inc. receivership was sent Jan 13 to attorney for William C. Howell of Manchester, one third owner. The building is in tremendous disrepair with unpaid back taxes. High bidder must cover back taxes and Growth Inc. debts. Mrs Hickok owns part, resides at 160 Convent Ave with 15 month old Heather. Malone was paid with a cashier’s check deemed good. She hopes the box shop becomes Bennington Arts Lab with a store, theater, and restaurant, saying Malone has been very good.
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Chancery Court
Rudolph J. Daley
Thomas P. Whalen
William C. Howell
Manchester
Growth Inc
Hickok
Malone
Heather
Long Island
Bennington Arts Lab
Ex Trustee John Stone seeks seat as selectman
Ex trustee John R Stone Jr of 222 School St announces candidacy for a one year selectman term in District 33 running as a Republican. He hopes COP caucus endorsement on Jan 28. Incumbent Edward Frasier, a Democrat, seeks the two year term in Subdistrict 3. Stone, Bennington native, leads a radio TV sales service business and heads the Bennington Fire Department. He is treasurer of Putnam Hose Fire Co and active in local groups. He is married with seven children and was village trustee before unification. He serves in Knights of Columbus and Elks. He co-chairs Working People for Welfare Adjustment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Village
John R. Stone Jr
School St
COP
Subdistrict 3
Edward Frasier
Stone
Bennington
Bennington High School
Vermont Technical Institute
Randolph
Knights of Columbus and
Bennington Lodge of Elks
Working People For Welfare Adjustment Group
Northeasterners seek to gut Vermont housing code law
Four Northeast Kingdom legislators introduced amendments to exempt owner occupied homes from local housing codes and require a public referendum to enact a code. The proposal limits inspector access, delays enforcement pending appeal, trims penalties, and pushes construction standards toward individual liberty over municipal preference.
Constitution changes to be aired in Senate
The Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on 15 proposed amendments to the Vermont Constitution. The panel will include a representative from the Constitutional Revision Study Commission and members of the public to review proposals, with each member in charge of different amendments and no amendments forwarded that the panel opposes.
Senate backs non controversial plan to amend voting law
The Senate Judiciary Committee moved a non controversial proposal toward amending the 1964 one man one vote decision as 33 states have ratified. The panel also set aside lieutenant governor changes, heard a plan to link governor and lieutenant governor on party tickets, and named Sen. Graham Newell chair of a subpanel to study Senate reapportionment. It will review combining Caledonia with Orleans Essex counties to trim Northeast representation to three, adding a senator for Chittenden Grand Isle.
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Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Constitutional Revision Study Commission
Graham Newell
Caledonia County
Senate
Legislative Apportionment Commission
Orleans-Essex
Northeast
Chittenden-Grand Isle
Bennington Briefs Highlights Snow and ClubEvents
The Southern Vermont Sno Goers plan a family ride on Sunday January 17 meeting at Mammoth Mart at 9 30 a m with a bonfire and lunch. No ride is scheduled for Saturday night. The 1 40 Club meets Tuesday night at Therese Goodermore’s home. Stratton Mountain reports a 24 to 32 inch base with packed powder and some frozen granular in windswept areas, trails range from good to excellent with lower and novice listed as excellent. Dancing from 9 to 1 is set at VFW rooms with Bill Kaplan and orchestra. Potters Yard Brasserie opens daily 12 to 2 except Tuesday, and 1 to 5 on Sundays for January.
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Vermont
Mammoth Mart
Stratton Mountain
Potters Yard Brasserie
King Documentary Screening Feb. 28 At Mt Anthony Union HS
On Sunday February 28 at 7 p.m. the Bennington Council of Churches presents the documentary "King, Montgomery to Memphis" at Mt Anthony Union High School Auditorium. Admission is 2 for adults and 1 for students, with proceeds benefiting the Martin Luther King Foundation and community projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Luther King Jr
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Labor union must pay 5000 contempt fine
A Springfield labor union Local 218 of the United Electrical Workers must pay a 5000 contempt fine after Superior Judge Harold Sylvester refused to stay the order. The fine stems from violating a court order limiting picketing at Jones and Lamson Machine Tool Co. in Springfield, part of Vermont's longest strike with over 700 workers idled since last June. Legislative leaders urged release of a fact finding report by a labor board to aid settlement, while Davis' office offered no comment. Bargaining with federal mediators continued in Boston with no progress reported.
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Woodstock
UPI
Springfield
Harold Sylvester
United Electrical Workers Union
Sylvester
Jones and Lamson Machine Tool Co
Windsor County
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
House
Senate
Special Labor Board
Davis
Boston
Hospital Notes Admissions and Births Record
Admissions include William F. Bartlett Tina Marie Mackenzie and Harold Thomas Thurber Discharges list Master Kevin Terlecky and Mrs Doris A Zampini Births announce a son born Jan 14 to Mr and Mrs William J Hurley of 221 North St Bennington Hoosick Falls Pownal Pownal 221 North St Jan 14
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William F. Bartlett
Tina Marie MacKenzie
Bennington
Harold Thomas Thurber
Hoosick Falls
Kevin Terlecky
Pownal
Doris A. Zampini
William J. Hurley
North St
Denio Promoted to Army Specialist in Germany
Kenneth P. Denio 24 son of Mr and Mrs Clifford E Denio of Bennington was promoted to Army specialist while serving with the 3rd Infantry Division near Schweinfurt Germany. He belongs to Headquarters Company 2nd Battalion 30th Infantry entered service November 1968 completed basic at Ft Dix N J and is a 1968 graduate of Bennington Catholic High School.
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Kenneth P. Denio
Clifford E. Denio
Bennington
3Rd Infantry
Schweinfurt
Germany
Spec. Denio
30Th Infantry
Ft. Dix
N.J
Bennington Catholic High School
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BCIC
Donavan
Westvaco
U.S
Inverness Group
C.P. Vaughn
Lampton
Hamilton Shields
Clement Gilchrist
The
Greenberg, Donavan
T. Garry Buckley
Williams
James Williams
Moulton
Gov
Chamber
Robert Gilroy
James D. Conroy
Arthur D. Taylor
D. Ed. Moore
David Crowell
Kendall Adams
Boy Scouts
Leonard Morse
Louis Bellemare
Theodore Bird
James Merunowicz
William E. Aubuchon
Fitchburg
Mass
Massachusetts
Maine
Connecticut
Burbank Hospital
Yamaska
Quebec
W.E. Aubuchon, Inc
New England Hardware Dealers Association
St. Joseph's Church
Frederick J. Bentley
Alice J. Bentley
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Edward B. Geyer Jr
Patrick Gordon
Herbert Sanderson
William Gee
Kenneth Thomson
Carlton Burt
Fred W.d.smith
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Thomson Mfg. Co
Park Lawn
Geyer
Rosewood Cemetery
White Creek
Elmer Huse
Hanson- Walbridge Funeral Home
David Hubbard
Pownal Methodist Church
Hubbard
Towslee
Huse
Williamstown
Fairview Nursing Home
John Jennings
Jennings
Alcoa Aluminum
Howard
Arthur Barrer
Peter Ayersbach
Bennington-Rutland Opportunity Council
BROC
Lola Howard
Leo O’brien
John Stone
Westphal
Bennington Briefs
1-40
Therese Goodermore
VFW Rooms
Bill Kaplan
Orchestra
Kramers
Harold Kramer
Washington Ave
Heritage House
Garrison Corp
Albany Novelty Co
Kramer
Albany Novelty Corp
Garrison
North Bennington
Memphis
Kenneth A. Beauchemin
Ginn MT
Main Street
Bennington, VT
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