Bennington Eyes Fund Change To Cut Water Lead
Bennington plans to modify a $376000 HUD funding application to install machinery at the Bolles Brook source to reduce water corrosivity and keep lead from leaching from service lines. town manager Louis C Savelas will contact HUD officials in Manchester NH for approval. Health Dept official Dr William Watson met with over ten local doctors to discuss lead poisoning risks and information.
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Bennington
Louis C. Savelas
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Manchester
N.H
Bolles Brook
William Watson
Health Department
Watson
Park Street bridge water main repairs continue
Bennington water crews work to repair the water main under the Park Street bridge while 4000 feet of fire hose connected to hydrants and pipes keeps the area supplied. The Jefferson Heights leak was fixed by noon. Nearly 2000 feet of hose in the Lyons district froze, but other portions stayed pressurized. Town Manager Savelas vows insulation to prevent future freezes.
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Bennington
Park Street Bridge
Lyons
Jard
Bijur
Louis C. Savelas
Park Street
Roaring Branch River
Inauguration Day Scenes and Local News Across Bennington
The article covers the Carter inauguration with Rosalynn and family on the platform, plus state budget talks and local incidents. It details a Kingman hospital death investigation, budget shifts including welfare concerns, security costs, and weather. plus Bennington traffic crashes and two 14 year old girls found in New Jersey after disappearing January 12.
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Bennington
New Jersey
Martha Ann Morse
Debbie Setzer
New Jersey Turnpike
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Russian Princess Kyra Wayne Captivates Vermont Women
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, a Crimean born actress writer and musician, shared her life story with about 75 Vermont women in Colgate Hall bennington. She recalled noble lineage hardships during the Red White conflict, escape from barge in the Black Sea, and wartime service with Shostakovichs troupe. Wayne outlined childhood polish language training and grandmothers courtly lessons while praising Russian culture and critiquing American vulgarization. She remains a citizen of both nations and plans further school and library talks in Vermont.
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Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne
Crimea
Vermont
Russia
Delta Kappa Gamma
First Baptist Church
Colgate Hall
Soviet Union
Leningrad Institute of Theatre Arts
Dmitri Shostakovich
Leningrad
Harrison Salisbury
New York Times
Wayne
Barguzin
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Kyra
Kyra Petrovsksaya Wayne
Eta
Women’s Educators’ Society
Bennington
Bennington BSD holds public relations panel for full curriculum budget
At the fourth hearing the Bennington School District curriculum committee formed a public relations unit to persuade voters to approve a full budget for next year. The phys ed program drew strong defense while opponents claimed tax concerns. Community volunteers signed up to promote the BSD curriculum amidst state aid cuts and potential tax increases.
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Bennington School
Catamount-Brookside
Ken Liporto
Mt. Anthony
BSD
Richard A. Sleeman
Montpelier
Sleeman
Bennington
Thomas Steffen
Steffen
David Sprague
Janet Henry
Mike Reilly
Dottie Sunquist
Helen Mirandy
Dave Palmer
Lucy Drickamer
Dick Jolivette
Pat Olney
Carolyn Moors
Alberta Harrington
Kris Mooney
Kenneth Cestone
Barbara Dyson
Obituary for Lormier H. Danforth South Shaftsbury WW II veteran
Lormier Skinner Danforth 55 of South Shaftsbury an Army World War II veteran died Wednesday at Putnam Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Funeral at Hanson Walbridge at 2 p.m. Friday with interment in Evergreen Cemetery vault Arlington pending spring burial. Born November 15 1921 in Manchester to Byron and Beatrice Danforth he was an operator for Dailey Co. in Shaftsbury for 2 years and held a 25 year accident free driving record. Survived by Eleanor Babcock his wife of Arlington 1947 and two sons Byron and James. sister Mrs Calvin Andrews of Arlington and many nieces and nephews. Memorials to Vermont Cancer Society or Benn ington Rescue Squad. Family at funeral home 2-4 and 7-9 today.
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Lormier
Skinner
H. Danforth
South Shaftsbury
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Hanson-Walbridge
Angus J. MacDonald
Shaftsbury United
Farrell) Danforth
Vermont
Glendale
Calif
Aeronautic School
Chicago, Ill
Interior Design
Dailey Co
Shaftsbury
Eleanor Babcock
Arlington
Byron
Sheboygan Falls
Wis
James
Schenectady
N.Y
Calvin Andrews
Vermont Cancer Society
Bennington
Vermont praised for efficient state government by consultant
William Klaisle of Warren King Associates told UPI Vermont already has one of the best managed bureaucracies his firm has studied. The Chicago firm, which has examined 25 states, noted potential saving of 10 to 12 million dollars through better management and commended the use of work measurement indicators and a reasonable data system.
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Klaisle
Human Service Agency
Elizabeth Candon
Vermont
New York tax agents questioned by local chamber boss
David Newell, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, warns local businesses to beware NY Tax Department agents he accuses of misrepresenting facts in sales tax inquiries. Griffins's of Arlington faces a pending suit over over $100,000 in sales taxes, a matter not resolved by the recent Supreme Court decision.
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David Newell
Chamber of Commerce
New York State Tax Department
New York
Newell
New York State
Griffins’s of
Arlington
Griffin’s
U.S. Supreme Court
Hospital Notes January 19 1977 Admissions and births
Admissions include Joseph McGrath Todd McGrath Diane Proulx William Strohmaier Leslie Sweet Robert Welch Albert LaCroix Bennington Nathaniel Stevens North Bennington John Hickey William Fitzpatrick Hoosick Falls NY Rose Hall Cambridge NY Robert Harrington Buskirk NY. Births include a son to Mr and Mrs James Keegan Hoosick Falls. Discharges include William Martin Bennington Mary Devine Arlington Irene Gates Lois Allen Hoosick Falls George Caruthers West Dover. Additional birth Hilary Lorraine Nicholson Moody to Nina and Christian Nicholson Moody Banff Alberta Canada on Jan 17 1977. maternal grandparents Hugh Nicholson Saskatoon and Helen Beaugrand Vancouver paternal Arthur Moody Arlington.
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Joseph McGrath
Todd McGrath
Diane Proulx
William Strohmaier
Leslie Sweet
Robert Welch
Albert LaCroix
Bennington
Nathaniel Stevens
North Bennington
John Hickey
William Fitzpatrick
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Rose Hall
Cambridge
Robert Harrington
Buskirk
William Martin
Mary Devine
Arlington
Irene Gates
Lois Allen
George Caruthers
West Dover
Hilary Lorraine Nicholson- Moody
Nina and
Christian Nicholson- Moody
Banff
Alberta
Canada
Hugh Nicholson
Saskatoon
Sask
Helen Beaugrand
Vancouver
B.C
Arthur Moody
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