Whimsy Farm Guernseys top December butterfat production
Looking Back recalls December leaders in dairy output by Harold Best Mt. Anthony Dairy Herd Improvement Assn. News notes also mention local farmers installing insulated milk cooling tanks, hospital capacity, and a cold season. sociology students observe county court. potato price support plans. births. cock fighting raids and court actions. local travel weather. school district merger forecasts. historical notes on smoking law 1908 Sullivan Ordinance. Nautilus launch 1954. B52 crash 1968.
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Arlington
Harold Best
Mt. Anthony
Bennington High School
Dorothy Ross
Bennington
Bennington County
John J. DeVito
PMA
Hawks
Cecil Wilcox
New York City
Groton
Conn
Greenland
Letters on capital planning and local governance in Bennington
Readers discuss federal grants, six year capital plans, and the need for public hearings and bylaws. The letter urges more women on boards, notes financial department reforms, and explains elected treasurers’ duties amid complex government accounting.
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Uncle Sam
BSD
MAUHS
Bennington
Campbell urges charter change to appoint position and budget caution
Malvine Cole of Friends of Rehabilitation writes as North Bennington resident urging a charter change to appoint a supervisor position, warns against underspending on trained managers, analyzes highway budgets, and critiques capital punishment ideas while endorsing careful fiscal planning and humane justice.
Daigneault declines run for Bennington selectman
Gary Daigneault says after weeks of thought he cannot commit time to the selectman role and urges supporters to vote for the best candidates. He urges government to live within means, improve efficiency, avoid layoffs, and to involve townspeople in the Town Meeting.
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Selectman
Bennington
Vermont Scenery Tax Joke Warns of Turning Tax System
A humorous Vermont sketch imagines a future where taxes are based on the enjoyment of scenery. A couple touring rural roads encounter a gatekeeper who explains charges for views, with quips about quaint Vermonter sayings and a mock pricing menu. The piece ends with the gate rising and the couple continuing their scenic drive.
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Vermont
What is skiing in James Sterba’s New York Times piece
The essay defines skiing as a two board sport on snow where a person slides downhill until stopping by bottoming out or hitting obstacles. It notes snow gravity and money drive the sport, traces origins to Europe and popularity in America among the wealthy, and observes that Black skiers remain rare on slopes.
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George M. Fienberg
George Pike
Judy
Key West
Florida
Edgar
Pikes
Bennington
Europe
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Campbell
New Human Services Commission
Ed Lamb
J. Duncan Campbell
North Bennington
M. Jerome Diamond
Malvine Cole
Friends of Rehabilitation Stratton
the Banner
Gary Daigneault
Gage St
Pownal View
By Temple Stuart
Pownall, Vt
Jaramount National Bank
By Gretchen Becker
Connecticut
Albert
Hasselblad
Re Pent Road
Wordsboro
Queen Victoria
Jersey Flats
Vermont Road
Jones Beach
James Sterba
The
New York Times
U.S. Gov't
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