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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1976
Page
7
Manchester area notice from Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union changes family size income criteria for reduced price meals. It does not affect already approved free meals or milk. It invites other families to apply, with hardship exceptions for high medical, shelter, special education, disaster losses. Applications in school offices.
An open Hoosic River Basin meeting in Eagle Bridge on Feb 3 at 7:30 p.m. will discuss forming a Hoosick Town conservation commission. Richard Lohnes of Schaghticoke Conservation Committee will explain the group’s work and answer questions. HRBCEPA members outline possible programs including land research, open land lists, river-adjacent areas, and inventories of natural and man-made features.
Town Justice John A. Mahar fined Morris Wadsworth 75 for reckless driving on January 24 and Steven Macek 5 for unsafe tires. Arthur Gates 25 for speeding on January 23 was ordered to appear on a NY insurance charge with license revocation warning pending both NY and Vermont. Chauncey Peters 5 for passing a stop sign.
The East Pownal Volunteer Fire Department hosts the third pitch card party Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Pownal firehouse with prizes and refreshments. donation is one dollar. Also AA meets at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Pownal Recreational Community Center.
Two major projects worth 300000 will be included in the village’s Community Block Grant application for 1976. Seventythousand dollars seeks blight rehab and streetscape work downtown plus parking lot rehab, while 163000 funds water system upgrades on Ren sselaer Street with looping lines. A public hearing drew planners, officials, and residents including Engineer Kent and Mayor Bogardus. A second hearing is set for Monday at 7:30 after a 7:00 village board meeting.
Dr Paul Hamburg a Bennington physician will address Your Childs Health at 7 30 p m Wednesday Feb 4 in the Readsboro Elementary School eighth grade room He will take questions about child health and invite audience participation
A public program and dance at Jermain Community Hall is set for this Saturday at 8 30 pm. The film Stonewall Joe will be shown and star Joe Robertson will fiddle and call rounds to a square dance inviting all to join.
At the 65th annual meeting held Sunday afternoon at the Elks clubhouse Hoosick Falls Country Club re elected Charles Frazier Donald Smith and Francis McEvoy to three year terms. Joseph Marcoux was newly elected for three years and Mrs Beverly Kaukas was chosen for the two year unexpired term of Joseph Fleming who resigned. Treasurer George Dougherty reported a good 1975 year and anticipated a strong 1976. The board’s annual meeting is set for Monday at 7 30 pm at George Dougherty’s Main Street office to conduct elections.
The Vermont Public Service Board ordered new hearings into the Queen City Tap power line through South Burlington. It directs Vermont Electric Power Co. to present tests on partial burial for aesthetics and on electricity demand through 1984, with hearings set to begin April 20.
The Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed a bill to shift vehicle registration to year based periods by license plate digits, but amended it to require only one license plate per vehicle. The saving is about 119000 over three years, to fund three additional state troopers. Public safety officials favor keeping two plates for witness identification, calling the change temporary.
Vermont's Energy Office reports minimal month to month shifts in fuel costs. The average regular gasoline is 60.5 cents per gallon, and Number 2 home heating oil is 42.1 cents. Prices are up about five cents for gasoline and three cents for heating fuel from a year earlier. December gasoline was 55.6 cents and fuel oil was just under two tenths of a cent higher than January.
MONTPELIER UP I The House Commerce Committee endorsed legislation to keep the mortgage interest rate ceiling at its current level for another year. The 9 percent ceiling, tied to a federal index, could expire this year unless extended. Banking groups favor elimination to free more money. The bill goes to the House floor Tuesday.
Albany Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist urged local districts to freeze all salaries during next year’s contracts as part of a state wide pattern of restraint. Gov Carey’s proposed wage freeze for state employees was cited as a model. NYSUT criticized the plea as gratuitous. Troy also reports preliminary approval for a Broadway Third Street corner project by L A Swyer Construction with concessions to Uncle Sam Mall Corp to delay retail space and possibly add a second floor to a Union National Bank branch project.
Firemen policemen and state authorities watched as thick ice two feet deep and raft sized sections swept down the Housatonic River. A Rising Paper Co dam spokesman said the dam handled the surge, with most impact absorbed by the back-up pool north of the dam, despite fears of damaged integrity.
Townsfolk and Bible Speaks officials clash over sewage parking and tax status for the former Bordentown Lenox site. Officials stress that any commercial use of the Wilde Sports Center by the college or a pro team will be taxable.
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