House Doctor Dry Wells For Water From Gutters And Basements
A reader asks about dry wells to divert surface water and a minor basement leak. Methods include a 3 by 4 foot hole 10 feet from the house with clay tile, or a larger steel drum with perforations and gravel, or concrete block pits with iron gratings. Also covered are insulation, waterproofing paints, floor underlayment, stain sealing, asbestos siding care, and hairline cracks in concrete block foundations with caulking if not widening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.P.K
H.C.M
R.I.G
T.E.L
Unemployment Benefits Raised in Vermont Starting July
Vermont Employment Security Commissioner Madelyn Davidson announced an annual set maximum for unemployment payments. The new weekly limit, effective the first full week in July, rises from 91 dollars to a level equal to 60 percent of the annual average wage for covered workers, rounded up. Only claimants meeting eligibility will see the increase, with payments typically about half of prior weekly earnings but capped by the law. Cecelia Forcier’s name was misspelled as Foster in last Saturday’s retirement notice for Ben-Mont Corp.
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Madelyn Davidson
Vermont
Davidson
Cecelia Forcier
Foster
Ben-Mont Corp
Bennington
Ellis Winslow Retires From Prudential Agency
Ellis Ellie Winslow ends 37 years with the Bennington Agency of Prudential Insurance Co. on July 1. He lives at 302 Crescent Blvd with wife Ann and plans to fish hunt and travel. Mal Meikle notes his leadership in sales and service and his prompt attention to client needs, calling him steady as the Prudential rock.
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Ellis
Ellie’ Winslow
Bennington
Prudential Insurance Co
Winslow
Crescent Blvd
Ann
Mal Meikle
Pittsfield
Mass
Prudential
Meikle
Guide to Bennington College Flora Illustrated Booklet
An illustrated flora guide for Bennington College campus is now in the school bookstore and at the administrative offices in the barn. It features 28 pen line drawings by 1976 graduate Robin Dee Brickman with text by Brickman and biology professor Edward Flaccus, plus a campus map locating each specimen by number. The booklet covers trees and shrubs with brief plant descriptions, uses, and birds, priced at $1.25.
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Bennington College
Robin Dee Brickman
Ms. Brickman
Edward Flaccus
Bennington
Elm research shows benomyl phosphate halting Dutch Elm disease
Amherst researchers with the Shade Tree Laboratories at UMass report benomyl phosphate injected into infected elm trunks stopped new symptoms in eight campus trees. In Lexington and other tests, treated elms largely survived while untreated ones died. The work links to ERI and U S Department of Agriculture efforts with DuPont and Canadian Forest Service in a long cooperative program to control the disease.
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Amherst
Mass
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Lexington
Paul Mazerall
Scituate
West Springfield
Amherst-Lexington
University of Wisconsin
Canadian Forest Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
DuPont Corp
Elm Research Institute
Eugene Smalley
Wisconsin
Smalley
England
Ed Kondow
Forest Disease and Insect Lab
DuPont
Ottawa
Kondow
United States
ERI
Environmental Protection Agency
University of Massachusetts
Holmes
Derry Downtown grows as Platts shape quaint river side street
Isabel Gwinn reports on Derry Downtown a half block dead end off Highway 11 where Platt couple transformed old houses into a gallery restaurant boutique and craft shops. A future Pedestrian Park and flood levee funded by federal state and local sources is planned along West River while builders finish interiors and patrons glimpse stained glass antiques and records in shops.
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Isabel Gwinn Londonderry
Derry
Thomas Platt
Highway 11
West River
Platt
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Tom Platt
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R.L.W
C.J.W
Ellis Winslow
Catamount National Bank
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Merillat
Haas
Ixl
Brammer
Excel
Tuttle i Bennington
Progressive
Depot Street
Grand Union
Supermarr
Maine
Maryland
Leverett
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