Bennington Free Library displays 70 Years of Best Sellers
A summer display at Bennington Free Library features 70 Years of Best Sellers 1895 1965. The list traces top fiction and non fiction by year and totals, showing shifts from mass market paperbacks to hardbacks and cookbooks, with titles like Gone with the Wind and The Little Engine That Could across decades.
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Alice Payne Hackett
Dr. Spock
Mickey Spillane
Ian Fleming
Earle Stanley Gardner
Thomas Costain
Gen Stratton Porter
Ee Cooper
Scott
Twain
Hawthorne
Henry Adams
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Lin Yutang
Roosevelt
Windsor
Ernie Pyle
Doctor Zhivago
Bennington Day Camp hosts first parents night
The Bennington Day Camp sponsored by the Bennington Council of Churches will hold its first parents night on Friday July 16 at 7:30 pm for about an hour. Camp director Stephen Cleveland will summarize two weeks of activities, followed by skits and songs around the campfire. Loomis Dana, president of the Council of Churches, will attend and parents will tour the grounds afterward.
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Stephen Cleveland
Loomis Dana
Council of Churches
Joanne Myers
Jimmy Myers
Emerald Lake
Memorial Park Playground
Playground Pet Show Winners At Stark Street
Stark Street Playground held its annual Pet Show with prizes across dogs and cats. Top dogs included longest and shortest hair, best trained, best groomed, strongest, fluffiest, biggest, smallest, and overall best in show. Cats saw winners for largest, smallest, best bred, fluffiest, most colorful, and quietest. Other pets and events followed with notes of a picnic and upcoming joint trips.
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Stark Street Playground
Timmy
Jeanie Pinsonneault
Missy
Sarah McGurn
Cocoa
Margaret Ottaviano
Bambi
Tammy
Carl Ray
Melissa Gropman
Ladybug
Harriet Eddington
Mike Long
John Ellis
Sam
Cheryl Houran
Boots
Donna Ottaviano
Timmy Carroll
Ringo
Brian Houran
Memorial Park Playground
Florence King
Helen Skidmore
Beth Summer
Bonnie Brookman
Karen Fanning
Pattie Hollister
Kelly LaCroix
Donny Burke
Marie Bartell
Brenda King
Jeff Metcalf
Beth Rivers
Kelly Harwood
Jeff Gauthier
Cathy Squires
Theresa King
Eddie Allen
Joey Alentiller
Christopher LaCroix
Scott Hutton
Bethyn Summer
Black bear mascot planned for weekend antiques show
A 6 foot native black bear will serve as the mascot of the antiques show to be held in Whitingham this weekend. Show manager Mildred Spargo of Old Bennington says the large stuffed animal, found after a long absence, will accompany the event before being returned home.
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Seninal
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Florida
Boston State House
New York City Hall
Miss Beecher earns BA degree at Boston University
Diane I. Beecher, daughter of Mrs. Frank S. Beecher of 107 Dewey St., earned a B A degree magna cum laude from Boston University majoring in psychology. She was elected Phi Beta Kappa and will start a doctoral program in social psychology at the University of Kansas after a research job in Lawrence. The exercises coincided with John R. Silber’s inauguration as president.
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Bennington
Bennington Grange Holds Neighbors Night Meeting
The Bennington Grange met Thursday at the firehouse with extra members from Battenhill Shaftsbury Stamford and Hoosick Granges. Lillian Petrelis spoke on travel through Ireland England and Italy with pictures. Hazel Hogan and Virginia McKenna presented readings.
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Battenhill
Shaftsbury
Stamford
Hoosick Granges
Lillian Petrelis
Ireland
England
Italy
Hazel Hogan
Solomon
Virginia McKenna
Florence Hattat
Minnesota
Margaret Lillie
Helen Clough
Rose Gleason
Hoosick Grange
Police remind law barring motors on trails in Vermont
The Vermont Department of Public Safety warns residents that motor vehicles are banned on state lands and trails not designated for vehicles. The 1971 law imposes fines up to 500 dollars for violations. A companion rule also targets obstructing private driveways or entering private lands without permission.
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Department of Public Safety
Agency of Environmental Conservation
E.W. Corcoran
Col Corcoran
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