Barre tightens blue laws amid Sunday entertainment ruling
Barre officials face Vermont blue law questions as city attorney Eva Lucchina rules Sunday paid rides and hockey games are illegal during the Barre Firefighters Association convention Aug. 5-6. The Barre Athletic League had sponsored Sunday hockey at the municipal rink, drawing scrutiny.
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Barre
UPI
Vermont Firefighters Association
Asssociation
Albert B. Galfetti
James Alexander
Eva A. Lucchina
Lucchina
Barre Athletic League
Ed Years
Shoreham Picks Union With Middlebury High School District
Shoreham residents vote 151 to 70 to join Middlebury Union High School District. The result clears the board to grant temporary approval for another year. The state board labeled Shoreham High School unapproved but said the tag could be lifted if residents join Middlebury or meet standards, waiver expected at Tuesday meeting.
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Shoreham
UPS
Middlebury Union
Board of Education
Shoreham High School
Middlebury
Vandalism wave hits Randolph and Brookfield area
Vandalism dominates local talks as state police assist. Bea Peck of Brookfield reports a destroyed tractor and the Cecil Cunningham summer home in Randolph Center suffers broken items and windows. A Brookfield remodel project also faces stone throwers, with fourteen windows damaged.
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Randolph
UPI
Randolph-Braintree
Brookfield
Bea Peck
Cecil Cunningham
Randolph Center
Vermont Growth Survey Shows Rise in Labor Force and Income
State economic survey reports May labor force at 173,450 up from 168,700 a year earlier and personal income up 12.1 percent for January–April 1967. However construction value fell 44 percent in the first four months of 1967 versus 1966, notes Roland A. Loveless, director of industrial development.
Insurance dept raises rates for city car owners
The State Insurance Dept announced new automobile insurance rates Thursday. The $10 000-$20 000 package rises by $4 for city area car owners while other Rensselaer County residents see a $7 decrease. Overall county rates fall about 6.8 percent, Southern Saratoga County 3.6 percent, and other parts of the county 2.9 percent.
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Troy
State Insurance Dept
Rensselaer County
Saratoga County
First NY state lottery draw names 39 area winners
Albany County leads with 21 winners in the opening drawing of New York state lottery. Schenectady County has 10 winners, Saratoga County three, Rensselaer County three, and Washington County two.
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Albany
New York
Albany County
Schenectady County
Saratoga County
Rensselaer County
Washington County
Retiring Berkshire Public Schools Chief Taylor led decades
Dr. Robert N. Taylor, superintendent for 19 years in North Adams, will retire December 31 after 43 years in public education. He helped produce the Willis Harrington report in 1965, led the Massachusetts School Superintendents Association in 1962, and pushed for higher teacher salaries, full-day kindergartens, private school board meetings, and restrictions on school committee members choosing teachers.
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North Adams
Robert N. Taylor
Taylor
Willis- Harrington
Massachusetts
Massachusetts School Superintendents’ Assn
Peace demonstration planned at Tanglewood July 30
Berkshire Action Committee for Peace opposes U S Vietnam policy and will stage a peaceful protest outside Tanglewood entrances before and after a Sunday concert by pianist Van Cliburn. Organizer Frederick Lord of Stockbridge says 10 to 20 volunteers will carry placards. officials say they object only if inside gates.
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LENOX
Berkshire Action Committee For Peace
Tanglewood
Frederick Lord
Stockbridge
Lord
van Cliburn
Pittsfield County summer tourism held near 1966 level
Rainy weather and Expo 67 competition did not derail county tourist activity. Holiday Inn on U S 7 and Mass 20 between Lenox and here runs near full on weekends and most nights with off the road business. Williamstown Theater and Williams Inn report strong or steady trade, keeping pace with a peak year.
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Pittsfield
Holiday Inn
U.S. 7
Mass
Lenox
Here
Williamstown
Williams Inn
Picasso Surrealist Play Fails To Stir French Audience
In Gassin France a staging of Picasso’s Desire Caught By The Tail directed by Jean Jacques Lebel drew 600 spectators who left silent and muttering that the play was grotesque incoherent and dirty A circus tent setting featured bananas watermelons spitting and an epilogue with topless dancers amid a rafters of mixed reactions The painter did not attend and reportedly has never seen the play performed.
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France
UPI
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Pablo Picasso
Picasso
Lebel
St. Tropez
Brigitte Bardot
Marnie Cabanetos
Plaque honors Jimmy Fund donors in Boston
A plaque in Boston honors a $25,000 Jimmy Fund donation for pediatric cancer research. Unveiled by Richard Cardinal Cushing Ted Williams Tom Yawkey and Dr. Sidney Farber, it names contributors who funded Williams Hall of Fame tribute. The ceremony cited 12 years of cancer research and aims to expand to adult treatment in future years.
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Boston
UPI
Jimmy Fund For Children’s Cancer Research
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Ted Williams
Boston Red Sox
Tom Yawkey
Sidney Farber
Jimmy Fund
Williams
Red Sox
Yawkey
Farber
Generation Gap Study Sought By Gov Hoff
Governor Hoff urges the children and youth committee to study the generation gap and youth values. He cites disaffection with America's static society and calls for investigating youths mores problems and aspirations. He also mentions establishing a world center for cancer research in adults and children.
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STOWE
UPS
Philip Hoff
Committee On Children and Youth
Hoff
America
Swanton School project faces court action and debate
Plainfield resident Blake Fishburne mobilizes support to oppose the Swanton union school plan. He criticizes Gov Hoff for backing a private funds, multi-faith school adjacent to a public high school. A log cabin atheist instruction idea is floated. Sept 19 vote covers Swanton High, Highgate and Franklin residents.
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UPI
Swanton
Blake Fishburne
Philip H. Hoff
Union School
Highgate
Franklin
Fishburne
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