Arlington Street Fair Keeps Community Club Fundraising Alive
The Arlington Street Fair returns on August 12 for the 33rd year, raising funds for the Community House and library built from Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s gift in 1947. The event once closed Route 7 streets and drew widespread town participation, with leaders like John and Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Norman Rockwell contributing to its success and ongoing community use across Arlington and neighboring towns.
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Arlington
Arlington Street
Canfield
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
School Street
John and
Norman Rockwell
Mead Schaeffer
John Atherton
Arthur Gutterman
George Hughes
Sandgate
Sunderland
Shaftsbury
Bennington
Manchester
Scriabin program at All Souls Church Brattleboro
Faubion Bowers hosts an all Scriabin evening at All Souls Church West Brattleboro with musicians Alan Marks James Kreger and others. The event blends color slides poetry incense lights dance and mixed media with donations at the door. Call 254 9377 for details.
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Brattleboro
All Souls Church of
West Brattleboro
Faubion Bowers
Scriabin
Bowers
Alan Marks
James Kreger
Hans Steger
Candace Miller
John Young
CBS
Camera Three
All Souls Church
McCullough Library film program this Thursday at 1 p.m.
North Bennington invites all school age children to a free film showing this Thursday at 1 p.m. featuring Redwoods and Story About Ping. The weekly series draws about 40 children, with strong turnout reported by staff. Miss Alison Bro of Houghton Street is a Shimer College sophomore for 1971 fall term after graduating Mt. Anthony Union High School in 1971. Dr. Bro, son of the late Dr. Albin C. Bro, longtime Shimer president, and his wife June Larson, a Shimer alumna.
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McCullough Library
Redwoods
Ping
Alison Bro
Harmon H. Bro
Houghton Street
Shimer College
Mt. Carroll Ill
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Dr. Bro
Albin C. Bro
June Larson
Shimer
Hoosick Falls News Aerie meeting and rail line closure
The Hoosick Falls Ladies Auxiliary of Hoosick Falls Aerie of Eagles will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the FOE rooms. Mary Wager and George Dougherty Sr. are patients at Putnam Memorial Hospital, Bennington. Walter Gates returns home from Mary McClellan Hospital. The Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad, a 24 mile line between Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington, is closing July 3 due to small industry departure and truck gains. Deerfield Glassine in Monroe Bridge was its last user. The railroad was built in 1884, once profitable, with Pinsley planning stock sales to railroads. Monroe selectmen protested, but no hearing was held. A sidewalk in front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception is being repaired after a wall crack and fill. the cause was rainstorm damage, not lightning, with drainage changes planned and elm leaves addressed.
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Hoosac Tunnel
Wilmington
Monroe
Mass
Samuel Pinsly
Boston
HT and W
Monroe Selectmen
Pinsley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Deerfield Glassine Co
Monroe Bridge
Deerfield Plywood Co
Yankee Atomic Electric Co
Rowe, Mass
Readsboro Chair Co
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Hoosick Falls
Donald J. Ammering
Local notes bring updates on residents and weather
Walloomsac Paul H. Cipperly is confined to his home with tonsillitis. Jimmie Tudor returns from Putnam Memorial Hospital. Families and friends travel between Syracuse Thyland Clayburg and Bennington. National Weather Service forecasts fair skies then possible showers across New England with highs in the 70s to 80s and lows in 40s to 60s.
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Paul H. Cipperly
Boston
UPI
National Weather Service
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
North Bennington Rejects Liquor License for Junction Club
North Bennington Village trustees voted to urge Bennington selectmen to reject Karl Harrington’s liquor license for the old carbarn at Vermont 67A and White Creek Road. Residents argued noise traffic and safety concerns, while Harrington noted investment and a nightclub dining plan in the former trolley terminal.
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Bennington
North Bennington
North Bennington Village
Karl B. Harrington
Harrington
Vermont 67A
White Creek
Bank Street
Town Selectmen
Church Street
Hall Street
Bank Street Extension
Hawks Avenue
Shaftsbury
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Arlington Street Fair
The
Pownals
Vera Langlais
WSCS
Pownal
County National Bank
Fisher
Community Club
Neighborhood Club
Mattie
Martha Canfield
Nat Donala
Ae Etdings
Manchester Fairgrounds
Scriabin: the Mystic Chords of
Sun Kisses
Hamburg
SUN
Super Dupers
Edith Beaumont
Ladies’ Auxiliary of
Aerie of Eagles
FOE Rooms
Mary Wager
Rogers Ave
Putnam Memorial Hospital
George E. Dougherty Sr
Main St
Dougherty’s Hotel
Walter Gates
Church St
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Walloomsac
Bertha Hoag
Jimmie Tudor
Joe Hewson
Jennifer
Thomas
Syracuse
Mrs
William Hewson
Charles Arnold Sr
Lawrence van
Thyland
Martha Liberty
Clayburg
N.Y
Hoosick Falls Health Center
Bertha
A.m
Steve
Gregory Luke
Brodis Farm
Union, Maine
Becky Powers
Pam Cottrell
Helen Sullivan
Edward Sullivan
Marie O’neil
Washington, D.C
Harry Moses
Mary Austin
Julia Halloran
Niagara Falls
Canada
Grants Es
Bradford House
Monument Plaza
N. Village
Elizabeth Dwyer
Fred Welling
Welling
David Senecal
Hunt and
Depot Streets
Edward Lamb
North Adams Hoosac
Levi
Adams Clothes Shop
Lauder’ Scotch
Lauder's
Gooderham & Worts
Detroit
Mich
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