Elks Set Visitation Day August at Silver Towers Camp
Virginia Perrotta announces Elks Visitation Day at Silver Towers Camp in Ripton on Sunday August 8. A state officers meeting at 11 with lunch, 2 pm school scholarships and a picnic follow. raffle tickets mailed to Elks to raise funds for the Vermont camp.
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Silver Towers
Silver Towers Camp
Ripton
Virginia
Max”’ Perrotta
Vermont Elks
Perrotta
Elks
Middlebury
Berre Lodge
Bennington Lodge
Art Charron
Vermont Historical Society plans Revolution focus event
The Vermont Historical Society hosts an Aug. 7 program in Montpelier at the Pavilion Building spotlighting Vermont’s role in the Revolution. UVM historian H Nicholas Muller leads discussions with graduate students and speakers David Donath and Kevin Graffagnino on Jacob Bayley Eleazar Wheelock and related topics with a lunch break and a trustees’ meeting to follow. In Northfield the Vermont Industrial Development Authority reports a $14 500 sale of Northfield Mills to Lague and Wall Associates, a loss from a $120 000 state loan, with VIDA citing a $90 000 to $120 000 overall loss and plans to subdivide the mill.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Vermont Historical Society
H. Nicholas Muller
University of Vermont
UVM
Thomas Conlon
David A. Donath
Kevin A. Graffagnino
Jacob Bayley
Eleazar Wheelock
Sarah V. Kalinowski
Muller
Northfield
UPI
Vermont Industrial Development Authority
Northfield Mills
Berlin
Henry Lague
E.F. Wall
Lague
Rail directors meet to sell abandoned Beecher Falls line
Maine Central Railroad plans to sell its abandoned Beecher Falls line to New Hampshire for an undisclosed sum after the Interstate Commerce Commission approved abandonment. The line serves Ethan Allen furniture plants in Beecher Falk Vermont, with New Hampshire and Vermont negotiating to keep service to protect local industry and employment near the tri border region.
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Portland, Maine
UPI
Maine Central Railroad
Beecher Falls
New Hampshire
Vermont
Ethan Allen
Beecher Falk
Maine Central
E. Spencer Miller
Brad Peters
Interstate Commerce Commission
Canada
Marshall Cobleigh
Meldrim Thomson
Cobleigh
Boston & Maine
Concord
Lincoln
Gloria Gil Named to Vermont Women Panel Chair
Gov Thomas Salmon appointed Gloria Gil of Bennington as chair of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women. Eleven residents were named to vacancies on state boards including the Board of Examiners of Opticians and the advisory board to the Office on Aging. Former Sen Stovan Towe of Windham County was named to another term as chairman of the aging advisory board.
Married Salmon Kittel United in Woodford Ceremony
June Kittel of North Bennington and William Salmon, formerly of North Bennington, wed July 17 with Justice of the Peace John DeVito presiding at the Foster home in Woodford Star Route. Attendants Mrs. Albert Macauley and John Briggs. The bride, formerly with BenMont Paper Co., and the groom, a Walton motel owner, will reside there after a wedding trip.
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June Kittel
North Bennington
William Salmon
Justice of the
John DeVito
Donald Foster
Star Route
Woodford
Albert Macauley
John Briggs
BenMont Paper Co
Walton
N.Y
Salmon says Vermont lacks clout as he seeks Senate seat
Governor Thomas Salmon denounces Stafford as out of touch and vows to win the U.S. Senate race for Vermont. He argues Vermont pays higher living costs and needs a senator who understands local concerns. Salmon targets rival candidates and questions residency experience while campaigning in Bellows Falls and Winooski.
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Bellows Falls
UPI
Vermont
Thomas Salmon
Robert Safford
Rvt
Salmon
U.S. Senate
Winooski
Senate
Stafford
South
Skinner
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Vermont House
VA Cuts GI Benefits at Vermont CCV Amid Overpayments
White River Junction VA says veterans at the Community College of Vermont will lose GI benefits after investigations found overpayments totaling more than $60,000 across 200 cases and cases of poor record keeping. CCV may appeal to VA in Washington. regional options exhausted.
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White River Junction
UPI
Community College of Vermont
Area Veterans Administration
Robert Ziegenhine
William Yasinsk
CCV
Community College
Ziegenhine
Washington
Peter Smith
Vermont
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