Ornithologist to discuss North Atlantic Bird Islands
The Bennington Bird Club hosts Dr. Steve Kress for a 2:30 p.m. Sunday presentation in the Sloane Room at Bennington Museum. The multimedia program covers Newfoundland to Maine puffins and other seabirds with slides, live narration, and recorded sounds. Dr. Kress, who earned a Cornell Ph.D. this spring, focuses on puffin colony reestablishment on Eastern Egg Rock Maine. last summer 68 pufflings were flown to Wiscasset and raised on Eastern Egg Rock with a crew of three. The talk notes the puffin project’s expansion to 100 pufflings this summer and mentions travel plans for Machias Seal Island researchers. The program is free and open to the public.
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Sloane Room
Bennington Museum
Bennington Bird Club
Steve Kress
Maine
Easter Egg Rock
Kress
Antioch College
Antioch Outdoor Education Center
Audubon
Connecticut
Wisconsin
Mary Burton-Beinecke
Agway
Arctic
Machias Seal Island
Town grievance days set for Bennington this week
Bennington announces annual grievance days this week with sisters guiding residents on proper procedures for appealing assessments. Personal property valuations are scheduled Wednesday and real estate Thursday with hours 9 to 5 except noon to 1. Letters must be postmarked by midnight on grievance day or delivered in person, containing the 1974 assessment, appeal reasons, and three comparables.
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Bennington
Area Funerals Highlight Local Obituaries in Arlington and Bennington
Funeral services for Ralph T. Delaney of Arlington and James J. Kelley of Bennington were held with details of rites, committal prayers, and flag presentations. Other notices include Blanche Chick’s wake and burial plans in North Pownal, with clergy from St. James Episcopal and St. Francis de Sales officiating.
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Ralph T. Delaney
Arlington
Hanson-Walbridge
John Adams
St. James Episcopal Church
Merwin Crofut
Earl Prouty
James Thompson
Fred Lemberg
Gilbert Wilcox
Gerald Mattison
Ira Allen Cemetery
Sunderland
Adams
Thomas’ Draffin
Manchester
Eastern Star
American Legion
Red Mountain Lodge of Masons
Valmore Clifford
C. Mason Amadon
Jerry Keough
J. Russell Carpenter Jr
Thomas Crosier
Harry Kuhn III
Park Lawn Cemetery
Francis B. Flanagan
St. Francis de Sales Church
Bennington Council 307
Knights of Columbus
Msgr
Flanagan
Blanche Thompson Chick
North Pownal
William Hunsicker
West Pawlet
Bennington Briefs Powell graduates from Graham Junior College
Bennington notes that Bennington resident Mark L. Powell recently earned an associate degree from Graham Junior College Boston in the school of communications with a radio broadcasting major. Also listed is Army Pvt Robert E Houle III son of Mr and Mrs Houle of Silk Road serving as turbine engine repairman with First Calvary Division at Ft Hood Texas.
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Mark L. Powell
Bennington
Graham Junior College
Boston
Mass
School of Communications
Powell
Army
Robert E. Houle III
Robert E. Houle
The
Silk Road
First Calvary Division
Ft. Hood
Texas
Seniors' checks explained by Vermont council leaders
The Vermont State Council of Senior Citizens warns nursing home residents not to view the $50 Social Security checks as payment for routine services. The checks, funded by the U.S. Treasury, are a retirement stimulus, not Medicaid or Food Stamp eligibility changes.
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Richmond
Vermont
State Council of Senior Citizens
U.S
Leila Griswold
Congress
U.S. Treasury
Vermont Council of Senior Citizens
Twin sons born at North Adams hospital
Hospital notes report the birth of twin sons, Brian and Bruce, on May 25 at North Adams Regional Hospital to Mr and Mrs Bruce LaBonte of Pownal Center.
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Brian
Bruce
North Adams, Mass
Bruce LaBonte
Pownal Center
Southern Vermont College Holds 1975 Graduation Ceremony
Commencement exercises at Southern Vermont College in Bennington on May 25 drew about 500 guests. Sixty two graduates received bachelor and associate degrees with honors for several individuals, including valedictorians Florence W. King cum laude and Leigh Joann Griggs magna cum laude. Chief speakers included Dr. Charles Merrill and President James Donahue, with Rev. Harry Burdess delivering the benediction.
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Southern Vermont College
Bennington
Monument Road
James G. Donahue
Lawrence A. Dzieman
Charles D. Merrill
Newton Junior College
Newtonville
Mass
Florence W. King
North Bennington
Leigh Joann Griggs
Carl Griggs Jr
Clarksburg
Jean Marie Becker
Shaftsbury
John Joseph Fasano
Brooklyn
Melissa Jones
David Mark Parker
Benningtons
Cynthia Jean Salem
Obituary of Viola M. Conley Former SSS secretary
Viola M. Conley longtime Selective Service office secretary in Bennington died May 22 in Manatee Memorial Hospital Bradenton Florida. She lived in Bradenton since 1968 formerly at 208 Union St Bennington and 6004 Lilly Way. Born in Greenwich New York she attended Bennington schools worked at Bennington College before joining the Selective Service during and after World War II. Maiden name Montgomery. Survived by three children Viola Walsh Barkley Conley and Robert Conley nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Cremation with no funeral services. Memorials to Heart Fund.
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Dallas
UPI
Banting
American Diabetes Association
Roger H. Unger
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Diabetes Association
New York
Unger
Viola M. Conley
Selective Service Office
Bennington
Manatee Memorial Hospital
Bradenton
Fla
Greenwich
N.Y
Bennington College
Selective Service
Montgomery
Viola Walsh
Elnora, N.Y
Barkley Conley
Keene, N.H
Robert Conley
Corpus Christi
Senior Citizens Card Party and Banquet Plans
A public card party lights up this Friday at the Senior Citizens Community Center on BenMont Avenue at 8. Isabelle LaBarge and Marion Knapp hostesses. Winners last Friday were Dorothy Kelly, ladies high, George Rogers, men's high, Desanges Pellerin, door prize. The club's annual banquet is Monday, June 9 at 5:30 at the Loyal Order of Moose lodge with officer installation. Social time is Sunday, June 8 at 1:30.
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Senior Citizens Community Center
BenMont Avenue
Isabelle LaBarge
Marion Knapp
Dorothy Kelly
George Rogers
Desanges Pellerin
Senior Citizens Club
Loyal Order of Moose Lodge
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Bird Island
North Atlantic
Area Funerals
James J. Kelly
James J. Kelley
Adams St
Putnam Memorial Hospital
St. Francis de Sales
Thomas Mattison
John Arnott
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
William Chick
Bennington Briefs
Vermont Hang Gliding Association
Pico Peak
Route 4
Rutland
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Burgess Road
Carol Pessley
Home, Inc
Beech Court
Audrey Ringer
Diabetes Research
New England
National Weather Service
Southern Vt
Lawrence Edward Roberts Bennington
Dorothy Frances Totten
Cathy Jo Burdick
Wayne P. Corey
Cynthia Marie Crafts
North Adams
Cortney K. DuBois
Harwich Port
Gordon R. Edmonds
Cum Laude
Stephen Arnold Gottardi
Readsboro
Barbara Green
Albany
John V. Hannan
Nancy Elizabeth Ingraham
West Hartford
West Hartford, Conn.; Gareth John Knights, Bennington; Jean Elizabeth Kurpiel
Norman A. Miller
John William O’donnell
John V. Pellerin
North Springfield
Jane B. Shapiro
Ronald Doyle Shepard
David Edward Thompson
Mark Allen van Orman
Pownal
Royanne Marie Carey
Ben
Nington
Adele M. Comeau
Newport
Susan Lynn Fair
Debra Jean Gaudreau
Bonnie Jean Gelo
Lowell
Sharon Lee Harrington
Evelyn Ruth Niles
Jean Ann O’rourke
Schenectady
Debra Ann Palmer
Magna Cum Laude
Mary Louise Senecal
Sara F. Sterling
Scarboro
Janelle Lee Sykes
Derby Line
Valerie Jean
Local Selective Service Office
Heart Fund
WILK
Salem's Super
Hamburg
Bunches
Peg
Carton
Armstrong
Mastercharge
Bankamericard
O’ Furniture Inc
Bennington, Vermont
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