Grocers Push Salmon for Special Session on Bottle Ban
Rutland Vermont Retail Grocers Association held the second meeting in a state series urging Gov. Salmon to call a special session to repeal the July 1 nonreturnable beverage container ban. Carl Smith defended the measure against litter and criticized press coverage while Rep. Emerson Peake blamed the media for unfair legislation. Franklin Phillips supported the bill amid opposition. A follow up session was planned for Bennington tonight at 7:39 PM.
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Rutland
UPI
Vermont Retail Grocers Association
Thomas Salmon
Vermont
Carl Smith
Emerson Peake
Rutland Town
Bennington Declares Little League Week Proclamation
Town Manager Edward Ro Lamb leads a unanimous council vote to proclaim June 17 as Little League Week in Bennington. The action mirrors nationwide observances as communities celebrate youth baseball and local leagues.
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Bennington
Relecmen
Edward Ro Lamb
Utility executives grilled on rates in Vermont
In Montpelier the Public Service Board continued cross examination of Green Mountain Power officials in a rate hike case. Green Mountain seeks a 13.6 percent increase citing higher power costs from suppliers including Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. The company highlighted 1972 as the test year with significant income growth and earnings per share gains while noting Vermont Yankee sponsorship and governance dynamics influence outcomes.
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Montpelier
UPI
Green Mountain Power Corp
Public Service Board
Green Mountain
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Glen McKibben
WC. Fitkin
McKibben
Vermont Yankee
Vermont
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Rutand
Central Vermont
Shaftsbury Man Survives 8-Hour Car Crash Ordeal
Stephen Freely, 26, of Shaftsbury was pinned in his 1966 Corvette on Chapel Road near the dog pound after losing control around 1 p.m. Tuesday. He was freed after more than eight hours and transported to Putnam Memorial Hospital in good condition.
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Shaftsbury
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Chapel Road
Stephen Freely
Jury finds DWI guilt in Bennington case
Bennington District Court jurors found Edward J. Levesque of Bennington guilty of driving while under the influence and careless and negligent driving causing an accident on Route 7A on December 22. A charge of leaving the scene of an accident was dismissed.
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Bennington
Edward J. Levesque
John P. Murrissey
High court rules new trial in fair admission tax case
The Vermont Supreme Court upheld striking down Champlain Valley Fair admission tax and ordered a new trial in a drunken driving case amid claims of prosecutorial prejudice. It affirmed the lower court’s ruling that King Reid Shaws owes $10 per ride at the fair. The decision involved village exemptions for charitable events and raised concerns over trial conduct and juror questions about breath test samples.
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Supreme Court
Chittenden
Fai
High Court
King Reid Shaws
Kimberly Cheney
Washington
McSheffrey
Cheney
Msheffray
Fire damages animal shelter in Shaftsbury near Route 7
A section of the Toaf animal shelter run by the equity Humane Society was heavily damaged by a mid morning fire. The rear addition housed a crematorium type destructor that overheated while destroying a dog, with the older building mostly spared. Fire crews from Shaftsbury and Arlington prevented further damage. the roof of the damaged area is the major loss cited by shelter officials.
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Shaftsbury
Toaf
Equity Humane Society
Route 7
Thi
Arlington Town Line
Arlington
Hames
Watergate links surface in CRP testimony
The committee planned to question CRP scheduling officer Herbert L Porter and former deputy press director Powell Moore this week while awaiting Magruder’s testimony next week. Reisner, a long time Ma gruder aide now an OMB official, said he stored wiretap transcripts and other sensitive material in a file that went to Mitchell for strategy meetings at the Justice Department. Sally Jackson Harmony tied Magruder to Watergate in her testimony and described typing transcripts from Liddy tapes on Gemstone stationery. Reisner, directed by Magruder from California to remove the Gemstone files, complied without knowing their contents.
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Hubert Reisner
Committee To
CRP
Mitchell
White House
John D. Ehrliehman
Ebslichman
Nixon
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Washington
Miami Beach
Magruder
Justice Department
Samuel Cash
John W. Dean Jwt
Pirate
Saly Me
Stans
Committtee
Herbert L. Porter
Powell Moore
Wienhear
Reisner
Office of Management and
Budge
Watergate
Sally Jackson Harmony
Eiddy
Liddy
California
Clark MacGregor
Bennington Selectmen face funding hurdles over curb project
Town leaders warn DOT money for curb work hinges on improvements. If blocked, they may lobby state congressional reps to pressure DOT to ease rules. Outside dispute erupts as Dailey contends the project harms his land and finances, while others debate redesign prospects and costs. The discussion touches on liens, legality, and future meetings.
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Selectmen
DOT
Dailey
Bennington
Exam week bus schedule update for Mt An Union HS District
The district announces bus pickups for exam week June 11 12 13 and 14 with normal morning runs and 11 am return for morning students. Afternoon exams have pickups around 11 45 am and return by 3 pm. Final day June 15 has morning pickup and noon 11 am high school boards.
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Mt. Anthey Union High School
Firm withdraws air variance request in Vermont plant plan
The Bunk Press Co withdrew its request to open burn industrial wood wastes at a Brattleboro plant after agreeing to comply with air regulations. Air board discussions continued on Georgia Pacific Gilman’s extension request for a variance to burn higher sulfur fuel oil, with no extension likely.
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Georgia Pacific Co
Gilman
Horse trials set for Sunday at Sehurink Farm Shaftsbury
SHAFISBURY The annual area horse trials will be held Sunday at Sehurink Farm in Shafts bury starting at 9 a.m. The event features dressage cross country and show jumping with an 18 fence cross country course. An 80 rider field is expected from New England including local juniors and seniors. Bennington Pony Club will run refreshments. Public welcome.
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Shafisbury
Sehurink Farm
Shaftsbury
New England
Bennington Pony Club
Sewer Work Starts Soon in North Branch Area
The Brooklyn sewer project will focus in the North Branch Mreet Mountain View Road area this and next week. Cubsis and King Engineering Co. will notify The Banner weekly of major construction sites to help motorists avoid feups. Dubois and King handle engineering, Sen-Hat Construction Co. of Fonda, New York conducts the building, with expected completion by November 1.
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Brooklyn
North Branch
Mréét
Mountain View Road
Cubsis and King Engineering Co
Dubois and King
Sen-Hat Construction Co
Fonda
N.Y
Manchester murder trial pre trial hearings set Thursday in O Keefe case
Pre trial motions in the case of Brian O Keefe charged as an accessory to first degree murder in the December shooting that killed Manchester Town Police Chief Dana Thompson will be heard Thursday at the Addison County Courthouse. Judge Ernest W. Gibson II may preside as trial judge later this month. O Keefe, 24, of Manchester, also faces burglary and aiding in the concealment counts. The second suspect, Edward Battick, 25, of Manchester, was critically wounded and faces murder and burglary charges. Both defendants are represented by Burlington court appointed lawyers and seek separate trial locations from Bennington County. Battick’s trial location is undecided.
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Middlebury
Brian O’keefe
Addison County
Superior Court
Ernest W. Gibson II
O'Keefe
Manchester
Dana Thompson
Whipple’s
Edward M. Battick
Batlick
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Burlington
Battick
A Capital
Charles R. Tetzlaff
Baltick
Saul L. Agel
Bennington County
Polyarts Moves Bennington Arts Festival to Vermont Site
Polyarts, a Cambridge based non profit, plans to transplant a grass roots arts festival from Bennington to Rhinebeck and sponsor the Bennington Arts Festival in Vermont. The group aims to bring art to people locally by expanding craft fairs across states.
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Polyarts
Massachusetts
New York City
Police progress and local fair updates in town
Police Chief William H. Fox advances guidelines adopted by selectmen with Edward Lamb noting bicycle policy studies and potential crossing guards. Proposals include morning station briefings for reporters and enhanced training for Lt Mickey Kearns. Polyarts plans a broader Rhinebeck fair with crafts, music, dance, and cash prizes, inviting all local artists. Funeral services held for Gardon J Bentley with military honors.
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William H. Fox
Selectmen
Edward R. Lamb
Pry
Lamb
Fox
James M
Mickey” Kearns
Boston
Mass
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Polyarts
Bennington
Miss Stallone
Bax
Cambridge
Rhinebeck
Colvin Reappointed to B ROC Board in Bennington Rutland
James Colvin was named to another term on the Bennington Rutland Opportunity Council board representing the town by Bennington selectmen. B ROC requested town representation and suggested reappointment. Colvin has already served one term. The appointment was made unanimously.
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James Colvin
Bennington- Rutland
Opportunity Council
Bennington
B-Roc
Colvin
June 21 hearing set for Vermont Yankee
The Vermont Health Board schedules June 21 to hear new evidence on radiation emission regulations for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. plant at Vernon. Environmentalists criticized the board for proposing the same maximum instantaneous radiation limit as the Atomic Energy Commission and sought to reopen the prior hearing citing inadequate notice.
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Montpelier
Bennington Briefs: Power lines damaged by truck incident
Central Vermont Public Service crews responded at 6:49 after a St. Johnsbury tractor trailer hit utility lines near the Rocking Firm headquarters on Route 67A. Police rerouted traffic until repairs were completed. A grains cooking class at Second Congregational Church on Thursday from 9 to 11:30 am features Tina and Richard Hernandez demonstrating traditional Mexican cookery, sponsored by BROC.
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Central Vermont
St. Johnsbury
Second Congregational Church
Tina
Richard Hernandez
BROC
Hospital Notes Tuesday Adpalssions Detected Distorted Names
Discharges include Maureen Gorman Robert Hogan Mrs Phyllis Surdam and son Mrs Vanessa Lincourt and daughter Bennington Gladys Pike A Jington Nina Robbins Lisa Fiske North Bennington. Other entries list Mattison Manchester Depot Elizabet Cullinan Annington Diane Webber Eagle Bridge Ruth Morse Sanford Ketchum Bennington and related notes.
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SUNES
Dassie Mattison
Manchester Depot
Elizabet Cullinan
Annington
Diane Webber
Eagle Bridge
Ruth Morse
Sanford Ketchum
Bennington
Maureen Gorman
Robert Hogan
Phyllis Surdam
Vanessa Lincourt
Gladys Pike
Nina Robbins
Lisa Fiske
North Bennington
Two Bennington youths earn associate degrees at Simon's Rock
Great Barrington Massachusetts two local graduates Catherine McCay Flory and Jane B. Glick received associate in arts degrees from Simon's Rock known as the early college. Commencement featured music by Dave Brubeck and his sons with Brubeck's daughter Cathy among the graduates.
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Great Barrington
Mass
Catherine McCay Flory
Curtiss Flory
Vail Road
Bennington
Jane B. Glick
Jacob Glick
Bennington College
Simon's Rock
Early College
Simon’s Rock
Dave Brubeck
Daniel
Darius
Christopher
Brubeck
Cathy
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Dr. Sleeman
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Walter Studler
Pownal
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Polyaris
Thhey
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Robert Gordon
Gordon J. Hentley
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White River Junction
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Manchester Center
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Zion Episcop Church
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Dorset
Paul Duby
Enfield
Conn
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Dalton
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Niles Carlson
Earl Fisher
American Legion Post 33
Factory Point
Father Clayton
American Legion
Andrew Shaw
Harold Waters
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William Johnson
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