Battenkill Grange Plans Camp Ondawa Trip And Memorial Service
The Battenkill Grange met June 4 with youth reporting four plan to attend Camp Ondawa June 22 28 and raise funds. Members noted donations and fundraisers including a foodless sale and Betty Crocker coupons. A memorial service honored departed members with prayers, hymns, and a eulogy, and dues were urged by June 30.
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Battenkill
Ondawa
Chris Rutkin
Grange Center
Betty Crocker
Gertrude Hall
Grange
Home Ec
Ann Sullivan
Kennedy Ludlam
Salvation Army
Allan Mears
New England
Durham
N.H
Doris Wright
Gayle Paustian
Randolph
Deborrah Matteson
Ethan Allen Pomona
Ceres
Orin Wilcox
Ralph Delaney
Robert Lindsey
Charles Dusha
William Killmartin
Ruth Stearns
Ned Williams
Belle Decker
Martin Paustian
Doriswright
Great Grange
Abbie Baker
Mildred Killmartin
Cooledge
Mabel Crofut
Taconic Grange
South Shaftsbury
Home Economics Committee
Clara Edgerton
Arlington Memorial High honors four Class of 1975 scholars
Four AMHS seniors achieving a 3.5 GPA or higher on a four point scale were announced as Academic Honors by Principal William Towne. The recognized students are Karin Militzer, Ayessa Rodies, Steven Szabo and Kathleen Thompson.
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Arlington
Arlington Memorial High School
William Towne
Karin Militzer
Ayessa Rodies
Steven Szabo
Kathleen Thompson
Karl Militzer
Karin
Bennington County
Horst Rodies
Ayessa
Golde
Stephen Szabo
Steve
Green Mountain
Manchester Hot Meals and Local Notices in Manchester
Manchester seniors note summer at the Hot Meals program with Tuesday and Thursday luncheons at the Eagles and 50 reservations. June 12 Father’s Day cake and coffee at 1 pm. Reservations and diet requests via 362-3950. Also Manchester selectmen report high delinquent sewer and property taxes, approve a route 7 banner, and bid outcomes for a generator and truck sander. police cruiser bids rejected. executive session on contracts.
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Manchester
The
Eagles
Pownal Community Events Include Workbee Fair and Services
Local events list a Saturday workbee at Pownal Baptist Church at 8 a.m. and a spring fair at the Pownal Preschool starting 10 a.m. with a noon frog jumping contest for under 12s, a food sale, rummage, and rain date set for Sunday June 8. Also noted are 4-H club, Alcoholics Anonymous, and multiple church services and youth activities through mid June.
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Pownal
Pownal Center
Bennington
Peregrine falcon to be reintroduced in Vermont
Vermont environmental officials plan to release two bred peregrine falcons at selected nesting sites as part of a state program to restore the endangered bird. The initiative follows prior successful reintroduction of wild turkeys and leverages improved pesticide controls, with falcons expected to dive on prey at speeds over 200 miles per hour. Colchester report notes a separate incident where 10 year old Kelly Chicoine rescued a drowning companion at a swimming pool after his fall in.
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Colchester
UPI
Chad Dion
Kelly Chicoine
Kelly
Raymond Chicoine
Dion
Vermont Drivers Mostly Keep to 55 MPH Limit
Vermont state police found most motorists on Interstates 89 and 91 stay near or below 55 mph in Hartford Waterbury South Burlington and Hartland. Southbound drivers at Williamstown Williston and Hartland averaged up to 59 mph. Troopers issued tickets for excessive speeds on several roads.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Highway Department
Hartford
Waterbury
South Burlington
Hartland
Williamstown
Williston
City council rejects 32 unit apartment zoning plan
In Lansingburgh NY the city council rejected a proposed 16 acre zoning change for a 32 unit apartment complex on Oil Mill Hill Road. Homeowners led opposition calling it an incredible change and incompatible with nearby residences. Mayor Connally supported objections over inadequate parking. The six council members voted unanimously against the proposal.
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Troy
Second Avenue Associates
Lansingburgh
Phillip Bloomfield
Bloomfield Building Wreckers Inc
Edward J. Connally
Conally
Berkshire Tax Office Closure Sparks Fairness Protest
Berkshire County Commission Chair John Pignatelli denounces the Pittsfield Taxation and Corporations office closing set for July 1. He says the plan is unfair to residents, done without local consultation, and will force taxpayers to travel to Springfield, though he supports the overall budget cuts ordered by Gov. Dukakis.
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Pittsfield — County Commission
John J. Pignatelli
State Department of Taxation and Corporations
Michael Dukakis
Pignatelli
Springfield
Department of Taxation and Corporations
Pittsfield
Berkshire County
GE cuts 70 jobs at Pittsfield plant in second round
General Electric said 70 distribution transformer department workers are laid off indefinitely, raising total DT job cuts this year to over 200 and reducing department employment to below 1,500. GE cites utilities' improved finances from rate rises but notes order activity remains thin and inventories steady.
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Pittsfield
General Electric
Distribution Transformer Department
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Battenkill Grange
Roy Crofut
Sidney Crofut
Merwin Crofut
Bill Killmartin
George Cooledge
Cornell D. Vaughn
Nancy Simson
Helen Whitman
AMHS
Georgia Institute of Technology
James Thompson
Kathy
Siena College
Manchester Selectmen
Jean Bongartz
Dependables
John Sharrow
Express and
Vermont Transit Lines
Sally
Milton
Vermont Transit
Canada
Washington Ave
Manchester Center
Purdy's
Pownals
Pamela Blakeman
Green Mountain Climbers
Rachel Mason
O— Alcoholics Anonymous
North Pownal Congregational Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Pownal United
Pownal Recreational Community Center
Arbour
House of Color
Bennington _ Banner
VNRC
New York
Adult World
David R. Holdridge
Cohoes
Joseph R. Deeb
Utica
Holdridge
Deeb
William J. Ryan
Patrick A. Valenti
Kyran P. Molloy
Will
Berkshire
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